------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIANEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING JAN 03 2010. VK5ALE Lower Eyre Peninsula ARC Clubrooms Destroyed AUSTRALIAN SCOUT JAMBOREE Cataract Scout Park south of Sydney. VI2AJ2010. WIA CENTENARY - MARCH AUGUST 2010 TAKE PART IN AN HF AUDIO ART EXPERIMENT Remembering the unit men - Ohm New Year schedule for HO-68 ALL UP AND COMING IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING JAN 3 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WIA CENTENARY - MARCH AUGUST 2010 We start this weeks and this new years broadcast with a reminder that this very special year w will be celebrating the centenary of organised amateur radio in Australia. The March through August celebrations are recognition of the foundation of the WIA and the very start of organised amateur radio in Australia during 1910. Prior to the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1905 there was no real regulatory control of the radio spectrum, although early demonstrations and experimentation began in Australia in the late 1890s. At the time the government wanted to protect its revenue from the wired telegraph system and initially considered wireless telegraphy to be of little use, but it then became useful for ship to shore communications. Private wireless experimenters were considered a hindrance to the emerging maritime use of wireless. Others began to recognise a greater potential use of the technology. Conflict between the commercial and amateur use of the spectrum was evident, licensed operation began in 1905. Within five years experimenters needed to get organised for their very survival. On 11 March, 1910 a meeting of like-minded people in the Hotel Australia, Martin Place, Sydney, formed the Institute of Wireless Telegraphy of Australia, soon after dropping the word 'telegraphy' from its name. Chairman of the founding meeting, George Taylor, proposed "the formation of an institution amongst experimenters and enthusiasts in wireless for their mutual benefit." As preperations get underway don't forget to drop the WIA Centenary Committee and this WIA National News Service details of YOUR celebration activities, such as the story we ran last week fronm the first planned in VK by Matthew Weatherley VK4TMW from the Toowoomba and Downs Wireless Group who has organised a display of up to 40 radio transmitters and receivers dating from the 1920s through to modern times. The display will run from March until June! VK7REC Snow Hill is OFF AIR indefinitely. Joe VK7JG reports that the top section of the VK7REC tower has collapsed. This in part due to lack of maintenance, old age and several lightening strikes. One aerial was on this section and the second aerial was damaged by the falling tower. (73, Joe, VK7JG) VK5ALE Lower Eyre Peninsula ARC Clubrooms Destroyed Michael Carey VK5ZEA President Lower Eyre Peninsula ARC reported that their rooms were destroyrd when a bush fire threatened the outskirts of Port Lincoln during a Catastrophic Fire danger day. Strong, hot North winds made fighting the fire impossible and a wind change made things a lot worse. 12 homes were lost, countless sheds and rural properties destroyed but thankfully no lives were lost but it was not a very merry Christmas for some families last year. Their next meeting is Wednesday January 6th, they will then be discussing what direction what equipment needs might be. Michael joins us "in person" on the audio section of this newscast. (www.wiaq.com/ftp/wianews_64.mp3) "Here is one story from the fire that promotes D-Star which I though I would share. By the time I first noticed the fire while I was at work, the NextG phone service was fully congested, I was unable to make calls or send SMS messages. I did however have my IC-91AD handheld radio with me. I was planning on connecting up to REF012 B to check in on the San Diego D-Star net at 1430 (my time). Instead I connected VK5REX B to REF003 C and put out an emergency call for assistance from anyone who had immediate access to a telephone. Steve VK5ZSW replied and I passed my home phone number info to him so he could contact my wife to let her know that I was OK and that I was going to move to safer ground. The message was dutifully passed along and Steve confirmed that my wife got the message. Although Steve was some 170+ Km away in Moonta on the Yorke Peninsula, he was able to use the VK5REX repeater perfectly. Ross VK3HBS also heard my call through REF003 C and he too rang my wife with the message." MORE IN TEXT AND VIDEO IS ON WIA.ORG.AU HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. VK2 web service:- http://www.arnsw.org.au/html/news_vk2wi.htm VKG Roundup http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news Australian Special Event Look for the special callsign, VI2AJ2010, to be used by Scouts under the guidance of Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club members (VK2FFG) at Cataract Scout Park, near Sydney, during the triennial Australian Scout Jamboree (AJ2010), taking place from tomorrow, January 4-14th. With registrations of 10,000+ Scouts and 3000 Scout Leaders, VI2AJ2010 will be active on HF, VHF and node 6111 to promote their hobby. QSL via VK2FFG (bureau/direct). VK3 web service:- http://www.amateurradio.com.au/news/ VKC Roundup http://www.police Four members of the Scout Australia, Victorian Branch Scout Radio & Electronics Service Unit will be hiking the French Island National Park southeast of Melbourne and operate the scout callsign VK3SAT for the Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award. Peter Fraser VK3ZPF, Hayden McManus VK3FRST, Marcus Berglund VK3TST and Adam Scammell VK3YDF will be on air 0400 UTC on 9 January until 0100 UTC 10 January. Details of the Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award can be found on the Amateur Radio Victoria website www.amateurradio.com.au And here is one to put into that new Diary you got for 2010. Yarra Valley Hamfest Sale, Sunday 28th February 2010, 10am to 2pm, Healesville Memorial Hall Healesville. Free Tea & Coffee, Ample parking, $5 entry. For table booking And further information contact, Gavin VK3GH 5968 8482 or email tables@yarravalley.ar.org.au VK4 web service local news:- www.wiaq.com/qnews/upload/qnewsbcast.htm local news email qnews-vk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com VKR Roundup http://www.police.qld.gov.au/News+and+Alerts/Media+Releases/ I’m Trevor Taege, VK4BAT with the news from the Gympie Communications & Electronics Group: We were saddened to hear of the news about the bushfire destruction of the Lower Eyre Peninsula Amateur Radio Clubrooms. As we are still searching for a new clubroom that we can call “Home” we certainly feel for them and wish them well for a speedy rebuild. The Gympie group is having a Christmas-New Year BBQ on Sunday the 10th of January. The location will be the duck ponds on the north side of town and the time, 11:30am. Mark January 10 in your diary and we’ll see you there. Everyone is welcome. We wish you all a successful and prosperous 2010. VK6 Hills Amateur Radio Group 27/02/10 2pm The venue is the HARG club rooms on the corner of Sanderson and Brady Rds Lesmurdie. Sellers set up from 12pm buyers admitted from 2pm. To reserve a $5 table call Marty Martin 0447 382 963 or marty.martin@bigpond.com VK7 local area news :- http://reast.asn.au/news.php vk7 local news, email vk7regionalnews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com The next two Meetings of the NWT-ATV Group are BOTH scheduled for Saturday 6th. February. The first of these will be the Annual General Meeting of the Club and as per the rules all 5 executive positions of the Club will be declared vacant at this meeting. Any financial members of the Club are entitled to nominate for any of the positions. If any member feels he/she would like to have a go at holding an executive position within the Club, here is your chance. The second meeting will be the General Meeting of the Club and will take place immediately at the conclusion of the AGM. (Tony VK7AX, News Officer NWT-ATV Group) INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to RSGB, Southgate AR Club, the ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA. Those who got a Wii for Christmas listen up! NEW RADIO TECHNIQUE AIDS TRAINING COMPETITION SKIIERS Tiny radio transmitters on skis are helping competitive skiers analyse their technique. These units can be attached to an athlete’s skis and transmit through small antennas located to the front and the back of the skis. Receiving stations placed alongside a slope in regular intervals pick up the signals and analyse the time a signal needs to travel from the antenna to a station, thus accurately determining an antenna’s position within three centimetres. A computer attached to the receiver calculates the position of the skis every millisecond and displays their exact path on a monitor. The Austrian firm Abatec developed the system. It says that its adaptable to just about any sport that requires a close study of athlete performance and event timing. And as they say... steer clear of the yellow snow! TAKE PART IN AN HF AUDIO ART EXPERIMENT Kapwani Kiwanga, a Canadian artist who works primarily with sound and vision invites radio amateurs with good HF capabilities to take part in an audio art project on 20 metres. Kapwani will transmit a message on 20 metres from the Netherlands to territories that have a historic link with Holland, Participants are asked to re-transmit the received message back to him and then you send it back and so on and so on. This ping-pong effect will increasingly distort the message finally resulting in an abstract artistic sound recording. She has created an original sound piece based on archives of 1940's Dutch programming found at Radio Netherlands. Her sound creation will include some Morse code and sound recordings. It will not be "music" in the conventional sense. If you would like to take part in the project, send mail to kiwangakap@hotmail Copy SARL News at armi@sarl.org.za, as they would like to keep track of the experiment. (sourced to sarl) ============================================================================= NEWS FROM ARNEWSLINE POWER COMPANY TOLD TO TURN OFF INTERFERENCE IN AIR BAND Its not BPL this time, but Duke Energy, which is an electric utility serving North Carolina, has been ordered to cease operating a small portion of its power grid. This, because of its inability to remedy RFI on 111.7 MHz. that the FCC deems to be a hazard to flight safety. Frank Haas, KB4T has more in this report: The story goes this way. In response to a complaint of interference, on November 25th an agent of the FCC's Norfolk Office inspected power line facilities belonging to Duke Energy located near the Falls Lake Reservoir in Durham and Wake Counties, North Carolina. During the examination the agent observed the facilities radiating energy on frequencies including 111.7MHz. This FCC says this caused harmful interference to air navigation aids used by pilots flying into nearby Raleigh-Durham International airport. Later the same day, the agent notified the call centre for Duke Energy of the harmful interference and of the need to cease operations at the affected locations. The call centre supervisor stated someone would contact the agent about the interference in a few days. So the FCC waited the few days but as of December 2nd Duke Energy has not contacted the FCC about the interference or notified it that operations had been turned off at the affected locality. So on December 3rd the FCC got tough. It notified Duke Energy that operation of the power-line facilities was causing interference in violation of Section 15.5(b) of the Commission Rules. It directed Duke Energy to cease operations at the affected locations immediately and keep that part of the grid shut down until repairs had been made. It also told Duke that failure to comply could subject the company to additional enforcement action against it. According to the regulatory agency violations of the Communications Act or the FCC Rules could subject the violator to substantial monetary forfeitures, or seizure of equipment. It could also lead to criminal sanctions, including imprisonment. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Frank Haas, KB4T, in Holly Hill, Florida, reporting. At airtime its not yet known if Duke Energy has complied with the FCC directive to take down its power grid in the geographic area where the interference to aviation communications has been taking place. The complete text of the Official Citation is on line at fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-295187A1.html OFCOM GRANTS EXTENSION TO 500 kHz UK STA United Kingdom hams involved in 500kHz experimentation have had their license Notices of Validity extended to 2012. This to permit the continued evaluation of that band. On Wednesday December 16th, UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom announced that following requests made by the Radio Society of Great Britain, the period of validity for all 501 to 504 kHz Notices of Validity is to be extended. This, follows negotiations with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency which lead Ofcom to extending the validity period to February 29, 2012. The Notices of Validity, which are the UK equivalent of the FCC's granting of a Special Temporary Authority, were originally planned to expire at the end of February 2010. ============================================================================= OPERATIONAL NEWS - SPECIAL EVENTS AND ON AIR CONTEST COLUMN - D A T E L I N E 2010 Feb 27-28 JOCK WHITE MEMORIAL FIELD DAY CONTEST nzart.org.nz/contests Mar 13-14 RSBG COMMONWEALTH CONTEST (BERU) hfcc.org/hfcc/rule/2009/beru.shtml Mar 20-21 John Moyle Field Day vk4ae@hotmail.com The 7th Annual Antarctic Activity Week, the International event to celebrate Antarctica will be held from February 22-28. You can get additional details including stations that plan on operating during the event at waponline.it/Default.aspx?tabid=113 (btown monitoring post) EPC WW DX Contest 2010 The European PSK Club has invited radio amateurs from all over the world to participate in the EPC WW DX Contest 2010. The objective of the contest is to establish as many contacts as possible between radio amateurs around the world by using the BPSK125 mode. Everybody can work everybody for QSO and multiplier credit. Bands: We recommend the following frequencies - 80 meters (3.580 – 3.590 MHz), 40 meters (7.040 – 7.050 MHz), 20 meters (14.070 – 14.080 MHz), 15 meters (21.070 – 21.080 MHz), and 10 meters (28.070 – 28.080 MHz). The contest will be held from 12:00 UTC on 27 Feb to 12:00 UTC on 28 Feb. Rules, dates and all info in : epcwwdx.srars.org/index.php/contest-rules.html (Luis CT3EE EPC WW DX Contest Committee via SouthGate) SPECIAL EVENT CALLS, BEACON DX AND NET ADVICE hf nets ON the net, www.timroberts-vk4yeh.id.au/ EI2GBW, Ireland to Great Britain Ferry Celebrations ends March 31 2010 GB2EI, Great Britain to Ireland Ferry Celebrations ends March 31 2010 VI3KIAH acknowledging Black Saturday Bush Fires 2pm to 8pm local Feb 7 2010 Hi I am Ray VK4CF with news from Redcliffe Amateur Radio Club Queensland. One of the our club members , Kevin, VK4UH, will be joining a VHF/UHF/Microwave DXpedition from the 3rd January –14th January 2010. The expedition is to Norfolk Island and will be operating as VK9NA. The expedition will be operating on the following bands: 6 METRES 100W with a 3 ELEM YAGI, 2 METRES 360W a 10 ELEM YAGI, 70 CM 110W with a 23 ELEM YAGI, 23 CM 90W and a 1.2 MTR DISH, 13 CM 20W with a 1.2 MTR DISH, 9 CM 20W and a 1.2 MTR DISH, 6 CM 15W and a 1.2 MTR DISH and 3 CM 5W with a 1.2 MTR DISH. The team will be using Yaesu FT897D & FT817ND radios and will be using SSB, FSK441, JT65A, B&C & CW. Kevin advised the Club at last Monday night’s get together that all the details of the expedition can be found on the net at VK9NA.com and day to day details will be available on VKLOGGER. The team of Alan VK3XPD, Michael VK3KH and Kevin VK4UH would appreciate you trying to reach them and all are hoping for some good tropospheric ducting to occur, during the time they are on Norfolk Island. Need to know a grid square? The Web pages you can find in the text version of this weeks news will be of interest to we radio amateurs who chase Grid Squares or Grid Locators or for those who need to know their Grid: • Enter your address (or callsign) at: http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php • Zoom in to your QTH and click on it, and it will display your grid at: http://f6fvy.free.fr/qthLocator/fullScreen.php BROADCAST MONITORING SWL AND SCANNER NEWS aus_scanner@yahoogroups.com http://www.scanaustralia.bigpondhosting.com www.scanvictoria.com www.tinyurl.com/BITS-026 (A receiver located in NY USA) Relay station off the air There has been a fire in the high voltage room of the external mains power supply at Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s relay station in Madagascar. Fire-fighters from the Madagascan capital Antananarivo managed to bring the blaze under control within hours. The fire destroyed the high voltage circuit breaker equipment, broadcasts from Madagascar were suspended. Satellite and Internet broadcasts are not affected. Some transmissions moved to other sites, but because of the Christmas holidays this took longer than usual to organise. (http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/) SENATOR FEINGOLD WANTS RADIO MARTI TO GO QRT US Senator Russ Feingold's “Spotlight on Spending” series has taken aim at Radio and TV Marti. Feingold, a member of the Senate Budget Committee calls Radio and TV Martí are a relic of Cold War attempts to broadcast radio and TV signals into Cuba that virtually no one tunes in to anymore. According to Feingold, government studies show that Radio and TV Martí are riddled with problems, and fall short of journalistic standards. He also says that as the United States progresses toward a more modern and constructive relationship with Cuba, that Radio and TV Martí no longer have any real diplomatic or fiscal purpose. Backing him up is a January 2009 report by the Government Accountability Office. It found that Radio and TV Martí broadcasts continue to face jamming by the Cuban government. According to the GAO, the best available research suggests that the audience for Radio and TV Martí is small, and its effectiveness uncertain. (Media Network, Press Release by Senator Russ Feingold VIA arnewsline) MEDIA WATCH www.wiaq.com/admin/uploads/weeklytally.rtf www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WorldRadio.html Groups presenting this WIA National News Service JAN 2010 vk4 17 Sunny Coast FEB 2010 VK3 7 ARV (promoting Centre Vic Hamfest) FEB 2010 vk2 21 CCARC (Promoting Wyong Field Day) Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania This story started with a phone message left by Janet who is Ian VK7IR's XYL. The message was a little concerning as it said Ian would not be able to do the VK7 broadcast as he was in hospital. This left the broadcast coordinator and a number of other people a little concerned about Ian's welfare! After a few days a wonderful email arrived from Ian with the following humours message…. "Sorry about last week...things happened rather quickly! My Master Oscillator was suffering some frequency instability, with consequent drop-outs at rare intervals, which would have been nasty under several circumstances....... This has now been fixed by locking the MO to an implanted frequency standard, which is working well, and I shall be available as required from now on. Cheers, 73, Ian" I think we all wish Ian and Janet a very Happy New Year and look forward to hearing his voice for many years to come. (73, Justin, VK7TW, VK7 Broadcast and News Coordinator) Remembering the unit men - Ohm Hello I'm Jim Linton VK3PC with the first in a series of brief looks at those who made discoveries and have their names as units of measurement. Georg Simon Ohm was a remarkable individual born in 1789 and began school at the age of 11, gained his Ph. D with the career aim of becoming a professor. Ohm was extremely interested in electricity and the then recently discovered phenomenon of electromagnetism. That led him to begin experimenting, taking measurements and established a mathematical relationship - the very basis of what we know as Ohms Law. Initially he suffered from those sceptical of his work but it did result in the post of professor of physics in Nuremburg and later at the Berlin university. Some 37 years after his death, he gained the ultimate recognition when in Britain first, and then at the First International Electrical Congress in Paris 1881 the unit of resistance was named the Ohm. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK UNOFFICIAL HF Net. 2nd Sunday each month. April through October 1000 UTC 3.685 MHz November through March 0900 UTC 7.068 MHz New Year schedule for HO-68 Alan Kung, BA1DU, of AMSAT-China has provided this schedule for the Amateur Radio satellite XIWANG-1 (HO-68) for the New Year holiday. The schedule also shows the popular SSB linear transponder being switched on New Year's Day at 21:05 and 22:50 UT. The 50 kHz bandwidth linear transponder for SSB and CW operation is inverting so an LSB signal on the uplink gives USB on the downlink. It uses these frequencies: Uplink :145.925 - 145.975 MHz Downlink:435.765 - 435.715 MHz Beacon :435.790 MHz The FM transponder uplink is 145.825 MHz and downlink is 435.675 MHz, a 67.0 Hz CTCSS tone is required. XIWANG-1 (HO-68) Real Time Tracking (tick draw footprint) n2yo.com/?s=36122 The operating schedule of interest to we VK's is: 31 Dec. 2009 HO-68 Linear Transponder Turn On: 11:40...South Australia, South Pole 11:50...Australia 11:55...Australia, South Asia 11:57...Turn Off 31 Dec. 2009 HO-68 Linear Transponder Turn On: 13:45...North Australia, South Asia 13:50...South Asia, East Asia 13:55...Asia 14:00...Turn Off 01 Jan.. 2010 HO-68 FM and Digital Transponder Turn On: 01:20...North East Asia 01:25...East Asia, North Asia 01:30...East Asia, South Asia 01:34...Turn Off 02 Jan.. 2010 HO-68 Linear Transponder Turn On: 01:08...East Asia, North Asia 01:15...East Asia, South Asia, North Australia 01:20...Turn Off 02 Jan.. 2010 HO-68 FM and Digital Transponder Turn On: 23:10...North Australia, Japan 23:20...Australia 23:35...Turn Off (73 Alan Kung, BA1DU HO-68(XW-1) Project Manager via SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING http://www.scouts.com.au http://www.scout.org/jota http://www.international.scouts.com.au CALLING FREQUENCIES Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication. Australian voice calling frequencies: 3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160 World CW calling frequencies: 3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160 World voice calling frequencies: 3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160 Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV): 3.630, 7.033, 14.227 Calling Frequencies for PSK31 14.070 JAN 4 - 14 VK2 AUSTRALIAN SCOUT JAMBOREE Cataract Scout Park south of Sydney. VI2AJ2010. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO EMERGENCY FREQUENCIES IARU REGION 3 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz WICEN will be assisting with a horse endurance ride at St Helens in VK7 on the 22nd of May, and would like to hear from members in Northern Tassie if they'd like to help with tracking of the riders and reporting movements via amateur radio. If you're interested, have a chat with Roger VK7ARN. (Jason VK7ZJA NTARC Secretary) AUDIO INTENSIVE REPORT FROM A MURRAY CANOE MARATHON IN AUDIO ONLY IS ALSO INCLUDED. Please remember when you file audio for news in the wia upload area always send us script to nationalnews@wia.org.au From WICEN Vic Website we see... "Sat Dec 26th - 7 days Murray Marathon Echuca to Swan Hill - Graham Mason VK3KMG mason.group@bigpond.com " if anyone wants to follow up or help out on the next marathon. SOCIAL SCENE 2010 JAN 4 - 14 VK2 AUSTRALIAN SCOUT JAMBOREE Cataract Scout Park south of Sydney. VI2AJ2010. JAN 24 VK2 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group's Radio Expo 2010 8.30am St Johns Church Hall, Mc Lean Street Coffs Harbour. JAN 30 VK4 Bunya Mts & Dist AmCom host "HAM AND WINE FEST 2010" at Maclagan. FEBRUARY 14 VK3 WIA 100 Centre Victoria RadioFest No. 3. FEBRUARY 27 VK6 Hills Amateur Radio Group Swap Meet 2pm Sanderson and Brady Rds Lesmurdie. FEBRUARY 28 Wyong Field Day, Wyong Race Course. APRIL 2 VK3 Midland Amateur Radio Club's Radio, Electronic & Astronomy Expo. Venue to be advised. JUNE 5 VK2 Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club's 35th Annual Field Day. JULY 17 VK3 GGREC Hamfest Start Time : 10:00 Oct 29 - 31 VK1OOWIA Westlakes ARC during our WIA centenary celebrations. NOV 7 VK5 2010 Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society Hamfest Rosa St Goodwood 2012 15TH IARU REGION 3 CONFERENCE hosted by V.A.R.C. in Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam. JAN 23-FEB 17 YEAR 2012 World Radio Conference WRC-11 Geneva 23rd January TO 17th February 2012 MAY 4-7 2012 VK5 YL International 2012 Australia (vk5tmc@bigpond.com) Please think of the environment before printing this email ============================================================================= WIANews - we've reported...YOU decide. 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