JULY 28 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 JULY 28 2019 IN OUR 24th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA IMMEADIATE PAST PRESIDENT JUSTIN VK7TW LOOKS BACK AT GIPPSTECH 2019 THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 2019 AND FOR WEEK OF JULY 28 2019 Again I'll start this week’s news with a matter of 'housekeeping.' HOW TO GET MATERIAL INTO NEWS We much prefer your own audio to accompany any script you send. ALL DETAILS ON AUDIO BIT RATES ETC AND HOW TO FILE ARE ON http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/ Then click the Contributors Upload Area. Now in some 14 years of operation seldom a 'hick-up' UNTIL this week so when you are listening to this news IF your material is NOT heard it's no doubt to all emails to @wia addresses went into a big 'google' rubbish bin it would appear. You'll recall some 12-18 months back we made mention of a WIA committee charged with updating our service and switching to google docs, well some changes this week did take place, but it resulted in a 'dead letter' office.. nothing came to national news and it wasn't discovered until Felix, who provides our operational news each week dropped me a personal FaceBook message. We then had Robert Broomhead on the case and he organised to have the 'changes group' roll back the system, BUT , unfortunately the damage was done...hence we MAY end up with a super short news. We have no news from the President and or Directors this week and the following story I'll read although we were expecting audio in from Chris, vk3fy. EDUCATION The VE Exams Australia Session held for the first time in Osborne Park, Perth this month was a success. As there is a requirement for three Volunteer Examiners to be in attendance at any exam session the following ARRL Volunteer Examiners Chris VK3FY / W3YM, Nik VK3FE / K3FV and Di VK4DI /AG5JI had flown in to run to the session. Four local candidates had registered to take their exams. The final outcome of the exam session, was that one new technician, one new general and two new extra class licences will be issued to the candidates. All candidates were already licenced VK6 amateurs. These candidates have all expressed an interest in becoming Volunteers Examiners, and lengthy discussions took place after the exam session on this very topic by all the candidates. Additional discussions relating to the integrity of exam sessions (having three VE present), the uncomplicated exam process, and the fact the results are known immediately concluding each exam element. VE Exams Australia will be conducting another session in VK6 in the near the future. Interested in sitting a US licence exam and in VK3? Next Victoria Exam Session will be held at Eastern & Mountain District Radio Club on AUGUST 10 This has been Chris VK3FY/W3YM for the VK1WIA National News Broadcast NOW TO A GIPPSTECH SUMMARY, WRITTEN BY VK7TW AND READ BY VK7FB FOR VK7WI NEWS GippsTech 2019 was held the 12th to the 14th of July and was attended by a record number of VK7s. Those attending were Rex VK7MO, Justin VK7TW, Richard VK7ZBX, Murray VK7ZMS, Larry VK7WLH and Hayden VK7HH. The weekend was cold and wet but the presentations were inspiring as usual starting with David VK5KK, Iain VK5ZD and Tim VK5ZT and their 5800km Epic Microwave DXPedition. This was a humorous presentation of the trip up through Victoria, NSW, Queensland and South Australia over 12 days. They took every microwave band up to 122GHz and made many contacts with the locals in the area and set a few records along the way. Then the Doug McArthur VK3UM (SK) award for last year's best presentation went to Jim VK1AT and Alan VK3XPD. Microwave Enthusiasts Award went to Stefan VK4CSD. Coffee break and some nice goodies from Brian VK3YNG - thanks Brian. David Smith VK3HZ then gave us a presentation on his experiments on an Azimuth finder. This uses the Real Time Kinematics (RTK) Carrier Phase tracking feature, available in some GPS modules, and communicates between the modules using the 900MHz ISM band. It uses the NEO-M8P - C94-M8P02 evaluation kits and with a 3 to 4 metre baseline it gives 0.2 degrees accuracy and better than 0.1m with a baseline greater than 5 metres. This was used in ZL by Rex VK7MO for extending the 10GHz EME world record. Mark Spooner VK5AVQ gave a wonderful presentation on Non-Ionising / RF Radiation Safety. Mark's presentation simplified the elements of the ARPANSA RPS3 standards and how to interpret and apply these standards in amateur radio scenarios. The comment was that this would normally be a 5 day course that was condensed into 45 minutes! Great work Mark. Peter Schrader, VK4EA, a first time presenter, gave a fascinating talk on the way that VK4RBB derives its frequencies for all the microwave beacons up to 10GHz, by some interesting mixing of base GPS locked frequencies and mixing them all the way up to 10GHz. We then enjoyed a yummy lunch. The first presentation after lunch was Dale Hughes VK1DSH with an automatic satellite ground station for satellite telemetry reception. Dale has been experimenting with the Fox and FUNcube satellites and how to use their respective data capture, logging and upload applications. Dale has also built a nifty azimuth controller for his yagi which is fixed at 45 degrees. This system uses an Arduino, magnetometer and some control circuitry. Dale has also built a nice user interface using NatSemi's LabView development environment. Justin VK7TW then presented the next instalment of his 10GHz Microwave adventure covering the updating of the White Box transverter to a GPS Locked ZLPLL, low noise preamp and 3watt Power Amplifier. Peter Pokorny VK2EMR then gave a most humorous outline of how we end up with the Leap Second and the Status of UTC. This started as a very serious expose' of what leap seconds were and why they are needed and then a bureaucratic nightmare of Utopian size developed with more and more organisations becoming involved. Peter then referred to his book of acronyms to decode and display some of the key relationships from the spaghetti diagram. A most entertaining presentation. A coffee break with more raffle tickets and goodies! Rex Moncur VK7MO then presented how he and the ZL team extended the 10 GHz EME World Record from ZL to the United Kingdom. The talk covered how Rex managed to get a 1.13m dish from Australia to ZL in suitcase! Roger Harrison VK2ZRH took the audience through an interesting presentation on the mechanisms of sunspots and the conveyor belt that powers the sun and creates and presents sunspots. The important question was pondered, namely "Are We There, Yet?" with a bottomed out sunspot cycle and the scientists are still unsure and much of the current thinking was presented. We wrapped up the day and retired to a nice dinner at the Morwell Club. On Sunday the first presentation was given by another first timer at GippsTech, George McLucas, VK4AMG, entitled "GPS Disciplined Frequency Reference, traps for Young and Not So Young Players". George took the audience through some thought provoking aspects of building a GPS Disciplined Oscillator and many of the things you need to take into account. This included the errors when generating a frequency, overcoming those errors and some other factors that need to be addressed. George then took the audience through his development of his frequency generators for a range of rigs and how they can be GPS Disciplined. Our last coffee break and last chance for raffle tickets, goodies and books from Pages of Cobram, thanks to Peter VK3FPSR. Tim VK5ZT then gave a quick talk on the 3.4GHz panel documentation that he has created which runs to over 60 pages about the panels and their modification and this is available on the EARC.org.au website. Glen English VK1XX then presented the issues with the ICOM IC-9700 and stability and showed his work on developing an oscillator that can be GPS Disciplined for the IC-9700 to improve the stability of the rig for narrow band weak signal work on the microwave bands. Another GippsTech first timer presenter, Wayne Pearson, VK5APN, gave an entertaining presentation on Grid squares which then lead into his experiments with an independent location finder that gives a range of data including Maidenhead to 10 digits. Justin VK7TW finished up the presentations with a K3NG based AZ/EL GPS rotator for 10 GHz EME. This showed the applications and the equipment along with the ease of configuring. Pictures showed the Arduino based controller including GPS module that can be used to determine your location and the CCTV AZ/EL based mount to track the sun and moon. We then retired to the common room for the raffle draw before enjoying pizza and heading in many different directions following, another enjoyable GippsTech. (WRITTEN BY VK7TW READ BY VK7FB FOR VK7WI NEWS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. INDIA 48 students and two teachers at the Telangana State Model School have passed their amateur radio exams Debunking the myth that amateur radio operation is confined to cities, two teachers and 48 students in Gundlapally village, near Dindi reservoir, cleared the Amateur Station Operator Certificate (ASOC) restricted grade examination recently. Gundlapally is a village whose nearest city is Hyderabad in India The Central government is expected to issue the licences to them in a week or so. Once the licences are received by them, they plan to approach the District Collector for financial support for setting up a HAM radio club in their school. Read the full story at telanganatoday.com/telangana-state-model-school-students-teachers-get-ham-licenses DUTCH RESISTANCE Netherlands communications regulator, Agentschap Telecom (AT), has given a rather disappointing response to the call by Dutch radio amateurs for the 144-146 MHz band to be protected France has submitted a proposal to CEPT for the ITU WRC-23 conference which could see the key amateur band being allocated to the Aeronautical Mobile Service. The Netherland's national society VERON reports: "In a first response to the letter, Agentschap Telecom indicates that France's proposal fits in with Dutch frequency policy. The basic principle here is that joint use and shared use of frequency space is encouraged." "The National Preparation Committee still needs to meet on this to decide on the proposal from France. Agentschap Telecom indicates that it is necessary to take a good look at the actual use and to have insight into the compatibility." The VERON report can be read in Google English at https://tinyurl.com/NetherlandsVERON UNITED KINGDOM Bletchley Park and the NRC If you are heading to the UK shortly, where can you take youngsters that's fun, educational and free? Bletchley Park, the former top-secret home of Britain's Codebreakers, is now a vibrant museum and has a packed calendar of interactive exhibitions and events that tell the story of this historic site. Engineering challenges, codebreaking games and immersive displays are just some of the fun summer activities on offer. For a full list of What's On visit the Bletchley Park website https://bletchleypark.org.uk. Don't forget RSGB Members can download a free entry voucher and you can always visit the RSGB National Radio Centre whilst you are there. Bring your licence and you can operate the permanent special event station GB3RS. PERU IARU Region 2 reports new Amateur Radio regulations have come into effect in Peru. Novices are no longer forced to upgrade within 3 years but can stay in that category until they make the decision to upgrade. Another important point is the allocation of bands for the Novice category. In these new regulations, radio amateurs can use the entire 2-meter and 70-cm bands, which promotes experimentation and satellite communications. Finally, it is important to point out that these new regulations don’t limit the use of the different transmission modes by category, as it was before. On the contrary, they indicate that radio amateurs can use all current or FUTURE transmission modes, regardless of their license category. iaru-r2.org/ USA ARRL has announced the release of its 2018 Annual Report to members. The 2018 Annual Report was created by the ARRL editorial staff under the direction of QST Managing Editor, Becky Schoenfeld, W1BXY. In his message to members, ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, said “new generation” hams engage with Amateur Radio in a very different way than hams of his generation. “Through extensive research, we’ve learned that they come to Amateur Radio hoping to learn how to use it in aid of their communities and for enhancing the fun they’re already having while camping, hiking, or doing other outdoor activities,” President Roderick said. “We’ve also learned that they’ve been discouraged by the difficulty of finding information and help that would allow them to get involved.” He said ARRL has turned its attention toward those hams over the past year, and he directed readers to read about ARRL’s new Lifelong Learning Department, which, he said, “will create learning materials for Amateur Radio enthusiasts at all levels of knowledge — but especially for the beginners.” In our final story this week, the roles became reversed for one ham club in Tennessee as the public stepped up to help the group recover their stolen communications trailer. Jim Damron N8TMW from Amateur Radio Newsline tells us more. JIM: Usually, it's the amateur radio communications trailer that saves the day in its public service role, passing critical information during power failures, tumultuous weather and even during major outdoor events and Field Day. Recently, however, it was the public who helped save the day for one such trailer. Members of the Chattanooga Amateur Radio Club in Tennessee told police their trailer had been stolen either the night of July 4th or in the early hours of July 5th. It had been parked outside a club member's business in a securely fenced-in area. Club president Gary Ownsby AK4ZX told Newsline that local media, social media, other clubs and the public quickly put word out and a police report was made. Gary said he was bowled over when the response came in from hams across many states. WRCB-TV aired a story, asking viewers to help. On July 7th, the trailer was found - one mile away - with its tires deflated. The hams and the sharp-eyed community are now looking for its missing equipment: two HF radios, a D-STAR radio, two generators and other gear. Anyone who thinks they've seen any of it being sold is asked to telephone the club at 423-308-3477. Gary said: {quote} "Looking at the "lemonade" side of this whole situation, the goodwill our club has received from our local community and media, social media, ham clubs, and individual hams has been spectacular and heart-warming." {endquote} We wish them luck in their recovery efforts. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron N8TMW. --------------------------------------------------------------------* 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 RSGB IOTA Contest July 27-28th VK Remembrance Day Contest is August 17-18 -------------- A team of American operators will activate St Paul Island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada from 31st July – 8th August. St Paul Island is a separate entity for the DXCC Award and the callsign to be used is CY 9 C. Activity will be on all bands CW, SSB and FT8. -------------- Geoff ZL3GA is wirelessing as YJ 0 GA from Vanuatu till 3rd August. He hopes to be on all bands CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via the home call, ZL3GA -------------- SP 3 PS is QRV from his holiday home in the Gambia till 5th August. His Gambian callsign is C 5 SP and he operates 20 – 6m on SSB and FT8. QSL via the home call, SP3PS -------------- Sven HB 9 DXB will be in Vietnam signing XV 9 DXB until at least early August. Look for him on 7019 and 14019 CW. QSL manager is EB 7 DX. -------------- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WIRELESS WEATHER Radiation doubles around the Moon A NASA radiation sensor in orbit around the Moon has detected a doubling of cosmic rays, making 2019 one of the worst years of the Space Age for astronauts to travel into deep space. What's going on up there? The solar cycle is to blame. Visit the July 18 edition of Spaceweather.com for the full story. (SouthGate) THE QNEWS WORK BENCH - the nuts and volts report – Measure Twice cut Once. Ian G3YWX, the editor of Electronics Notes ( https://www.electronics-notes.com ) has written of some facts behind Sporadic E, one on the most interesting forms of propagation As the name indicates it occurs sporadically and many of the mechanisms behind it are not well understood. Sporadic E arises when clouds of intense ionisation occur in the E region of the ionosphere. Initially these will affect the lower frequency bands, and it can produce openings on 10 metres and as the frequency rises, 6 metres, 4 metres and occasionally 2 metres may be affected. When 2 metres is affected, openings are often quite short - an hour or two is long, but openings of a few minutes only are known. During the course of an opening the direction of the propagation can change significantly as the ionisation clouds are blown about by the winds in the upper atmosphere. Find out more about this mysterious form of radio propagation that can be used to good effect on many of the HF and VHF amateur bands: electronics-notes.com/articles/antennas-propagation/ionospheric/sporadic-e-es.php )SouthGate) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com qdg.org.au Watch for ISS, SSTV Activity ARISS SSTV activity is planned for various times during the week of July 29 through Aug 4. As more specific dates and times are determined, they will be made available at the ARISS website ( ariss.org ) and at the official ARISS FaceBook page at Amateur Radio On The International Space Station). [ANS] 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 MP uses Morse code to wish happy birthday to GCHQ The Irish News report morse code sounded in the Commons as an MP wished happy birthday to a British intelligence agency. Conservative MP Alex Chalk held his phone up to a microphone in the chamber to allow the long and short beeps spelling out the message to be heard. It was aimed at GCHQ, which is based in his Cheltenham constituency, as it marks its 100th anniversary. The Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Based in "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School and was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park, where it was responsible for breaking of the German Enigma codes. Concluding his speech, Mr Chalk said: “GCHQ’s centenary just so happens to coincide with the 175th anniversary of the first use of Morse code to send a message between cities. So it’s therefore perhaps fitting I should conclude with a message to GCHQ in the form of Morse code." Read the full story and watch the video at: irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2019/07/11/news/mp-uses-morse-code-to-wish-happy-birthday-to-gchq-1661456/?param=ds441rif44T (SouthGate and vk4bb) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER ZS 50 MOON ACTIVE 31 JULY A South African station this commemorate this special moon walk anniversary but it's using various satellites. (Oscar 100, AO-91, AO-92, SO-50 and possibly more) as ZS 50 MOON. Check out their twitter feed for updates on when the station will be active and on what bird, twitter.com/zs50moon Speaking of the Moon, recently WIA Immediate Past President VK7TW Justin was interviewed for ABC Radio Horsham Victoria about the Ray Norton VK3ATN moon bounce on 2m back in 1966. (SARL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FT4 and FT8 Cuban FT8 user CO8LY records more than 60 000 contacts Cuban radio amateur Eduardo, CO 8 LY has made more than 60 000, yes, sixty thousand FT8 contacts, and requested applications for many awards and diplomas using the log of his FT8 contacts.. This may be a Guinness Record of a single radio amateur receiving more than 220 awards and diplomas, and more are coming, WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA www.iota-world.org Arctic IOTA Activity Gets Under Way As temperatures rise to 26 °C, Martti Laine, OH2BH, reports that activity from some Arctic Circle islands has begun. This includes OJ 9 A from Kataja/Inakari (EU-192) and OH 9 A from Lapland Islands (Selka-Sarvi — EU-126). The two islands, located in the Tornio River delta, will be active July 24 – 29, including during the Islands on the Air (IOTA) Contest this weekend. Only two islands are split between Finland and Sweden: Market Reef (EU-053) and Kataja/Inakari (EU-192), which enjoy unique statuses in the DXCC and IOTA programs. Contacts with OJ 9 A will also count toward the Market Reef Jubilee Marathon. In parallel with OJ9A and OH9A, Market Reef (OJ 0 DX) will be activated by a team of German, Swedish, and Finnish radio amateurs. This weekend sees the RSGB's IOTA Contest and many 'rarer' ones have 'hit the beaches.' PX8R from the Island of Curuca ( WW Loc. GI69ck ) July 26-28th. Island Code SA-060 will be active and it's the first time this particular island has been activated and the Team looks forward to seeing you in their logs during the RSGB IOTA Contest. Again, the call to call is P X 8 R 9M8RC OC-165. This is active from Satang Besar Island during the RSGB IOTA Contest (July 27-28th) as a Multi-Single entry. QSL via 9 W 8 KIF direct. SA-029 active with ZZ 1 R from Ilha dos Ratos (Rats Island) during the Contest and QSL via PY2AE, by the Bureau. (sourced to SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ILLW https://illw.net/ ILLW nears 300 entrants Entries for the 2019 International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend are nearing the 300 mark with recent rarer entries from Serbia, Malaysia, Cuba, Hawaii, Market Reef and Mexico. SouthGate Amateur Radio news in the UK say one lighthouse having its first activation in the event is in Bass Strait, Australia and is situated on Deal Island. This body of water is between the mainland and Tasmania and is notoriously dangerous for shipping. The lighthouse was built in 1848 but has been inactive since 1992. This historic light was built by the joint efforts of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania to help ships through the dangerous Kent Group, a scattering of small islands and rocks at the eastern end of Bass Strait. The call to listen for is VK3ILH 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 High school students in Brazil are building a ground station for the amateur radio transponder on the QO-100 geostationary satellite as part of a STEM education project A group of eight students São Paulo, are participating in all steps of the project with the help of teachers and amateur radio volunteers The station consists of a 1.2m offset dish antenna, an Amiko L-104 LNBF, a home-made bias-t, a RTL-SDR receiver and SDRsharp software running on a dedicated computer. During the project students were exposed to several STEM topics related to radio communications, antennas, software defined radios, geostationary orbits as well as hand-on activities during the station assembly and configuration. (SouthGate) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 2019 Social Scene VK4 - Sunshine Coast Amateur Radios Sun-Fest 9AM, Saturday Sept 14 @ Woombye School of Arts. (vk4an) 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) VK3 - ROSEBUD RADIOFEST November 17 (wia) 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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