Mar 24 2019 - 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 TWITTER http://twitter.com/VK1WIA Please... If you are only submitting text and not audio, NEVER send just links & url's but write your story as you would expect to hear it being read back and then when you upload audio also email us the txt version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING Mar 24 2019 IN OUR 24th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA MERIT AWARDS. - WIA AGM PROXIES. - WIA Director and President Justin VK7TW. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 2019 AND FOR WEEK OF MARCH 24 2019 The WIA has already received a number of nominations for WIA MERIT Awards. The Board of the WIA are calling for final submissions for WIA AWARDS to be considered for the 2019 AGM Details of the WIA AWARDS are available on the wia.org.au web site. (details in text version) http://www.wia.org.au/members/wiaawards/about/ The nomination form is also available on the Awards site. Nominations for WIA Awards for this year’s AGM close at the end of this month Just another reminder re the AGM to be held on the last weekend in May In accordance with Section 11 of the WIA CONSTITUTION, members who are unable to attend are invited to be represented by a proxy. One proxy only per member. Proxy forms are available on the WIA web site and must be received by the WIA National Office not less than 24 hours prior to the Annual General Meeting. Proxy forms may be submitted by email, post or hand delivered to the National Office in Bayswater, Victoria. Proxy forms cannot be accepted on the day of the Annual General Meeting Peter Clee VK8ZZ WIA Secretary Board Comment Hello this is Justin VK7TW WIA Director and President. I start off by congratulating all those amateurs who participated in the John Moyle Memorial Field day. I saw some very impressive club stations on social media who were making contacts throughout the weekend. Remember – get your logs into the contest manager Denis VK4AE – paper logs date stamped or postmarked no later than 12th April and electronic logs no later than midnight 21st April 2019. It was great to hear from our new WIA Director Harry Edgar VK6YBZ in last week’s Board comment. It is fantastic to have a VK6 on the Board and one who comes very well qualified for the role. Harry has thrown himself into the role and is aiming to visit VK6 clubs as a representative of the WIA and understand what amateurs really want from their national representative body. On ya Harry! A reminder if your club is wanting a representative from the WIA Board to come along and present what is going on in the WIA then please let us know by emailing support@wia.org.au This may be in person or can be virtually via a skype session if your club has a broadband connection. The WIA Bookshop has undergone a makeover thanks to Marc VK3OHM and the bookshop is now truly online. If you browse the already huge range of books in the book store you will now find that there are links to four large online chains offering new, second-hand and e-books at reasonable prices and sometimes free shipping. The WIA very quickly realised that the bookshop could not compete with the multi-national giants. So, the business model of the bookshop has changed. The bookshop is now a "curated list" of recommended books. At the bottom of each page there are links to allow you to purchase these books at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository & Booktopia. These are referral links, so if a purchase results from someone following these links, the WIA will receive a small consideration. There is no additional cost to you. You will need to create an account at these sellers should you wish to purchase, but that is a small price to pay for wide choice, low cost and speedy delivery. It also means the end of differential pricing for members and non-members - everybody gets the cheap price! We are no longer constrained by having to carry physical stock. The current list of books on offer is now being reviewed to ensure that it has the best of the current offerings. If you like, it will become the recommended reading list. If you have any suggestions as to what should be offered in the bookshop, please let Marc know at vk3ohm@wia.org.au There are a couple of criteria. 1) It must have an ISBN. 2) Any suggested book must be normally carried by at least 3 of the 4 currently offered vendors. 3) We are not trying to build a list of every AR book on the planet. We are trying to build a list of "best of breed", i.e. those seminal books that 'everyone should have'. 4) The book must be good value for money. Again a huge thank you to Marc for all the work he has put into the update to the WIA Bookshop and we look forward to your suggestions.. This has been Justin VK7TW for the WIA National News. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT - FELIX VK4FUQ All major Australian contests, rules and results, are on the Contest Section of the WIA website. wia.org.au/members/contests/about 2019 CQ World Wide WPX SSB Contest over the March 30 - 31 weekend. 20th Harry Angel Memorial Sprint May 4 Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest July 20 VK Remembrance Day Contest is August 17-18 -------------- International Marconi Day 2019 IMD will take place this year on 27th of April when amateur radio stations will operate from various locations around the world with historical connections to Marconi. EI 0 MAR will be QRV as an award station once again this year from the Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth. This is a twenty-four hour event and EI 0 MAR will be QRV from about 0700 Zulu that day. The Marconi Company conducted wireless telegraphy tests at the Martello Tower in 1905. (irts) -------------- THRU THE DX WINDOW The following was posted on the 3Y0I Web page, dated March 14th: "3Y0I INITIAL PLANS EXTENDED -- A short but essential update this time. An important decision to our DXpedition plans has been taken today, which will reflect in extending the initial 3Y0I plans. "We decided to take more provisions than initially planned. So did we regarding the fuel. More than 90,000 diesel litres has been fuelled up, paid from our private money. That's all because if weather permits, we plan to stay up to 3-4 weeks at the island itself (excluding sailing and landing time), giving much more chances for all over the world. We have already installed and tested our maritime station from our ship. We'll be signing as E 51 DOM/mm on way to and from the island on HF bands. As these preparations are bringing to a close, we will announce our departure and estimated on-the-air dates very soon. That as I said from a post March 14. South Orkney Islands DXpedition After their successful VP 6 D Ducie Island 2018 DX-pedition, the Perseverance DX Group is pleased to announce their intention to activate South Orkney Islands, currently ClubLog #16 most wanted. Planning has begun for an expedition in Feb/Mar, 2020. A team of experienced DX and Contest operators will operate from Signy Island for up to 15 days. The process of obtaining landing permission is underway. The callsign will be announced at a later date. The team will sail from Punta Arenas, Chile, aboard RV Braveheart. Seven operating positions are planned for 160-10 meters, SSB/CW/Digital. Website: https://sorkney.com/ Please direct your questions to: info@sorkney.com (SouthGate) Tongan op Masa, JA 0 RQV, is once again be active as A 35 JP from Tonga. This time is activating Tongatapu Island (OC-049) between until March 27th. The QTH is Nuku'alofa, from a seaside cottage, in the capital of Kingdom of Tonga. Activity is on 80-6 meters using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via his home callsign, by the Bureau, direct, or LoTW. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/rqv (SouthGate) Alex, 5 B 4 ALX is active as E 6 ET from Niue, OC-040 to the 2nd of April. He os on SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8, 160, 60, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 10 and 6 metres. FT8 using a multi answer protocol with a focus on 20m during his day and 40/60m during his night, 0700 to 1700UTC. QSLvia IZ 4 AMS, either direct or via the bureau. Dagmar, DM 7 PQ and Rainer, DL 1 AUZ will be active as E5 1 NPQ and E 51 AUZ respectively holiday style from Manihiki, OC-014, North Cooks until the 25th of March, and from Aitutaki, OC-083, South Cooks between the 27th and 31st of March. They will operate CW only. --------------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. VK2LAW JASON REPORTS. Springtime cracks are opening in Earth's magnetic field Studies show that March is the most geomagnetic ally active month of the year. The reason? Northern Hemispheres springtime. Researchers have long known that around the time of the vernal equinox "cracks" tend to form in Earth's magnetic field. Solar wind pours in to energize magnetic unrest. Such a crack opened last weekend, sparking spectacular Northern Lights. Read Spaceweather.com to learn more about the phenomenon GREECE Greece latest newcomer to 60m advises Paul Gaskell G4MWO the Editor, The 5 MHz Newsletter. A ministerial decision dated 26th February 2019 now published in the government gazette of March 2019 introduced a new Frequency Allocation Table, which authorizes amateur radio use of 5351.5 - 5366.5 kHz, on a secondary basis at 15W EIRP under the ITU 60m amateur allocation decision of WRC-15. http://www.raag.org/LH2UpLoads/ItemsContent/1219/1219.pdf RUSSIA IARU monitoring newsletter reports radar issue From the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System newsletter come reports that Russian over-the-horizon radar has caused severe problems on 14MHz. Sometimes three signals were active at the same time, each system with 14kHz bandwidth and many splatters. The transmitter is located north of Penza in Western Russia. The German PTT filed an official complaint and the Dutch PTT has been informed. SWITZERLAND Hans Zimmermann, HB9AQS/F5VKP, Receives IARU Diamond Award The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council has recognized Hans Zimmermann, HB9AQS/F5VKP, for his success over many years in raising the visibility at international forums for Amateur Radio’s role in providing disaster-relief communication. A presentation took place on February 20 in Geneva. While at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Zimmerman was instrumental in organizing the 1998 Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency Telecommunications in Tampere, Finland, which resulted in an international treaty facilitating the transport of amateur and other radio communication equipment across borders during disaster relief operations. Zimmerman served as IARU Disaster Communications Adviser and later became IARU International Coordinator for Emergency Communications. He was a major contributor to the Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (GAREC) conferences held from 2005 until 2014. “Radio amateurs owe a debt of gratitude to Hans Zimmermann for 2 decades of effective work in increasing the visibility of Amateur Radio’s emergency communications capabilities among the leaders of the international telecommunications community,” said IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH. CANADA Back in June, 2018, Martin Bérubé of Quebec initiated a petition involving a radio station that was “generating interference on purpose”. The petition attracted 1,135 signatures and was presented to the House of Commons on January 30, 2019. The Government of Canada tabled the following response on March 18, 2019. “Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) was informed of the individual’s conduct in December 2015 by a group of Amateur Radio operators from Quebec. The individual was operating an Amateur Radio station without proper authorization and was known to insult, threaten and impersonate other Amateur operators. As the individual disregarded ISED’s written and verbal warnings, the department took action to enforce the Act. Due to repeated offences, ISED carried out three searches of the individual’s residences and issued seven notices of violation totalling $2,500 plus fees. On October 17, 2018, the individual was found guilty of these seven violations the Radiocommunication Act, by Justice of the Peace Annie Vanasse at the Trois-Rivières Courthouse. ISED also called upon a federal prosecutor to obtain an injunction against the individual. This injunction is currently at the interlocutory stage. ISED understands that the individual has not been heard on Amateur Radio since August 8, 2018. ISED is closely following this case.” https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1631 USA The FCC has invited public comments on ARRL's 2018 Petition for Rule Making, which asks the FCC to expand HF privileges for Technician licensees to include limited phone privileges on 75, 40, and 15 meters, plus RTTY and digital mode privileges on 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters. Specifically, ARRL proposes to provide Technician licensees - both present and future - with: Phone privileges at 3.900 to 4.000 MHz, 7.225 to 7.300 MHz, and 21.350 to 21.450 MHz. RTTY and digital privileges in current Technician allocations on 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters. The ARRL petition points out the explosion in popularity of various digital modes over the past 2 decades. Under the ARRL plan, the maximum HF power level for Technician operators would remain at 200 W PEP. The few remaining Novice licensees would gain no new privileges under ARRL's proposal. Dayton Hamvention committee announce awards The Dayton Hamvention committee has announced their awards for 2019. Of particular interest is Pietro Begali, I2RTF, the 2019 recipient of Hamvention's Technical Achievement Award. He is best known for designing and producing high-quality Morse keys and paddles. Chris Janssen, DL1MGB/KO2WW, is the winner of Hamvention's 2019 Special Achievement Award. He served as president of World Radiosport Team Championship 2018, guiding more than 300 volunteers who put on the successful competition in Germany. You're listening to Quantum Radio Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a detector that enables the detection of a single photon’s worth of radio frequency energy. The chip is only 10 mm square and the team plans to use it to explore the relationship of mass and gravity to quantum theory. The chip has immediate applications in MRI and radio astronomy. Traditionally, detecting a single photon at radio frequencies is difficult due to the significance of thermal fluctuations. At lower frequencies, cryogenic cooling can reduce the issue, but as frequency increases the fluctuations are harder to tame. Hackaday said the trick requires a qubit that samples the radio frequency energy. While the radio source is at 173 MHz, the qubit is at 1 GHz, allowing a fine time resolution. Coupling of the two is via an LC circuit that uses a Josephson junction which requires very cold temperatures. https://hackaday.com/2019/03/18/youre-listening-to-quantum-radio/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------* REWIND - JOHN KNOX VK4FJRK 'Theatre of the Mind: Sound Effects During Radio’s Golden Age' set for Voice of America's Museum April 9 A horse clip-clops down a cobblestoned street. Muffled shouts of street vendors calling out their wares rise up, then fade out. A long time ago, before the age of the internet—and even before the age of television-- radio comedies and dramas entertained the masses by creating stories and situations that relied on the listener’s imagination. The tools used to help paint those audio landscapes were called sound effects. If you are lucky enough to be in the "US of A" you are invited to join Cincinnati radio historian, WMKV producer and sound effects artist Mike Martini, president of the National Voice of America’s Museum of Broadcasting’s Media Heritage Collection, at “Theatre of the Mind: Sound Effects During Radio’s Golden Age” on April 9. Martini will talk about the history of radio sound effects and demonstrate how some of the more popular effects were made. Audience members will have a chance to try their hands at creating the effects, too. The VOA museum will host its fourth annual fundraiser, “75 Years of Rockin’ the Radio,” Sept. 21. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS - COL VK3GTV WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER On-line tweets indicate that the Philippine Diwata-2 satellite carrying an amateur radio FM transponder and APRS digipeater may be activated around March 29. The IARU has coordinated an FM downlink for voice, APRS and telemetry on 145.900 MHz and an FM voice uplink on 437.500 MHz. Additional Diwata-2 information is posted at: http://phl-microsat.upd.edu.ph/diwata2 https://www.facebook.com/PHLMicrosat (AMSAT) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA www.iota-world.org EU-038. Marcel, PD5MVH, is once again be active as PD5MVH/p from Ameland Island until March 30th. Activity on 40/20/10 meters using CW, SSB and JT65. He also plans to be in the UK/EI DX CW Contest (This weekend March 23-24th) using the callsign PD 3 8EU. QSL for both callsigns via PD 5 MVH, direct or by the Bureau. Check out QRZ.com for more details. EU-048. Christian, F5OHH, is active til this weekend as F5OHH/p from Groix Island. Various locations (3 lighthouses, 4 WWFF references and 2 castles) on 80/40/20/15 meters. QSL via F 5 OHH, direct, by the Bureau or eQSL. see: https://headlight44.fr (Southgate) 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. http://www.ham-yota.eu/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/youngstersontheair http://www.arrl.org/youth-nets "LAST MAN STANDING" HAS ONE MORE HAM Speaking of youngsters on the air, congratulations to Jet Jurgensmeyer of the American TV sitcom "Last Man Standing" who recently passed his license exam. The teenager plays the grandson of the show's lead character Mike Baxter who has the imaginary call sign KA 0 XTT. Actor Tim Allen, who plays Mike, has the real-life call sign KK 6 OTD. Jet is awaiting word of his. (ARNewsLine) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING http://www.scouts.com.au http://www.scout.org/jota http://www.international.scouts.com.au http://jotajoti.info/ Brett Nicholas VK2BNN Scouts Australia National co-ordinator for JOTA. Lorraine O’Hare VK2FICQ is Girl Guides Australia National JOTA-JOTI Co-ordinator. CALLING FREQUENCIES Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication. Australian voice calling frequencies: 3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160 World CW calling frequencies: 3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160 World voice calling frequencies: 3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160 Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV): 3.630, 7.033, 14.227 Calling Frequencies for PSK31 14.070 RADIO SCOUTS ON AIR FOR ADVENTURE WEEKEND This week in Radio Scouting we have one activation of the K 2 BSA callsign, one scout camp on the air, and, another glass ceiling is shattered. Ralph, KB 3 IPT, will be activating K2BSA/3 at Towanda VOTEC in Towanda, PA on Saturday March 30th. This will be part of an Adventure Weekend for the scouts there, and this activation will go along with a Radio Merit Badge class that Ralph will be teaching. Justin, KF 5 IVJ, let us know on the scota.us site that their crew will be on the air as KB 5 WAX from Camp Wisdom on Saturday March 23rd USA date. We received notice via ARNewsLine that awarded the first Radio Merit Badge ever earned by a young woman in Scouts BSA has been made. Congratulations to Lilly Miller of BSA Troop 1175 in Illinois. For more information on this and radio scouting website at k2bsa.net 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 IARU Region 1 3760 7110 14300 18160 21360 kHz IARU Region 2 3750 3985 7060 7240 7275 14300 18160 21360 kHz Emergency Communication How would your local shire cope with a complete loss of the power grid? Now, extend this scenario to include a regional loss of the mobile phone network and all internet services. Chris VK3CJK, Gippsland Coordinator for WICEN reports:- "WICEN Gippsland recently designed and ran an exercise using this very scenario, and invited two local neighbouring shires – Latrobe City and Baw Baw – to participate. They were both keen to see WICEN’s capabilities and to expose their own emergency management teams to this type of scenario. The exercise objectives included setting up comms links between and within the shires. An HF Pactor / EmComWin data link was established for the backbone comms link between the shires. This system was originally developed by a group of Victorian amateurs to provide secure and reliable communications for Red Cross, and over a period of 14 years it was used for over 140 activations throughout Australia and abroad. The HF data system was chosen for its proven reliability and security even when signals are poor. The exercise also made use of a battery-backed UHF repeater and a VHF voice link. Messages were successfully passed between shires and to each of the Relief Centres. Both WICEN members and the shire emergency management teams welcomed the opportunity to work with each other, and everyone provided valuable feedback after the exercise. WICEN members encountered an unusually high number of technical issues on the day, but these were either solved on the spot or circumvented. You can read a full exercise report on the WIA website – just look for Exercise Magpie. https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2019/20190314-2/index.php Chris VK3CJK, Gippsland Coordinator for WICEN.” RESCUE RADIO THIS TIME IN THE USA DMR WEATHER NET ASSISTS IN COLORADO 'BOMB CYCLONE' Northern Colorado DMR group regularly uses Brandmeister TalkGroup 31083 whenever hazardous weather threatens the region, but the hams' severe weather net was put to the ultimate test on the 13th of March when a bomb cyclone blizzard struck. According to Matt K0LWC, nearly 50 amateurs checked in between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. from QTHs throughout Colorado as well as Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas. They passed on road conditions and closures, power outages and weather conditions. The net also submitted weather reports to the National Weather Service in Boulder and gave Colorado State Patrol reports of stranded motorists. He said even with 200,000 people having lost power, the DMR technology remained operational and resilient. Said Matt: [quote] "That's a good sign for the stability of DMR and its use in the future for EMCOMM." [endquote] (ARNewsLine) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT GNU licensed KLog Logbook software v.0.9.7 released Jaime, EA4TV, released KLog v.0.9.7, a multiplatform free hamradio logging program which is able to run in Linux, Windows and macOS. The latest release allows the user to add, remove or edit satellites to the KLog DB allowing import or export of satellites data. KLog supports ADIF as a default file format. Additional features of KLog include QSO management, QSL management, a DX-Cluster client, DXCC management, ClubLog integration, WSJT-X, and DX-Marathon support. Several languages are supported including Catalan, Croatian, Danish, English, Finish, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Additional information and access to downloads can be found at: https://www.klog.xyz/ (SouthGate) Build Your Own Space Weather Dashboard NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC) has started adding a variety of space weather data in the open-standard JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, and the SWPC site provides a root directory for format data. Digital visualization library amCharts specializes in JavaScript charts and maps for dynamic data display. A free amCharts license is available in exchange for including a product mention. Jan van den Berg, PA2P, suggests combining NOAA's data with amCharts. Other providers of free charts include Google Charts and Chart.js. Van den Berg offers more information and examples on his website. Contact him for additional information. http://www.pa2p.nl/contact/contact.php SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - VHF AND ABOVE (The Plumbers Delight) FCC moves to open 95 GHz to 3 THz In the USA their FCC is creating a new category of experimental licenses for use of frequencies between 95 GHz and 3 THz The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules to encourage the development of new communications technologies and expedite the deployment of new services in the spectrum above 95 GHz. This spectrum has long been considered the outermost horizon of the usable spectrum range, but rapid advancements in radio technology have made these bands especially ripe for new development. There are substantial opportunities for innovation in these frequencies, especially for data intensive high-bandwidth applications as well as imaging and sensing operations. Prior to this decision, the Commission had no rules for authorizing communications above 95 GHz, other than by amateur operators or through experiments of limited duration and scope. To enable innovators and entrepreneurs to most readily access this spectrum, the Spectrum Horizons First Report and Order creates a new category of experimental licenses for use of frequencies between 95 GHz and 3 THz. These licenses will give innovators the flexibility to conduct experiments lasting up to 10 years, and to more easily market equipment during the experimental period. The item also makes a total of 21.2 gigahertz of spectrum available for use by unlicensed devices. The Commission selected bands with propagation characteristics that will permit large numbers of unlicensed devices to use the spectrum, while limiting the potential for interference to existing governmental and scientific operations in the above-95 GHz bands, such as space research and atmospheric sensing. (SouthGate) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 2019 Social Scene VK7 - Meet the Voice event at Ross March 23-24 (vk7news) VK5 - BRL Radio Group Annual Gathering, Overland Corner, S.A April 6 (vk5la) VK4 - Redfest 2019 April 13 (vk4tfn) VK6 - HARGfest April 14 (vk6zms) VK3 - Moorabbin & District Radio Club HamFest 2019 Saturday 11th May. VK 2019 WIA Annual Conference Sydney weekend 24-26 of May. (wia) https://www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/2019agm/ VK5 - South East Radio Group 2019 Annual Convention and Australian Fox Hunting Championships 8-9 June (vk5hcf) VK3 - GippsTech 2019 13'14 July (vk3pf) VK3 - Yarra Valley Amateur Group HamFest, 13th October (vk3cnw) VK3 - Ballarat Amateur Radio Group, BARG Hamvention Oct 27 (vk3kqt) 2020 Social Scene ALARAMEET 2020 Bendigo (vk5yl) October 2020 in Bendigo Victoria. Heidi VK3FHID and Jenny VK3WQ are leading the team who are planning an eventful weekend. 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