2020 SEPTEMBER 6 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 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 SEPTEMBER 6 2020 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA Director Scott Williams VK3KJ. - WIA Vice President Lee Moyle VK3GK. - with on line sample tests Roger Harrison VK2ZRH Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio Magazine with issue 3. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA Received a little late for last weeks news are a couple of space stories that must have been delayed by the time/space “conservative rela-tivity principle” (CRP). One was the launch Septemer 2 of Vega rocket (V V 16) scheduled to leave Kourou with 53 satellites on board. One of the satellites that will be leaving is the Amical-sat satellite built by the CSUG (Centre Spatial Universitaire Grenoblois). The measurements made by the satellite will be available to all and will allow radio amateurs to use them for propagation predictions. The project's website (in english):> amicalsat.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ The other 'lost in space' item was that of an ARISS Contact scheduled for Students at KMO Kolska Wyspa, Kolo, Poland September 1. This ARISS event was to have been a telebridge contact involving students and ISS Commander Chris Cassidy, amateur radio call sign KF5KDR. VK6MJ, serves as the relay amateur radio ground station. (Amsat-F, vk3dn, vk4khz) WIA Not a WIA Member? details email nationaloffice@wia.org.au OR the link on bottom right of wia.org.au wia.memnet.com.au/MemberSelfService/NewMemberForm/WIA/NewMemberForm.aspx WIA board minutes can be found on wia.org.au click WIA Information. Hi there, this is Scott Williams VK3KJ and this is my first time appearing on the broadcast as a WIA Director. As recently announced, I joined the WIA Board back in June and it is my pleasure to be serving on the Board representing the broad interests of the membership and this wonderful hobby. A little bit about me:- I was first licensed at the age of 13 as VK3PNX and shortly thereafter sat and passed my advanced licensed at the age of 14 and became VK3DUP when I turned 15. I was very active as a DXer particularly on the low bands however, stopped operating around the age of 19 and did not return to the hobby until just a few years ago under the call VK3KJ. Boy how things have changed with the advancement of technology and particularly some of the modes of transmission but what continues to be central to the hobby and particularly for myself……..is the wonderful opportunity it provides to engage with such a broad range of people from all corners of the world and the many lasting friendships that are made. For me also is the educational opportunity, to continue to advance my knowledge, talk with subject matter experts and others and share this knowledge, experience and wisdom. In my consideration to join the Board, what in particular attracted me was the notion that I could contribute to advance this wonderful hobby, to help make a difference and improve the value proposition to be a WIA member. I don’t think that there is one WIA Director that would not acknowledge that there is a lot of work that needs to be done. Like me, many of these Directors volunteer their time and effort solely to make the WIA a better organisation. To find ways that we can improve and harness all of the feedback and views of the membership that enables us to deliver a better WIA to you the member. That is easy said and my last 11 years and current role is in Association Management and it is a continuous improvement process to evolve the organisation, to consider new benefits and the broad representation of the organisation and how this should be directed, when and to what level. I know there are some exciting announcements just around the corner as to new membership benefits and the finishing touches are occurring as we speak. I have had many WIA members contact me since joining the Board and I have had some wonderful conversations. Thank you to many of you who have sent a warm welcome. Common feedback I receive is how do we stop, suppress or control all the negative social media chatter that seems to go on daily undermining the hobby and creating divide. That is certainty not the role of the WIA to act as a watchdog in the industry and challenge varying views. I personally think that robust discussion is always healthy but my own personal view is when it involves personal attacks and borders on bringing the hobby into disrepute, that is a tremendous shame. Finally, after all the well-known delays with the AR Magazine and I know many have received it already, there appears to be further delays with Australia Post to some parts of Australia. I am still eagerly waiting for my copy to arrive on the outskirts of Melbourne and I looking forward to reading it……our apologies once again. I know Roger Harrison and the Pubcom Team are working diligently on the next edition and this next edition will be not in the too distant future. Stay safe and well and my very best regards and 73 from Scott, VK3KJ WIA Director. I am Lee VK3GK WIA Vice President. I have some incredibly good news for all potential new hams studying for their foundation licence as they now have opportunity to study trial questions and answers online, just like the USA exam candidates have using hamstudy online. This issue was recently discussed in depth at WIA board level and as a Level 3 AMC assessor the constant feedback from Foundation Exam candidates I get was relating to the difficulty in finding any Foundation Trial exams to test their readiness and confidence in sitting a successful foundation exam. The WIA board is pleased to announce that we now have made available and released the new ‘WIA Online Foundation Trial Exams’, freely available to be used by all potential candidates on the WIA website. (wia.org.au). The WIA board thank Robert Broomhead VK3DN and Marc Hillman VK3OHM for the expedience in facilitating this request. Each trial exam consists of 25 Questions, randomly selected from a vast question pool with answers randomly arranged each time for the candidate. Incorrect answer choices are shown with the correct answer highlighted for reference. The WIA has received many requests of late from newly interested parties into where to find trial exams to help improve their success with their Foundation Licence studies. The WIA recommends purchasing the "Foundation Licence Manual Rev 3" from the WIA bookshop or from your local radio club. Don’t forget to apply for your FREE 12 month WIA membership on successful completion of your exams and receipt of your new AOCP(x) Certificate. (Details on the WIA website). The WIA fully support and encourage you to study hard, be successful and enjoy your new hobby of Amateur Radio. To easily find the online trial exam page, just Google: wia, foundation, online, exams. wia.org.au/licenses/foundation/onlineexams/foundation.php After testing your readiness, and feeling confident of passing, then head over to the AMC website and apply to sit your exam and/or pick an assessor from the Assessor list, otherwise AMC will appoint one for you. Alternately you can go to www.vea.org.au and register there and they will make it easy and do the initial AMC applications for you. VEA have several AMC assessors within their group, including Level 3 assessors that are authorized to facilitate remote online exam sessions also. The WIA board have some more exciting initiatives coming soon so "stay tuned." For now, 73, stay safe and I will see you on the bands. Lee VK3GK WIA Vice President. This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine. The print run of Issue Number 3 rolled off the press on Wednesday last – on time – as scheduled. If you subscribe to the print copy of AR magazine, keep an eye out for it in your letterbox real soon now. For members who subscribe to the digital edition, keep an eye on your email in-box for a notification from the WIA that you can download your copy from the website. It is scheduled to land – electronically – real soon, now. The early release of Issue Number 2 – ahead of the print copy – occasioned a spate of negative reactions from the clickeratti across the twittersphere last month because Australia Post deliveries are erratic to "not happening". Australia Post issues notwithstanding, the Institute "copped the blame" in some quarters. I, myself, have yet to receive my own print copy of Issue Number 2 ! OK, then. Let’s get onto the good news. The "Cover Feature" for the coming Issue – Number 3 – is about "Surviving solar minimum". On the front cover, there’s a picture of a spotless Sun. It’s naked! There is a lot of chatter on social media, and on local contacts around the HF bands, that “DX is dead!” But perhaps the naysayers should heed the philosophy of the wily old fisherman – it depends on patience and where you fish. Hence, the feature article in the coming issue about "Surviving solar minimum". BUT! No sooner was the issue sent to the printers than it was announced by respected solar scientists from one of the world’s foremost solar observatories that we likely passed through solar minimum last December! That's an excuse for another article on propagation! Articles large and small are being prepared for Issue Number 4. If you plan to write an article – or have written one that you would like to see published this year, GET CRACKING ! This has been AR magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA 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. NEW ZEALAND Position paper on new spectrum band for RPAS The New Zealand regulator, RSM, in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority have developed a position paper on opening up a new band of spectrum at 5 GHz, for remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) command and control. This paper looks at potential band plans, as well as access regimes for RPAS that are flown under the CAA’s RPAS rules. aviation.govt.nz/airspace-and-aerodromes/air-navigation/aeronautical-telecommunications/#UA-band-position-paper TRANS-ATLANTIC 1 144 MHz between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean. A tropo opening on 144 MHz the 27th and 28th of August 2020 between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean. Several stations on the island of Tenerife managed to make successful contacts on FT8 and SSB with stations on Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Martinique. EA 8 CXN managed to make at least two trans-Atlantic contacts on SSB with FM 5 CS on Martinique and FG 8 OJ on Guadeloupe, a distance of approximately 4,800 kms. The contacts with Puerto Rico were in the region of 5,200 kms which is a new distance record across the Atlantic. Amazingly, EB 1 DJ in the north-west of Spain reports that he got one single decode of the FT8 signal from KP 4 EIT in Puerto Rico... a distance of just over 6000 kms. ei7gl.blogspot.com/2020/08/trans-atlantic-opening-on-144-mhz.html TRANS-ATLANTIC 2 LONG DISTANCE TV Carl, M1BSI, writing in the RSGB's "The Lat Word" tells how he used to be an enthusiastic TV DXer back in early 1990s. As any operator who works the 6m band is aware, trans-Atlantic propagation above 40MHz, although generally uncommon, does happen, be it multi hop Sporadic-E or, when the Solar Cycle is in our favour, F2 propagation. Of interested, is a four minute clip of BBC television reception made in New York during November 1938 archive.org/details/ BbcTelevisionReceivedInNewYork-1938 This would have been from Alexandra Palace on Channel A1, whose video frequency would have been 45MHz. M1BSI says Andrew Emmerson, an enthusiast, spent five years tracking down this recording believed to be the only surviving example of pre-war high definition British television. USA ARRL Board of Directors has elected David Minster, NA2AA, of New Jersey, as ARRL’s new Chief Executive Officer, starting September 28 “Building a culture of accomplishment and accountability is what I do best." David said. "My initial focus will be working with the Board on establishing strategic goals and concrete plans to navigate ARRL through the digital transformation required for the coming decades of its Second Century. This includes exciting and innovative ways to be engaged in amateur radio, while growing activity and membership.” arrl.org/news/board-of-directors-elects-new-arrl-ceo-david-minster-na2aa FCC proposes charging amateur radio license fees In the USA amateur radio licenses are, unlike ours here in Australia, free of charge but now the FCC is proposing imposing a charge of $50 for a new license or a renewal This charge could act as a deterrent to young people wishing to get started in the hobby and adversely affect retirees and those on low-incomes. The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking says: "Several services in the personal licenses category will be subject to new fees. One such example is Amateur Radio Service licenses, which were not listed on the fee schedule in section 8 of the Act, but are now subject to fees under the broader mandate of the RAY BAUM’s Act." --------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- 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 *********************** DX WINDOW -------------- London Air Ambulance GB 1 LAA This year's International Air Ambulance Week take place between 5th - 13th September, with the focus on supporting and generating donations for flying medical services around the world. The event covers two weekends, giving amateurs a great chance to get involved and support the event. Listen for GB 1 LAA but QSL via M 0 HEM (SouthGate) -------------- 200th anniversary of the arrival of British settlers in SA on Thursday 7 September 1820. ZS 1820 S The call sign has been heard around the world and throughout South Africa - landing a special QSL card in the inbox for many amateurs. Monday 7 September marks the arrival of the British Settlers - to the day! To commemorate this a field station at the iconic Donkin Reserve in Port Elizabeth. Everyone contacting the station will get a special QSL card in their e-mail - and not just the normal ZS1820S card either, but one marking the special day. A card from a “special event station for a special event!” While propagation is what it is, SSB from 04:00 until 09:00 UTC on 80, 40 and 20 m as conditions dictate. (SouthGate) -------------- 9 M 63 MJ is special event callsign for the 63rd Malaysia Independence Day Celebrations and is on air until- 16 September 2020 QRV on 10m-80m in CW, SSB and Digital. (SouthGate) -------------- Battle of Britain 80th Anniversary Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society (RAFARS) members will operate GB 80 BOB, a special event call sign for the 80th anniversary of The Battle of Britain between the 1st and 28th of September. Operation will be on all bands, as conditions allow, SSB and CW. A special QSL card is available. Details are at rafars.org/GB80BOB/ and QRZ.com (SouthGate) -------------- GREECE QRV is SX 1 AFM from September 1 to 30 celebrating 70 years of the Hellenic Air Force History Museum, the station is on all modes 80 through 6 meters. QSL via qrz.com information. (arrl) -------------- ARUBA. Members of the Aruba Amateur Radio Club will be QRV with special event call P 42 WW this month of September to commemorate the end of World War II. QSL via P 4 1G. (arrl) -------------- CHILE CB 33 M until October 13 commemorates the 10th anniversary of the August 2010 landslide in a mine in the north part of Chile where 33 miners (hence the call 33 M) were trapped for 3 months until their rescue. Operations on 80 meters through 70 cm using CW, SSB and digital modes FT8/FT4, JS8, RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. QSL via the postal address given in the text edition of this your WIA National News Service. PO BOX 12096, Santiago, Chile. (arrl) -------------- HUNGARY HA 70 MAV from Budapest until December 1 celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Railway. Activity is on various HF bands. QSL via LoTW. (arrl) -------------- DENMARK OZ 200 EM is on the air until the end of the year, honouring the memory of Hans Christian Orsted, who discovered the principle of electromagnetism 200 years ago. QSL via OZ1ACB. (arrl) -------------- HONG KONG Special call sign VR 2 HK 9O is QRV until May 31, 2021 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Hong Kong Amateur Radio Transmitting Society. QSL via VR 2 HK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WIRELESS WEATHER The sun is swallowing a comet A comet is diving into the sun. As you might expect, it's not going well for the comet. Cameras on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are recording the comet's last moments now, including the deconstruction of the comet's icy core into a 'boulder-strewn trail." SOHO has discovered thousands of the comets known as Kreutz sungrazers; tiny ones dive bomb the sun almost every day. This fragment is bigger and brighter than usual, however. Visit Spaceweather.com August 27 for more information and movies. spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=27&month=08&year=2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FEMALES IN RADIO. And in this case, also in space! Astronaut and radio amateur Jeanette Epps KF 5 QNU has joined the Boeing CST-100 Starliner-1 crew for a mission to the International Space Station. She joins fellow crew members Sunita Williams KD 5 PLB and Josh Cassada KI 5 CRH on the first operational crewed flight of Starliner. The six-month expedition is planned to launch to the ISS in 2021 following NASA certification after a successful uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 and Crew Flight Test with astronauts. nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronaut-jeanette-epps-joins-first-operational-boeing-crew-mission-to-space WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org CubeSat Challenge Seeks To Inspire, Prepare Students The U.S. Department of Education has launched CTE Mission: CubeSat, a national challenge to inspire students to build technical skills for careers in space and beyond. High school students from across the `USA are invited to design and build CubeSat prototypes, or satellites that aid in space research, bringing space missions out of the clouds and into the classroom. “This is such an exciting way to rethink education and get students engaged in hands-on learning in the growing aerospace and technology fields,” said U.S. Secretary of Education. “I look forward to seeing the innovative prototypes students develop and hope this challenge inspires our next generation of American space explorers.” Investors predict that space will be the next trillion-dollar that’s "TRILLION" dollar industry and as missions in space continue to expand, so do the career opportunities. This multi-phase challenge offers high school students across the United States the chance to build CubeSat prototypes while learning creative, collaborative, and technical skills for 21st century careers. (ANS) NASA JPL provides a web application, "Eyes on the Solar System", to track the Mars 2020 mission. Fully interactive, Eyes on the Solar System. doesn't just let you track Perseverance in real time as it travels to the Red Planet. Dozens of controls on pop-up menus allow you to customize not just what you see – from faraway to right "on board." Give the Mars 2020 Perseverance spacecraft a spin at the link we like on wia.org.au and the text of this weeks "News You Can trust" go.nasa.gov/32uc3Mo (ANS) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS raotc.org.au Hallo everyone. This is Clive VK6CSW reminding you that the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia’s September bulletin goes to air tomorrow. This month as well as an expanded Club News segment, we have three interesting items for you, namely: * The Big Rebroadcast * The Geiger counter and * A most influential film. Everyone is most welcome to tune in tomorrow and to join in the call backs afterwards. Now, an important announcement for WA Members only. The Tuesday luncheon meetings at the Basie have resumed with the next one scheduled for Tuesday September 8th. Eastern states listeners are advised that there are now two 20 metre transmissions tomorrow. The first is at 00 hours UTC from Katherine in the Northern Territory, beamed south-east, and the second an hour later at 0100 hours UTC beamed north from Melbourne. Both transmissions are on 14.150 MHz. Victorian listeners are reminded that at 10 am Victorian time, Steve VK3HK will be transmitting the bulletin on 40 metres on 7.146 MHz Broadcast times for WA listeners remain unchanged. Time does not permit me to list all the broadcast times and frequencies throughout Australia, but as well as the regular FM and HF broadcasts tomorrow we now have new transmissions on Digital Mobile Radio, on D-STAR and via Echo-link. Full details can be found on the RAOTC website www.raotc.org.au or just Google RAOTC and click on “broadcasts”. Because of these changes, I would urge all listeners to visit the RAOTC website and check the latest information for your area. If none of the broadcast times suit you, you can download the current audio file from the RAOTC website at any time as from today. Once again, please check the RAOTC website for your local transmission schedule, tune in tomorrow or download the file for the September bulletin, and we look forward to hearing your call sign in the call backs afterwards. Stay safe and 73 from Clive VK6CSW. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota FOUNDATION ADDS YOUNG CONTESTER TO ITS BOARD Amateur Radio NewsLine are reporting how the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation, has added a prominent young amateur from Germany to its board of directors. Philipp Springer, DK 6 SP, is a member of the Youth Working Group of IARU Region 1 and a lead planner for the Youngsters on the Air Team Germany program. Philipp was among the well-ranked contesters at the WRTC 2018 in Germany as part of Team Y82D. The foundation's chairman Tim Duffy, praised the selection of Philipp and said he was encouraged by the youthful enthusiasm he brings to the hobby. --------------------------------------------------------------------* 2020 Social Scene KEEP ONE WAVELENGTH AWAY AT 144 Megacycles #2MetersMatters Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events' direct for up-to-date status information. 2020 Miena QSO Muster Saturday October 24th 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) VK4 - CHARC AGM Lake Maraboon, 25 to 27 September. (vk4zz) 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. (vk4zz) VK2 - WYONG FIELD DAY (tentative) February 28 ( vk4zz) VK - ALARAMEET 2021 Bendigo VK3 October 1 - 4 (vk5yl) VK7 - VK7 biennial HamFest Miena Community Hall (vk7tw) SOCIAL DISTANCING KEEP ONE WAVELENGTH AWAY AT 144 Megacycles FINAL FINAL Reception Reports WIA News rebroadcasters often give Short Wave Listeners a welcome to the broadcast as they commence call-backs straight after the Local News. Local news follows the National news in all states. It would be great if those SWL's would email their reception reports and location to callbacks@wia.org.au A couple of "well done girls' came across the desk both at Bevans TV studios and here at the Jimboomba Audio Tea-Rooms for the recent ALARA edition of WIA news. 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