May 3 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING May 03 2015. Submitting news items A reminder when supplying HamFest info we obviously can't plug commercial traders "on air", but we at the WIA will put your supporters in this text edition "no worries." 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John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2015 results are in due in no small way to you the active contestors in VK who got your logs in ON TIME to hard working WIA Contest Manager for the Moyle, Denis Johnston VK4AE In the prestigious 24 Hour Portable Operation – Multiple Operator the clear (by a country mile) winner isVK3ER with 8,457 points ensuring not only first place but this year taking out the Presidents Cup. 2nd was VK2WG with 3,233 points. Chipless RFID Tags Developed in VK A new generation of chipless RFID tags could soon be set to replace standard product barcodes. A research team at Monash University led by Dr Nemai Karmakar, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, have been developing chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tags that can be printed directly onto products and packaging - including postal items, drugs and books, potentially making this new technology cheaper, smaller and faster than any other tracking system on the market. The team have succeeded in producing fully printable tags for products made of metal and containing liquids including water bottles and soft-drinks cans. Until now, this hasn't been possible because metal and liquids interfere with the technology. The tag can be printed using an inkjet printer and read when they are attached to reflective surfaces such as metal cans and water bottles. The team is believed to be the first to develop fully printable chipless RFID tags on paper and plastics. "The fact that chipless tags be printed directly onto products and packaging means the system is more reliable, smaller and cost effective than competing barcoding systems," Dr Karmakar said. "The new chipless RFID technology is a high data-capacity mm-wave barcode system operating at 60 GHz. This means that although it is much smaller than any other commercially available chipless RFID tag it can still contain a relatively large amount of data and information. "The main challenge that we have overcome is to transfer the technology to paper and plastic while retaining the required printing resolution. Uniquely, the 60 GHz mm-wave tag is tolerant to printing errors and surface imperfections. Dr Karmakar also commented that the chipless RFID tag was suitable for use at temperatures above 80 degrees and also at cryogenic temperatures. http://www.elektor.com/news/Printable-Chipless-RFID-Tags/ (Sourced from the Elektor Web E-zine via VK7News) 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 ANZAC 100 enters its 2nd week Plenty of activity continues after a marvellous ANZAC Day weekend and following days that saw all nine ANZAC-prefixed stations from Australia and New Zealand on air and very popular. Most activity from Turkey with its TC100-prefixed stations and OP0PPY in Belgium has stopped. The ZL100ANZAC station is very active making thousands of contacts at the start of a month-long stint. The VK100ANZAC callsign is now being used by the Moorabbin & District Radio Club in Melbourne’s south-east. VK100ANZAC is adjacent to the Mentone RSL, to commemorate the end of the first phase of the Gallipoli campaign. For the rest of the week it will be mostly be at the clubrooms in Turner Avenue. The Illawarra Amateur Radio Society has VI2ANZAC to commemorate the loss of the U.S. oil tanker "Cities Service Boston" which sank in a storm 16 May 1942 off the Illawarra coast. In Queensland VI4ANZAC is put on air by the Townsville Amateur Radio Club, pays honour to all who served our nation in a time of great need. For further details, including about 40 ANZAC 100 events until December the 20th, please check out the WIA website at wia.org.au National Coordinator for Disaster Communication in India, Jayu Bhide VU2JAU, reports that authorities have issued 9N7-prefixed callsigns to some visiting radio amateurs. But the situation of foreign radio amateurs and their equipment, for use during the disaster, remains unclear. Nepalese authorities have not joined the Tampere Convention that allows cross-bounder movements of Amateur Radio in disasters. Jayu VU2JAU said neighbouring India, which suffered too from the big quake, had been able to provide some aid to the earthquake, and continues to handle emergency traffic. The Nepal Amateur Radio Society is providing emergency communications. Although power has been cut, Satish 9N1AA along with daughter Tej 9N1DX were able to come on the air. Satish 9N1AA said information has already been provided on some missing people. He was using solar power in coordination with the Nepal police in Kathmandu. Further on this horror storry when John joins us HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. AROUND VK VK4 - QNEWS Send your stories for news. SCRIPT to qnews@wia.org.au send audio to http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/upload/ get local audio news www.wiaq.org.au/ftp/vk4_qnews_64.mp3 get local news emailed qnews-vk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Invitation to a Technical Seminar Distinguished Lecturer John Norgard, NASA/JSC IEEE Northern Australia Section and the Australian Chapter of OES invite you to a technical seminar. Monday 11th May 2015 from 4pm to 5pm at Room DD14-001 Engineering and Physical Sciences II James Cook University Townsville Campus Douglas. Subject - Space Exploration: EMI/EMC Problems and Solutions NASA Past Present and Future Missions. John will highlight some of the unique problems posed in designing the new Orion Orbital and Interplanetary Spacecraft. VK7 vk7 local news, email vk7regionalnews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vk7regionalnews/ VK100ANZAC NTARC has been given approval to use the call sign VK100ANZAC over the period Sunday 31 May to Tuesday 2 June, inclusive. Essentially, they plan to use the callsign in two phases. The first will be a public event, a field station at the Harry Murray Memorial Garden at Evandale on the Sunday. Approval to use the Garden has now been given by the Northern Midland Council. NTARC plan to activate the callsign from 10.00am to 3.00pm from that location, after which they move back to the club room and set a static display again. Phase two will then see the radio room open for members to get involved from 9.00 Monday morning right through until midnight on the Tuesday night. In fact, if members are keen enough, they could easily continue right through the Tuesday night too, until 10.00am on the Wednesday, as use of VK100ANZAC expires at midnight, UTC on 2 June. In any event, this means the club room will be open all Monday night so you are welcome to bring your sleeping bag etc. Remember the club room has kitchen and shower facilities. DISCUSSION POINT What use is an F-call? Making a contact using your radio is one thing, starts off with someone calling CQ, someone responding, discussion ensuing and the like. If you've never had the opportunity, then get to it, get on air and make some noise. Once you've made the contact, depending on your intent, you can log the contact and even get confirmation of the contact using an out of band method, that is, some mechanism, not using radio, that confirms that on this day and time, on this frequency and mode, you spoke with the other station. This mechanism of confirming contacts is generally known as the QSL system. Originally, it was completed by exchanging cards, like postcards, between both stations. You'd use the call-book to lookup the other station's address and send off your card in the hope that the other station would do the same. In doing so, you'd confirm the contact. Today, that system still exists, it's called Direct QSL-ing. We've added some courtesy to the exchange, sending along a self-addressed envelope and money for postage, either in the form of a couple of US dollars, or alternatively, an International Reply Coupon or IRC. The basic structure is identical. In addition to that, we've added QSL bureaus, generally volunteers who offer to send cards on your behalf. You send your outgoing cards to the outbound bureau, who splits them up by country and does the same for all the other cards they receive and then forwards them on to the bureaus of those countries. Cards coming the other way will end up sent to your local QSL manager who in turn will distribute them to you by some pre-defined mechanism. If you're a member of the Wireless Institute of Australia, and in my opinion, you should be, then the QSL bureau is included in your membership fee. With the advent of the Internet, we've added electronic QSL-ing, that is, web-based services that allows you to register all your contacts and when the remote station does the same, and your contacts match, the contact is confirmed. There are as many electronic QSL systems as there are radio amateur software developers, so you'll find that there's lots to choose from. I'm currently using several, and have mixed feelings about it. If you have a good system to determine which one to use, let me know. Of course, you could just stick with cards. 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. IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator EARTH QUAKE STRUCK IN Nepal and parts of India It was terrible to bear as all of a sudden tremors of earth quack struck in the morning around 11.40 a.m. on 25 April 2015. It surprised all the people and everyone came out of their houses. The tremor was experienced 2 - 3 times by all. An emergency net was started on 14210 mhz. VU2JAU/AT150ITU was controlling the net. entre of earth quack is damaged badly but no casualty was reported. Suhas VU2SMN joined the net and remained with Jayu VU2JAU/AT150ITU till late night. 15 Nepalese HAMs are on VHF and are in contact from different locations. 9N1AA is coordinating with Nepal police. Amer 4X6TT joined all the HAMs on emergency net and informed that Turkey HAMs are ready to send HAM equipment to Nepal. 4X6TT helped to keep the frequency clear as so many DX stations were working. it was also reported from Spain that 15 people along with medical equipments were "on their way." (sourced to Jayu S. Bhide VU2JAU National Coordinator for Disaster Communication in India (ARSI) R3.) Emergency nets in volcano disaster relief On the other side of the world Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted for the first time in more than 40 years, forcing the evacuation of an area of some 12 miles around the volcano. IARU Region 2 reports that emergency nets are in operation on 7,050kHz, with 14,250kHz and 3,738kHz as alternate frequencies. They have requested that other users keep those frequencies clear for emergency traffic. Six metres now available in Kenya Following representations by the Amateur Radio Society of Kenya, the Communications Authority of Kenya has allocated 50 to 52MHz to the amateur service. Authorisation is on a secondary, non-interference, basis and has been made possible by the migration of television services from analogue to digital. Permitted power is 150 watts DC input or 4.00 watts PEP for A3E (AM) and J3E (SSB) emissions. Spratley DXpedition medical emergency One of the participants in the just-ended DX0P DXpedition to Spratly Islands was airlifted after suffering a medical emergency. Chito Pastor, WW6CP, became ill just as the DXpedition was starting to wrap up on the 20th April and was evacuated on the 23rd. We wish him well. The DXpedition operated for about 5 days. ZS6SF AND ZS6QL ELECTED TO LEAD SARL The South Africa Radio League has elected Fritz Sutherland, ZS6SF, as its President and Nico van Rensburg, ZS6QL, as its Vice President. The voting took place at he first Council meeting following the organizations Annual General Meeting. Who and Where are our broadcast stations? http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/where/ OPERATIONAL NEWS 2015 Harry Angel sprint 80 metres May 2. Trans-Tasman contest 18th July from 0800utc 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 1 - 2 Remembrance Day Contest August 15 and 16 Oceania DX contest Voice First full weekend in October Oceania DX contest Continuous Wave Second full weekend in October. 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 AWARDS AMSAT Awards Update There is an award for making your first satellite QSO. To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS, DX, BEACON REPEATER AND NET ADVICE The Goncasuyu Project The historical legendary wireless station Goncasuyu played a significant role at the Çanakkale Sea Warfare, followed the radio telegraph messages of enemy naval forces and informed the Turkish bastions. After 100 years, Goncasuyu has been re-engaged by TRAC (Amateur Radio Society of Turkey) to share our peace messages with the world. Goncasuyu salutes the world with “73!” meaning “Best regards!” The project has been planned by TRAC in the memory of Mehmetcik (a poetic term for Turkish soldier) and his epic battle. The story of Goncasuyu will be shared with the visitors at the field and with the radio amateurs of the world on the air. 9 amateur radio callsigns will be used among the Project and were on air until April 26th, then next August 6-10th: TC100GS, TC100GP, TC100KT, TC10VKZL, TC100A, TC100E, TC100TC, TC100B, TC100K and TC100GLB. Ten locations are planned for operations. Five stations at the Gallipoli Peninsula are: Goncasuyu (Rumeli Bastion), Kilitbahir, Abide (Monument), Kocaçimentepe and Anzac Cove (Bay). The other five stations at the Çanakkale (Anatolia side) are Canakkale University 18 March University area (fortress in the land war), Esenler District, Lapseki, Çardak and Canakkale Downtown). TRAC Branches and radio amateurs from Australia and New Zealand have been invited to the field studies. HAM related visitors will be hosted by TRAC and operations will be organized and performed with the participants. All information and calender are at: http://www.goncasuyu.org/?lang=en CQ WW SSB 2014 Disqualifications and Warnings The CQ World Wide Contest Committee has published a list of those amateurs who were disqualified or received warnings for CQ WW SSB 2014 The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world with over 30,000 participants. The CQWW site says: The CQ WW Contest Committee takes its job as referee for the contest very seriously. Each year a group of dedicated members spends many hours pouring over logs, listening to SDR recordings, and following up on input from the contest community. We do not always have perfect information and it is difficult when each entrant is operating from their own station without any outside observer. Even so, the logs and recordings often tell us a clear story. It is our job as referees to call them as we see them. The overwhelming majority of those listed are European. http://cqww.com/blog/cq-ww-ssb-2014-disqualifications-and-warnings/ Lusitania Radio Club The Lusitania Radio Club will be running a Special Event Station with the callsign EI 100 MFA to mark the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania on the 7th May 1915. The station will operate from 6th to 10th May from a site near the Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse Co, Cork or from the Lighthouse itself. LRC100@email.com J 38 NN and J 38 MM W6NN and KE1B will be operating as J38NN and J38MM, respectively, from Grenada between May 23rd and the 31st using a single station with 100w watts and a Buddipole antenna system on 40 through 10 including 30, 17 and 12 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSLs can go via their home callsigns (W6NN and KE1B) by the bureau. 3 A 90 IARU is the special callsign for the Association of Radio Amateur of Monaco to use until 30th June in celebration of the 90th anniversary of IARU. QSL via 3 A 2 ARM. 4 U 20 B. This station is located in Brindisi, Italy and commemorates the 20th anniversary of the UN Logistics Base there. 4 U 20 B will be used until July and the QSL manager is 9 A 2 AA. HE200GE commemorates the 200th anniversary of Geneva's entrance into the Swiss Confederation. The beginnings of modern Switzerland go back to the year 1291, when the three German language Alpine forest areas signed the Federal Charter. Over the centuries more cantons allied themselves to the original three and among the last was the Republic of Geneva on 19th May 1815. HE200GE will be active on all amateur bands throughout 2015 and contacts will be valid for the Diploma of GenŠve. QSL via HB9AOF. OZ 90 IARU On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of IARU Danish radio amateurs will be active with a special event call, OZ9ØIARU, in the period now until December 31, 2015 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF WIA ARDF COORDINATOR VK3WWW Jack vk3www@wia.org.au http://users.mackay.net.au/~ron/ http://www.homingin.com http://www.ardf.org.au 10th IARU Region 3 ARDF Championships held in JA, 6th till 12th of September. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW FISTS Club - East Asia www.feacw.net FISTS Club - Australasia www.fistsdownunder.org FISTS Club - UK & Europe www.fists.co.uk FISTS Club - Americas www.fists.org The 3rd Balkan High Speed Telegraphy Championship will take place on 15-17 May in Serbia. Organizer of the event is Amateur Radio Union of Serbia. Invited countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. 3rd Balkan High Speed Telegraphy Championship is open type, so hams from other countries are welcome to participate and if doing the 'tourist thingy'spectate too. Alongside Balkan HST there will be Serbian HST championship. Winners will be awarded and Serbian HST team for next World IARU HST Championship in Ohrid will be defined. Visit http://hst2015.yu1srs.org.rs for more information WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-NA Opportunity for Rideshare to Geostationary Orbit AMSAT is excited to announce an opportunity to participate in a potential rideshare as a hosted payload on a geostationary satellite planned for launch in 2017. An amateur radio payload, operating in the Amateur Satellite Service, will fly on a spacecraft which Millennium Space Systems (MSS) is contracted to design, launch, and operate for the US government. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- MILITARY GB2VE VE Day Radio Exhibition The North Norfolk Amateur Radio Group are holding a VE Day 'Radios that won the War' Rally on Saturday 9th May in East Runton Village Hall, near Cromer Norfolk. A exhibition of Radios that helped win the war with a special event station GB2VE using some of the old radios. See the website for full details. http://www.nnarg.co.uk/8.html WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS A Youth Net meets Saturdays at 0100 UTC on IRLP Reflector #2. Young Hams Net 3.590 - 7:30pm Victorian time. Youngsters On The Air, YOTA http://www.ham-yota.eu/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/youngstersontheair ASTRONAUT MIKE FINCKE KE5 AIT TO APPEAR AT DAYTON YOUTH FORUM Also the American Radio Relay League is sponsoring eight young presenters attending a lunch with him afterwards. They will be joined by other young hams chosen from the audience. The full rundown of Hamvention 2015 forums is at Hamvention.org (WB2 MGP ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO IARU REGION 3 Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz A pair of good Samaritan sail vessels located a sailboat in distress with two Canadian crewmembers aboard nearly 2,000 miles west southwest of the Galapagos Islands. Watchstanders at the 11th Coast Guard District Command Center received notification from a ham radio operator that the 42-foot sail vessel Nirvana Now was disabled and became unstable. The 11th District sent a safety net message to all vessels in the area to render assistance. After receiving the safety net message, the sailboat Athos of London transited toward the Nirvana Now. The Nirvana Now reportedly had a registered emergency position-indicating radio beacon and a four-man life raft onboard. (sourced to eHam) A shipment of ham radio equipment, tools, and supplies have been sent from Hawaii to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) with John Bush, KH6DLK/V63JB. The radio gear is supporting communication for relief efforts as the FSM recover from Tropical Cyclone Maysak, which ravaged many of the nation's islands in late March and early April, wreaking major damage and causing some deaths. "While many agencies and nations are responding, it's just not enough," said ARRL Hawaii Section Manager Bob Schneider, AH6J. The Ham Aid gear had been shipped to Hawaii last fall, as the massive Puna volcanic lava flow threatened communities on the Big Island of Hawaii. It includes both HF and VHF gear Two FSM hams, William Radolfetheg, V63YWR -- an elementary school principal on Federai Island, part of Ulithi Atoll -- and Albert, V63YAG, were off the air since before the typhoon hit and had not been heard from until April 6, when V63YWR came on the air using a depleted battery and at very low power. V63JB said. "If everything goes well, we should be on 14.335 at 0700 UTC and possibly on 21.335 at 2100 UTC each day." (sourced to eHam) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS http://www.raotc.org.au Hallo everyone, this is Clive VK6CSW with a reminder that tomorrow, Monday May 4th, the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia’s monthly News and Information bulletin goes to air. The principal HF transmission will be on 20 metres on 14.150 MHz upper side band at 0100 UTC beamed north from Melbourne for the eastern states. An hour later at 0200 UTC there will be a 40 metre transmission from Perth on 7060 kHz lower sideband plus a simultaneous transmission via all linked NewsWest VHF and UHF repeaters. In addition, numerous local relays will take place. To find the times and frequencies for your area please visit the RAOTC website at www.raotc.org.au Once again that’s www.raotc.org.au. and also as from Tuesday you can download the audio file from this website. This month as well as all the usual RAOTC news, we have an article on Sid Shure, the founder of Shure microphones. Everyone, RAOTC Members and non- members alike, is invited to listen to this interesting half hour of Old Timer news, information and anecdotes and to participate in the call back afterwards. Once again, the RAOTC monthly bulletin is scheduled for tomorrow Monday 4th May. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. SOCIAL SCENE 2015 May 1-3 VK4 Clairview Gathering contact RADAR's VK4ACC 04 2963 2815 May 9 VK3 Moorabbin & Dist. Hamfest Southern Community Centre Mulgrave May 9 VK4 BARCFEST Salvation Army Hall Calamvale May 9-10 VK WIA AGM Canberra June 5- 7 VK4 Central Highlands ARC & Theresa Creek Campout, Clermont. June 6- 7 VK2 Queens Birthday 40th annual Oxley Region Field Day June 6- 7 VK5 51st South East Radio Group Convention / Australian Foxhunting Championship July 1 VK4 Caboolture Hamfest July 11-12 VK3 GippsTech 2015 July 18 VK3 Gippsland gate Radio & Electronics Club Hamfest @ Cranbourne July 25 VK3 ALARA's 40th Birthday Lunch, Novotel Glen Waverley. Sept 12 VK4 SUNFEST Woombye Sept 25-27 VK4 CHARC AGM Weekend Camp Fairbairn near Emerald Oct 2-5 VK4 Cardwell Gathering, Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park Oct 25 VK3 Ballarat Amateur Radio Group Hamvention Greyhound Track Redan. 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