June 2 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 June 02 2019 IN OUR 24th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WHAT IS THE WIA ASKING ACMA? THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 2019 AND FOR WEEK OF JUNE 2 2019 The radio industry has welcomed the appointment of Paul Fletcher as the new Federal Minister for Communications, Cybersafety and the Arts in the Morrison Government. The previous minister, Mitch Fifield, has been appointed Australia's ambassador to the United Nations. In a report in radioinfo.com.au it's said in his career he has served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, held a senior executive role at Optus, established a consulting firm serving the communications sector and has written a book about broadband. https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/paul-fletcher-replaces-mitch-fifield-comms-minister © Radioinfo.com.au Sepura radios selected by Aurizon Rail Aurizon Rail has contracted Sepura’s partner, Radlink Communications, to supply radios for its rail network. Aurizon moves coal, iron ore, agricultural freight and more across Australia daily and needed to improve the communications across its vast rail system. It has purchased 1200 Sepura SC20 hand-portable radios and 1800 SRG3900 mobile terminals to be used across its network. The SRGs will be installed across the train fleet to maintain communications along the entire network. The new radio network is due to be operational this year and will use TETRA technology, encompassing 79 sites across rails stretching a total of 2670 kilometres. The network will link 50 coalmines and four major ports throughout central Queensland. (vk7wi news) WIA 5 AND 70 MHz WHAT IS THE WIA ASKING ACMA? This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH from the Spectrum Strategy Committee. Last month, the Australian Communications and Media Authority – the A C M A – released their “Five-year spectrum outlook 2019-23”, in what the Authority calls a consultation draft. The WIA has submitted a detailed response to the ACMA’s draft work plan, covering all key topics of interest to the Australian radio amateur community, which include: advancing access to the 5.3 MHz – or 60 metre band – allocation . . . after talks with the defence department, the WIA has submitted a proposal to provide some limited access that avoids or mitigates interference to incumbent services. amateur licence tenure and fees framework – based on models used in other countries, where amateurs have low fees and long licence tenure. The WIA reiterated that the radio amateur community requires: – individual licences bearing a unique callsign – certainty of licence tenure – an equitable framework of transaction costs – that is, fees – certain and continuing access to frequency bands throughout the radiofrequency spectrum, and – continued participation and representation in spectrum management processes. For those interested in the 70 MHz band, the Institute has put forward a proposal to enable conducting experiments through the use of Scientific licences obtained by the Institute which then authorises individual amateurs to conduct experiments. Check out the WIA’s response to the ACMA’s latest work plan on WIA News on the website, wia.org.au and the full text of this item in news dated May 19 2019 wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/display.php?file_id=wianews-2019-05-26 This Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE SARC & the World Wide sources of the WIA. SOUTH AFRICA WPT high on IARU EMC Committee meeting The South African Radio League report that IARU Region 1 EMC committee have met to review the outcome of the recently held Vienna Interim Meeting as well as the interference potential of wireless power charging of electric vehicles. The meeting was attended by Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV and Brian Jacobs, ZS6YZ. Information gleaned from the meeting will stand the SARL in good stead when the SABS TC73, which deals with electromagnetic compatibility and interference, meets on Wednesday 29 May. The SARL has placed WPT as an emerging need on the agenda. The issue about WPT is that there are no agreed interference limits. Some discussions in CEPT suggest that the existing spurious emission limits for inductive SRDs are appropriate. These were developed on a wholly different set of assumptions about duty cycle, location and whether victim and emitter share the same frequency and are not appropriate for WPT(EV). WPT(EV) is high duty cycle, located in residential areas and its harmonics are likely to be spread across a band of frequencies. South Africa is rejecting any notion that WPT can be likened to a mobile phone or a toothbrush charger. IRELAND Inter-EI activity begins on 40 MHz In April of 2018, Irish (EI) radio amateurs gained access to much of the low VHF spectrum including 40 MHz. Some short distance contacts were established in November of that year. Over the northern hemisphere winter months, several EI stations have been busy getting ready for the new 8-metre band and this has now resulted in even more inter-EI 40 MHz activity. Manned propagation beacons have been heard at distances of over 200kms on this new VHF band. Several EI stations are now active on the band and are looking for reception reports. https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2019/05/inter-ei-activity-begins-on-40-mhz.html USA Student rocket makes it to space Where does the Earth’s atmosphere stop and space begin? The Kármán line is what the World Air Sports Federation (FAI) defines as space. That line is 100 km or about 330,000 feet above sea level. A recent student-built rocket — Traveler 4 — claims to be the first entirely student-designed vehicle to pass that line. The students from the University of Southern California launched the rocket from Spaceport America in New Mexico. The new record is over twice as high as the old record, set by the same team. The rocket reached approximately 340,000. The successful rocket was 13 feet tall and 8 inches in diameter. The 11 minute flight accelerated to a top speed of 4,970 feet/second which is over Mach 5. The Kármán line, by the way, is not universally accepted. NASA and the US Air Force award outer space to be 50 miles above sea level — the rocket definitely crossed that line. The first man-made object to reach space, by the way, was the V2 rocket built by the nazi's during World War 2. https://hackaday.com/2019/05/23/student-rocket-makes-it-to-space/ Dayton has come and gone and for one attendee May 17 2019 is a day he'll never forget. Chris Bourke VK4YE joined the swelling crowds at Xenia Fairgrounds as VK4YE, and emerged as AG5US, a USA Extra Class licencee. Writing in the Summerland Amatur Radio Clubs newsletter he said he was guided to volunteers who explained the rules for taking the assessments, and handed the first paper – a Technician Class examination booklet with separate answer sheet. A quick head count gave around 20 examinees scattered around the room. After being seated, he made a quick start on the paper at hand and completed and checked the answers to 35 questions in about 15 minutes. General and Extra Class exam booklets followed. After handing these in for grading – the Waiting Room – where anxious faces awaited the call from one of two volunteers who delivered the good/bad news. After just half an hour, his name was called, a handshake given along with hearty congratulations on passing all three assessments. A total of 120 questions and just one error! He was also given completed paperwork which specified the exams successfully completed and then informed that the results would be sent to the FCC data base that same day. Next morning at five o’clock, a cursory check of emails showed one from the FCC. Attached was his licence grant with ‘next available callsign’ of AG 5 US. Clearly the USA assessment procedures and regulator are far more effective in delivering paperless results in near real time than we are used to here in VK Chris VK4YE & AG5US said " And the sweetener for all of this was zero cost to me. " Before 'Dayton' took up residence at the Xenia Fairgrounds it was held at the Hara Arena also in Ohio. This week, just days after HamFest comes word that in the wake of tornadoes that badly damaged hara arena, Ohio ARES was activated. Hara Arena, in Trotwood, Ohio, which served as the home for Dayton Hamvention® for more than six decades, was among the structures damaged when tornadoes swept through the Dayton area on US Memorial Day. According to a report from WHIO TV, Hara Arena suffered extensive damage. Drone video showed that the roof and side of the structure had been blown off in several places. Hamvention relocated to the Xenia Fairgrounds in 2017, after Hara Arena shut down the previous year. The Hara Arena damage apparently resulted from what CBS News called “a large and dangerous tornado” that struck Trotwood. Ohio Section Emergency Coordinator Stan Broadway, N8BHL, said ARES counties and districts activated that evening after nearly 40 tornado warnings were issued across the state. --------------------------------------------------------------------* 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 VK SHIRES CONTEST happens QUEENS BIRTHDAY Weekend (June 8-10) JUNE 10 IS THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY HERE IN VK ( but not in VK6 or VK4) That weekend is also the VK SHIRES CONTEST This in from VK4TI and we will have more in both text and audio news June 2nd. EXPERIMENTAL RULE 2019 We will accept logs that contain Digital Modes however the exchange information is still required. AND THE MODE must be included. Probably easier to send digital file separately. >From 2018 the VK Shires is an official WIA Contest and will count towards the Peter Brown Contest Champion Awards. Contest Introduction ALL HF Bands available to Standard licensees - Modes are SSB and CW, stations can be worked once on each mode. EXPERIMENTAL RULE 2019 We will accept logs that contain Digital Modes however the exchange information is still required. AND THE MODE must be included. Probably easier to send digital file separately. Digital will be a separate standalone category. The preferred mode is FT4 but whatever floats your boat. ROVER stations as well as portable entries make up part of the character of the VK Shires as well as the timing to take place over an East Coast Long Weekend.(Queens Birthday) LOGS ARE ONLY ACCEPTED IN CABRILLO FORMAT Aim of The Contest The objectives of this contest are for amateurs around the world to contact as many VK shires as possible in the contest period. VK amateurs are to work the world including VK, whilst the rest of the world can only work VK. http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/wavks (trent vk4ti) IARU HF World Championship 13-14 July. RSGB IOTA Contest July 27-28th Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest July 20 VK Remembrance Day Contest is August 17-18 -------------- Six Scottish amateurs are signing LX/GM4UYE from Luxembourg from 25th May – 1st June on 40 – 6m SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8. QSL manager is M 0 OXO. (IRTS) On June 8th if you hear the call W-3-W - or Whiskey Three Whiskey - you may want to get into the "spirit" and key your mic. The relevant spirit here is good old American moonshine and whiskey -- and the call sign you'll hear is from the special event station of the Mountain Amateur Radio Club in Maryland. The club will be marking the 225th anniversary of the Whiskey Rebellion, the infamous uprising by farmers in the Appalachian Mountain region who were pushing back against taxation of alcohol imposed by the then-new American government. Whiskey operators expect to be on 75, 40 and 20 meters SSB as well as other bands, depending upon conditions. To mark the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in '44 special callsign, GB 75 DDAY, will be aired during June. The station will be located on HMS Belfast which is a museum ship moored on the River Thames in London. QSL manager is G 0 TOC. (IRTS) 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 which started May 30 runs till the 14th of July. Full details are at www.rsgb.org/cricket DF13, German special event Look for special event stations with Prefix's DF13 to be active until June 30th, 2019. This to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the maiden flight of the Junkers F-13, The first all-metal built airplane, was introduced to civil aviation and is the mother of all commercial aircraft. All QSOs will be automatically confirmed after July 15th, 2019, with a QSL card via Bureau. If you do not need a QSL card, let them know. Send direct QSLs via DM2TO -- shipping starting after August 1st, 2019. For more details and info on awards, see QRZ.com Panama special event Look for special event callsign H 31 A to be active until August 15 to commemorate 500th anniversary of the foundation of Panama City. Activity will be on most HF bands using SSB and the Digital modes (RTTY, PSK31 and FT8). QSL manager is HP 1 AVS (SouthGate) Liberian update The Italian DXpedition Team will be active from Liberia between September 28th and October 11th using two callsigns: A 82 X for CW and SSB; A 82 Z for the Digital modes. Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. (SouthGate) Anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany Look for special event stations DM 70 GER and DL 70 BRD now active until December 31st, 2019 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany which was established on May 23rd, 1949. Operations will be on CW and SSB. (SouthGate) Special call EI 19 RE active for 2019 The special call sign EI 19 RE will be active for the duration of 2019 to commemorate the establishment of the first Irish parliament. It first met in January of 1919 following a landslide victory for Irish nationalists in December 1918. https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2019/01/special-call-ei19re-active-for-2019.html (SouthGate) Scouting’s Gilwell Park is being honoured through 2019 with GB 100 GP. (vk6pop) In the World of DX, amateurs in Turkey are using the special call sign TC 10 GITRAD to mark the 10th anniversary of the radio group G.I.T.R.A.D. They are on the air all year through the 31st of December. No cards are required. However, if you need a paper QSL card please mail yours directly to TA 7 AZC and include a stamped self-addressed envelope and money for postage. JUST REPEATING The Walcha Radio Group presently has fours repeaters connected to the North Link Network in northern New South Wales. On 25th May-2019, the Group commissioned a new 2-Meter repeater at the Mt Woolooma site, east of Scone NSW, and has also incorporated the new repeater into the North Link Network. This new Scone Repeater operates on 146.750 MHz with a 91.5 Hz CTCSS required for access. The new repeater has been the welcome result of hard work and efforts of many of the group members, - with particular thanks going to Tim VK2TMA and Greg VK2SO. The North Link Repeater network now allows Amateurs travelling along the New England and Gwydir highways to access the network from the new repeater at Scone in the South, with almost continuous coverage through to Armidale and Moree in the Northern parts of the state. The North Link group of 2 Meter Linked-repeaters includes: (and NO CTCSS is required on these) Mt Crawney repeatere South of Tamworth 146.825 Tamworth Town repeater 146.850 Mt Kaputar repeater (near Narrabri) 146.625 Armidale Area repeater 146.725 Walcha Area repeater 147.075 The Gloucester Road repeater 146.925 There are future links proposed for repeaters at Mt Rumbee (near Glen Innes), and The Tops repeater (near Inverell) The North Link network is unusual in that it is a “Hub-and-Spoke” type network. This configuration provides a High Quality of Audio transfer between linked repeaters, together with fast repeater switching response(s). ( Brian VK2DK President of the Walcha Radio Group on behalf of the North Link Group of associated Clubs. ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com qdg.org.au ISS Slow Scan TV Wednesday and Thursday June 5-6 A Russian MAI-SSTV event is planned from the International Space Station June 5 from 12:00-16:00 GMT and June 6 from 11:30-15:30 GMT Transmissions to be at 145.800 MHz in SSTV mode PD120. Check here for updates: https://twitter.com/ARISS_status ISS SSTV info and links https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/ (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER The taurid meteoroid swarm is approaching Earth Earth is about to have a close encounter with a meteoroid swarm. In June 2019, the gravelly Taurid Swarm will make its closest post-perihelion approach to our planet since 1975. There's growing evidence that the swarm may be hiding large objects such as the Tunguska impactor that leveled a forest in Siberia in 1908. Astronomers plan to peer inside the swarm using large telescopes to find these hazards--if they exist. (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- MILITARY Felix, VK4FUQ told us a minute or so back of the D-Day station from the River Thames on air in June, well even MORE stations are planned! Special Event Station Chain to Mark 75th Anniversary of D-Day Next Thursday, June 6 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Overlord during World War II and the D-Day landings in Normandy. Commemorating those who took part, a team from the Torbay Amateur Radio Society in England is organizing a chain of five special event stations along the UK’s southern coastline. Each will be based in the geographical area of a beach-landing force point of departure and will use a relevant call sign. TARS will activate a site above Brixham Harbour in Devon — a departure point for many US soldiers who later landed on Utah Beach and will use the call sign GB 75 UF. Other clubs activating similar relevant locations will use these call signs: GB75OF — Omaha Beach GB75GF — Gold Beach GB75JF — Juno Beach GB75SF — Sword Beach In addition, TARS hopes to have two club stations from the Normandy area of France activating sites on the beaches. Logging is being coordinated centrally, and stations who contact two or more of the stations within the chain will be able to download a suitable certificate to commemorate their achievement. Details on logging, certificates, and operating frequencies will be available on the TARS website. http://www.torbayars.org.uk/index.shtml SSB frequencies will include 3.644, 7.144, 14.144, 18.144, 21.244, 24.944, and 28.244 MHz (data only on 10.144 MHz). Stations operating on CW or data will attempt to use similar frequencies ending in 44. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS http://www.raotc.org.au This is Clive VK6CSW reminding you that the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia’s June bulletin goes to air tomorrow. This month as well as all the latest Club news, we have three short talks for you, one on Remnant Magnetism, another describes a Bad Case of Ignition Noise, and the third is on Digital Mobile Radios. Everyone is most welcome to tune in and to join in the call backs afterwards. Regular listeners will know the times and frequencies for our morning and evening transmissions times while newcomers can find all the details by looking at the Club website at www.raotc.org.au Here you will also find details of Club membership and qualifications needed to become an RAOTC member. If none of the broadcast times suit you, you can download the audio file from our website at any time as from tomorrow morning. As well as this month’s file you can also download the files for the previous five months. If you do listen via the audio file, would you please take a moment to email some feedback to us. Once again, check the website for your local transmission schedule, tune in tomorrow or download the file for the June bulletin, and we look forward to hearing your call sign in the call backs afterwards. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT While there are many sites which offer space weather forecasts, Summerland Amateur Radio Club's weekly newsletter looks at some software simplifying predictions to give a prediction for a particular path and frequency. The link for the webpage is https://soundbytes.asia/proppy/p2p The path you want is selected on the world map with a simple drag and drop for TX and RX location SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - WORLD WIDE FLOA AND FAUNA (parks) PROGRAM https://www.wwffaustralia.com/ New references for World Flora Fauna to be activated M 0 PAI will be active from the 1st to the 8th of June on the Isle of Lewis/Harris, IOTA reference EU-010, Isle of Skye, as MM 0 PAI/p. He will be active all week on 80m to 2m, including 4m SSB, and FT8. New references for World Flora Fauna will be activated, there will be WAB references up for grabs and possible SOTA activations. If you are in VK7, there is a SOTA and WWFF Parks and Reserves Group meeting from 10:30am on Monday and Friday At Glebe Gardens Cafe, 166 Henry St, Launceston. (rsgb and vvk7an in vk7wi news) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* REWIND, I'M JOHN KNOX VK4FJRK 175th Anniversary of Morse Code Newsweek reports Morse Code is 175 years old and still as useful as ever The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington D.C. to Baltimore on Friday May 24, 1844 thats some 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human history that complex thoughts could be communicated at long distances almost instantaneously. Until then, people had to have face-to-face conversations; send coded messages through drums, smoke signals and semaphore systems; or read printed words. Thanks to Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. He invented the electric telegraph in 1832. It took six more years for him to standardize a code for communicating over telegraph wires. In 1843, the US Congress gave him $30,000 to string wires between that nation’s capital and nearby Baltimore. When the line was completed, he conducted a public demonstration of long-distance communication. There is a thriving community of amateur radio operators who treasure Morse code, too. Among amateur radio operators, Morse code is a cherished tradition tracing back to the earliest days of radio. Read the full story at the link we like, in this weeks WIA national news, best read on wia.org.au I'm John Knox, VK4FJRK https://www.newsweek.com/morse-code-175-years-old-useful-1432418 2019 Social Scene VK2 Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Field Day June 8 and 9 (vk2zhe) The Club’s 44th annual Field Day will be held at the Wauchope Showground hall next weekend on Saturday and Sunday 8 and 9 of June, during the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend being held in VK2. There will be all the usual field day activities including foxhunting and a homebrew display. Breakfast and lunch will be available from the barbeque on both days. The Field Day dinner will be held at the Port Macquarie Golf Club on the Saturday night. The Wauchope Showground permits camping so it is possible to stay on site in your own motor home, caravan or tent with power and amenities but you must book ahead. Details are on the Wauchope Showground website http://www.wauchopeshowsociety.com.au/camping.html (Henry VK2ZHE on behalf of Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Inc.) 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) WW - JOTA 2019 Friday 18th, Sat 19 & Sunday 20 October (vk2gx) 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. This team is meeting regularly and are looking forward to seeing you in Bendigo. Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to nationalnews@wia.org.au and don't JUST send url's links or posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution. 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