Welcome to QNEWS, and if we have the right date this would be Sunday 14 December. Only 11 sleeps until Santa gives you a transceiver with a waterfall, to replace the transceiver that got water-filled. I'm John VK4JPM, secretary of the Darling Downs Radio Club. And it's been a busy week for the club. Last Monday our half live/half virtual meeting started with a general club update, followed by a report on the WIA Presidents meeting from last weekend. Some very interesting stuff, especially the class licence update, bandplan consultation - access to 23cm might be a challenge - and clubs insurance. And as always, when you ask questions you get interesting answers - thanks muchly to all the folks who weighed in on an ad-hoc discussion about membership systems. And there was some very interesting news about the John Moyle Field Day... more about that in a sec. After a break and a cuppa, we kicked off with show-and-tell, and that once again proved that telepresence works. Interesting discussions from Peter VK4PQ in Townsville and Bob VK4ZOW in the room. Many people brought interesting bits and bobs to pass around, including some valve modules from a 1950s IBM computer, complete with IBM-branded valves. Star turn goes to Bruce VK4MQ who showed a $70 AliExpress SWR/Power meter that he cleverly had reprogrammed and rebuilt to do the job it should have done in the first place for the cost of just a few dollars. Bruce also showed an autotuning CODAN HF antenna and demonstrated how it works, and he showed a very impressive rebuilt CODAN HF rig, of a type typically available for a few dollars at a swapmeet. That might not sound like a lot but there was so much round-table discussion that we ran out of time to discuss the 2m Chinese handhelds, so... watch for that another day. Our next formal member's meeting is in February and a very interesting suggestion was put forward - watch this space. We'd like to know what you would want to see on the slate for next year's meetings generally. More hardware? More software? More weird topics? More mainstream topics? You might have a specialised interest that nobody else knows about, and won't until you tell us. Send your thoughts - no matter how weird, way-out, or mainstream - to secretary@ddrci.org.au and let's have a chat. Secretary@ddrci.org.au Finally, the John Moyle Field Day contest will be coming up in March and the new rules are worth a look. Our club has faired reasonably well over the past years, including a convincing win in our category this year. Our next decision is whether, how and where we might want to enter this competition in 2026. I'll talk more about that in coming weeks, and we intend to do some planning over the break. That's it for this week. I'm John VK4JPM, and I'd love to know what you think. secretary@ddrci.org.au; why not come up on the 2m club net on Sundays at 1000; check out our website where you'll find out about the Saturday HF net and all the other things we do; and you can reach us via the contact page if everything else fails. 73s from the Darling Downs Radio Club.