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THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING NOVEMBER 9 2014. WIA via Fred Swainston VK3DAC, has released the first draft of plans for 2015 commemoration of ANZAC Day. The plan is quite extensive and is in a nine page document which can be found at: http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/anzaccentenary/about/ You really do need all nine pages if you want to be part of it. TONY ABBOT A RADIO HAM? NO BUT INDONESIA'S NEW LEADERS ARE! Indonesia's new national leaders are both amateur radio licensees. Amateur Radio Newsline are reporting that the ARRL are saying that President Joko Widodo, YD2JKW, holds a General class license and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, YC8HYK, is an Advanced class licensee. Jokowi and Kalla were inaugurated on October 20th in Jakarta. Our neighbour, Indonesia, is the world's third-largest democracy, with a population of approximately 250 million. Subsea cable route woos US speed traders to Australian futures US-based high-frequency traders can buy and sell Australian equity futures two thousandths of a second faster after the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney opened a direct link to CME Group in Chicago. The new route shaves 50 kilometres off the distance between ASX's data centre, less than 10 kilometres west of Sydney's Harbour Bridge and CME in Aurora, Illinois, some 14,900 kilometres away. The subsea cable cuts the round trip for a computer signal to 181.5 milliseconds from 183.5 milliseconds, a service that benefits traders with strategies that rely on reacting to price moves more quickly than other investors. Adam Bradley, head of sales for technical services at ASX said "Microseconds count to these customers. If you can reduce by milliseconds, you are certainly helping them." smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/subsea-cable-route-woos-us-speed-traders-to-australian-futures-20141105-11h339.html#ixzz3I9MGOVth (sourced to SMH) Electrofishing underway to rescue stranded native species in far west VK2 Fisheries staff are working to salvage native fish threatened by low water levels at Menindee Lakes in far west New South Wales. Total storage levels in the lakes have dropped to 16 per cent capacity and Department of Primary Industries staff have been on site since Tuesday. The team is using an electric pulse to stun fish in the lakes in order to transfer native species to fresher water http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/electro-fishing-underway-to-rescue-native-species-menindee-lakes/5867570 (ABCNews) South Australian takes leave from top ARISS job After a long time Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI, the mainstay of Amateur Radio on the Space Station or the ARISS program, is taking a well-earned break from the daily grid to enjoy spending more time with his family and some travel. His involvement so far spans 21 years and includes being the ARISS Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Region. After 46 years farming Tony and his wife Jill moved to Kingston to retire. While taking a break in arranging school contacts with International Space Station astronauts, he doesn't intend to leave the job completely, and will continue as a well-equipped telebridge station, when at home. Tony VK5ZAI completed four terms on the Kingston District Council which serves the Limestone Coast of South Australia's south-east. This has included committee membership on helping assess building applications among other things, the Town Improvement Committee and the Kingston Tourism Committee. He has some 12 years on the coastal base station of the Volunteer Coast Guard, and with his wife Jill carried out other worthy community work. His efforts have been acknowledged by NASA, AMSAT and the WIA. Tony has featured in newspaper articles, in Amateur Radio magazine and on television. The ARISS program will continue in 2015 with Shane Lynd VK4KHZ, who has already done a fantastic job as a telebridge station. Tony VK5ZAI and Jill will now take a break of 12 months to enjoy his family and travel by road to many conservation parks in South Australia. You may hear him portable on the 40-metre band. (Jim Linton VK3PC) Another Pico balloon test flight The latest in a series of Pico balloons went up on the Melbourne Cup Day last Tuesday mainly to test out its HF capabilities. Andy Nguyen VK3YT has been making and flying Pico’s, or strong foil party-type balloons for a while now. His latest launch of solar powered PS-24 had a payload weighing 13 grams with a GPS receiver, computer, APRS, a 10-milliwatt transmitter, battery and antenna. It was designed to test the WSPR and JT9 modes, transmitting on 30m and 20m. The Pico flight was tracked by VK2, VK3, VK5, VK6 and ZL1 stations. The balloon came down near Tasmania. Earlier flights had reached Queensland, New Zealand and even Brazil in South America. Andy VK3YT, a master of miniaturisation, has a few more such small balloons ready when he finds the winds are favourable. (Jim Linton VK3PC) Men's Shed and Portable Emergency Communications. Bendigo Amateur Radio and Electronics Club are inviting the public to their November meeting on the 21st as the evening will feature two presentations. One part of the evening will be all about 'Men's Shed', where you will be able to find out more about the fantastic opportunities available at the local Men's Shed. Darren Tolley, VK3MMX, will also provide a presentation on Amateur Radio and Portable Emergency Communications. Requiring no need for conventional mobile phone or internet connectivity, Amateur Radio equipment can be set up anywhere at a moment's notice to provide valuable emergency communications. Darren will discuss various aspects of portable operation, such as what equipment is required and how to ensure set up time is minimal. Find out how you too can become a licenced Amateur Radio Operator! The evening commences at 7.30 pm, Friday November 21st, at the First Bendigo Scout Hall in Vine St. A gold coin donation would be appreciated. Tea, coffee and biscuits available. For more information, contact Kevin Crockett on 5439 7434. theTARCinc Annual General Meeting 2014 The Annual General Meeting of The Townsville Amateur Radio Club will be happening on Sunday November 23rd 2014. Whoop-de-doo you say - but wait, what is that delicious smell you can detect from 10 weeks into the future ? This is what it is ! The event is starting with a pancake breakfast from 7am to 8-30am with the goop made from Lex’s secret recipe, slightly modified by Rob/VK4RB and then slightly further modified and put together by Kooka/VK4FRJG and cooked up by the Iron Faraday Cage Chefs. After the sumptuous pancake feast the nuts and bolts of the Annual General Meeting will take place. Where do you go to ? Area 2 - Rossiter Park Aitkenvale via Kimball Street of course ! There is a Plan B if they are lucky enough to get rain on the day - from 7am at the Club Rooms, SES HQ, Green Street West End for the brekkie followed at 8-30am for the AGM. WIA BOARD TALK President Phil Wait VK2ASD vk2asd@wia.org.au Vice President Chris Platt VK5CP vk5cp@wia.org.au Secretary David Williams VK3RU vk3ru@wia.org.au Treasurer John Longayroux VK3PZ vk3pz@wia.org.au THE NINE CENTIMETRE AMATEUR BAND IS SAFE – FOR NOW This is WIA Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH Use of the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz band, including Amateur access, will remain ‘business as usual’ for the time being. This has been the fortuitous outcome following the recent consultation on future arrangements in the band, conducted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority over June to September this year. The consultation process began when the ACMA released a discussion paper – Transitioning the 3.5 GHz band for future opportunities on 18 June this year. The ACMA sought to identify licensing arrangements in the band that might “. . . maximise regulatory flexibility for both licensees and the ACMA”. The 3.4 to 3.6 GHz band had a mix of Apparatus and Spectrum licensees at the time, and the ACMA proposed extending Apparatus licensing across the band for the future. Responses to the discussion paper closed on 30 July, the ACMA receiving 24 submissions. As you may be aware, the WIA put in a strong submission. Eight were from individual amateurs along with one from the WIA. The ACMA notes that there was lack of consensus on the best way forward for the 3.5 GHz band among the 24 submissions received. On 30 October, the ACMA wrote to all those who made submissions, explaining its decision: “. . . to retain the existing mix of apparatus and spectrum licensing arrangements in the 3.5 GHz band”, the ACMA said, adding that: “The current embargoes will also remain in place, at least in the short term, although we intend to review those arrangements as use of the band develops.” Apply a little soothing balm, the ACMA’s letter added that it “no longer considers that increasing the extent of apparatus licensing is appropriate.” But the 9 cm band landscape took a dramatic turn on 22 August this year when the Minister for Communications, the Honourable Malcolm Turnbull MP, issued a Draft Direction to use 3.5 GHz band spectrum for the NBN spectrum gap, with submissions in response to be received by the Department of Communications no later than 22 September. The Direction called for the ACMA to complete arrangements by 30 April 2015 to licence two spectrum blocks – 50 MHz at 3400 to 3425 MHz, and 25 MHz at 3492.5 to 3542.5 MHz – for NBN purposes under Apparatus licensing. Both blocks cover actively-used portions of the 9 cm amateur band. The WIA objected to the proposal in our submission to the Department of Communications in September. The Direction was registered on 24 October 2014 and expires on 24 October 2015. The two spectrum blocks are currently embargoed to the issue of new licences. The Department of Communications received ten submissions. Three were from individual amateurs along with that from the WIA. The ACMA’s letter of 30 October advises that: “In line with the ACMA's decision to maintain existing licensing arrangements in the band, the ACMA will soon commence reissue considerations for the 3.4 GHz spectrum licences, which expire on 13 December 2015.” Further, the letter advises that some sections of the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz band that remained unsold in a spectrum licensing round previously, have “lapsed” and become available for reallocation. The ACMA advises that it expects to commence consultation shortly on a proposal to the Minister that this unallocated spectrum be designated for spectrum licensing. How long that will take, we don’t know. Rest assured that the WIA will be in there fighting for continued amateur access across the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz band. So, amateur access to the 9 cm band remains “as is” for the time being, but we’re not out of the woods. Keep a watch on the Hot Issues page of the WIA website, which is linked from the home page, wia.org.au This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. Ahead of International News, over the last two weeks WICEN NSW, as part of the NSW Volunteer Rescue Association response, has been actively supporting the search for a missing 21 y/o Belrose man, Sevak Simonian. So far WICEN has contributed hundreds of man hours to the effort. The search has been based around the extremely rugged terrain in the Kanangra Walls area SE of Oberon NSW, about 3 hours from Sydney. Members of WICEN have been providing safety and management communications support for sister VRA organisations, the Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue Squad and the NSW Cave Rescue Squad, who have been playing a major role in the search. In the last week WICEN has also handled communications for the SES, NSW Ambulance Special Operations, Police Dog Squad, and helicopter air to ground. Base to search team communications are primarily using WICEN supplied equipment on high band VHF with a fall back to commercial HF where dictated by terrain. Communications between amateur manned relay points is mostly on 2m. A link to Sydney for logistical support has been established via a 2m repeater. WICEN operators pass messages between the search managers at base and the search teams in the field and at times have been deployed by vehicle and by foot to remote relay points to maintain contact with the search teams. Regular, reliable communications to field search teams are essential for the management of the search and the safety of the searchers. The skills, knowledge and dedication displayed by the searchers is astounding. Amateur radio operators, through their membership of WICEN, have contributed by allowing the search managers and teams to focus on their core search task and leave the solving and handling of the communications issues to WICEN. In closing, we all hope for a successful outcome. INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA. Loggers suffer LED lighting interference New Zealand's Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) has identified serious cases of interference to radio communications at log hauler sites in Marlborough from the operation of vehicle mounted LED lighting The interference is so severe that in darkness hours radio systems have become inoperable. Site management called RSM to look at the issue due to serious safety concerns. A common solution was to separate the lights from the radio antennas as much as physically possible. A recent audit of emergency lighting suppliers was undertaken by RSM and it was generally found that suppliers were not aware of the need to ensure their equipment met the necessary EMC specification AS/NZS CISPR15. A further finding was that various other electronics fitted to the diggers and haulers caused radio interference. In this case most instances of interference can be minimised by placing the radio antenna centrally on the cabin roof. RSM urges users to ensure they pay attention to the separation of antennas from other electronics and only fit approved AS/NZS CISPR15 LED lights. http://www.rsm.govt.nz/cms Brazil to extend FM broadcast band The FM Radio Data System (RDS) site reports that some countries are planning to extend the FM broadcast band It appears that Brazil intends to extend it down to 76 MHz while Beijing is considering a lower limit of 64 MHz. http://www.rds.org.uk/2010/2014-Forum-Meeting.htm SARL 5 MHz propagation research project The 5 MHz propagation research project show unexpected results. One of the most interesting findings is the inconsistency in the results of Near-vertical-incidence sky wave propagation (NVIS). Comparing a communications path between two amateur stations, ZS6KN and ZS6KTS (a distance of 51 km) it is interesting to note that in June 2014 there was a good communications path from just after 05:00 until approximately 16:30 after which the signals disappeared. The pattern for July was the same, but signals were considerably stronger than during August and September. During September, a strong dip in signal strength can be seen. The other interesting observation from the graph is that propagation "opens" earlier and closes later as we go into summer which indicates variations in the ionisation of the D layer of the ionosphere as the sun rises earlier and sets later. Not enough data has been collected to make any meaning full conclusions. If the path was a pure ground wave, the signals would have been more or less constant throughout the day and night. The article will be published in the November/December edition of EngineerIT and is already available on the web. www.sarl.org.za, click on propagation research. GPS back-up: World War Two technology employed In the UK, the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLA) have announced that they have installed a system called eLoran in seven ports across Britain. The new system, which is ground rather than satellite-based, is designed to be used in the event of a GPS failure. Testing for eLoran has taken place in Felixstowe, the busiest container port in the UK. Read the full BBC News story at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29758872 Russian air tankers use Morse code The Aviationist reports on Morse code transmissions when two Russian air tankers were deployed to Egypt Oct 30-31, possibly in support of strategic bombers The Russians still use quite a lot of Morse and especially for these extended out of area missions. They send the same short 3 figure tactical messages back to their control in Russia using Morse and Voice. Radio enthusiasts were busy logging the activity last week. Read the full story at http://theaviationist.com/2014/11/03/il-78-midas-egypt/ GET SMART A recently discovered vulnerability lets the average Android phone pick up transmissions from a nearby computer using only an FM radio receiver, no Wi-Fi, mobile connection or Bluetooth required. Security researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel presented their findings at the MALCON 2014 security conference in Puerto Rico last week. They had engineered their own app, known as AirHopper, to bridge the "air gap" that protects non-networked computers from spies and malware. AirHopper receives data through radio signals emitted from a computer monitor — including keystrokes logged by spyware on the PC. Read the full and intriguing story on "Toms Guide." www.tomsguide.com/us/airhopper-data-radio-waves,news-19865.html#airhopper-data-radio-waves%2Cnews-19865.html?&_suid=141506655386007926469126859403 ============================================================================= ARNEWSLINE INDONESIA HAMS MAY BE CALLED ON IF EBOLA HITS THAT NATION Ham radio operators in Indonesia could become part of a response team if the Ebola virus were to hit that nation. This as researchers from a study program of the University of Gadjah Mada School of Engineering introduce guidelines for anticipating and preventing the spread of the deadly disease in that nation. According to a professor of physics engineering at the college, Indonesia lacks both the knowledge and the adequate health equipment needed to detect Ebola early. Using a simulation created for such an event and in cooperation with the Yogyakarta branch of the Indonesian Amateur Radio Organization and the Indonesian Red Cross the three will work together to formulate a standard operating procedure for tackling Ebola infections. This will be submitted to the governor for his consideration. According to the Jakarta Post, it is hoped that the proposal could provide basic guidelines for an Ebola mitigation procedure on the national level. The complete story can be found at tinyurl.com/hams-vs-ebola-part-1 KC9HYY/WSL3 COMMEMORATES SINKING OF HMHS BRITANNIC Special event station KC9HYY stroke WSL3 which will operational in remembrance of the 98th anniversary of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic. The Britannic was the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liners of the White Star Line. She was launched just before the start of the World War One and soon converted to use as a hospital ship. On the morning of November 21st 1916, the Britannic was shaken by an explosion from an underwater mine in the Kea Channel and sank 55 minutes later. There were 1,066 people on board of which 1,036 survived. Now, in remembrance of this event, callsign KC9HYY stroke WSL3 will be taking to the ham radio bands from November 21st to the 24th operating 40 through 10 meters using SSB and some of the digital modes. More information including QSL routing is on QRZ.com under the callsign listing for KC9HYY. CELEBRATION MARCONI EXPERIMENTS FROM YACHT ELETTRA Keep an ear open for special event station IY1IEY to be on the air between November 1st and December 31st to commemorate the experiments conducted by Gugliemo Marconi from his yacht Elettra between 1919 and 1936. Operations will be on all of the High Frequency bands including 30, 17 and 12 meters. HAM RADIO PAYLOAD ON ITS WAY TO CIRCLE THE MOON China has launched its robotic moon circling mission that carries a ham radio payload. The main purpose of this flight is to test of re-entry technology for the country's future lunar sample-return mission. Complete details on the role of amateur radio can be found beginning on page 14 of the mission outline at tinyurl.com/lux-space-moon. The file is in PDF format. A wed-based report on the actual launch provided by NASA is at www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/10/china-lunar-sample-return-test-mission ============================================================================= RSGB Special Callsign for ISS Ofcom has confirmed that the callsign GB1SS will be made available for issue to UK astronauts who wish to operate from the ISS. After a gap of 24 years it looks as though two more UK astronauts may be flying to the International Space Station in 2015. In September 2015 singer Sarah Brightman hopes to become the second UK astronaut, flying on a 10 day mission, and Tim Peake hopes to go to the ISS in November 2015. OPERATIONAL NEWS - AWARDS WITH VK4FUQ. Record number of Victorian National Parks on air With the annual Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award activity period in VK3 less than a week away, 30 unique parks have already registered with a couple more possible. Support also comes across the border from VK2 and VK5, who between them will be in nine Victorian National Parks. Award Manager Tony Hambling VK3VTH is very pleased with the growing portable operation spread right across Victoria, giving both those in the field and the hunter plenty of opportunity. The activation starts on Thursday November the 13th with Gunbower by John VK2AWJ and concludes on Monday the 17th November with Paul VK5PAS in the Little Desert, John VK2AWJ Burrowa - Pine Mountain and Allen VK3HRA in the Snowy River National Park. Tony VK3VTH says most activity is on 40 metres, while some will be active also Long Path Europe on 20 metres. They will offer both the Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award and satisfy the European demand for the World Wide Flora and Fauna Award. The Parksnpeaks website has all activations listed and will announce any late ones, so monitor it for updates and 'spots'. The URL for it can be found in the text edition of this VK1WIA broadcast. http://www.parksnpeaks.org/viewKRMNPA.php Remember, the Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award activity period by Amateur Radio Victoria is from November the 13th to the 17th - that is this Thursday, through the weekend and ending on Monday. (Jim Linton VK3PC) SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS, DX, BEACON REPEATER AND NET ADVICE W 9 L CELEBRATING VETERANS DAY NOVEMBER 11 Members of The American Legion Amateur Radio Club will operate station W9L on November 11th which is Veterans Day in the USA, or Remembrance day here in VK. W 9 L will be on the air from 1400 to 2100 UTC from the clubs national headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. The High Frequency operation will take place on 14.275 MHz. There will also be An interconnection via IRLP node 4816. Hams who make contact with W9L or shortwave listeners who hear the station are eligible to receive a full colour commemorative certificate. More about this operation including QSL routing is at www.legion.org/hamradio VIETNAM BY KM 0 O NOVEMBER 25 TO DECEMBER 24 3 W 3 O from Vietnam between November 25th and December 24th. His main activity will be the CQ World Wide DX CW Contest November 29 and 30 but expect him to be on 160 and 80 meters before and after the contest. QSL via the bureau TENERIFE FROM DECEMBER 9 TO JANUARY 8 IK 1 PMR and PA 3 LEO will be on the air signing portable EA8 from Tenerife Island between December 9th of this year and January 8th of 2015. Activity will be on 160 through 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via HB 9 FKK or each operators home callsign via the bureau. MEDIA WATCH www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WorldRadio.html VK Club Bulletins http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aarnie/ VK2 CCARC news ccarc.org.au/wp/2012/09/ccarc-news-12-31/ UK-NZ contact on TV news TV's One News featured the 90th anniversary of the first contact between radio amateurs in the UK and New Zealand On October 18, 1924, the first radio communication contact between the two countries took place between 2SZ at Mill Hill School, the station operated by 18 year-old former pupil Cecil Goyder, and 4AA in Shag Valley, South Island, New Zealand, operated by Frank Bell. To commemorate the 90th anniversary of this historic contact, radio amateurs at stations in Mill Hill School and Shag Valley recreated the first Goyder/Bell contact. The TV station interviewed the President of the Otago Amateur Radio Club Dave Mulder ZL4DK, London student Max Sachdev and Frank Bell's great-grandson Henry Bell. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER Mysterious piece of Russian space junk does manoeuvres What was first thought to be a piece of debris left over from the launch of three Russian military communication satellites has turned out to be a fourth satellite capable of manoeuvres: This fourth unidentified object was detected orbiting the Earth a few kilometres away from 'routine' Rodnik satellites. Moreover, an analysis of orbital elements from a US radar by observers showed that the 'ghost' spacecraft had made a manoeuvre between May 29 and May 31, 2014, despite being identified as 'debris' in the official U.S. catalogue at the time. "On June 24, the mysterious spacecraft started manoeuvring again, lowering its perigee (lowest point) by four kilometres and lifting its apogee by 3.5 kilometres. This is the second time a Russian piece of orbital junk has suddenly started to do manoeuvres. The first time, in early 2014, the Russians finally admitted five months after launch that the "junk" was actually a satellite. It is likely they are testing new CubeSat capabilities. Once you have these kinds of orbital manoeuvres you can then apply it to CubeSats with any kind of purpose, from military to commercial applications. Read more at slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/11/01/1454232/a-mysterious-piece-of-russian-space-junk-does-maneuvers WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA http://rsgbiota.org IOTA TO FREEZE ALL ACTIONS DEALING WITH THE CRIMEA The Islands on the Air management has decided that due to the unresolved political situation in Crimea, it has no course open to it except to freeze certain actions connected with Crimea for a an initial period of one year. This, in the routine management of the Islands on the Air program. This means that it will not accept or issue credit for EU- 180 operations taking place after March 17th 2014 that use a non-Ukrainian callsign. Nor will it accede to any requests from program participants for update of their records, changes of callsign and/or checkpoint that involve a change of DXCC entity. The Committee says that it will review the situation after one year in the light of developments. The original announcement made on October 21st can be read at rsgbiota.org REWIND a look back at history Radio ham helps Science Museum RSGB RadCom Editor Elaine Richards G4LFM has helped produce a video for the Science Museum which tells the story of how the British Broadcasting Company began, powered by the UK’s biggest radio transmitter 2LO On a foggy November night in 1922, the words ‘This is 2LO calling’ announced the arrival of the BBC. 2LO transmitted the BBC’s first radio programme, marking the beginnings of official, state broadcasting, and a new era for listeners at home. See the 2LO radio transmitter on display in the Science Museums' new Information Age gallery, which tells the story of how our lives have been transformed by information and communication technologies over the last 200 years. southgatearc.org/news/2014/october/radio_ham_helps_science_museum.htm SOCIAL SCENE 2014 Nov 8 VK3 Chelsea beach, near Longbeach Lifsavers 3pm it’s the Melbourne QRP Day gathering. Nov 9 VK3 Yarra Valley AR Group Hamfest 10am Gary Cooper Pavilion. Nov 9 vk3 VHF / UHF and Microwave experimenters Nov 15 VK7 Miena Hamfest Nov 21 VK3 Bendigo AR & Electronics Club Men’s Shed public meeting. Nov 23 VK5 "Welcome to AR Day" Blackwood 8:45am ( 0410 687 998 ) Nov 30 VK3 SPARC HamFest at Rosebud ( howardjones155@gmail.com ) 2015 June, Queens Birthday weekend 40th annual Oxley Region Field Day T July 11-12 VK3 GippsTech 2015 FINAL FINAL ============================== NEW WIA NEWS BROADCAST FEEDBACK =============================== Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to nationalnews@wia.org.au to submit audio read "how to submit items" in the weekly news page on wia.org.au Remember the sooner you submit material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition of WIA National News. 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