2020 OCTOBER 4 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 OCTOBER 4 2020 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA Director Phil VK2CPR looks at our new WIA Members card. - WIA Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine. Roger Harrison VK2ZRH has issue number four ready for us. - WIA ATV Co-Ordinator Peter VK3BFG and band plans. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA Get Ready for JOTA JOTI 2020 MAYBE Although for the first time in many a year the Scouts/Guides did not make contact re this year’s Aussie Event according to their site scouts.com.au/blog/2020/08/19/2020-jota-joti-badge-now-available/ it is still going ahead right around the world 16-18 October. The largest digital Scouting event promotes friendship and global citizenship, with an expected 2.5 million participants worldwide and all Australian Scouts are invited to participate in the 63rd Jamboree on the Air. JOTA is where Australian Scouts learn about communications technology and connect with fellow Scouts from over 170 countries. It engages young people in educational activities that build teamwork, cross-cultural understanding and skills for the future. Again JOTA JOTI 2020 takes place from 16th to 18th of October. BTW Coinciding with school holidays across Australia, between 27th September and Sunday 4th October is a special EchoLink JOTA event where members of Scouting with an amateur radio licence, are asked to join in to connect with other Scouts across the country in a different way. Just joint the *SCOUT-VK* server. echolink.vkjotijota.com/ (interweb) 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, this is Phil VK2CPR. The WIA board is excited to announce the Stage 1 initial rollout of the new WIA Members card. The membership Card is similar to the original test I conducted some months ago to determine the feasibility of email as a transmission conduit. Email had too many problems so we decided to use Memnet to deploy the cards. The card displays your Call sign, (up to 2 may be shown), your membership number, expiry date and a list of all the current vendors participating in the program. If you are renewing your membership or are a new member, your Membership card is simply downloaded from the WIA website via Memnet by: 1) Login to Memnet with you Membership number (or call sign) and Password 2) On the ‘MY WIA’ Page - Select ‘Pay Invoice’ 3) Select ‘Receipt’ Button on the most recent invoice shown 4) Print out your last receipt 5) Cut out, fold and laminate your Membership Card ready for use. The card is linked to a benefits Program. The WIA and several vendors have teamed up to provide a range of discounts and savings to WIA members when using their services or purchasing from them. All you need to do is produce you membership card or quote your current membership number in most cases. Discounts will vary depending upon the retailer; Each Vendor has their own discount structure for WIA members Some very deep discounts are being offered by the major electronics component retailers listed on the card. Depending on your purchases and chosen supplier, the realised annual savings alone can easily be in the order of several times the initial cost of your WIA membership subscription. Given the potential real savings and your financial investment in your hobby already, can you really afford to not be a WIA member? Conditions of use, a list of vendors and other information relating to the new program will be listed on the WIA website shortly, including some more great new membership rewards and benefits. The WIA Board and the many volunteers who support our organisation are continually working on programs and initiatives to increase the value of WIA membership for you. Whether that be via International representation to the IARU ITU, WRC, local representation to the ACMA or AMC or providing support and benefits at an operational level at the local Radio Club or in the home and ham shack directly via our new benefits program. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In the digital sphere, pretending to be someone else is called ‘spoofing’. Spoofing is poorly policed on most social media because these platforms are organised like ‘walled gardens’, that is, they give the illusion that nothing exists in the wider internet outside the wall. This is logical as their primary purpose is to keep you within the wall for as long as possible. So, please be aware that there are spoof pages purporting to be the WIA and it is often difficult to tell them from the real thing. Cheers for now this is Phil VK2CPR This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine. The print run of Issue Number 4 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 take the digital edition, watch your email in-box for a notification from the WIA that you can download your copy from the website. This issue might start a tradition. Where other magazines for amateurs have their annual antenna issue, this edition of Amateur Radio magazine could be dubbed our PORTABLE ISSUE. Amateurs seeking out the pleasures of portable operation have burgeoned over recent years through such activities as SOTA and Parks, VHF-UHF hill-topping, microwave activity days and so on. Playing up to this escalating interest and activity, commercial rig manufacturers and you-build-it kit producers have spent considerable development time, effort and dollars to produce small, low-volume, low-weight, low power multi-band, highly-featured rigs, which have been gaining a foothold amongst amateurs right across the world. The latest exemplar of this is the Icom IC-705. As this rig has only recently made its way into the hands of early-adopters in Australia, we have no less than THREE reviews in this issue, all from different authors, covering their impressions from differing aspects. Naturally, the IC-705 features on the front cover. Look out for it. Even our technical – D I Y – feature, an Arduino-based A-P-R-S Tracker, has that portable ‘bent’. So, the Pleasures of Portable Pursuits abound in Issue Number 4 of AR magazine. There’s a line from a play of yesteryear in which the main character says, breathlessly: “there’s nothing like giving yourself over to pleasure”! 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. TO THE MOON AND BACK NASA officials have released a nearly five-year, $28 billion USD plan Monday to return astronauts to the surface of the moon before the end of 2024, but the agency's administrator said the "aggressive" timeline set by the Trump administration hinges on Congress approving $3.2 billion in the next few months to kick-start development of new human-rated lunar landers. (ANS) USA ARRL seeks changes in FCC proposal to delete 3.4 GHz amateur band ARRL met via telephone with FCC staff members this past week to emphasize its opposition to the FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to delete amateur radio from the 3.3 - 3.5 GHz band. In comments filed earlier this year, ARRL urged that the secondary status for amateur radio in the band be continued. In a series of meetings with Commissioner legal advisors and staff members, ARRL explained how continued secondary use by radio amateurs will not impair or devalue use of this spectrum by future primary licensees, including those intending to provide 5G or other services. ARRL also stressed the various public-benefit uses of the spectrum by amateurs, including ongoing use of television and mesh networks on the west coast of the US as part of efforts to contain wildfires. Hams Help Find Kids by Monitoring FRS Radios The police department in Post Falls, Idaho, received a 911 call that two juveniles — ages 9 and 11 — were missing from a Post Falls residence. According to the report, the pair had left home intending to play in the neighbourhood with some Family Radio Service (FRS) radios. Several patrol cars were dispatched to the area to conduct a visual search, and detective Neil Uhrig, K7NJU, responded as officer in charge due to his training and experience with missing persons investigations. The Detective pulled out his VHF/UHF handheld and heard the Northwest Traffic Net that had begun on the local 2-meter repeater. Checking into the net he explained the missing persons situation to net control station Shannon Riley, KJ7MUA, and asked if net participants in the Post Falls area with FRS capability could listen for the youngsters talking. Not long after Jim Hager, KJ7OTD, reported hearing children talking on FRS Channel 1. Detective Neil Uhrig, K7NJU Uhrig went to Hager’s home to confirm his observation, and the patrol units were redirected to the new search vicinity. A short time later, the missing pair was found safe and returned home, again, thanks to Ham Radio. PILGRIMAGE or SACRELIGE The End Of An Era This being the planned demolition of a Dayton, Ohio building that since 1964, symbolized one of amateur radio's biggest international gatherings the area many Aussies paid at least one pilgrimage to during their Hamming Years. The building? Hara Arena, already deteriorating by the time it was left damaged by tornadoes in May of 2019, had been home to Dayton Hamvention until 2017 when it was moved to the Greene County Fairgrounds in nearby Xenia, Ohio. Amateur Radio NewsLine report "The arena property will also be rezoned to allow for manufacturing and distribution use once the legendary building has been taken down." ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- Portable Operations Challenge The final rules for the FMH Portable Operations Challenge are now posted on the POC webpage on foxmikehotel.com/challenge/ N1MM+ users, need to select FMHPOC as the contest and VKContest Logger users just POC. The organisers wish all other contests taking place this weekend success and lots of fun - the bands will be busy again and we're hoping propagation plays along. We hope many amateurs give this new-style contest a go whether from a home QTH station or out portable. (SouthGate) -------------- 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 OCEANA CONTEST The contest is here! Are you ready to make a few contacts, the enthusiasm of VK3ML in promotion of the original contest is infectious – “ My - the ether just reeks of DX – take a large breath and sample it! Taste those G’s (They go well for breakfast as one author once said), those F’s, W’s, YI’s etc.? They are our meat for October, so go to it and polish up that gear and start working DX just to get the “atmosphere” prior to the big event.” With hand sent morse and hand written logs they certainly would be envious of what even the most basic setup in the 21st century can provide. Please join in on the following two weekends. PHONE: 06:00 UTC Saturday 3rd Oct to 06:00 UTC Sunday 4th Oct 2020 CW: 06:00 UTC Saturday 10th Oct to 06:00 UTC Sunday 11th Oct 2020 Full rules on oceaniadxcontest.com Just exchange signal reports starting at 001 (lie 57001) There are awards available for all sorts of operation, low power, QRP, club awards and this year a plaque for the highest scoring YL in Australia. After nearly 60 years listening and transmitting I am sure that if enough of us get on the air at the same time the ionosphere does improve for us – have fun. 73 from Martin VK7GN Again 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 *********************** New User guide for ARRL Logbook Of The World. This guide for beginner LOTW users has been released by Gary, ZL2IFB who pulled together a team of contributors to assisted him on the project. The 33 page guide was written with the new user in mind, but contains many tips and explanations that veteran users will find useful as well. The guide may be downloaded the link in our text news this week. g4ifb.com/LoTW_New_User_Guide.pdf [ANS] -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- OCTOBER -------------- Australian special event Fred Swainston VK3DAC/VK4FE, reported in several posts that special event callsign VI 75 WW 2 is active until November 11th, 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. -------------- 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) -------------- BONAIRE PJ4 TEN is a special event station active during October 2020 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 10th of October 2010. On that date the former country of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved and Bonaire became a special municipality of the Netherlands. As a result, Bonaire became a new DXCC entity on October 10 2010 (rsgb) -------------- IS THIS SPECIAL? OR WHAT? Hannes, OE1SGU is signing OE 1990 SGU between the 1st and the 31st of October to celebrate his 30th anniversary in amateur radio. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or via OE1SGU either direct or via the bureau. (rsgb) -------------- KOSOVO, Z6. Z66DX will be QRV from October 15 to 28, on 160 to 10 meters. Look for them using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL direct or bureau. (Sourced to SouthGate) -------------- 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. -------------- GERMANY. DK 70 DARC is active until the end of December to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club. QSL via the bureau. (ARRL) ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos qdg.org.au tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN Hot Spot Problem The Wireless Institute of Australia has for many years published Band Plans for all frequencies. These are agreed arrangements for various activities and by and large all amateur operators have gone along with this. In some cases the Band Plans reflect International agreements. With more here from Melbourne is Peter Coussins "Recently I have come across lists of amateurs running Hotspots for digital internet access. A number of these Hotspots in Melbourne and Sydney are within the limits of 442 – 449 MHz ATV allocation. This allocation is mainly used for ATV Repeaters and the Hotspots have the potential to create interference. Even given that they may not be a problem at the moment proliferation of these within these frequency limits is undesirable. The WIA Band Pan has specific Hotspot frequencies of 438.925 and 438.9125 for D Star and possibly needs updating to accommodate new systems. Whatever is the case, they should not be located between 442 and 449 MHz, especially in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Port Pirie where there are active ATV Repeaters using this allocation for the down link. This is Peter VK3BFG WIA ATV Co-Ordinator WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance manoeuvre" back on September 22 to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, said NASA, urging better management of objects in Earth's orbit. Russian and US flight controllers worked together during a two-and a-half-minute operation to adjust the station's orbit and move further away, avoiding collision. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information) CAMSAT HF amateur radio satellite launches delayed The ARRL reports the CAS-7A launch has been postponed until next May, and CAS-5A until next June. Both these satellites will carry HF transponders The ARRL news story says: “Because of COVID-19, many things have been delayed,” CAMSAT’s Alan Kung, BA 1 DU, told ARRL. He said an announcement would be made closer to the announced launches` which already have been postponed multiple times since first announced. CAS-7A will be placed into a sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 98° at 500 kilometres above Earth. The transponders will have a bandwidth of 30 kHz. According to the IARU amateur satellite frequency coordination page, the HF/HF linear transponder will uplink on 15 meters, and downlink on 10 meters. A CW beacon will transmit on 29.425 MHz 27 YEARS STILL FLOATING IN SPACE AO-27 was the first FM “bent pipe” satellite and proved to be easy to work, with a strong downlink and sensitive receiver. The amateur FM repeater has served many Hams worldwide and was one of the first “Easy Sats”. AO-27 was later used for the first successful D-Star mode satellite QSO. The 800 km orbit provides continent-spanning coverage with at least one station known to have worked 49 US states solely via AO-27! And there we were last weekend, the 27th of September, 2020, celebrating the 27th birthday of AO-27! (SouthGate) 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 October bulletin goes to air tomorrow. This month as well as the latest Club News, we have a couple of interesting items for you, namely: An article entitled 2 Sparks, originally published in the first issue of Old Timer News, and The future of ham radio, Part 1 Everyone is most welcome to tune in tomorrow and to join in the call backs afterwards. Eastern states listeners are reminded 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 At 10 am Victorian time there is a new 80 metre transmission on 3650 kHz, transmitted simultaneously with the 160, 40 and 2 metre transmissions. Also note that the evening 80 metre and 2 metre transmissions have been brought forward to 8.00 pm A full list of transmission times and frequencies throughout Australia,, including those via DMR, D-STAR and Echo-link can be found on the RAOTC website raotc.org.au I urge all listeners to visit the RAOTC website to check the latest information for your area. Be aware that Victoria is now on daylight saving time so those in other states who listen via D-STAR, DMR or EchoLink will need to adjust their local times accordingly. Don’t forget too that 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 October 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 --- RADIO SCOUTING scouts.com.au scout.org/jota international.scouts.com.au jotajoti.info/ Brett Nicholas VK2BNN Scouts Australia National co-ordinator for JOTA. Lorraine O’Hare VK2FICQ is Girl Guides Australia National JOTA-JOTI Co-ordinator. CALLING FREQUENCIES Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication. Australian voice calling frequencies: 3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160 World CW calling frequencies: 3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160 World voice calling frequencies: 3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160 Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV): 3.630, 7.033, 14.227 Calling Frequencies for PSK31 14.070 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT New WSJT candidate release features FST4 Candidate releases are intended for beta testers, WSJT-X 2.3.0-rc1 which offers the new modes FST4 and FST4W designed for use on the LF and MF bands FST4 is for 2-way QSOs, and FST4W is for WSPR-like transmissions. Both modes offer a range of options for Transmit/Receive sequences lengths and threshold decoding sensitivities extending well into the -40 dB range. Early tests have shown these modes frequently spanning intercontinental distances on the 2200 m and 630 m bands. (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota The IARU Region 2 (R2) Executive Committee have announced that Sterling Mann, N 0 SSC has agreed to be the region’s Liaison for Youth. IARU R2 will provide support and assistance to the Liaison in reaching out to young hams throughout the Americas and their member societies. The goal is to develop and promote interest in amateur radio on the part of young hams through self-sustaining groups and activities. Mr. Mann can be contacted on youth@iaru-r2.org ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 VK7 - Miena QSO Muster Saturday October 24th (vk7tw) VK4 - Sunfest 10am Nambour Showground Oct 24 (m roberts) VK4 - Rockhampton Amateur Radio Annual Dinner Sat Nov 28 (vk4acc) 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. (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 Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to nationalnews@wia.org.au and don't JUST send url's links or posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution. 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