April 14 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 Apr 14 2019 IN OUR 24th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA DIRECTOR VK5WTF MARCUS THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 2019 AND FOR WEEK OF APRIL 14 2019 Waverley Amateur Radio Society is calling for expressions of interest from Sydney based Hams to provide two or three nights free accommodation for interstate and country hams attending the W I A Conference on 24,25 and 26th May 2019. If you have a spare bed or two, why not help one or some fellow hams to come to Sydney and enjoy both the WIA conference activities, and the night time Vivid spectacle. You will make new friends and have a fun time. If you can help, navigate your browser to VK2BV.ORG click on the BILLETING link And if you are one of those interstate or country Hams who would like to be accomodated, navigate to the same VK2BV.ORG web page and register your interest. No guarantee of a spot but Waverly Club will try hard. Oh and don’t forget to actually Register for the WIA Conference on wia.org.au Interstate Seniors Card holders can register for a NSW Gold Opal card for heavily discounted bus, train & ferry travel. Just google “ Gold Opal for Interstate Seniors ”. Waverley and the WIA look forward to seeing you in Sydney (Sourced to VK2RF) NT ROLL OUT The Northern Territory Government has launched a Bushfires Emergency Management System (BEMS) to improve safety for both firefighters and citizens. The government worked with Telstra to develop a solution that provides volunteer firefighters with real-time information about weather conditions, crew locations, fire status, permit burns and messages from Bushfires NT in the field, using tablet devices. This solution aims to improve safety, response times and efficiency when fighting fires, conducting planned burns or providing permits to burn. Critical omms say these devices operate on the secure government IT system using the Telstra mobile network Read more: http://criticalcomms.com.au/content/public-safety/news/nt-rolls-out-telstra-enabled-bushfire-info-system-884345063#ixzz5kCiop9Rs This is Denis VK4AE Contest Manager for the John Moyle Memorial Field Day. Logs have been arriving steadily and 140 logs have already been received which is not as many as the number received at this point after the contest last year. The mixture is about 50% home stations. The logs do not seem to have met with as many delivery difficulties this year and the direct e-mail address seems to be working well. It is still highly recommended that once you have submitted your log you should check a bit later that your callsign has been added to the list of logs received. If your call is not on the list, then it might not have been received. A couple of logs have been submitted as a PDF which is just a picture and contains no more useful information to the contest than a picture of a flower as the data is not accessible electronically and hence usable to me. In the same way a couple of logs were submitted using a Cabrillo format that does not contain all of the information required by the JMMFD rules and requires much extra work for the Contest Manager to attempt to fix those logs. Some 14 club stations were operated during the contest that have not yet provided a log. Perhaps, in your club you have to rely on Mr. Somebody to get the log done, get in touch and give him a hand to get it finished and submitted. Have you considered getting a senior secondary student to complete the log for you? Maybe you might inspire an interest in Ham Radio? It is timely to remind you all that while there is not a lot of time left to submit the log and it will pass quickly and the final date is the 19th April 2019. This is required by the very long lead times now for the AR Magazine. Following this date all of the logs will be processed and the results prepared and made available soon after. The results will be shown on the WIA contest page as soon as they are ready. So check that your call is on the list, resend the log if it isn’t. It might also be a good idea to submit your log now as you never know what can happen to delay you in the next few days. Thanks for listening, VK4AE Hello, this is WIA Director VK5WTF Marcus. I thought I'd start off with something that absolutley fascinated me this week, and I apologise in advance if I loose you in my excitement. By now you might have heard about the first real evidence of black holes. Yes, before this week, black holes were just a theory. What you probably haven't heard is some of the technical details. Around the earth there were eight radio telescopes operating on the wavelength of 1.3mm, that's about 230GHz. And for those that have worked in the microwave bands, will notice they would have had problems with water vapour, locations were chosen for their height, and dry environment. And the reason 1.3mm was chosen, and not just pure light, because radio waves pass through a lot of stuff in the way, like dust. The other trick was to gather data from opposite sides of the planet, creating a virtual radio telescope the size of earth. Sounds like the perfect antenna array for a contest station, but I'll need a bigger property. The telescopes recorded large amounts of data, 5 peta bytes all up. So much data that flying the hard drives in planes was faster than using the internet. From there all the data was brought together, correlated and then processed to get the images many of you have seen. The WIA AGM is not far away, and now is the time to get tickets for the event to be held in Sydney and celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Waverly Amateur Radio Society. You'll be glad to know that it doesn't clash with a major non-radio event being held in Canberra the weekend before. For accommodation, there are lots of choices, including billeting. Organise with someone you know, or keep your eyes on the WIA website ( wia.org.au ) for more details in the comming days. Of course there is always public transport if you want to stay further out, and there are a lot of things to see and do in Sydney while you are there; I know I plan of exploring the western suburbs while there. 73, vk5wtf, clear and listening. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. ASIA A contract to supply radio equipment to a US-funded program in Central Asia has been awarded to Barrett Communications. Barret evolved from Australian aviators to military personnel around the world. In fact, 70 per cent of Barrett's business today is in the tactical market. The Counter Narcotics Global Threats program will receive a range of PRC-2090 HF man packs and vehicle stations with tracking software. The HF systems will provide critical communications and tracking capabilities to forces, which will assist in securing their border and controlling illicit narcotics trafficking. The rapidly changing operational environment of the client required a HF system that adapted quickly to mission requirements. The Barrett PRC-2090 first released some 10 years ago is designed to be smoothly and easily interchangeable between vehicle and man pack configurations. This is achieved by the transceiver being cassette-loaded into the vehicle docking station for mobile use and returned to a man pack configuration for on-foot patrol. Read more: http://criticalcomms.com.au/content/radio-systems/news/counternarcotics-program-adopts-barrett-radios-123469954#ixzz5kCjg9tTH INDIA India has been criticised by NASA for conducting a recent anti-satellite weapons test that involved blowing up a satellite at an altitude of 300 km, NASA say the result could put the International Space Station in danger. The Microsat-R was blown into more than 6,500 pieces which act as small bullets as they circle the earth. Officials also call the test poorly timed. This is a time of solar minimum when the earth's cooling and contracting atmosphere reduces aerodynamic drag that causes satellites to decay. This means the small fragments could remain in high orbit for years, racing along at 17,000 miles an hour. RUSSIA Yet again the monthly IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports on the severe problems being caused by the Russian OTH radar “Contayner” on 14 MHz Other intruders notified include Chinese wideband OTH radars active on 40 m with 10 or 20 sps and 160 KHz wide (jumping) often in the evenings. http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2019/news1903.pdf SPAIN General authorization for 2.4 GHz Spain's national amateur radio society URE reports the regulator has agreed to allow amateur use of 2400.050 to 2409.500 MHz to access the E'hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite The Administration, responding to the request submitted by the URE, has developed the present resolution, which authorizes until September 26, 2019, to the holders of radio amateur authorizations, the emission of the amateur radio satellite service from 2400.050 to 2409.500 MHz. For single-sideband telephone communications, with a maximum e.i.r.p of 1500 watts, from authorized amateur radio stations located anywhere in the national territory. UNITED KINGDOM Time Gentlemen Time! The annual maintenance shutdown of the UK's MSF service to allow safe working on the masts and antennas will take place between 7 - 23 May The service will be off-air from 08:00 to 18:00 BST each day, including weekends and if the weather is unsuitable for work to be carried out, then the service will not be turned off. If the work is completed sooner than 18:00 BST on any day, the service will be restored as soon as possible. The MSF radio signal is a dedicated time broadcast that provides an accurate and reliable source of UK civil time, based on the NPL time scale UTC (NPL). USA WASHINGTON LAWMAKERS GRILL OFFICIAL'S WIFE ABOUT HAM RADIO A congressional panel in Washington, D.C., recently questioned the wife of a federal official about her ham radio activity. Andy Morrison K9AWM has those details. "A recently released transcript reveals that Republican members of Congress had asked the wife of a ranking Justice Department official whether she was using her amateur radio license to communicate with Russia - specifically to monitor transmissions about Russian interests in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid. Nellie Ohr, KM4UDZ, is the wife of the Justice Department's Bruce Ohr. A Technician class licensee she told Republican members of the House Committee on the Judiciary she became a ham as part of her involvement as a volunteer in the local Community Emergency Response Team. When asked directly by one lawmaker whether she had ever communicated with anyone in Russia using ham radio, she indicated that the Tech license is the lowest level license and that there are few frequencies available for overseas contacts. " HAWAII COMET NAMED AFTER HAWAIIAN RADIO AMATEUR Heather Flewelling, WH6FTQ recently had the honour of lending her name to a newly spotted comet. A planetary defence researcher, WH6FTQ is a relatively new amateur who upgraded to Amateur Extra class at the 2018 ARRL Field Day. She was working on an asteroid impact early warning system being developed by the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, when she saw the comet. The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Centre designated Comet Flewelling (Comet 2019 D1) on 21 March. 116,000 Miles from Home We all use GPS, to find ourselves in the back country, to navigate to the grocery store, to locate lost pets. NASA's four MMS spacecraft recently used the same system to locate themselves an astonishing 116,300 miles from Earth, almost halfway to the Moon. This shatters previous records and expectations of how far away GPS can work. Visit Spaceweather.com to find out how they did it --------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT All major Australian contests, rules and results, are on the Contest Section of the WIA website. wia.org.au/members/contests/about 2019 20th Harry Angel Memorial Sprint May 4 IARU HF World Championship 13-14 July. Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest July 20 VK Remembrance Day Contest is August 17-18 -------------- THRU THE DX WINDOW LISTEN out for GB stations for Maritime Radio Day 2019 Col VK3GTV has more:- "As part of the activity, callsigns GB 0 GKA and GB 0 GKB will be representing Portishead Radio / GKA, the UK's long-range maritime radio station which closed in 2000. Other coast radio stations, DAN, PCH, WCC, IAR and quite a few others will also be represented. The event starts at 1200z on Sunday 14th April and finishes at 2200z on Monday 15th April. https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/maritime-radio-day-2019-gb0gka-and-gb0gkb.651119/ Ali, EP 3 CQ, who went QRT on March 23rd, will once again be active as 6 O 1OO starting April 15th, for one month. Activity will be limited, he works for the UN Department of Safety and Security in Mogadishu. Operations will be all bands but mostly 40/20 meters using SSB and FT8. Last time he suggested that he will be on every day between 1800-2000 East Africa Time (EAT) and on the weekend (Friday and Saturday) between 1400-1800. See QRZ.com for more info QSL direct to: Ali Solhjoo, C/O Dr. de Vivanco, Schnackenburgstr. 3, Berlin 12159, Germany. SENEGAL, 6W. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as 6W/IV3FSG from near Dakar, until April 16 while working for the Informatici Senza Frontiere organization. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and possible digital modes. QSL via IK 3 GES. (arrl) International Marconi Day 2019 will take place 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. C.A.R.O., the Club of Amateur Radio in the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) and the Documentary Archives Radio Communication / QSL Collection, will operate, for 72 hours only, a special event station with the callsign OE 19 M between Friday, April 26th, and Sunday, 28th (00:00-24:00 UTC). OE19M is an official "International Marconi Day" station. Listen for Jacques, F 6 HMJ on the air as 6W7/F6HMJ from Senegal until the 28th of April on SSB and CW, 80-10 metres. (ARNEWSLINE) Join Cricket World Cup Marathon The RSGB is hosting an international amateur radio marathon event on the HF bands to celebrate this year's Cricket World Cup, which is being held in England and Wales. The marathon will run from the 30th of May to the 14th of July. Full details are at www.rsgb.org/cricket ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com qdg.org.au Russian SSTV Transmission Event Ends today April 14 ARISS Russia's Slow Scan Television image transmissions from the International Space Station which began April 11 end approximately 18:00 UTC Sunday, April 149 This event uses a computer in the ISS Russian Segment, which stores images that are then transmitted to Earth using the ARISS amateur radio station located in the Service Module. Once these images are received by ham radio operators and other radio enthusiasts on Earth, many participants will post them for viewing on http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php . Please check for news and the most current information on the AMSAT.org and ARISS.org websites, the AMSAT-BB@amsat.org, the ARISS facebook at Amateur Radio On The International Space Station and ARISS twitter @ARISS_status. New videos from the RSGB Two new videos are now available on the RSGB YouTube channel. They are Improving your Morse Code Skills by Ray Burlingame-Goff, G4FON and FT8 performance secrets by Neil Smith, G4DBN. You can access these lectures via the RSGB website at www.rsgb.org/videos WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW FISTS Club - East Asia www.feacw.net FISTS Club - Australasia www.fdu.org.au FISTS Club - UK & Europe www.fists.co.uk FISTS Club - Americas www.fists.org Recommended FISTS calling frequencies (MHz): 1.808 3.528 7.028 10.118 14.058 18.085 21.058 24.908 28.058 The deadline is June 1 to submit Morse key and paddle designs in the QST Key Competition. Hams have been building their own Morse keys since the dawn of Amateur Radio, and some creations have become legend. Design styles can include straight key, semiautomatic key (bug), paddle, or sideswiper. The winner in each category will receive a cash prize. Only one entry may be accepted per person or team. Entries must include the actual key (it will be returned following judging) as well as detailed construction drawings with dimensions (hand drawings are acceptable). More complete details on this CW competition are to be found on arrl.org Howard Bernstein is the co-founder of the Long Island CW Club along with Rich Collins K2UPS, where they train amateurs of every age to be CW operators over Zoom video conferencing. Howard has a long history in ham radio extending back over 50 years. WB2UZE still has his first Drakeline and is a collector of vintage things including old radios and automobiles. Here Howard is THE PODCAST QSO Today hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/b/6/9/b69ad276951a00c1/Episode_244_Howard_Bernstein_WB2UZE_Final.mp3?c_id=39081287&cs_id=39081287&expiration=1554805453&hwt=8241efe4e85dc3a7b0fd992c70f4a3ee (SouthGate) WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DIGITAL This is Grant VK5GR on behalf of the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been talking about a new event on the Amateur Radio calendar - designed to get people experimenting on air again. The FreeDV QSO party, to be held over the weekend of April 27-28th, is designed to stimulate on air activity in this unique home grown digital voice mode, created by David VK5DGR. How will it do that? By getting more people on the air at the same time using FreeDV! We are promoting the following frequencies as centres of FreeDV activity on the bands to help you find fellow experimenters during the event. Look out for FreeDV on 1870kHz, 3630kHz, 7180kHz, 14130kHz, 21180kHz and 28330kHz. During the QSO party, you can work each station once every 3 hours per band, earning points and multipliers along the way. There is a Voice keyer function built into the FreeDV program as well so you can call CQ easily enough during the event. One thing to look out for however is doubling with other stations. The one thing FreeDV isn't all that tolerant of is co-channel QRM so look and listen before calling. If you want to know more, head on over to the AREG Website, www.areg.org.au where a full copy of the rules is available. There are also links to the website that you can download the software from, with versions available for Windows, Apple and Linux users. Dont forget, If you can use FT8 today then you can just as easily use FreeDV - just add a headset and a microphone to your PC and away you go! We hope to see you all on the air using FreeDV, so place the FreeDV QSO party in your calendar today. See you all during April 27th and 28th on air using FreeDV! 73 from Grant VK5GR YET ANOTHER NEW WEAK SIGNAL MODE RELEASED It looks like JS8Call, a new conversational weak signal mode, is ready for prime time. The developer, Jordan KN4CRD, has announced that the build of Version 1.0 is complete and it is being released publicly. The application is a derivative of WSJT-X that mimics Fldigi or FSQ by being based on keyboard-to-keyboard communication. The current and all future downloads are available at the web page in our written text editions. files.js8call.com/latest.html (arnewline) FT8 Contest Set for this weekend, April 13 – 14 The European FT8 Club is sponsoring an FT8 DX Contest starting at 1200 UTC on April 13 and running through 1200 UTC on April 14. Everyone works everyone in this contest, and the maximum power is 100 W. The exchange is the same as the ARRL RTTY Roundup. (Serial number for DX participants) (ARRL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER Bidding is underway – Out of This World ARISS auction! The Out of This World ARISS Auction is speeding along! It will run until April 14th at 22:00 UTC. Bidders are moving fast hoping to garner a special astronaut signed brand new JVC Kenwood TS-890S - Bidding is done by going to www.ariss.org and pressing the Auction Website button Proceeds from the auction will benefit ARISS in its quest to launch a new custom-built higher-power radio system in late 2019 with its voice repeater and improved packet APRS and SSTV capability that thousands of we hams can enjoy. (SouthGate) The Federal Communications Commission in the USA has proposed several rules changes related to the amateur satellite service as part of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to the mitigation of orbital debris. AMSAT argues that amateur satellites often have longer mission lifespans than other small satellite missions and that the Commission should take a mission duration of 5 to 10 years into account when determining whether or not an amateur satellite will meet the orbital debris regulations by transferring to a parking orbit or re-entering the atmosphere within 25 years of mission completion. The current practice is to assume a "zero year" mission and to require that amateur satellites either transfer to a parking orbit or re-enter within 25 years following launch. (ANS-095.01) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA www.iota-world.org Activation of IOTA EU011 Here is an announcement of an IOTA activation of EU 0 11 the Isles of Scilly, 20th April to 27th April using callsign GB 5 SM. CW, SSB, Data modes and possibly Satellite and QSL's will be managed by LZ 1 JZ. (sourced to SouthGate) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - VHF AND ABOVE (The Plumbers Delight) New Microwave & Optical Records Set WIA say that there have been many new microwave records and a new optical record set recently here in VK. Optically, the new VK1 record set in March was 84.2 km https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2019/20190403-1/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------* REWIND Hi I'm John Knox VK4FJRK Alaskan Code Talkers honoured U.S. Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. took his wartime secret to the grave, dying a hero without anyone knowing about it for decades. Now, Bean and four other long-deceased indigenous Alaskans were being hailed in their home state this past month for their lifesaving efforts as servicemen. During World War II, they made good use of the Tlingit language they were forbidden to speak as schoolchildren in their southeast Alaska villages. They used their native language to help the military outsmart the Japanese with codes they could not break, as did their more well-known peers, the Navajo Code Talkers The military declassified the Navajo Code Talker program in 1968, but, it would be decades before recognition came to the Tlingit servicemen. In 2013, Congress recognised the Code Talkers from 33 tribes, including these men, who were posthumously awarded silver medals. Given the national honours, Tlingit Vietnam veteran Bill Thomas thought state recognition would soon follow. Alaskan state lawmakers agreed when Thomas pushed for the idea along with the Sealaska Heritage Institute and earlier in March, legislators passed a formal citation honouring these Code Talkers. State flags were flown at half-staff and later presented to the men's families.. For WIA National News I'm VK4FJRK John Knox 2019 Social Scene 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/ VK2 Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Field Day June 8 and 9 (vk2zhe) VK5 - South East Radio Group 2019 Annual Convention and Australian Fox Hunting Championships 8-9 June (vk5hcf) VK3 - GippsTech 2019 13'14 July (vk3pf) VK4 - Townsville Amateur Radio Club's Cardwell Gathering 4 days commencing October 4 (vk4zz) 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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