------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIANEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING MAR 21 2010. WIA CENTENARY Remembering the unit men, Hertz HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. The "VK9 AWARD" INTERNATIONAL MARCONI DAY AWARDS PROGRAM VK7 SSTV Gateway ALL UP AND COMING IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING MAR 21 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WIA CENTENARY Registrations are steadily flowing in for this memorable occasion that runs Friday the 28th to Sunday the 30th of May. Just confirmed for the Friday night is that there will be a once in a life-time opportunity to explore the technical side of the national capital's well known landmark, Black Mountain Telstra Communications Tower. Exclusive for WIA Centenary Convention registrants will be a series of guided tours in areas never seen by the general public. Learn about the history of this 30-year old communications and broadcast facility as well as your opportunity to see Canberra by night from the towers observation deck. Limited bookings are available for the Black Mountain Telstra Communications Tower tour. It is just part of a packed three day program with plenty to see and do, catch up with old friends or make new ones as we celebrate the one hundred years of organised amateur radio in Australia. On Saturday the special program titled "The WIA Centenary through word, picture, and artefacts" will be another highlight, with nine presenters each having an interesting topic. The full details are on the WIA website and were sent to members as an insert in this month's Amateur Radio magazine. The Saturday evening Centenary Dinner has local and overseas dignitaries in attendance and a planned special Centenary Amateur Radio on the International Space Station contact with a local school. Sunday will include a live transmission of this VK1WIA news broadcast from the Nation's Capital, a public display of amateur radio, sightseeing and a BBQ in the park. On air right across the weekend from Canberra will be the special callsign VK100WIA that offers a collectable QSL card and contacts with it qualify for the WIA Centenary Award. The WIA Centenary Convention, which includes an excellent partner's program, happening on the last weekend in May in Canberra will be talked about for many years to come - be part of it! click the following Link for full details and to register now. http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2010/20100313-2/index.php Over 100 ARNSW Members attended the opening of the new premises at the VK2WI Dural site last Sunday. Three of the older members present cut the Centenary Birthday cake. They were Pierce Healy VK2APQ, Bill Hall VK2XT and David Thompson VK2BDT. ARNSW was pleased to welcome National WIA President Michael Owen VK3KI and Director Phil Wait VK2ASD to the opening. The Centenary date on Thursday the 11 th was observed by a small gathering at the site in the Sydney CBD of the meeting in 1910 from which has grown today's WIA. CSIRO and Australian company Sapphicon Semiconductor Pty Ltd have signed an agreement to jointly develop a complete radio receiver on a chip measuring just 5 mm x 5 mm that could eventually be used in mobile phones and other communications technologies. Trevor Taege VK4BAT has the details…………. "The development of a low-cost, ultra-high-bandwidth ‘system-on-chip’ device could also replace traditional receivers currently used in radio astronomy applications, many of which are about the size of a bar fridge. The chip’s first test will be in CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder or ASKAP array of 36 radio dishes that acts as a single telescope now under construction in Western Australia. It will be trialled in an innovative radio camera (or “phased array feed”) developed by CSIRO, which sits at the focal centre of each ASKAP dish to receive incoming cosmic radio waves. The development project is expected to take about two years to complete and will involve a number of stages of sub-component development and testing. I’m Trevor Taege VK4BAT for VK1WIA News HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. VK1 vk1 local news email broadcast@vk1.wia.ampr.org and ask for subscription. The monthly general meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 24th March and will be a presentation by Phil Clark VK1PC entitled "Murphy’s Law & Space Shuttle Voice Communications", and other Space Communications info. The doors will open at 7:30 PM. VK2 web service:- http://www.arnsw.org.au/html/news_vk2wi.htm VKG Roundup http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news Paul Howarth VK2GX says the St George Amateur Radio Society are holding a Movie Night "1997 Heard Island Expedition", this on 7th April 19:30 sharp! Venue has not been disclosed as yet but Free Pop Corn, Jaffas, Tea and Coffee WILL BE provided. The next Trash & Treasure at VK2WI Dural will be next Sunday the 28th. Gates open at 9 am for a 10 am start. CARBOOT SALE AT THE SUMMERLAND CLUBROOMS, Sunday 28 March. The rooms are at 414 Richmond Hill Road, Richmond Hill, east of Lismore. Get along, bring, sell, buy anything, not just radio stuff, anything. Admission $5 per carboot or stand. Customers free. VK4 - QNEWS 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/ VK6 - NEWSWEST An estimated crowd of 150 people travelled from metropolitan Perth and from country locations as far away as Kalgoorlie to attend the official opening of the Neil Penfold State Amateur Radio Centre at Whiteman Park. The Centre is the home of the Northern Corridor Radio Group Inc. The NPSARC was officially opened by Neil Penfold, VK6NE. This magnificent Amateur Radio facility was built by club members over several years, providing the club with a world class facility for contesting and other club activities. Contained within the building are two spacious air conditioned operating shacks, each set up with first class equipment. The facility also has a meeting room, toilet and shower, kitchen, a workshop, sleeping quarters and storage space. Outside is a formidable array of towers, masts and antennas, and a pleasant grassed recreation area. There is also a rather large diesel generator for standby power. The day was celebrated with a car boot sale, sausage sizzle, "open house" of the clubrooms, a raffle and many face to face QSOs. The WIA was also there, selling WIA merchandise, callbooks etc. Congratulations to NCRG on realising their vision. VK7 local area news :- http://reast.asn.au/news.php vk7 local news, email vk7regionalnews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com A big greeting to everyone at the Meet the Voice BBQ at ROSS today. Many in VK7 will be making their pilgrimage to that wonderful little Midlands town for a great day of socialising and meeting those amateurs in person. See you there. April Hobart REAST Presentation Tour of ABC TV & Radio Studios REAST Host will be Jim Parish who is Technical Manager at the ABC and he will be taking you through the newly refurbished TV and radio studios. The move to digital technology has seen many changes in the studios and processes for bringing TV and radio to Tasmanians. This should be a fascinating tour and REAST are privileged to have Jim showing them through prior to his retirement from the ABC. Tour will be held on the 7th April 2010 at 7:30pm please be at the front doors at 7:30pm SHARP. http://reast.asn.au/events.php#abcstudios (Justin, VK7TW, REAST Presentations Officer) VK9 The "VK9 AWARD" VK4TJF James Fleming on behalf of sponsors "Redcliffe and District Amateur Radio Club." tell us this new non-WIA award is now operational. Contact each of the "VK9" DXCC entities using any or all bands and all modes. Band and mode endorsements are available on request from the postal address in the text edition, again a note it is NOT the Redcliffe Clubs address but James home address to save time and man power. SWL OK, though their applications must show the call signs of both stations heard. The VK9 DXCC entities are: Mellish Reef Lord Howe Island Norfolk Island Christmas Island Willis Island Cocos Keeling Island Send GCR list and fee of 5 AUD, 2 IRC’s or $US5 to James Fleming VK4TJF, 4 Murchison Ct., Murrumba Downs, 4503 QLD Australia. (73's from James Fleming, VK4TJF) INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to RSGB, Southgate AR Club, the ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA. As parts of earthquake-hit Chile again were shaken by severe aftershocks there has been further news of the role of radio amateurs, including them being a highly sought after reliable source of information. A television news report describes them as a collection of dedicated ham radio operators scattered across the country, proving to be an information lifeline during the devastating earthquake, tsunami and its aftermath. Interviewed was R.C.C.H. Secretary Alejandro Jara CE3JWF and Director of S.E.R. (Servicio de Emergencia de Radioaficionados) Rafael Riesco CE3FFR, the Spanish language report, translated to English said "They were on air within 10 to 15 minutes of the quake - where possible. While telephones and the internet largely failed, many of the radio operators have back-up power and were able to provide vital lines of communication, picked up by National Radio Chile and rebroadcast, giving status of various affected areas." The report added that, "Even where internet still worked, gossip social networking pages could not be trusted, exaggerating and getting things wrong." The RCCH has also expressed its thanks to the world’s radio amateurs for keeping emergency frequencies free during their nation's time of need. (vk3pc via wia.org.au) CHANGES TO SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO REGULATIONS It appears that ICASA is ready to publish the draft radio regulations in the Government Gazette. As soon as the SARL receives a copy of the draft regulations, it will be posted on the SARL website at www.sarl.org.za Public comment will be invited which will be considered by ICASA before the regulations will be finalised. Although the SARL requested that the organisation make input into the draft, the ICASA Councillor charged with rewriting the outdated regulations decided that once the draft is published for comment, is the appropriate time for the SARL to make input. ============================================================================= NEWS FROM ARNEWSLINE FCC REAFFIRMS ROS ONLY LEGAL ABOVE 222 MHZ The FCC says that a new digital mode developed in Europe and being used world-wide is not legal for United States hams to transmit below 222 MHz. This because it uses frequency hopping technology which the regulatory which the agency considers to be spread spectrum and bans hams from using below that frequency. Amateur Radio Newsline's Frank Haas, KB4T, has more. According to the ARRL, back in mid-February, European amateurs first used a new, experimental digital mode known as R-O S. On February 23, 2010 -- after FCC review of the original documents provided from the developer's website -- the FCC made the following statements on R-O-S. We quote: "Section 97.305 is the rule that specifies where different emission types are allowed to be transmitted on different bands. 'R-O-S' is viewed as 'spread spectrum,' and the creator of the system describes it as that. We assume that he knows what he created. Section 97.305 authorizes spread spectrum emission types defined in Section 97.3 to be transmitted by FCC licensed amateur stations at places we regulate communications only on 222-225 MHz and higher frequency amateur bands. European telecommunication regulatory authorities may authorize amateur stations in Europe to use spread spectrum on the High Frequency bands, but this is of no concern to us. "The Commission does not determine if a particular mode 'truly' represents spread spectrum as it is defined in the rules. The licensee of the station transmitting the emission is responsible for determining that the operation of the station complies with the rules. This would include determining the type of emission the station is transmitting and that the frequencies being used are authorized for that type of emission." End quote Since that initial FCC review, several Internet sites have reported a claim -- attributed to the FCC -- that the original statements made had been reconsidered and that the regulatory agency's view was now that -- quote: "R-O-S cannot be viewed as Spread Spectrum and it would be encompassed within Section 97.309 which covers RTTY and data emissions codes." The ARRL says that when queried about this new statement, the FCC's Consumer Assistance Office stated that -- and again we quote: "The information contained on the R-O-S website was not provided by the FCC." The agency then reaffirmed the original statements that came from the FCC's Wireless Bureau, which handles Amateur Radio rules for the United States. In other words, as far as the FCC is concerned, the R-O-S mode can only be used by the hams that it licenses on frequency bands above 222 MHz. And that’s where it stands with the FCC as we go to air. For the Amateur Radio Newsline. I'm Frank Haas, KB4T, in Holly Hill, Florida. In its closing statement on the matter, the ARRL says that it supports the experimentation and advancing the technical skills of operators. But the League also reminds US licensees that according to Section 97.307, spread spectrum communications are only permissible in the US on frequencies above 222 MHz. ROS CREATOR SAYS HES DEVLOPED A NEW NARROWBAND VERSION As if this situation was not complicated enough, the creator of ROS, one José Alberto Nieto Ros, has announced the creation of a narrowband version of ROS that requires only 500 Hz. To operate. He says that a technical description of this new version will be sent to FCC with the aim of gaining the agency's approval their approval for its use in the United States. Until then, the author says that he will not make public any technical explanation about this mode. But here's where there may be a conflict. In his blog posting he claims that if you are a U.S. citizen, that you are in your perfect right to experiment with this new digital mode, until the FCC says otherwise. What he might not understand is that here in the United States hams must abide by the FCC Part 97 rules currently in place as well as any standing FCC declaration regarding the use of any mode. Also, that violating either could lead to anything ranging from a warning letter to a Notice of Violation or even a monetary fine. So while U-S hams can sit all day and receive and decode using any version of ROS, that they cannot transmit with it until they get a go ahead from the FCC. (Various sources) Remembering the unit men - Hertz Hello I'm Jim Linton VK3PC with the latest in a series of brief looks at those who made discoveries and have their names as units of measurement. The German physicist Heinrich Hertz made important contributions to mankind's knowledge of electromagnetism. During experiments in 1887 and 88 he proved the existence of radio waves that had previously been mathematically shown by James Clerk Maxwell. Hertz used a spark gap across an inductor and a loop antenna to send a signal to a loop of wire that also had a small gap. Reports of his work inspired Marconi who recognised the commercial value of the discovery. Hertz was the one who demonstrated how radio waves travelled through the ether. They became rightly known as Hertzian waves. His original experiment was duplicated in many countries much to the amazement who witnessed this scientific discovery, and leading to the era of early wireless experimentation. In the ultimate recognition, by the 1970s the term 'cycles per second' as a measurement of frequency kilocycles and Megacycles was replaced with the unit Hertz. OPERATIONAL NEWS - SPECIAL EVENTS AND ON AIR CONTEST COLUMN - D A T E L I N E 2010 Mar 20-21 WIA John Moyle Field Day details from vk4ae@hotmail.com APR 30 - MAY 6 Westlakes CQ Repeater contest contestmanager@westlakesarc.org.au May 8 WIA VK Trans Tasman 80m Phone Bruce Renn vk3jwz@wia.org.au Jun 12 WIA VK Trans Tasman 160m Phone Bruce Renn vk3jwz@wia.org.au Jun 12-13 WIA Worked All VK Shires contest@vkshires.info Jun 19-20 WIA WINTER VHF-UHF Field Day John Martin VK3KM tac@wia.org.au Jul 10tbc WIA Jack Files Contest John Spooner vk4ajs@wia.org.au Aug 14-15 WIA Remembrance Day Contest Peter Harding vk4od@wia.org.au Aug 21-22 International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. register on website illw.net Oct 2- 3 WIA Oceania DX Contest Phone Tony Burt vk3tz@wia.org.au Oct 9-10 WIA Oceania DX Contest CW Tony Burt vk3tz@wia.org.au NOV 20-21 WIA Spring VHF-UHF Field Day John Martin VK3KM tac@wia.org.au INTERNATIONAL MARCONI DAY AWARDS PROGRAM The 23rd International Marconi Day will take place on April 24th. Although not a contest, awards can be obtained if you pre register for the event. Also, in order to qualify as an award station, operations should take place from a site that either used Marconi equipment prior to his death in 1937 or from which Marconi carried out experiments during the same period. Full details can be found at www.gb4imd.org.uk International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend A total of 100 registrations have been received so far at the website illw.net for this year's event on the weekend of the 21st and 22nd of August, Jim Linton VK3PC reports. "It will be the 11th annual weekend run by Scotland's Ayr Radio Group GM0AYR. The registrations to date are from 19 countries with nearly half of them from Germany and Australia who always strongly support this fun event. Other countries include Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Honduras, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, USA and Wales. It's only early days and organisers of the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend, the Ayr Radio Group, are hopeful that with improved HF propagation the record of 442 registrations set last year could be beaten. To register or check out the lighthouses already registered, visit the official website illw.net (Jim Linton VK3PC) G’day - I’m Dale VK4DMC from the Tablelands Radio and Electronics Club in Far North Queensland reporting from Innot Hot Springs, located at grid-square QH22oi, where this weekend we are taking part in the John Moyle Memorial Field day contest. We arrived here on Friday and set up our field station and after much fun getting various antennas located on portable towers and not so portable trees we were on air for the start of the contest at 0100 UTC Saturday. So far we have made many contacts, using our club call-sign VK4WAT, into most VK call areas and international stations being worked as well. Innot Hot Springs is known for its hot thermal springs and many of our members have spent time simply soaking in the invigorating hot mineral spas. This has been an added bonus and is helping to re-invigorate our operators for their next stint on the microphone. Listen out for VK4WAT and say G’day. This has been Dale VK4DMC. SPECIAL EVENT CALLS, REPEATER 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 Iraq DXpedition A group of multi-national ham radio operators are planning to operate from Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) and will be active between April 2-12th. The team has received a ten day visa issued by the Government of Kurdistan. A band/mode survey is available on their Web site at: http://www.yi9pse.com/survey.html Suggested frequencies are also published on their Web page. FRENCH HAMS CELEBRATE CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS On the air, F6FQK reports that members of the "Council of Europe Radio Amateur Club will be active as TP60CE between March 12th to the 14th. This to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Convention of Human Rights. Operations will be on CW, SSB, PSK and the Satellites. QSL via F5LGF. An online log search will be available http://ewwa.free.fr VK4OD CALLS FOR YOUR REPEATER INPUT! We are looking at updating the VKHAM Website data for all the Repeaters in VK mainland and P29. I have been asked to obtain data from as many of the VK radio Clubs and Individuals who have a repeater under their control. I would ask that anyone listening please ask your committee persons to access the following link http://www.wiaq.com/repeaters.htm (Of course the main and absolutely accurate site is our own at wia.org.au -- ed) From Uganda, 5X7JD will be on the air until 25 May. QSL as directed on air. 5R8UI will be on the air from Madagascar until the end of the year. QSL IK4ZUI. AWARDS Centenary of Aviation Award On March 18, 1910, Harry Houdini made the first powered flight of an aircraft in Australia at Diggers Rest in Victoria. To commemorate the centenary of aviation in Australia, the Sunbury Amateur Radio Group (S.A.R.G.) are offering the Centenary of Aviation Award. Available for all bands and all modes (including EchoLink and IRLP), the award is available for those who make five contacts with SARG members. Contact with the same member is permissible but on different days, between 0000UTC March 14 to March 28, 2010. Further details are available from vk3tkk@yahoo.com.au MEDIA WATCH www.wiaq.com/admin/uploads/weeklytally.rtf www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WorldRadio.html Groups presenting this WIA National News Service MAR VK3 28 VK3DN APR VK3 4 VK3DN APR VK3 11 VK3DN APR VK7 25 REAST (ANZAC Weekend) MAY VK1 23 CRARC (promoting CRARC and WIA AGM) MAY VK100WIA 30 WIA DIRECTORS JOIN A LIVE OB FROM CANBERRA WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - Video arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com VK7 SSTV Gateway Work is in progress to re locate the SSTV Gateway from the QTH of VK7AX to a repeater site at Gawler. The call sign of the gateway has been changed to VK7RTV and subject to final interface and radio checks will become operational from the new site within the next few days, where it is anticipated the range of the repeater/gateway will be increased significantly. The frequency of the gateway is 145.625 MHz. Simplex and to gateway your SSTV signal over the internet via other gateways World Wide, users need to operate with the FSKID button on. To use the gateway as a local repeater only, leave the FSKID off. 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 HAM HEARS AND RECORDS MARS EXPRESS FLY-BY From our good friends at ARNewsLine, talk about a true accomplishment for ham radio. This as the European Space Agency website reports that a radio amateur was able to receive and record the Mars Express mission on its recent flyby of the Martian moon Phobos. Bertrand Pinel, F5PL, from near Castelnaudary, France, used his 3.5 meter dish throughout the flyby to monitor the signal from Mars Express. Here’s a sample of what he heard: -- The recording of the tone of Mars Express shifts from high to low because, at the time of the recording, Mars Express was travelling away from the Earth with a speed of 39 000 km/hr - accelerating as it went. This is the same Doppler effect as the sound of an ambulance siren changing as it passes you. More on this story and F5PL's complete audio recording is on-line at http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/7/1058 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO EMERGENCY FREQUENCIES IARU REGION 3 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz The weekend of the 27th / 28th is a busy one for WICEN in Canberra. TWO events running, Canberra 2 Day Walk, and on Saturday only is the BMSC "Appliance Installation Stages" car rally. The car rally is basically all taken care of, however WICEN are still a little short of people for the 2 day walk on each day and are looking for an additional person for HQ on each day along with a couple of field stations. If you can help with either day of the walk it would be appreciated if you could contact Phil VK1PL. committee@crarc.ampr.org THE LOWDOWN COLUMN INCLUDING PRECISION BEACON TRANSMISSIONS BEACONS www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/micro/Precision Canadian Amateur Radio Access to 137 KHz. Industry Canada has approved access by Canadian radio amateurs to the Low Frequency (LF) band 135.7 ? 137.8 kHz, subject to certain conditions. The Revised Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations, promulgated in December 2009 to incorporate changes arising from decisions taken at World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 2007, permits amateur use on a Secondary basis subject to Footnote 5.67A. The Footnote states: "Stations in the amateur service using frequencies in the band 135.7-137.8 kHz shall not exceed a maximum radiated power of 1 W (EIRP) and shall not cause harmful interference to stations of the radionavigation service operating in countries listed in No. 5.67. (WRC-07)". Industry Canada has advised that Canadian radio amateurs may now use the band and that Schedule I of RBR-4 Standards for the Operation of Stations in the Amateur Radio Service will be amended in due course. (Richard Ferch VE3IAY/VE3KI VP Regulatory Affairs Radio Amateurs of Canada). REWIND - A LOOK BACK IN HISTORY Rewind a look back at our history through the serialised written history by WIA Centenary Committee member Peter Wolfenden VK3RV with assistance of others, that is being published in the WIA journal Amateur Radio magazine. The challenge of interference From the very first meeting ??of like minded people? at the Hotel Australia on the 11th of March 1910, it was recognised that that representation was needed of all amateur experimenters to the authorities. Licence fees and ?fair play? were contentious matters discussed at that initial meeting. During 1913 major issues relating to interference experienced by official government station almost resulted in the end of experimental stations both here in Australia and in New Zealand where experimenters were closed down for some time. The newspapers of the day carried letters to the editor echoing ?official? concern ? ?What is virtually the highway for public traffic is no place for private amusements?? Walter King Witt, the Secretary of the Wireless Institute of Victoria had a lengthy letter to the editor published in the Melbourne Argus of the 16th August in which he stated that the experimenters had received notification from the Postmaster-General’s Department that unless interference issues were fixed, all experimenter licences would be withdrawn. That letter also made it known that the Council of the Wireless Institute of Victoria would give any assistance to experimenters to overcome any difficulties. This was in the era of spark-gap transmission and basic reception. Thankfully closure, due to ?interference? did not eventuate and there is little doubt that the concerted efforts by Institute officers contributed greatly to the preservation of experimenter’s privilege in this country. SOCIAL SCENE 2010 MARCH 21 VK7 MEET THE VOICE BBQ at Ross in VK7 APRIL 3-4-5 VK3 Midland Amateur Radio Club's Radio, Electronic & Astronomy Expo. Old Fire Station Building" at 52 View Street Bendigo JUNE 12 VK2 Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club's 35th Annual Field Day. JULY 17 VK3 GGREC Hamfest Start Time : 10:00 AUGUST 1 VK6 Northern Corridor Group Hamfest Cyril Jackson Sports Centre Ashfield 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) ============================================================================= WIANews - we've reported...YOU decide. Societies and Club News Letter Editors can EXCHANGE a feed prior to the actual broadcast date, e-mail nationalnews@wia.org.au Call-backs follow the RF editions, but also for text readers you may lodge a quick reply to let us know you read it, who knows, you might even get a "cheerio call". Thanks to to our dedicated band of broadcast volunteers who utilize their time and equipment in bringing you this weekly broadcast. The purpose of "WIANews" is to rapidly provide news of interest to active amateurs residing in Australia and the globe. We strongly encourage membership in the Wireless Institute of Australia and participation in the activities of local clubs. 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