OCTOBER 27 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 OCTOBER 27 2019 IN OUR 24th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA Conference Weekend 2020 Billeting. - WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ re WRC-19. - WIA GRID SQUARE AWARDS, Graham Alston VK3GA, for Award Committee. - WIA PRESIDENT Greg VK2GPK with this week’s comment from the Board. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA AND FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 27 2019 Not a WIA Member? details email nationaloffice@wia.org.au OR the link on bottom right of wia.org.au https://wia.memnet.com.au/MemberSelfService/NewMemberForm/WIA/NewMemberForm.aspx WIA Conference Weekend 2020 Billeting & Keynotes The organising committee of the WIA Conference Weekend 2020 took to the air last weekend during the VK7WI local news looking for expressions of interest from Southern VK7 amateurs and families who would be prepared to billet people during the weekend of 8-10 May 2020. If you are a VK7 ham this is a great way to show Tasmanian hospitality for Conference attendees and help reduce the cost of the visit. It is also a great way to meet people who you may only talk with on the radio. email wia2020conference@gmail.com. The WIA Annual Conference 2020 is being held in Hobart at the Best Western Hotel and the theme is Antarctic Gateway. The weekend features many visits and tours of Antarctic related locations and museums. The presentations on the Saturday afternoon are coming together with a great focus on Antarctica and radio and can be viewed on the WIA website. WIA President Greg will have more on the AGM in his Board Comment this week. https://www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/2020agm/ Now to WIA Secretary Peter:- Good morning this is Peter VK8ZZ Dale VK1DSH has been nominated by the Wireless Institute of Australia to attend the ITU World Radio Conference in 2019 (WRC-19) at Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. The WRC-19 conference is to be held over 1 month. Dale will be assisted by Peter VK2EMR. Dale has had extensive experience in representing the WIA at international events and the Board are pleased that Dale and Peter have been able to make themselves available for this important event. Dale will depart Australia tomorrow for Egypt and is expected to arrive around mid-night on Saturday. Peter Pokorny has already departed and is currently in Shanghai at the CISPR meeting, after which he will travel to Sharm El Sheik and should arrive late on Saturday. WRC-19 starts on Monday with various formalities and we expect that the first of the drafting groups will start on Tuesday or more likely Wednesday. We'll do our best our best to keep you up-to-date. WRC-19 has a number of Agenda Items that are relevant to the amateur and amateur satellite services. Most attention by amateurs is likely to be focussed on the prospect of harmonising the 50 MHz allocation, but several other topics are included which concern and potentially threaten amateur activities. Detail are available on the WIA web site. We will keep our members informed of developments from WRC-19 This has been peter VK8ZZ Saudi Arabia and Seychelles Join IARU The IARU member-societies have voted to admit the Saudi Amateur Radio Society (SARS) and Seychelles Amateur Radio Association (SARA) to membership. SARS was founded on 25 June 2018 and is legally registered/recognized to represent the amateurs of Saudi Arabia. As of January 2019 there were 66 members out of a total of 479 licensed radio amateurs in the country. SARS maintains a website at arsr.sa/en/. SARA was founded in December 2018 and was registered with the Seychelles government on 31 December. SARA has six members, two of whom are licensed. It is believed that there are four licensed amateurs in Seychelles, a number that SARA hopes to increase. Saudi Arabia and Seychelles are located in ITU Region 1 which also corresponds to IARU Region 1. Their IARU membership became effective on 9 October 2019 upon completion of the voting procedure set out in the IARU Constitution. The WIA DX Awards Committee is pleased to announce the very popular GRID SQUARE Award is being re-launched. Improvements to the award include endorsements, standings, and a new modern certificate which recognises the world-wide nature of this award. The GRID SQUARE Award is available as recognition of the appropriate number of confirmed contacts with Amateur Radio stations in Grid Squares. Its purpose is to stimulate interest in the IARU grid-square system. The ARRL also runs an annual "International Grid Chase". The world is divided into 324 grids, each divided into 100 squares. This gives a total of 32,400 possible GRID SQUARES. Of course, many of these are in the middle of the world’s oceans, so the actual number of workable grid squares is much smaller. Individual WIA GRID SQUARE Awards, together with endorsements, are available for HF, 6M, 2M, 70cm, 23cm, and SHF. Current grid square counts will be displayed in a Standing list. Full details can be found on wia.org.au under the 'For Members' dropdown menu - select 'WIA DX Awards' http://www.wia.org.au/members/wiadxawards/gridsquare/ Graham Alston, VK3GA, on behalf of the Award Committee Board Comment March 2019-10-26 Hello, this is Greg VK2GPK with this week’s comment from the WIA Board. First off a quick reminder that the WIA Convention for 2020 is being held in Hobart, Tasmania starting Friday, May 8th through Sunday May 10th. Note unlike previous years, the convention will start on the Friday morning rather than the Friday evening, the AGM will be on the Saturday morning as usual. More details will be in AR Magazine very soon. So save the date, and hopefully spend a few more days in Tasmania – it is a great time of the year to be there. It is a once a year opportunity, I am sure you won’t be disappointed. So get planning. Hopefully we will see you, and maybe your partner at the WIA convention. If you haven’t yet been to a WIA Convention / AGM, you will never know what you are missing One of the big news items from the very recent Licence Condition (LCD) changes by the ACMA was to allow Foundation licence holders the ability to use digital modes, which had previously only been available to Standard and Advanced licence holders. This was a long overdue change, but a welcome one nevertheless – and it brings Australia into line with other jurisdictions for entry level licences e.g. UK Foundation licence. In the WIA joint submission – submitted in conjunction with ALARA, ARNSW and ARVIC - to the ACMA prior to the release of the LCD changes it was noted that the foundation licence call sign at 7 characters was too long for a number of digital modes, being incompatible with the software utilized for these modes. This is due to the 4 character suffix on the callsign, i.e VK3FRED. Any solution to this problem involves allowing foundation licences holders a callsign of 6 characters. There are a few ways to achieve this, some better than others. The WIA LCD submission, in the appendix, described the solution preferred by the WIA which is simply to allow foundation licence holders to apply for a new 6 character callsign, in the current standard format. i.e VKNxxx. Once upon a time, in a galaxy not that far away, using a letter “block” such as Zxx, Yxx and of course Fxxx was the only feasible way to identify licence class– but today there is no technical reason whatsoever to do so – as it takes only a few seconds to look up on the ACMA database, if for some reason you really want to know ….. There are a number of advantages of this approach to cease the use of a letter “block” for licence demarcation. It allows new amateurs to have a callsign for life, and not to have to change as they progress from Foundation to Standard to Advanced. It also removes the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) discrimination that has been reported by many foundation licence holders from a small number of higher licence class holders – such as not responding to their CQ calls, or accusing them of running illegal power levels, simply because they have a strong signal. And it is easy to implement, as the processes and application forms already exist. Note that standard licence holders would also gain access to any callsign. The other alternatives that have been proposed are: To allocate the Q “block” such as VK7Qxx, but this isn’t feasible as there are simply not enough available callsigns (26 multiplied by 26) for the more populous states. It also may be confused with the Q code. The other is to allocate a new prefix instead of VK, such as VJ. This works, but the implementation is somewhat messy compared to “any licence class, any callsign’ approach, and there will be on-air confusion for some time as to what VJ refers to. However, it would be preferable to the “Q block” approach, but it is still a “workaround” and viewed by the WIA as sub-optimal. It also precludes use of the AX prefix for special events due to potential callsign overlap. This is the RASA proposed solution. So, how do we get the ACMA to fix this problem that impacts the digital modes for Foundation licences and get an optimal solution. Especially when they have suggested the “Q block” as their solution. So, it is survey time again. The WIA, jointly in conjunction other amateur organisations, will be issuing a link via email to the survey to their members. This survey has only a few simple questions, such as your current licence class and preferred solution. It will describe the proposed viable solutions and their pluses and minuses. We hope the link to this survey will be sent soon, as early as this coming week, assuming everything goes to plan. We look forward to your feedback from the survey, and ultimate resolution of this issue. The survey will be open for a number of weeks. This is Greg 2GPK for the WIA Board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. JAPAN World and generations connected by amateur radio The JARL reports Tokyo's Amateur Radio Ham Fair 2019 welcomed a total of 42,000 visitors in just two days. This was the highest number of visitors since it became a two day event JG1KTC says ' We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the visitors, exhibitors, and everyone involved. A lot of amateur radio operators from all over the world participated and enjoyed various exhibitions and events in the venue and exchanges with Japanese amateur radio operators. Towards the Olympic and Paralympic Year, international communication and mutual understanding may have further deepened due to the common hobby of amateur radio. In addition, the admission for youth (under 22 years old) and women was free this year, so many friends from school, club activities, and female amateur radio enthusiasts also visited. In addition, many OMs attended with children and grandchildren. SOUTH AFRICA Crackdown on pirate radio stations The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has shut down a number of community-run radio stations across the country These radio stations were broadcasting without a valid licence. The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) – a member-run group advocating for community radio – released a statement which criticised ICASA’s decision to shut down community radios stations saying "It is risky for media freedom and diversity in South Africa.” The NCRF demanded that ICASA rescind its decision to shut down these radio stations and that the government spend at least 30% of its advertising budget to support community media. Read the full story at https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/324282-crackdown-on-pirate-radio-stations-in-south-africa.html SOUTH AFRICA Largest ever South African delegation attends WRC-19 SARL News reports the largest ever delegation to attend the ITU World Radio Conference in Egypt At the last WRC-19 Industry Preparatory meeting held prior to WRC-19 Mr Sono of the Department of Telecommunication and Postal Service and convener of the group, said he was pleased that the SARL position has become an Africa position. He said it is important to support Amateur Radio in South Africa and on the African continent. POLAND Further Electromagnetic Field restrictions in Poland? Poland's Health Ministry is reported to be working on a draft regulation that is feared will set new restrictions on levels of electromagnetic fields (EMF), this appears to have arisen due to misguided concerns about 5G A translation of a post by national amateur radio society PZK says: 'The Ministry of Health is working on a draft regulation that will set new standards for acceptable levels of electromagnetic fields. These standards are important, among others in the context of the development of telecommunications networks, especially the planned 5G network." The 5G network (fifth generation telecommunications network) is an intensively developed telecommunications standard. It is to enable fifty- or even a hundred-fold increase in transmission speed compared to current 4G networks. The European Commission wants member countries to have broad coverage of the 5G network by 2025. According to the Commission, by 2020 the 5G network will be available on a commercial basis for at least one large city in each member country. Polish standards on EMF are already one of the most stringent in Europe . NORWAY Domestic Radio/TV Licence fee removed For many years the licence fee in Norway has been linked to ownership of a television. This will all change from 2020. The licence fee has been unpopular, because every household has to pay the same amount no matter what income they have. Financing over the State Budget means that everyone will pay for NRK relative to income and how much taxes they pay. In recent years fewer people in Norway has bought and owned a television, because many Norwegians, especially young people, no longer watch linear TV and instead uses a laptop or a mobile. Hence fewer people has paid for NRK. SCOTTISH MICROWAVE ENTHUSIASTS HOST ROUND TABLE In Scotland, there'll be a little bit of competition but mostly a whole lot of discussion during the Scottish microwave Round Table. The 'Table', has a full agenda for its programme on the 2nd November. In addition to talks on topics such as microwave Earth-Moon-Earth and Software-Defined Radios for portable microwave operation, as always there will be a construction competition. The winner gets to claim the GM4LBV Trophy. The trophy winner will then advance to the UK Microwave Group G3VVB trophy competition. This is the ninth Round Table meeting and it will be held at the Museum of Communications in Fife. gmroundtable.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT ‘Flynn of Moliagul’, special event callsign VI3FLYNN. I’m Graeme, VK3GRK from Bendigo……and now to an update on the special event callsign VI3FLYNN, commemorating the new $20 note featuring Rev John Flynn, born at Moliagul, Central Victoria in 1880. John Flynn was the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. VI3FLYNN will be available until this Tuesday October 29th. An electronic QSL card is available. Look up VI3FLYNN on the qrz.com website for operating times, frequencies and QSL information. https://www.qrz.com/lookup/vi3flynn All major Australian contests, rules and results, are on the Contest Section of the WIA website. wia.org.au/members/contests/about The CQ WW DX SSB Contest CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves on the last weekend of October (SSB this weekend) and November (CW next weekend) with the goal of making as many contacts, with as many different DXCC entities and CQ Zones, as possible. The CQ WW DX SSB Contest runs from 00:01 UTC on Saturday 26 October to 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday 27 October with activity on 160 to 10 meters. The exchange is an RS report and your CQ Zone. Find all the information about this contest at cqww.com/rules.htm (SouthGate) -------------- VHF/UHF/Microwave Spring Field Day The Spring VHF/UHF Field Day is coming up on the 23rd and 24th of November. Why not take some time and think about dusting off the VHF/UHF gear and see who you can contact? There will be quite a number of fellow 'hammers' out and about in a few locations and they would love to make a contact with you, but you don’t have to go portable to participate. Logging is easy as many of the logging programs will be aware of this contest and do all the point calculations. There will be activity from 6M all the way up to 3cm. Why not look at building a new antenna for one of the VHF bands and see how far you can reach. There are sections for 8 Hours, for 24 Hours, Single or multiple operator stations so plenty of options. (Sourced to VK7ZBX in VK7 News) -------------- It's been a long hard process but the 2M repeater VK2RBB (146.625MHz, -600 offset, 123 tone) is back on air. This project has been led by Rob VK2ELH for over 5 years and taken countless hours of work by Rob and his team. There's no exact record of the hours taken but there have been many hundreds and probably a few thousand hours in this project. The pay-off for all that hard work? The joy in the voices of operators to the North and East in particular who can now talk to the rest of Summerland after about seven years of silence. -------------- DMR Repeater VK3RWV is now online and servicing the Local Government Area of The City of Warrnambool. Details for accessing the repeater including frequencies can be found on its QRZ.COM page at https://www.qrz.com/db/vk3rwv DMR Repeater VK 3 RWV is now online and servicing the Local Government Area of The City of Warrnambool. Details for accessing the repeater including frequencies can be found on its QRZ.COM page qrz.com/db/vk3rwv Steve and Donna, VK3VM-3LDY thank lots of folk for their assistance with regards to getting this device online including ACMA and DMR-MARC networking team. Special words of thanks must be offered to those within our Amateur community who have assisted with resources and to Peter VK3TE and the DMR-MARC networking team. -------------- A group of Czech operators are on the Columbian island of San Andres until the 27th October. The callsign is 5 K 0 K and they are on all bands 160 – 10m. San Andres counts as a separate country for DXCC and as NA-033 for the IOTA award and QSLs go via Club Log OQRS. -------------- Willi DJ7RJ is workin' on the wireless again as FH/DJ7RJ from Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean until the 4th of November. He is all banding but as usual will concentrate on the low bands, in particular 160m. QSL to his home call, DJ7RJ -------------- A multi-national team is signing VP6R from Pitcairn Island till 1st November. All bands, all modes. QSL via Club Log OQRS. Pitcairn Island was where the mutineers from HMS Bounty made their home in 1790. -------------- Yosuke JJ1DQR is on air from Da Nang in Vietnam until November 1. He will operate as 3W9QR mainly on SSB on 40 – 6m. QSLs go via his home call, again that's JJ 1 DQR. (IRTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* MEDIA WATCH Hold The Presses:- ARRL is launching a new magazine, On the Air, in January 2020. To be published on a bimonthly basis, On the Air will offer new and beginner-to-intermediate-level radio amateurs a fresh approach to exploring radio communication. Each issue will include advice and insights on topics from the variety of Amateur Radio interests and activities: radio technology, operating, equipment, project building, and emergency communication. The goal of this new magazine is to be a vital resource in helping new and newer radio amateurs get active and involved in radio communications. All ARRL members, including members here in VK, will be able to access digital editions of On the Air and members who already access QST on the web or from the mobile app will be able to access QST and On the Air starting in January. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS FAITH. For youngsters who might be asking "Amateur radio, what's that?" One outdoor event in South Carolina provided them with an answer. Last weekend, the same weekend that the world's largest Scouting event, Jamboree on the Air, was being held for boys and girls everywhere, members of the Blue Ridge Amateur Radio Society in South Carolina got a unique opportunity to introduce young boys in another organization to amateur radio. Club members supported an outdoor activity known as the Upstate Trail Life Camporee, organized by Trail Life USA, a faith-based organization that encourages character development and mentoring. The radio club notes on its website that the organization does not yet have a program for ham radio -- and the club hopes that its first involvement with this event last week will lead to the growth of one. (ARNewsLine) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER SpaceX is seeking approval to add up to 30,000 more satellites to its Starlink broadband network, on top of 12,000 spacecraft already authorized by U.S. government regulators, according to filings submitted to the International Telecommunication Union. Possibly related to that news item, LeoLabs announced that they plan to build four additional radar installations for tracking space debris. Their current installations can track objects down to about a 10 cm diameter, but with their new installations they’ll theoretically be able to track objects as small as 2 cm but still won’t see the 128 million objects from 1 mm to 1 cm, which have the potential to disable or completely destroy a satellite. (ANS) CubeSat Simulators Launched Dr. Alan Johnston, KU2Y, Vice President - Educational Affairs has announced the general availability of the AMSAT CubeSat Simulators. Speaking at the 37th Annual Space Symposium, Alan reports that since the prototype CubeSat Simulators were introduced at Hamvention in May, the simulators have undergone testing and final release. A CubeSat Simulator is a self-contained satellite model that reports solar cell performance via standard AFSK 1200 BPS AX.25 telemetry. The telemetry can be decoded with a simple SDR ground station. A CubeSat Simulator package consists of the 1U simulator, a halogen work light to simulate sunshine, and a motorized rotating turntable that mimic the satellite tumbling through space. (sourced to AMSAT-NA) Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who became the first person in history to spacewalk in 1965, has died aged 85. He went on to become the commander of Soyuz-Apollo, the first ever joint US-Soviet mission in 1975. He died Friday October 11, just 7 days before Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir carried out history’s first all-female spacewalk Friday 18. (ANS) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- MILITARY WW 1 USA Amateur Radio Station When:- November 9 in the USA Where:- National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City The Museum and Memorial is teaming with area amateur radio operators to host special event station WW 1 USA. During this time, station operators will contact hundreds of other amateur radio operators across the world. Designated by US Congress as America’s official World War I Museum and Memorial and located in downtown Kansas City, the National WWI Museum and Memorial inspires thought, dialogue and learning to make the experiences of the Great War era meaningful and relevant for present and future generations. To learn more, visit theworldwar.org (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- QRP and WEAK SIGNAL COMMUNICATION ICQ PODCAST DECLARES FIRST WINNER OF 'HOMEBREW HERO' AWARD Congratulations are in order for Hans Summers G 0 UPL, who has been declared the inaugural winner of the "Homebrew Hero" award conferred by ICQPodcast. Hans was selected for the work he has done designing solutions for QRP enthusiasts. The award is given in recognition of amateurs who make technical advances in creative ways to benefit the hobby. Well done Hans! (ARNewsLine) Speaking of QRP, there's a big event coming up early next month in Melbourne. More power to Melbourne's QRP by the Bay! That's not "power" as in wattage but power as in the great force of enthusiasm and fellowship that's sure to surface on Chelsea Beach on the 2nd of November. QRP by the Bay is set to happen, attracting homebrewers, portable operators and QRP enthusiasts. The afternoon is mostly social but it's also a chance to show off some new gadgets and equipment or take advantage of the waterfront location and put up an antenna and grab some DX. It's very informal and in keeping with the QRP, as 'low-key' as can be. (ARNewsLine) 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 Radio hams participate in Storm 2019 exercise Radio amateurs in Austria took part in this year's Civil Protection Day on October 5 and made use of the amateur radio transponder on the QO-100 geostationary satellite This exercise involved not only a test of the 2540 civil defence sirens in Lower Austria, but was also used for a large-scale exercise by the task forces and authorities. The disaster scenarios prepared in the district of Tulln also included the local radio amateurs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 2019 Social Scene VK3 - Ballarat Amateur Radio Group, BARG Hamvention Oct 27 (vk3kqt) VK3 - Melbourne QRP by the Bay (SouthGate) Melbourne QRP by the Bay is coming up next month – Saturday 2 November at 3pm. It's an occasional gathering of homebrewers, QRPers and portable operators. Normally between about 15 and 30 people show up for a very convivial couple of hours. Bring yourself, an idea and an interesting piece of equipment. Gather at Chelsea beach near the lifesaving club, and afterwards a lot of the crew go for tea at a local restaurant. That's 3pm Saturday November 2, 2019 for Melbourne QRP by the Bay at Chelsea beach. VK5 - AHARS Buy and Sell Marion RSL Nov 3rd (vk5srp) VK3 - ROSEBUD RADIOFEST November 17 (wia) 2020 Social Scene ALARAMEET 2020 Bendigo (vk5yl) October 2 - 5 in Bendigo Victoria. 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