PREVIOUSLY ON WIA NEWS – DATELINE AUGUST 2 2009 Word that a UK man is "allergic" to wi-fi waves. For Steve Miller a trip to his local High Street is a living hell that makes him sick, dizzy and confused. Pubs make him feel the same and he can't use trains, airports or hotels without experiencing head-banging agony. But Steve doesn't suffer from some strange phobia. He is allergic to wi-fi. PREVIOUSLY ON WIA NEWS – DATELINE JULY 28 2013 Checking the compliance level of your station is very important but is quite easy to do. Information on how to perform the EMR compliance check, along with the EMR calculator, is in the "Technical Reference" section of the WIA Website accessible under the "For Members" drop down menu *. So, please check your EMR compliance, it's easy and most stations should find that they comply with the regulations without having to make any station modifications. PREVIOUSLY ON WIA NEWS – DATELINE JULY 12 2009 The WIA is very concerned at the apparent large drop in numbers of people passing through the exam service since the change in provider. The WIA requests the ACMA investigate this matter and we are prepared to work with them on developing solutions to this problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos ---------------------------------------------------------------------* NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING JULY 19 2020 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ, with more details on the WIA AGM. - WIA Director Oscar Reyes VK3TX, revisits the IARU Contest HQ Station VK3WIA. - WIA AR magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Harrison VK2ZRH hard at work. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA This is WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ, with more details on the WIA AGM. The Annual General Meeting of the WIA will be held next weekend, on Saturday 25th July commencing at 10.00am eastern standard time. Due to the extreme COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Victoria, attendance in person will not be possible. It will be a virtual AGM The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has agreed that because of COVID-19, virtual annual general meetings may be held. ASIC has issued guidelines on how to conduct such meetings. Voting To vote at the 2020 AGM, members should submit a proxy form which will also facilitate voting preferences on the proposed AGM motions. All current financial members will have already received an agenda and a proxy form via post or email. Proxy voting forms are also available on the WIA web page. A link is available in the text version of this broadcast. Please ensure that the proxy forms are received by the national office before 10.00am (eastern) this Friday morning. Proxy Forms are available at: wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2020/20200702-1/ Email your proxy voting form to: proxy@wia.org.au Observing the AGM If you wish to watch the virtual WIA 2020 AGM, it will be streamed live on the day. Individuals who wish to watch the proceedings live will need to register. The annual general meeting will also be recorded and available on the WIA web site for later viewing. The Agenda, minutes of the 2019 AGM and the Audited Financial Reports are available for members to download on the WIA web site. Register to attend the AGM at: AGM2020.wia.org.au Minutes and Financials are at: wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/about/ Registration Members must register to attend the virtual AGM. Directors will attend the AGM by a video conferencing links. As has been the case in previous annual general meetings, there will be an opportunity for members, who are registered for the AGM, to ask questions of the board. These questions will be read out and answered during the “Other Business” section of the meeting. Details regarding the submission of questions will be provided to members who register to attend. Registrations are now open and a link has been published on the WIA news page as well as in the text version of this broadcast Register at AGM2020.wia.org.au This has been WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH with some welcome news about what’s happening with Amateur Radio magazine. Well, first of all, production of AR magazine IS being produced, still. I have been appointed as Editor-in-Chief by the Board of the WIA, as some of you may know already. This came after I stepped up recently to volunteer my help. As I have a background over many years as editor of popular Australian electronics magazines – including Electronics Today International and Australian Electronics Monthly . . . many of you listeners will remember them – the board felt that my expertise and experience was appropriate. Before that, I practised at being an editor, producing a newsletter for VHF-UHF amateur radio, called 6UP, which some of you listeners may recall. As we all know, Issue No. 2 of AR magazine for 2020 has been delayed. Be that as it may . . . I’m here now and it’s my job to get things back on track, developing a new schedule so that all six issues of the magazine will be published this year – notwithstanding COVID-19 lockdowns in various key places! The new Publications Committee has had two online meetings up to now and we have all gotten to know one another – or, at least, know each other a little better. Fortunately, the Committee has a mix of some members continuing from the past and some new people. As a group, there is a range of experience and expertise that can be brought out to tackle various components of the job at-hand. I found the meetings to be friendly and collegiate, with members eager to get on with the job in front of us. My long experience reminds me that every publication management system is different in one way or another. I am working with President Greg Kelly VK2GPK who – last year – took on the central task of producing AR mag – the herculean central task, I might add – as it’s no job for the uninitiated. There are always 1000-and-one decisions to be resolved, each with an impact on many others. And every issue is different in large and small ways. So let me pay tribute to all those who have strived to-date to maintain the momentum of AR production, especially under the uncertain circumstances prevailing over the recent past. Blame for this situation cannot – and should not – be heaped on anyone or any group – as so many disparate forces have produced it. Time to wipe clean the slate and start “from taws”. This has been AR magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. EDUCATION SCARC AMATEUR EXAM SESSIONS IN VK4 Trent Sampson < vk4ts@outlook.com > has let it be known that the next Exam Session at the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club (SCARC) will be held the 27th of August 2020 at 6pm The Club Rooms are located at 85 Godfreys Road Bli Bli Queensland and it goes without saying that 'then' current COVID 19 restrictions will apply. Please email vk4ts@wia.org.au if you have any questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. The June newsletter of the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System reports that what’s being called “the Russian-Ukrainian radio war” continues apace. “The Russian-Ukrainian radio war remained on a high escalation level also in June,” IARUMS Region 1 Coordinator Peter Jost, said. “Almost every day, we heard the massive spiteful and provocative broadcasts. In June, they used more frequencies than before, affecting our bands very hard. It is a great annoyance and a big shame!” In May, Jost reported that the radio war has raged “for years” at 7055 kHz LSB as well as on 7050 or 7060 kHz. Jost also reported continued daily transmissions from the Russian over-the-horizon radar known as “Contayner” in the 40 and 20 meter amateur bands and elsewhere. The Chinese “V” has been reported on 20 meters, from 14,246 to 14,256 kHz. INDIA Economic Times reports India’s technology hub Bengaluru is tapping into a strong community of amateur radio users to help tackle the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak The city, which has seen on average 1,000 positive cases of Covid-19 infections over the past few days, went into a one-week lockdown Tuesday. 350 HAM's spread across Bengaluru are acting as volunteers with the city’s home quarantine squad - a government formed team that looks at ensuring infected people are quarantined. GERMANY The number of HAMNET links continues to increase. In 2017 holders of Germany's lowest level of Amateur Radio licence, the Class E, were given access to the 2320–2450 MHz and 5650–5850 MHz zone, since, the number of HAMNET data links has grown significantly. BUT WHAT'S HAMNET? HAMNET (Highspeed Amateur radio Multimedia NETwork) is an autonomous network based on wireless devices. It covers many regions in Europe and is even now growing fast beyond its European border. Hamnet is using international coordinated IP-address space of the AMPRNet (44.0.0.0/8) and Autonomous System (AS) numbers out of the 16-bit and 32-bit private AS number space to interconnect active regions by external Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing. FRANCE Old QSL card collection Jean Michel, F6AJA, wants to remind everyone to visit the Les Nouvelles DX Web page to see more than 18,000 old QSL cards in several different albums/galleries. This site contains: The ten most wanted DXCC entities (2009 to 2018) with more than 600 QSLs At least one card for each 62 deleted DXCC countries (more than 2000+ QSLs) The URL address for the Web site is: LesNouvellesDX.free.fr UNITED KINGDOM Monitoring compliance with the EU Net Neutrality regulation Ofcom has published its annual report to the European Commission on monitoring open internet access, also known as ‘net neutrality’. Under these rules, broadband providers must treat all internet traffic on their networks equally, and must not give preferential treatment to certain sites or services. The UK's monitoring work has identified that the UK’s broadband and mobile networks coped during the first months peaks peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring that people stayed connected. Although the UK has left the European Union, Ofcom is still obliged under UK law to produce an annual report on UK net neutrality rules and so will continue to monitor compliance and publish findings in this area. BRAZIL Brazil's national amateur radio society LABRE has released a report by Ricardo Benedito PU2RKA that uses ANATEL's Open Data to provide an analysis of radio amateur numbers by Class and State Brazil has a population of 212 million and last year there were just less than 40,000 radio amateurs. Brazil has three classes of Amateur Radio licence: • Class C permits 100 watts output, all bands except for 10/14/18 MHz and parts 7/21 MHz It requires 14 correct answers in each of a 20 question Operating Theory exam paper and a 20 question Rules & Regs paper • Class B permits 1000 watts output all bands except for 10/14/18 MHz and part of 21 MHz The segments 28000-28500 kHz & 29300-29510 kHz are limited to 100 watts. It requires 10 correct answers (50%) in a 20 question Basic Knowledge of Electronics and Electricity exam paper and a 5 WPM Morse receiving test • Class A permits 1000 watts output all bands (10 MHz 200 watts) and requires 70% in the 20 question Basic Electronics and Electricity exam paper and a 5 WPM Morse sending and receiving test Further information at anatel.gov.br/setorregulado/index.php/radioamadorismo --------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT This is Oscar VK3TX IARU CONTEST Last weekend during the 2020 IARU Contest, Head Quarters Station callsign VK3WIA was on air operated by Director Lee - VK3GK on SSB and CW. Initial plans were to have a multi operator event from Lee’s station but Melbourne’s lockdown, which specifies “no visitors”, made it a single operator event. Many stations were calling and created a nice pile up on CW to get not only the VK multiplier, but the elusive VK3WIA HQ multiplier. IARU Contest is fun and conditions were exceptional with 20m being open until after midnight and early morning Sunday into Europe. Next year we hope to have more operators active as a team event, so, if you are interested please let us know. This is Oscar VK3TX -------------- FT 8 DMC Anniversary Activity Days 2020 Several special event stations will be on air during the "FT8DMC Activity Days" between July 1-31st and all stations will bear the FT DMC or FT DM suffix and here 'down under' listen for ZL 6 FTDMC (SouthGate) -------------- TRANS TASMAN LOWBAND CONTEST Next contest - 17 JUL - VK and ZL on 160 80 and 40M using SSB, CW and RTTY OR PSK -------------- RD or Remembrance Day Contest will be August 15 - 16 -------------- Alara Contest 0600 UTC Sat 29 till Sun 30 August at 0559 UTC. The 40th Alara Contest will be on again on the last weekend of August – that is Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th. With more, here's Sue. All YLs and OMs are invited to take part, and it is hoped that YLs especially will enjoy this friendly contest, which is not necessarily about making the highest score, but to enjoy a chat with those that we usually don’t meet on air. We would also love to hear some young and new YLs joining in this year and some of the Committee will be handing out numbers on HF and EchoLink during the contest. This year we've seen droughts, floods, fires and a pandemic. So girls, let’s make 2020 the best Alara Contest ever. -------------- OCEANA CONTEST VOICE from 0600 UTC Saturday October 3 to 0600 UTC Sunday October 4 CW from 0600 UTC Saturday October 10 to 0600 UTC Sunday October 11 -------------- CQ WW DX SSB OCTOBER 24-25 -------------- CQ WW DX CW NOVEMBER 28-29 -------------- December 6 - 8 160 Meter WW -------------- DECEMBER 14 - 15 10 Mtr World Wide -------------- TED POWELL MEMORIAL DX CHALLENGE 4 award periods, each of 3 months starting in January of each calendar year and 2 categories in the contest, MOST WANTED and TOP 5. Top 5 you try and work the 5 most wanted DXCC entity's Most Wanted you work the most wanted DXCC entity. The dx entity's in play are those most wanted DURING those 3 month windows. Complete details can be found at contest.fgarc.org.au/ -------------- All major AUSTRALIAN contests, rules and results, are on the Contest Section of the WIA website. wia.org.au/members/contests/about *********************** AUSTRALIA. Members of the Wireless Institute of Australia are QRV with special call VI 110 WIA until the end of 2020 to celebrate our 110th anniversary, in fact the world's oldest Amateur Radio Society. Activity is on the HF bands and QSL is via LoTW. -------------- GREENLAND, OX. OX 3 LX from Aasiaat Island until July 30. Look for him on 40 to 4 meters. He will also try to activate other islands of this IOTA group. QSL via OZ 0 J. (Sourced to SouthGate) -------------- CANADA. VC 3 STYWELL, the third COVID-19 special event station run by The Seven Thirty Social Distancing Net, closes, July 19. QSL via VE 3 ES. (Sourced to SouthGate) -------------- RECORDS First Worked All ZS 2000 issued For the past 13 years, the Worked All ZS awards programme has been dominated by Jan Botha, ZS4JAN . Since ZS 500 in 2007, he has been the first to reach every level from 600 to 1800, a level he reached last year. Now as we see in the ZS news, the SARL Awards Manager, ZS 1 J has announced that Jan has recently applied for WAZS-2000. He submitted proof of contacts with 2000 different South African call signs. This total represents almost half HALF !! of all licences issued in the country! BEACONS The Reverse Beacon Network will gain 15 new nodes, thanks to the Yasme Foundation. These new nodes will be added in regions where there is a need for reception reports to support amateur radio operation and where those reports will also have scientific value for geophysical research. Yasme was assisted in this effort by supporting grants from Amateur Radio Digital Communications and by scientific advice from HamSCI researchers. Node locations will be available after a final list of hosts is available. The Reverse Beacon Network is a project that monitors your amateur radio bands by using volunteer stations to continuously and autonomously collect data on what and when stations are being received, and how good the signal is. The data is then made public on the internet and this allows amateur radio operators to easily determine overall propagation conditions. ( ARRL + RTL-SDR.COM ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 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 tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN ESA promote amateur radio in ISS SSTV video The European Space Agency has released a new video 'How to get pictures from the International Space Station via Amateur Radio' Did you know that astronauts on the International Space Station send pictures from space to ground over amateur radio that you yourself can get at home using your computer? ESA show you how to get them, step by step. The video features radio amateur David Honess 2 E 0 XDO. southgatearc.org/news/2020/july/esa-promote-amateur-radio-in-iss-sstv-video.htm#.XwbcOhPiuUk Ham radio talks on YouTube Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club talks have been made available for everyone to view on YouTube and, like our own WIA News, makes great content for your local ATV repeater. The talks include: • QO-100 geostationary satellite by Dom M0BLF • DMR What is it all about with John GI4BWM • What's it like as an Air Traffic Controller by Alistair MI0RWY • Urban QRM. What can I do? a Q&A with Tony Canning G2NF The MUARC YouTube Channel is on the link we like at the news YOU like. youtube.com/channel/UCF9NZauGrpS0C3A-fs3Eu7g/videos WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FEMALES IN RADIO. ALARA The latest bulletin from ALARA has some great photos and a look at recipients of the ALARA Grants Scheme. This offers grants to any female applying for a Foundation Licence or upgrading to a Standard or Advanced Amateur Radio Licence and is equal to approximately half the cost of the fees for assessment, licence and callsign along with a complimentary membership to ALARA. for one year alara.org.au/download/ALARA%20Application%20for%20Licence%20Grant%20LLL.pdf Grant recipients include Helen VK7FOLK, Elsa VK6FZEB, Alisha VK2FASH, Noelene VK2FNNF, Lilly, VK2FLIC, Alisha has just been re-elected as Secretary for the West Lakes Club. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org ESA Lunar lander Following our report "ESA invites proposals for lunar lander mission in late 2020's", also in SARC News, 30 May 2020, German AMSAT-DL has submitted a major and comprehensive proposal to the European Space Agency for their Lunar Lander. "LUNART" - Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder - a comprehensive radio platform using the European frequency standards of 2.4 GHz up and !0 Ghz down which were pioneered in the QO-100 satellite project. LUNART would include low power beacons and while high data rates would be operated from their 20 meter diameter dish at Bochum, lower data rates would be available to more modest amateur systems. The proposal is on open access at the ESA website and is now being evaluated. (SouthGate) NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR will join Robert Behnken to conduct a spacewalk Tuesday, July 21, which will finish a 3 1/2 year effort to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system. Coverage will begin at 1000 UTC on NASA Television and the agency’s website and could last up to seven hours. Chris, KF5KDR will be designated extravehicular crewmember 2, wearing a suit with no stripes. This walk will be the 231st spacewalk in the history of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades. As a global endeavour, 239 people from 19 countries have visited the unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted more than 2,800 research investigations from researchers in 108 countries and areas. For more information about the International Space Station, its research, and crew, visit: nasa.gov/station (NASA) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org THE RSGB CONTEST July 25-26th: Per the RSGB Contest Committee, the IOTA Contest this year is exclusively for Single-Operators using their home stations and only "Single Operator Fixed Island" stations and "Single Operator Fixed World" stations will be eligible to enter. Full details of the IOTA Contest, including the rules, can be obtained from the link we like in this week text edition of the news you like, on wia.org.au rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2020/riota.shtml (SouthGate) EU-055. Active is LN 1 V from Stord Island, Norway, mainly on 6 meters using digital until mid- August. The special callsign, LN 1 V stands for "Liberation Norway, One Victory" is being used in celebration of the 75 years since the liberation from the 5 year long Nazi occupation in 1945 after World War 2. QSL via LA 4 LN. (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- MILITARY In the US, members of the Military Auxiliary Radio System or MARS, will conduct an HF skills exercise July 20 - 24 to hone their operating skills and messaging-handling capabilities. MARS members will be reaching out to the amateur radio community via the 60 meters, 5330.5 kHz twice a day, the SATERN HF net, 14.265 MHz, and by contacting various stations via HFLink throughout the exercise. This exercise will be announced via WWV at 00:10 and via WWVH at 00:50 starting on or about July 13. WWV and WWVH listeners will be asked to take an online listener survey. (arrl letter) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SDR Software Defined Radio Academy goes virtual They say every cloud has a silver lining. It’s hard to find a positive among all the bad news about 'Rona', but it has pushed more conferences and events to allow online participation either live or after the fact. A case in point: The Software Defined Radio Academy’s annual event is all on a YouTube channel so you can attend virtually. The keynote along with some very technical talks about techniques ranging from FPGAs to spectrum monitoring and spectral correlation density. There are some older videos on the channel, too, including some GNU Radio material. It is remarkable how software defined radio has transformed from an exotic technology to the commonplace. If you like these tech-heavy presentations, you might also enjoy this free book. No matter what your If you want the pick of cheap SDRs, there have been reviews. Not to mention reviews of the higher-end devices. Read more on HACKADAY. hackaday.com/2020/07/08/software-defined-radio-academy-goes-virtual/ WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota Don't forget we in the 'Tasman Bubble' have a YOTA group. Contact details are in the news you CAN trust, visit our text edition on wia.org.au youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA Based in New Zealand membership is open, so feel free to join if you are in our younger age group, or can offer mentoring and support to young people on the air. (sourced to ALARA) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ILLW illw.net/ ILLW on track for 2020 Registrations for this year’s popular International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend, ILLW, have not been diminished by the global pandemic now known as Covid-19. The dates for this year’s event have been moved to a week later than normal so as to keep 15th August clear for those wanting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific. With some 5 weeks to go to 22nd August 222 entries have been received which, if past experience is any indicator, should result in around 400 by start time. No doubt most of the lockdowns and restrictions will still be in place so adherence to local rules and regulations must be observed. Some cancellations are expected but the guidelines have been relaxed in some instances to enable participation to take place. New to the event this year is Corsica at Phare d’Alistro which for our purposes carries the French number of FR 0030. We also have two lighthouses from Ghana which is a new country as well. Buck Island Lighthouse in the US Virgin Islands is listed for the second year in succession being activated by KP2AD with the ILLW number VI 0001. Germany is well in the lead with 54 entries, followed by Australia with 29 entries and the USA with 27 entries. So far we have 30 countries listed which under the current circumstances is quite amazing. A word of advice to some of the large DX groups that this event is a fun weekend designed to encourage exposure of amateur radio and lighthouses to the visiting public and also to enable portable stations to contact each other at lighthouses. Compiling a log full of brief contacts is not acceptable and not in the spirit of the event. Please take care and observe your local Covid safe instructions during the event as we really want you all back next year. 22nd and 23rd August is the date for this year and 20th to 21st August next year. Happy lighthousing. Kevin vk2ce illw.net --------------------------------------------------------------------* 2020 Social Scene VK7 - VK7 biennial HamFest Nov 20-22 Miena Community Hall (vk7tw) VK4 - Rockhampton Amateur Radio Annual Dinner Sat Nov 21 (tarc) VK4 - TARC Xmas Party - Sun 13th December from 2pm (tarc) VK4 - TARC Xmas Lights Tour - Fri 18th December from 7pm (tarc) 2021 VK4 - TARC Australia Day Long Week Family Radio Camp Thursday afternoon 21st to Tuesday afternoon 26th January at Girl Guides Association of Queensland Campsite and Training Centre Bluewater. 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