WIANEWS - DECEMBER 28 - VK NATIONAL NEWS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK Oh... and to contact us with your news because If It Matters To You It Matters To Us! Email nationalnews@wia.org.au http://www.wia.org.au (click news in member area) Submit your audio news TWITTER http://twitter.com/VK1WIA Please... If you are only submitting text and not audio, write your story as you would expect to hear it being read back and NEVER send just links & url's. When you upload audio email us the txt version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIANEWS WEEK COMMENCING DECEMBER 28 2014. HEADING TOWARDS OUR 20TH YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS VK2WI Broadcasts over the holidays. WIA ANZAC 100 we re-visit The Garlands of Brisbane. THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING DECEMBER 28 2014. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak eyes off the Apple Isle. Wozniak is one step closer to becoming an Australian citizen after securing permanent residency. The tech guru, who first applied for citizenship in 2012, has been moving aspects his life to Australia, with Tasmania - a location he says is on his bucket list - the place he hopes to make his home. The man who formed Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 has also become an adjunct profession at the University of Technology in Sydney. Read more: smh.com.au/business/wozniak-to-be-a-permanent-fixture-20141219-12aecr.html#ixzz3MIRNlnJg HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. VK2WI Morning only broadcasts over the holidays. For three weeks starting today, December 28, the Sunday broadcast from VK2WI will be in the morning only format. There will be no evening broadcasts 28 of December, January 4 and the 11th of January. The evening broadcasts will recommence on the 18th of January. ADVANCED AOCP Summerland Amateur Radio Club with DUNCAN VK2DLR will conduct a course in the Advanced AOCP. The course is down to start on Monday February 09 and likely to run to Friday 13(!) February. Contact - Duncan VK2DLR, SARC Education officer SARC sarc@gmail.com put ADV in Subject. Feb 7 the VK3 Homebrew Construction Group's first meeting of the year will be David Giddy VK3IL describing antennas for the Summits On The Air program. All welcome to attend 2pm at the Amateur Radio Victoria rooms at 40g Victory Boulevard, Ashburton. Seasons Greetings from theTARCinc Members of theTARCinc (who by the way are the ONLY club from VK4 consistantly sending this WIA National News their dispatches) wish everyone a merry and safe Christmas anda fantabulous 2015. May your DX be reliable and fruitful ! VK pico balloon The PS-30 PICO party-type helium filled high altitude balloon was due to begin its flight at 8am (AEDT) on Saturday December 27 and like others in the series, the solar powered, strong foil party balloon is fitted with a GPS receiver, computer, 10mW transmitter, battery and antenna. Full operational details and links: www.amateurradio.com.au/news/new-vk-pico-balloon-be-launched (vk3pc via SouthGate) To commemorate ANZAC 100 a series of articles appear in Amateur Radio magazine by the WIA Historian, Peter Wolfenden VK3RV. Here again is a summary of one of them. The Garlands of Brisbane - an interesting father and son. David James Garland was born in Perth in 1896, and as a Brisbane student assembled or made the basics to receive, and perhaps even get the odd spark transmission on air. David was the son of David John Garland, an Anglican Church clergyman who became a major player in the ANZAC movement. In March 1916, David served with the Australian Wireless Squadron in Mesopotamia. He also served with the Royal Australian Engineers at Australian Headquarters in Melbourne during WWII. In March 1919 the Queensland Wireless Institute was re-formed. At this meeting S.V. Colville was elected Secretary and Treasurer, and David was elected to the council. Returning briefly, but importantly, to David senior. Prior to the war he was a Chaplin to defence volunteers in Western Australia and Queensland and enlisted in November 1917. He has also been described as the architect of ANZAC Day, credited with initiating the ANZAC Day march, wreath-laying ceremonies at memorials and special church services. David senior also began a trust to use money raised from the sale of ANZAC Day badges for the care of soldiers' graves at home and abroad. He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1934. So in the Garlands of Brisbane we can see individuals constructively engaged in a number of fields, contributing expertise and exerting some positive influence on society in this part of the world. As a nation, we would have been poorer without the Garlands of Brisbane. (Jim Linton VK3PC) DISCUSSION POINT What use is an F-call? In passing a few weeks ago I mentioned listening 10-up. It's also a slogan I have on a t-shirt, it says: "I'm not ignoring you, I'm listening 10 up." So what does that mean and what do you do when a station tells you that they are listening "up", or "down"? If you're a DX station and you've got a desirable call, it's likely that you'll generate a pile-up, that is, lots of different stations all calling at the same time, trying to get the attention of the single DX station. As more and more stations join in the fray, the remote station will get drowned out by eager hunters who try to call early, or try to call late in an attempt to get the attention of the DX station. The impact of this is cumulative. Over time, the DX station will get buried entirely in spurious transmissions, so making a contact becomes harder and harder, sometimes impossible. I've talked about the rhythm of a contact. If it's all working as expected, the rhythm will help you synchronise your call with that of the remote DX, similarly, all the other stations on frequency will march to the same drum beat. Sometimes this just becomes too hard and a DX station might solve the problem by "operating split". In essence, the station operates two frequencies, their calling frequency, which is where you can hear the station, and their listening frequency, which is where everyone else is calling and the DX station is listening. This makes it possible for the drum beat to continue and for the DX station to not be drowned out. So, how do you do this? On many modern radios you'll have access to two VFOs, you tune one, VFO A, to the DX calling frequency, the other, VFO B, to the DX listening frequency. You'll push the "split operation" button and when you listen, you're listening to VFO A frequency and when you're transmitting you're doing that on the VFO B frequency. A station will announce this by saying something like "listening 10 up", or "2 up", whatever they pick. During contests this is generally frowned on, since it ties up two frequencies, but during normal day-to-day operations it's another tool to make HF contacts possible. I'm not Ignoring you, I'm listening 10-up. I'm Onno VK6FLAB SILENT KEY http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/about/ Silent Keys are best sent to AR Magazine and your local state or club news rather than this WIA National News Service. INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA. Anniversary of BBC World Service Money Week reports the BBC Empire Service, forerunner of the BBC World Service, began broadcasting 82 years ago Dr Matthew Partridge says the BBC Empire Service started broadcasting on December 19, 1932 and had a budget of just £606 a week in 2014 prices. The new service scored an early success when King George V delivered the first royal Christmas Message six days after it launched in 1932. Read the full story at http://moneyweek.com/19-december-1932-bbc-world-service-begins/ Still with the 'wonderful world of wireless' we learn that RTÉ's long wave service is now NOT closing next year BUT is extended until 2017 RTÉ Radio 1 LW will operate a full service in 2015, with reduced hours in 2016 before working towards a full shutdown in 2017 The service was due to end early next year after RTÉ postponed a decision to close the transmitter until 19 January. RTÉ had previously announced that it would be ceasing its Long wave 252 service from the Clarkstown long wave transmitter on 27 October and migrating its Radio One service to digital platforms. RTÉ said that in slowing the pace of the long wave shutdown, it has considered contact from listeners and submissions from a range of groups, who highlighted that more time was needed to "understand and enable the migration to digital platforms for all listeners". Head of RTE Radio 1 Tom McGuire said: "We've listened particularly to the concerns raised by and on behalf of the elderly Irish in the UK. Read the full story at http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1219/667931-rte-longwave/ Leading UK space organisations have joined forces with UK Astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI and Raspberry Pi to offer students a chance to devise and code their own apps or experiment to run in space. Two Raspberry Pi computers are planned to be flown to the International Space Station as part of Tim's 6 month mission and both will be connected to a new "Astro Pi" board, loaded with a host of sensors and gadgets. Launched December 10 at an event held by the UK Space Agency, the Astro Pi competition will be open to all primary and secondary school aged children who are resident in the United Kingdom. The last day of 2014 (UTC) will be the final opportunity to rack up those remaining ARRL Centennial QSO Party points — before you celebrate the arrival of the new year. To help with that goal, the League is sponsoring its final “Red Badges on the Air Day” on Wednesday, December 31. That’s when those high-value red ARRL identification badge bearers will be out in force on the bands. ARRL officers, elected officials such as Director or Section Manager, as well as Headquarters staffers and volunteers, and other members of the ARRL family are expected to be on the air for this event. Contacts with red badge wearers are worth as much as 300 points per contact for working ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN. Many of the 200 or so holders of red badges will be on the air on December 31, along with other ARRL appointees and members. Maxim Society members are worth 50 points. So again we congratulate the ARRL on its 100 years! Oh and these events are considered activity days, not contests, and operation is permitted on all bands. Participants can call “CQ ARRL Centennial QSO Party” on phone or “CQ CENT” on CW or digital modes. ============================================================================= RSGB Deep Space DX On 8th December, a group of Polish amateurs reported receiving ARTSAT2 DESPATCH from deep space at a distance of 2,316,759km (about 1,440,000 miles). The previous day, the same group of radio amateurs also received the 437.385MHz amateur radio signal from the Shin'en2 spacecraft at a distance of 1,511,246km (about 940,000 miles). Furness AR History sought Chris, M0KPW is looking for people who have information on the history of amateur radio in the Furness area, South Cumbria, between around 1950 to 1970. He's looking for information on activities in the areas around that time, old photographs, facts, anecdotes etc. to help him put together a talk about the history of radio in the area. If you used to live in the area, or have visited the area over the years, and have any information please contact Chris by email to furnessamateurradio@outlook.com or visit m0kpw.com Scottish Memories Scottish Memories is a monthly nostalgia magazine and in an upcoming issue they are planning to publish a wartime special feature focusing on World War Two. As part of this they are hoping to write a feature about the huge impact of radio on ordinary families during the war. Deputy Editor, Rachel Bellerby, would like to hear from amateurs who were involved in radio during the war years or whose family were. Please e-mail her via rachelb@warnersgroup.co.uk. DXpedition to Iran The Rockall DX Group are planning a new challenge for January - activating Kish Island, Iran, which is IOTA AS-166 and number 33 on ClubLog's DXCC Most Wanted list. EP6T should be on the air from 16th January, operating from 160m to 10m. Emphasis will be on 160m, and the operation is expected to continue until 26th January. According to the ARRL, of Iran's 80 million citizens only 13 are licenced amateurs, although 60 students have recently passed their exams and should be able to receive an EP callsign in the near future. Details of the EP6T DXpedition can be found at www.rockall.be ============================================================================= ARNEWSLINE HARA ARENA FACING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS Financial troubles for the long-time home of the Dayton Hamvention. This as WDTN TV News 2 report that the venue located in the suburb of Trotwood has cut back to only a dozen full-time staff to save on operating costs. The WDTN story quotes Hara's Director of Marketing, Karen Wampler. She explained the difficulty facing the Hara Arena in competing with other area venues such as the Nutter Centre at Wright State University. Wampler went on to describe the primary challenges for the HARA is a need for renovation funds and an ownership model change. To that end Wampler said that the arena is working with VenuWorks, which is a company that specializes in restoring event venues such as the HARA and that she anticipated some very good news in 2015. A quick look at the Hara Arena web page shows some 60 major events already scheduled between January 2nd and September 26th of 2015 with the Dayton Hamvention in its usual slot in mid-May. Specifically the weekend of May15th to the 17th, so no matter what the TV news report says about the finances of the 165,000 square foot HARA complex, for Hamvention 2015, the show will definitely will go on as planned. The complete WDTN TV News 2 story is on the web at tinyurl.com/report-on-hara COPPER THIEVES TAKE NORTH CAROLINA STATION OFF THE AIR A Morgantown North Carolina radio station was taken off the air after thieves struck sometime on Thursday December 4th. The owners of the station came to work to find thieves had ripped the building apart and done thousands of dollars in damage to the transmitter. The damage was so bad, the station can't even get on the air. Owner John Whisnant said that he knew something was wrong when he turned the dial to AM 760 and didn't hear a thing. He said that the thieves got in by cutting their way through a fence topped with barbed wire on the top. Thy then climbed through a window where they gutted the stations two transmitters of its copper wiring. The actual value of the copper wire taken is estimated at only about $250 but the overall damage to the station will be in the area of $50,000 to repair. WEIRD AND WONDERFUL A priest in Naples, Italy, has decided to exorcise the electronic interference his sermans have been recieving from ringing mobile phones by installing a signal jammer, according to London's Daily Express. "Phones were always going off during Mass and at other events like funerals which just wasn't on" the good Father said. A $63 electronic phone jammer was apparently the answer! "It's great, as it has stopped the problem, but some of the local shops aren't happy," he said. The reason adjacent merchants were less enthused was that the phone jammer is also blocking credit card authorization devices. The church, it turns out, is located in the heart of the downtown area of Naples, (which is) full of shops." Oh and for those hoping to deploy the same system here in Australia? please note there's no benediction for jammers here. The ACMA has banned from sale such transmitters (e.g., a jammer) designed to block, jam, or interfere with wireless communication." http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/628/article/64936/ OPERATIONAL NEWS As the WIA news did not receive any notification of their 2 main VHF type contests usually held around this time of year we hope that those who normally do compete are up to speed on any new rules and or times etc. the various ones will take place. So far activity notified for the broadcasts in the future are:- 2015 Tablelands Radio Group will again hold AM and CW on ANZA Day 25 April 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 1 - 2 2016 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 6 - 7 2017 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 5 - 6 2018 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 4 - 5 The next Kids Day, sponsored by the ARRL and The Boring (Oregon) Amateur Radio Club, will be Sunday, January 4, 2015, from 1800 to 2400 UTC. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase Amateur Radio and Amateur Radio satellites to youngsters and even to hand over the keys so they can get some hands-on experience. For veteran radio amateurs, it’s a chance to share their stations and affection for Amateur Radio with the next generation. Anywhere in the world you may be listening from, when you hear “CQ Kids Day” from a Stateside station, jump in. The suggested exchange is name, age, location, and favourite colour. AWARDS 73 on 73 Award #4 - EA5TT Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, who is sponsoring the award for contacts made via the AO-73 (FUNcube-1) amateur radio satellite, recently recognized Manuel EA5TT, for becoming the fourth recipient of the 73 on 73 Award. He submitted a list of 73 stations worked via AO-73 between September 1, 2014 and December 8, 2014. The award aims to promote activity on AO-73. The requirements are straight-forward: 1. Work 73 unique stations on AO-73. 2. Contacts must be made on or after September 1, 2014. 3. There are no geographic restrictions on your operating location. There will be no cost for this award (donations to AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NA's Fox program are encouraged though). No QSL cards are required. When you complete the requirements, email your log extract including the callsign of each station worked, time GMT, and date to n8hm@arrl.net as well as the address where you'd like the award certificate sent. (Southgate) SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS, DX, BEACON REPEATER AND NET ADVICE COOK ISLANDS SPECIAL CALL PREFIX E51AND has told the Ohio Penn DX Newsletter that Cook Island's resident hams will be allowed a special 1 by 1 callsign for use during the 50th anniversary of Self Governance in 2015. The special call is available for use at the operator's discretion only during the period January 1, 2015 to December 31. Visitors to the island will be issued callsigns in accordance with current practice. BEHIND THE SCENES AT 2SZ OCTOBER 2014 A new behind the scenes look at the operation of special event station 2-S-Zed is now available for viewing on the web. The video tells the story of the amateur radio station especially constructed at Mill Hill School near London to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the first radio contact between Great Britain and New Zealand As previously reported, on October 18, 1924, the first radio communication contact between the two countries took place at Mill Hill School operated by 18 year-old former pupil Cec Goyder 4AA in Shag Valley, New Zealand, operated by Frank Bell under the call sign 2SZ. The video tells the story of this year’s celebration. It is on line at tinyurl.com/celebrating-uk-to-nz New LoTW Record The ARRL's Logbook of The World online card-less contact- confirmation service has recorded a new milestone of 100 million QSL records out of some 630 million uploaded contacts. That's an increase of more than 18 million QSL records since the end of last year. WJ1B from the ARRL commented that if placed end to end, that many QSLs would reach more than 17,000 miles — not quite all the way around the world, but enough to qualify as a 'long-path' QSO. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ATV - VIDEO arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com qdg.org.au Ham radio in 1988 Italian movie An English dubbed version of the 1988 Italian movie 'High Frequency' is available on YouTube IMDb describes the High Frequency movie as: A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands of miles apart and have to figure out how to warn the next potential victim. Original run time 105 minutes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095940/ (Southgate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER Radio ham helps ESA with tracking widget Thanks to radio amateur Chip Sufitchi N2YO the European Space Agency's new satellite tracking widgets are live The tracking widgets are fed with the latest orbital tracks for ESA missions, or missions with significant ESA participation. The default track shows the ISS. Track ESA missions http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/track-esa-missions/ ESA tracking widgets are powered by http://www.n2yo.com/ Astronauts on the International Space Station have used their 3-D printer to make a wrench from instructions sent up in an email. It is the first time hardware has been "emailed" to space. Nasa was responding to a request by ISS commander Barry Wilmore for a ratcheting socket wrench. The socket wrench just manufactured is the first object designed on the ground and sent digitally to space, on the fly. If a 3D printer can churn out something as useful as a tool in space, what else is possible? Spare parts, components, even equipment, according to the company behind the printer, Made In Space. And that's just the start. A 3D printer despatched to the Moon might be able to dig into the lunar surface scoop up what is called the regolith, and transform it into the elements needed for a moon base. That prospect is extremely distant, obviously. so, For the moment, if you 'need to hand the man a grander spanner' the astronauts on board the ISS will be happy to know that they can make one in under an hour. Read in full at bbc.com/news/science-environment-30549341 (bbc) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA http://rsgbiota.org More DX activity has apparently been cancelled for one reason or another. NA-178. (POSTPONED) This was to be an operation from the Farallon Islands but the NA-178 trip was unfortunately cancelled. The callsign would have been K6F. SA-071. Paulo, PY2SEI, was to have been active as PS2AI from As Ilhas island January 23-25th but has now been postponed. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - VHF AND ABOVE Transatlantic tests between Namibia and Brazil on the cards The SARL report that Pieter Jacobs, V51PJ, of Namibia, who is a very keen VHF amateur, is planning to bridge the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil on 144 MHz. On the other side of this 6000 kilometre sea path another keen VHF amateur is anxiously waiting, his name is Orlando Neto, PY2ANE at Sao Paulo. When Pieter was still located at Cape Town, as ZR1AEE, he ran skeds with Orlando, but they only heard traces of a signal from each other on 144 MHz digital via Troppo Ducting. Now Pieter has applied for permission to use 2 kilowatts of power for this research experiment. So far all previous attempts by other VHF amateurs have failed to establish a two-way contact across the Atlantic on 2 metres (SARL via SouthGate) REWIND a look back at history Ralph H. Baer never reached the levels of public recognition of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs but, as the inventor of home video games, his contribution to technology and entertainment are arguably on the same scale. A relentless inventor, Baer - who died aged 92 on December 6- produced the first home machine to connect to a television and allow users to control the images, creating the video game industry that today is worth billions of dollars and has allowed an entirely new medium for art and entertainment. His employer granted him $US2500 in funding after viewing a crude device Baer had created with a fellow engineer that allowed two users to play "tag" on a television screen by moving two white dots around. Now fully funded, he and a small group worked to make the machine smaller, easier to use and more functional. Some of the designs included guns that could be pointed at the television to interact (yes, light guns are an invention of Baer as well. He invented numerous things between the 1960s and 2000s). In 1968 the team finished Baer's seventh iteration, which they called "The Brown Box" after the wood grain electrical tape that held it all together. The machine could output in full colour and, while it included a version of the original tag game, could also run several other games including "Table Tennis", which would go on to play a crucial role in the success of home and arcade gaming. Read the full and exciting almost unbelievable story in the SMH http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/ralph-baer-the-man-you-never-heard-of-who-changed-technology-forever-20141212-125kd9.html SOCIAL SCENE 2015 Jan 23-26 VK4 TARC Australia Day Long Weekend Family Radio Camp, Bluewater. Feb 7 VK3 Homebrew Construction Group 2pm ARVic 40g Victory Bld Ashburton. Feb 22 VK2 Central Coast Amateur Radio Club Wyong Field Day. March 21 VK3 Dstar Users Group 9am Woodend RSL Anslow St. vk3tq@bigpond.com March 29 VK3 EMDRC Hamfest May 1-3 VK4 Clairview Gathering contact RADAR's VK4ACC 04 2963 2815 May 9 VK4 BARCFEST Brisbane June 6-7 VK2 Queens Birthday 40th annual Oxley Region Field Day July 1 VK4 Caboolture Hamfest July 11-12 VK3 GippsTech 2015 August 9 VK2 SARC-FEST Lismore Sept 12 VK4 SUNFEST Woombye Oct 25 VK4 Gold Coast Hamfest Broadbeach THE FINAL FINAL 2014 SYDNEY HOBART YACHT RACE The official race website www.rolexsydneyhobart.com is one of the most popular Australian sporting websites during the Christmas New Year holiday period and is your information portal for everything there is to know about the 628 nautical blue water classic. You'll also be able to follow the event on twitter for race updates http://twitter.com/rshyr and via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RolexSydneyHobart Yacht Tracker By far the most visited page of the website is the Yacht Tracker page, which allows viewers to track the entire fleet or a particular boat from start to finish. Yacht Tracker uses a specifically designed tool that calculates the predicted results for each and every boat in the fleet, so you can see how each boat is performing. Each yacht will be fitted with a Yellowbrick tracker that will obtain a position using the GPS satellite network, and then transmit that position back to Yellowbrick HQ using the Iridium satellite network. RADIO All boats will have VHF - International Channels 16, 72, 73, 80 and 81 plus HF/SSB - 4483 kHz and 6516 kHz and such other frequencies as the Organising Authority may determine. The radio relay vessel “JBW” will be available for radio checks on 26 December between 1130 hours and 1230 hours on race frequency 6516 kHz. 7PM - 7AM AEDT 4483 kHz 7AM - 7PM AEDT 6516 kHz Daily position reports as follows:- 1905 hours on 26 December 2014 on 4483kHz 0005 on 27 December 2014 and on each subsequent day on 4483kHz 0735 and 1705 hours on each subsequent day on 6516kHz and at other times as may be advised by “JBW”. A boat subject to recall may be identified by the Principal Race Officer on VHF 72, TRANSMITTED APPROXIMATELY FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE START SIGNAL. Boats will maintain a 24 hour listening watch for the duration of their race on VHF Channel 16. Listening schedules will be conducted on 6516 kHz at 1205 each day from 27 December 2014 until 2 January 2015. Boats that have not reported in at the previous position report schedule will be called to make a position report. Weather reports may also be read during this listening schedule. The Sailing Instructions require that boats report by radio when they are in the vicinity of Green Cape and make a declaration confirming their time of passing. During the race, many boats are within sight of each other and crews listen closely to the information from the twice-daily radio position schedules. In more recent years, crews have been able to pin point the entire fleet's whereabouts and follow each boat's progress against their own using on board computers and Yacht Tracker on the official race website. The coast radio network also broadcast navigation warnings as follows: Coast Radio Melbourne 0857hrs, 1357hrs on 8176 kHz Tasmanian Maritime 0903hrs, 2524, 4146, 6227 kHz and VHF CH 68 We have also had an unconfirmed report that audio could be streamed on http://aussiedrifter.blogspot.com.au/ The above information is not to be taken as official but has been compiled from several well meaning sources. 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