JUNE 5 - 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 JUNE 5 2016. IN OUR 21st YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA REFLECTS ON THE NORFOLK ISLAND AGM / FORUM WEEKEND. THIS AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 2016 AND FOR WEEK OF JUN 05. Just when you thought it was safe to venture out onto airwaves we are back! Yes I'm Graham VK4BB with our usual cast again this week, VK4FUQ Felix, Jason VK2LAW, Onno VK6FLAB, and also VK4VP, VK6CSW and VK4JJW. And bobbing up for more this week the guys who kept the news rolling whilst I was OS, Bryan VK3GR and Robert VK3DN thanks gents! One of our locals who made the trek across to VK9 last week, and very quitely celebrated a milestone birthday, was reporter VK54JJW John Williams. You've probably heard of “The Thornbirds”, a world best seller novel, and then, TV series, written by long time resident of Norfolk Island, Australian Colleen McCulloch who passed away just last year and now rests forever on this verdant rock in the middle of the South Pacific. Now, the Wireless Institute of Australia has put Colleen's home on the map again by holding its Annual General Meeting over the last weekend of May in the 35 square kilometer or 14 square mile island paradise with almost 100 Amateur Radio Operators and their partners making the "bit over 2 hour" flight from the mainland, and staying there, for at least the three day occasion. Some hams have made it a real break and stayed for a week! Flying is the easiest way to get there because ships sometimes have to anchor offshore for weeks, waiting for calm seas to transfer goods and people. In recent years the WIA AGM has been held in different places all around Australia and so it was fitting that we journey to a soon to be made, official part of the country. Norfolk Island is an Australian External Territory just 1300 Km or 900 miles off the east coast. With a resident population of around 1500, it has very few hams, and with the passing several years ago of avid Norfolk Island resident Dxer, “Island Chaser" Jim Smith VK9NS, there have been very few opportunities since, to work this rare location. Some of the latest visitors even went to the trouble and expense of arranging their very own VK9 call, expressly to activate the island again, if only for a short time. But then, that makes it even more desirable for the DX hound doesn't it! When the formalities and socialising of the AGM weekend didn't get in the way, there was a fair amount of “CQ DX” happening from the land of the Norfolk Pine tree, hundreds of thousands of them … An unforgettable experience, from someone who was there too! I'm the intrepid traveller, John, VK4JJW BEACON EXPERIMENT CALLED OFF The Trans-Indian Ocean beacon was years in the planning, but the experiment is over. Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, tells us more: It was supposed to help enable better VHF transmissions along the challenging path between South Africa and Australia. But now the VK6RIO Trans-Indian Ocean beacon is about to be no more. The 2-meter beacon, using Chirp-modulation, had been a project of the Northern Corridor Radio Group in Perth, Australia. It was designed to detect openings on 144 MHz across the Indian Ocean via tropospheric ducting and enable deeper study of propagation conditions across the Indian Ocean. The VHF path between the two nations exceeds 8500 kilometres and the beacon's frequency was 144.950 MHz. Researchers had great hope for its success: Chirp modulation can be detected 50 decibels below the noise floor in a bandwidth of 2kHz. But with the depreciating South African Rand and a lack of local support, researchers have called the project off. I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, and I'll be back later in this WIA News Program with international news including how 144 MHz HAS made it across the Atlantic. Australia pico ballooner honoured The Wireless Institute of Australia has recognised the record breaking achievements of Andy Nguyen VK3YT by naming him in its WIA Merit Award program, while one of his pico party-type balloons VK9WI flew at high altitude. Andy VK3YT was given the WIA Technical Excellence Award for his work with the pico space balloons, including one that circumnavigated the Southern Hemisphere nearly three times. In the middle of 2015 pico balloon PS-46 floated more than 110,800 km before descending into the Indian Ocean due to bad weather. Additionally Andy VK3YT while on a working holiday also floated and tracked two solar powered pico balloons that he launched in the USA. The prestigious WIA Technical Excellence Award was granted amid warm applause by those at the annual general meeting held on Saturday May 28 on Norfolk Island. Andy VK3YT who was unable to be at the AGM was later very humble in receiving the award for what many see as pioneering work and a new era for small solar powered balloons carrying Amateur Radio payloads. The PS balloons have sparked a lot on interest among trackers throughout the world, and is known to have given a few radio amateurs a new challenge. For the occasion the balloon PS-64 was launched that included a greeting message to the WIA AGM using the VK9WI callsign for its tracking telemetry, but it was brought down by poor weather. However, Andy was ready with a back-up the VK9WI balloon and launched PS-65 that initially headed south to Tasmania, then across to New Zealand and at last report moved southerly toward South America. Like his recent balloon that latest PS-65 has a 25mW transmitter using WSPR and JT9 on the 30m band. (Jim Linton VK9PC) What use is an F-call? During the week we were subjected to some unusual lightning activity. There was lots to go around and it raises the issue on what to do when lightning is nearby. The obvious comments about disconnecting your radio from your antenna is pretty common knowledge, but there are other things that might happen that you hadn't thought about. Lightning is an electrostatic discharge, and strangely enough, RF is closely related, in that your antenna system converts electric energy into voltages that you then insert into your radio. So, lightning will just as easily affect your antenna as it does your radio. We have a basic understanding that a lightning strike directly into the radio is a good way to let out the magic smoke and a comment should be made that you don't need lightning for this to happen; just static electricity in the air is enough to build up enough charge for your radio to die. It's not uncommon to see sparks between the center and shield on an antenna connector while thunderstorms are about. While all this is going on, I'd also like to point out that the feed-line can be affected by lightning and it doesn't have to be a direct strike. Your coax may be heated up, a short might happen, a connector might be affected and if you have lightning arrestors, they might be fused. The point of this is that even if you disconnected your antenna from your radio to protect it, the rest of the system might be affected and it pays to check the state of your antennas and feed-lines before resuming the operation of your station. If you don't, you may find yourself in a situation where your radio survived the lightning storm, only to die when you put full power into your antenna system. Finally, lightning doesn't only have to come from above. If you are near a strike, the earth might come up and bite your hardware from the other end, it's called earth potential rise or EPR and it can kill. The killer isn't that there is a high potential, it's that there is a difference in potential. From the impact point of lightning, potential is dissipated in all directions. As the distance from the impact point increases, the potential decreases. Imagine a field where lightning strikes. Cows who are facing the lightning will have a different potential between their fore and rear legs, causing a current to flow through their bodies, including the heart. This is enough to kill. A cow standing side on has the same effect, but the distance is the width of the cow, not it's length, so the currents are less. This same phenomenon happens within your station. The earthing system, the radio, power supply and the like. So, lightning, it can ruin your day if it hits directly, but you should pay attention to it even if it didn't hit you. I'm Onno VK6FLAB INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA. GK 4 LOH received over 3467 km on 144 MHz We have received news that a reflection from the structure of the International Space Station enabled a 144.175 MHz signal from Tim GK 4 LOH in Cornwall to cross the Atlantic ! At 02:40 UTC May 24th 2016 ISS Flypast. Signal heard 2 minutes 45 into the recording and continued for over a minute. The transmitted message was "GK4LOH GK4LOH T T T T T T T T T T" In what's being called an unprecedented move, nearly two dozen Bengalese mountaineers earned their amateur radio licenses in late May and will soon be using portable radios to provide climber safety, emergency rescues and, if need be, help with searches for missing and fallen climbers. According to VU2JFA, of the West Bengal Radio Club, the climbers' license are likely the first ever to be issued to any mountaineer. He said that in addition to carrying HF radios with antennas in their backpacks, the guides will also be outfitted with transmitters that send their position to base camp for tracking purposes in case of an emergency. The new IARU Region 1 HF Band Plan came into effect on 1 June 2016. Changes were made to the band plan during discussions at the Region 1 Interim Meeting held in Vienna in April. The recommendations from this meeting were approved at the Region 1 EC meeting in Brussels in May and became interim Region 1 Policy until the General Conference in September 2017. The two main items are the introduction of a Digimode segment at 3 570 kHz - 3 580 kHz with a maximum bandwidth of 200 Hz and a Digimode segment with maximum bandwidth of 500 Hz extended from 10 130 kHz to 10 150 kHz. The band plan is available from both IARU and SARL web site www.sarl.org.za Who and Where are our broadcast stations? http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/where/ OPERATIONAL NEWS 2016 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 6 - 7 Remembrance or RD Contest August 13-14 36th ALARA Contest is on the last full weekend in August, Aug 27-28. Kevin, K6TOP is on the air as VP2V/K6TOP from Tortola, IOTA reference NA-023, in the British Virgin Islands. He will be active until 15th June. Operation is on the 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands using mostly CW. QSL via NR6M. Stefan, DF8HS will be active from Fehmarn Island, EU-128, from 6th June until the 4th of July. A good guy is Stefan, he QSL's via the Bureau. John, K9EL will be active as FS/K9E from St Martin, NA-105, from 5th to 23rd June. He will be on the 80 to 6m bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his home callsign via the bureau. Radio Amateurs of Canada has told us that it has secured permission for all Canadian Radio Amateurs to use special call sign prefixes to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada's Confederation. National, regional and local events will take place throughout 2017 to celebrate the anniversary and Canadian Amateurs will let their counterparts around the world know of their celebration by using the following special prefixes: CF CG CH CI These special prefixes are optional and Amateurs can choose if and when to use the special prefix vs their normal prefix at any time during 2017. For more information on Canada150 visit http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1342792785740 Prefix hunters should look for the special event station being operated by the Radio Club des Ardennes until 21 June. The callsign is OS 101 AB and commemorates the 101st Airborne Division action during the Battle of the Bulge in World War 2. QSLs can be sent via the Belgian QSL Bureau. (irts) 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 Tony 4 Radio Direction Finding Fun happening soon If you are in the vicinity of the Townsville Region on Saturday July 2nd from 1pm and want to get involved in a Foxhunt then Tony VK4TJS wants to hear from you. There will be activities for all family members to participate in during the Foxhunt and things will end up with some inflight catering. Foxhunt Base will be Area 2, Rossiter Park, Aitkenvale (where the TARC AGMs are held). To cater for the event Tony needs to know your attendance numbers and you need to quiz Tony further regarding details about the Foxhunt. Who do you have to call ? Tony VK4TJS of course, on 07 476 77 137 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - Video arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com qdg.org.au The annual IARU ATV Contest is happening on Saturday/Sunday, June 11-12. The International Contest includes all bands from 432 MHz up and additionally, the BATC will run an ATV Contest on 71 MHz and 146 MHz at the same time, so the contest will effectively be "all bands" in the UK. To encourage Reduced Bandwidth (RB) TV activity there will be 2 prizes of for the best DX RB-TV Contact during the contest. The contest runs from 1pm BST on Saturday 11 June until 7 pm BST on Sunday, June 12 Full details and links to the log sheets are on the BATC Forum: http://www.batc.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=4519 Please post details of your planned activity on the forum. 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 June 6th, the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia’s monthly News and Information bulletin goes to air. This month as well as all the usual RAOTC news, we have 3 items for you – a look at quick-charge batteries, Mr High Speed Morse, and some follow-up comments on the operation of optical keyers. Everyone, RAOTC Members and non-members alike, is most welcome to listen to the bulletin and to join in the call backs afterwards. There are several ways to hear the program. 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 7088 kHz lower sideband plus a simultaneous transmission via all linked NewsWest VHF and UHF repeaters. Additionally, several local relays take place. To find the times and frequencies for your area please visit the RAOTC website www.raotc.org.au If none of these transmissions suit your schedule, then as from Tuesday morning you can download the audio file from the website, which, once again is www.raotc.org.au Once again, the June RAOTC bulletin is scheduled for tomorrow Monday 6th June. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. 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 Last Sunday Sunshine Coast Club assisted with the running of the 160 kilometre and 100 kilometre bike rides which form part of the Noosa Ultimate Sports Festival. Provided was a Communications hub to enable communications to over 20 check points around the course. From SCARC here is VK4VP Gordon. "This was operated as a WICEN exercise and the SCARC provided two experienced operators set up in the Noosa Surf Club to co-ordinate messages between the checkpoint operators and to race command. This was done via the 2 metre Noosa and Gympie repeaters which provided excellent coverage for the entire course with a lot of it accessible by a handheld radio. SCARC also provided APRS tracking of the two lead motor vehicles and the two sag wagons or sweep vehicles. The position data from these vehicles was relayed on the existing APRS network and ultimately to the APRS internet servers. Due to the hilly terrain a temporary fill in digipeater was installed on the course where an APRS blackspot had earlier been identified. Ride command could see exactly where the lead and the tail end of both the 160km and the 100 km bikes were at any time via a dedicated laptop and large monitor at the Race Command centre at the Noosa Surf Club. This bike ride is a large event with a large number of bike riders participating on public roads for about 8 hours. The added safety of good communications was essential to the success of yet another Noosa bike ride. The Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club is proud to be associated with such an important local event." This if Phil Wait VK2ASD, President of the WIA AGM and Open Forum Wrap-up As I’m sure everyone is very well aware, last weekend the WIA held its AGM and Open forum on Norfolk Island. The AGM is the formal part of proceedings where the Silent Keys are remembered, the new elected Board members are formally announced, and the Directors and Treasurers reports are discussed and voted on. Both reports were accepted by the meeting, with two fairly minor items from the Treasurers report referred back to the Treasurer for clarification. Following the Open Forum the WIA Service Awards were announced. Life membership was awarded to Ted Thrift VK2ARA, for his contribution to the WIA and Amateur Radio in Australia in his work in Affiliated Club coordination and managing the Affiliated Club Insurance Scheme since its inception. The GA Taylor Medal, the WIA’s highest award, was awarded to Dale Hughes VK1DSH for representing the Amateur Service internationally for many years, and for his leadership role in the official Australian delegation to WRC-15 in Geneva, which led to a new Amateur allocation at 5.3 MHz. The Chris Jones Award was given to Jenny Wardrop for her consistent support of the WIA and ALARA over five decades, as well as her historical research work, particularly on women in Amateur Radio. The Ron Wilkinson award was given to David Scott VK2JDS for his activities in 1296 MHz moonbounce, helping to maintain a profile of Australian participation in this leading-edge amateur pursuit. Technical Excellence awards were awarded to Andy Nguyen VK3YT for his work with Pico Balloons and, together, David Learmonth VK3QM and Lou Blasco VK3ALB for the re-purposing of ex-commercial 3.5 GHz equipment which increased activity on the 9cm amateur band. This year we had two new WIA Service Awards: The Michael J. Owen Distinction given for outstanding service to the WIA, and the Foundation award for excellence demonstrated in the true spirit of the Foundation licence. The inaugural Michael J Owen Distinction was awarded to Peter Wolfenden VK3RV for his exceptional voluntary service for the WIA over many decades, his role as Coordinator of the Historical and Archive Committee, and articles to Amateur Radio magazine on Australian amateurs’ in WWI and WWII for the ANZAC Centenary. Inaugural Foundation awards were given to Onno Benschop VK6FLAB for his enthusiastic work on helping newcomers to the hobby, and Damien Clissold VK5FDEC for enthusiastic, consistent participation in QRP, portable and Field Day activities in the best traditions of the Foundation licence. Publications committee awards are given to those who have made a stand-out contribution during the year to both the content and production of AR Magazine. These include: The Higginbotham Award to Evan Jarman VK3ANI for 37 years service to AR Magazine, the Al Shawsmith Award to Peter Wolfenden VK3RV for his series of articles commemorating the ANZAC Centenary, and the AR Magazine Technical Award to Jim Tregallas VK5JST for his article “A VHF/UHF Aerial Analyser”. This year, Presidents Commendations were given to: Adrian Addison VK5FANA, John Bates VK7RT, Lloyd Butler VK5BR, Mike Charteris VK4QS, Ron Cook VK3AFW, Noel Higgins VK3NH, Peter Cossins VK3BFG, Peter Gibson VK3AZL, Tony Hambling VK3XV, June Sim VK4SJ, and Roy Watkins VK6XV. The meeting then moved into the Open Forum segment where any item of interest to members concerning Amateur Radio and the WIA can be discussed. This year the discussions centred around youth and amateur radio, the future format and delivery of AR magazine, potential for website advertising, and how to grow WIA membership including the possibility of giving 1 year free Associate memberships to all new amateurs. Finally, we watched a video promotion for the location of the next WIA AGM and Open Forum weekend, and I’m pleased to say, next year is Adelaide. This if Phil Wait VK2ASD, President of the WIA Brief overview of the WIA Annual General Meeting with Robert VK3DN The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) held its annual general meeting and associated events on Norfolk Island May 27, 28, & 29 while many also enjoyed visiting the multitude of tourist attractions on offer. The first main activity was an informal evening at the Norfolk RSL. It was reformed as a Sub-Branch in 1945 after the end of WWII - a part of the local heritage. WIA President, Phil Wait VK2ASD, gave a short welcome speech while there was enthusiastic support for the traditional RSL raffle. A few later ventured to the recently opened Jolly Roger night spot that has become an attraction for locals and tourists alike featuring a guitarist dressed as a pirate. complete with a parrot on his shoulder. On Saturday 28, at 9am in the Paradise Hotel was the formal, statutory AGM, followed after morning tea by the Open Forum with some informative interactive exchanges between the audience and the WIA Board. Lunch was followed by a two-stream speakers program over the afternoon. During this time, the partners enjoyed a choice of two tours of the island. All came together for the annual dinner at 7pm at the Paradise Hotel. Keynote speaker for the dinner was the Honourable Gary Hardgrave, Administrator of Norfolk Island, who spoke about the island’s intriguing history and the challenging time of change ahead. Guest speaker at dinner was Doug McVeigh VK0DMV, who gave an illustrated talk about his recent time at Casey Station in the Australian Antarctic, its abundance of wildlife, the science carried out, and how many nations shared their resources on the icy continent. During the entire event a daily mini-broadcast of the latest information was aired through the VK9RNI UHF repeater at 5.30pm, with many check-ins. Qualifying contacts for the Norfolk Island Award including Foundation Licence holders kept the repeater busy. Other QSOs were on 2m simplex and HF. The commemorative VI9ANZAC callsign had around 400 contacts, some from these from the station set up at the Paradise Hotel and others on a roster basis out in the field, with one such operation was at Puppy’s Point. ALARA hosted a special afternoon tea for Kirsty Jenkins-Smith VK9NL, who was pleased to meet the many who attended. Kirsty VK9NL was happy with the Echolink contacts possible during the occasion. On Sunday 29, a number of groups walked to Mt Bates, which included a SOTA Activation. A planned visit to Jacki Jacki, the peak on nearby Philip Island, was not possible as the trip had to be cancelled due to the windy weather. During the weekend, a number visited the highly elevated Mt Bates on more than one occasion. Also on Sunday two microwave enthusiasts, Keith Gooley VK5OQ and Roger Harrison VK9NJ (VK2ZRH), ventured out to check out the local propagation. His story in a minute. At dusk on Sunday evening, a traditional island Fish Fry was held at Puppy’s Point, a promontory overlooking the sea on the northwest side of the island. Besides the food and music, a highlight was a performance by three traditional Tahitian dancers, who later gave lessons with many from the WIA joining in. The WIA AGM weekend was highly successful. More details are to be found in this edition with the President’s Comment, and a fuller coverage and photos in the August edition of Amateur Radio magazine. This is WIA Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH with some news from Norfolk Island. At the Institute’s annual general meeting and Open Forum weekend of activities on Norfolk Island last weekend, the eighty, forty and twenty metre bands ran red hot with DXers, SOTA enthusiasts and related activities. The two metre and seventy centimetre bands lit up with visitor traffic, too. Decades ago, local singer-songwriter Bob Hudson recorded The Newcastle Song, which lit up the pop music charts for a period. The memorable chorus line goes “Don’t you ever let a chance go by”. Which pretty much sums up the chief amateur radio activities over the weekend. Taking that philosophy to an extreme, the 3.4 GHz and 10 GHz bands got a workout on Sunday afternoon with a little jaunt by two of us to high and low points on Norfolk. Keith Gooley VK5OQ and yours-truly did the deed. Keith worked at IPS Radio & Space Services – now Space Weather Services – back in the 1970s, when I also worked there. Late last year, Keith and I exchanged emails about taking some 10 GHz rigs to Norfolk for some microwave portable frolics. Keith has a 10 GHz ‘transverter in a box’ that has an integral waveguide horn antenna. However, my 10 GHz rig is built onto a 65 centimetre dish and not readily re-packageable. We set out to hunt down a compact 10 GHz rig on-loan. Then, I recently acquired a pair of 3.4 GHz transverters with integral patch antenna – those famously obtained by the Geelong Amateur Radio Club. Heh-heh. We conspired to loan each other the required rigs for the Norfolk Island microwave jaunt. On the Sunday afternoon, Keith, accompanied by AR magazine editor, Peter Freeman VK3PF, drove up to the lookout on Mount Pitt, the second-highest peak on Norfolk, while Ross Masterson VK2VVV and I drove down to Kingston and found a spot next to Kingston Gaol, from where we could see Mount Pitt. And so it was: Keith VK5OQ portable nine worked yours-truly VK9NJ on 3.4 GHz, quickly followed by VK3PF portable nine. Unbeknown to me, there was a small crowd witnessing the event on Mount Pitt, and in rapid succession a bunch of VK2s, VK3s, VK4s and VK5s called me for a contact. So the nine centimetre band sounded like 40 metres there for a while ! Changing to the 10 GHz rigs, Keith, Peter and I repeated the exercise, also followed by a contacts with a bunch of the onlookers at Mount Pitt. Post-Norfolk, a calculation revealed the path distance to be just shy of 5 km. Our claim for a microwave DX record for 10 GHz will shortly be submitted to the WIA Technical Advisory Committee. The VK9NA VHF-UHF DXpedition of January 2011 has the DX record for the 3.4 GHz band. Keith Jagger sang “You can’t always get what you want” ! Nevertheless, for a couple of microwavers, it was a very productive Norfolk Island jaunt. I’d like to thank David VK2JDS for 3.4 GHz engineering, along with Peter VK3PF and Ross VK2VVV for assistance as Norfolk “road crew”, and Gary VK5ZD for the loaner 10 GHz rig. This has been WIA Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. SOCIAL SCENE 2016 June 11-13 VK5 VK Foxhunting Championship & SERG convention Mt Gambier(VK5HCF) July 9-10 VK3 GippsTech 2016 Churchill (vk3pf@wia.org.au) Aug 7 VK6 NCRG HamFest 9am Cyril Jackson Community Hall Ashfield (vk6rk) Sep 23-25 VK4 Central Highlands Amateur Radio Club AGM weekend Lake Maraboon Holiday Village, near Emerald. (theTARCinc) Sep-Oct 30-3 VK4 Cardwell Gathering Long Weekend, Beachcomber Motel(theTARCinc) Nov 6 VK5 Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society HamFest 8am (VK5KC) Nov 26 VK3 Rosebud RadioFest 9:30 am till 2pm (vk3pdg) Nov 26 VK7 Miena HamFest Saturday 26th. 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