2020 OCTOBER 25 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 25 2020 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA VICE PRESIDENT LEE MOYLE VK3GK and Amateur Band Intruders and their reporting. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA WATCH OUR SPACE The University of Western Australia is set to install an optical communications station capable of receiving high-speed data transmissions from space. The communications station will be able to receive data from spacecraft from anywhere between low-Earth orbit, i.e. between 160km and 1000km above planet green to as far away as the surface of the moon - some 384,000 km. Dr Sascha Schediwy, Astrophotonics Group leader at UWA and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy, said optical communications are an emerging alternative to radio waves and are expected to drastically improve data transfer capabilities from space. Data from the station will then be fed to Goonhillys supercomputer data centre in England by high-speed fibre. The ground station is expected to be operational from as early as next year (2021). itnews.com.au/news/new-space-communications-station-to-be-built-in-wa-554620_ (VK7WI News) Optus claims to have set a new Australian 5G speed record with a download speed of over 2.5 Gbps using a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G device on the first of its new high-speed 5G sites that will be deployed in Sydney and Melbourne. The demonstration conducted in conjunction with Ericsson and Samsung, involved using mid-band spectrum and 5G carrier aggregation to achieve blazing fast 5G speeds Meanwhile, Optus plans to add an additional 100 MHz of 3500 MHz spectrum on its 5G home internet service in select areas of Sydney and Melbourne over the next few months. This will result in faster average speeds for customers within the footprint. Optus said its 5G home internet service is delivering average speeds of 214 Mbps, with some users experiencing speeds of over 300 MHz shorturl.at/moxH2 Writing in criticalcomms.com.au John Stanton the CEO of Communications Alliance tells how telecommunications are essential to keeping Australians connected. The COVID-19 pandemic and the bushfire disasters in late 2019 and earlier this year have once again and more powerfully than ever highlighted the criticality of telecommunications infrastructure for all Australians. With all aspects of our lives now being digitised in some form or another, telecommunications networks are essential to the functioning of Australias economy and society, especially in emergencies. Warning Australians of dangers and delivering targeted information into affected areas is crucial but can be challenging during emergencies. Cell broadcasting, a standards-based technology that is already being used in New Zealand and internationally, offers capabilities that would help overcome many of those challenges. Australias mobile operators stand ready to engage with government over ways of how such a solution could be implemented here in Australia. Cell broadcast alerting is a newer way of sending information to mobile phones in a set area without people needing to download an app or subscribe to a service. The alerts appear similar to text messages and are received automatically and for free by all cell broadcast enabled mobile phones in an area. As no technology is 100 per cent failsafe or equally useful in all conditions and emergencies, multiple channels will continue to be used to send alerts when emergencies happen such as radio, television, websites, various social media, smartphone apps, sirens and others. The system is well established elsewhere in the world in counties such as the US, Japan, Israel, New Zealand, Chile, the Netherlands and Taiwan. shorturl.at/jkFNO WIA WIA board minutes and although some six (6) months since any minutes have been released, minutes can be found on wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/minutes/ WIA VICE PRESIDENT LEE MOYLE VK3GK and Amateur band Intruders and their reporting. For those HF users in the past couple of weeks who have been active on the bands, you may have experienced a quite noticeable increase in the propagation, especially in the higher bands. Along with that come intruders to our bands, whether in the form of Over the Horizon Radar, taxis on 10m FM or just the annoying fishing boats, usually all from our northern neighbours. The WIA IARU Monitoring System (WIMS) is a part of the IARU global monitoring activities of the Amateur Service across all three regions. Australia belongs to IARU Region 3. Information is shared with other national societies within the region and other regions to assist with locating and identifying intruders. The WIA has a long established arrangement whereby amateurs can report possible unauthorised (non-amateur) transmissions within our primary HF bands to the WIMS Coordinator. The nominated WIA Monitoring System Coordinator is Peter Young VK3MV who can be contacted by email on intruders@wia.org.au Reports of identified intruders are also lodged with the appropriate spectrum management administration to enable removal action to be taken. The WIA IARU Monitoring System is an agreed mechanism between the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Wireless Institute of Australia to identify and instigate (compliance) action to remove non-amateur intruders which are causing substantial interference to Australian amateurs in amateur HF frequency bands which are designated by the ACMA for exclusive use by amateurs. The ACMA interprets substantial interference as that level of interference which degrades reception by a considerable degree. The ACMA is obliged under the WIA IARU Monitoring System mechanism to investigate and as much as is practical resolve intrusions into amateur HF bands in which Australian amateurs have Primary status. The agreed procedure between the ACMA and the WIA for forwarding intruder complaints from the WIA has a 9 point process which can be found on the WIA website at www.wia.org.au/members/protecting/about/ The WIA and ACMA have developed a standard WIMS reporting form (an Excel spreadsheet), that should be used to record your observations, alternatively, you can use the On-Line Reporting form for reporting one off intruders which is found on the WIA website. To file reports it is important to follow the proper established channels that are in place via the WIA, ACMA and IARU mechanisms, whether a local WIA affiliated club, online radio club or a dedicated individual as this will not waste precious volunteer time and actually provide proper reporting to the appropriate authorities to address the intruders and their removal from the Amateur bands. This is Lee Moyle VK3GK and WIA Vice President for WIA news. INTRUDER WATCH - ENFORCEMENT ZONE Region III IARUMS Coordinator Peter Young VK3MV VK IARUMS reflector email to subscribe intruders@wia.org.au SUBMITTING a report? go to http://www.wia.org.au/members/protecting/intruderreport/ INTRUDER NETS Friday 0730 UTC 7.065.5 with VK4CEU David. Amateur exclusive frequencies where any non-amateur signal is definitely an intruder. Amateur HF Spectrum world wide 7.050 to 7.100 14.000 to 14.250 14.250 to 14.350 No broadcasters 21.000 to 21.450 24.890 to 24.990 28.000 to 29.700 EDUCATION Free Radio Training The Tait Radio Academy provide online courses in DMR and many other modes and many of the courses are free. You just need to register and then the course become available to undertake at your pace. On last weeks VK7WI news Sean VK7FAZE provided the link we like and now that link is in the text edition of this bulletin from the WIA taitradioacademy.com ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo is coming to a device near you soon! The crew at CQ have put out the call for speaker presentations for their next QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo in March 2021. As Eric Guth, 4Z1UG said in an email to us this week " We are looking for amateur radio presentations, on any amateur radio topic, from anyplace in the World where hams live and operate and intend to fill the weekend with excellent and educational ham radio content. We also made an investment in speaker management software to allow us to make sure that every accepted presentation is on-boarded easily and efficiently." In this the 'new norm world' there no longer is a need to use local or close by speakers for club events even. The world is our oyster. See you at the "Expo"! ( qsotodayhamexpo.com ) SOUTH PACIFIC Rotuma Memorial DXpedition Tony, 3D2AG, will once again visit in December, and be active as 3 D 2 AG/p. While there, Tony will erect a monument on the island to his late son, who, drowned during his visit to the island in January this year. In his son's honour, Tony is calling this visit the "Rehanisi Memorial DXpedition". This trip will primarily be for the purpose of finalizing the tombstone memorial. He will stay on Rotuma (OC-060) until about mid-January 2021 and wireless wise will mostly be on CW and FT8. Note however, this DXpedition is another of a growing list who use PayPal for direct QSOs. SOUTH AFRICA 117 South Africans receive their ham radio licences SARL report all licences for candidates who passed the August RAE have been issued by the communications regulator ICASA South African Radio Amateur Exams are usually held twice a year in May and October, this year only one exam, August 29 has been held. In September the SARL reported 119 candidates had passed the August RAE. In a normal year just under 200 people usually pass either their Class A or Class B exam. The population of South Africa is about 57 million, twice that of Australia. ( 25+ million mid 2020 ) UNITED KINGDOM Radio ham attacked while operating near Cheltenham The Gloucestershire Echo reports a radio amateur was attacked by four men while operating from Aggs Hill, Cleeve Common, near Cheltenham He was approached by four men. "Two of the men assaulted the victim by pushing him into the car door and punching him in the side of his head," said a police spokesperson. After the assault the four men left the scene together in a Land Rover," he added. The incident happened at around 9.20pm in the evening. Nothing was stolen during the incident however one of the offenders shouted about 'recording'," the victim said which leads the investigating officers to believe the offenders may have misconstrued the victim's actions, as he was using radio equipment in the course of his listening to broadcasts due to using amateur radio in the course of his hobby. gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/man-attacked-cleeve-common-after-4603864 146MHz experiment to continue UK hams do not have the same 2 meter privileges as we here in VK but in some good news from there regulator, OFCOM this week their temporary use of 146 to 147 MHz band which was set to expire October 31 will be available for a further year. To take advantage of this band, the UK hams need to apply for a new Notice of Variation even if they have held one before. The NoV is issued free and is available to all UK Full licence holders but the band is intended for technical and experimental work and should not be used for modes or operations that normally take place in their 144 to 146 MHz band. CANADA Unveiling Ceremony to Commemorate Battle of Atlantic and Fern Blodgett Sunde the First Female Radio Operator to go to sea. It was a 'virtual' unveiling ceremony of the Fern Blodgett Sunde bronze monument Saturday, October 17, 2020 at Cobourg, by Lake Ontario. Fern (1918-1991) grew up in Cobourg, with a dream of sailing the high seas and determined to serve Canada when WWII broke out, she became the first Canadian woman to graduate with a professional wireless radio operators certificate, and the first woman ever to work deep sea as a ships radio operator or as Sparks. Fern carried out her duties with outstanding competence and great courage during the Battle of the Atlantic. It was incredibly dangerous, as Allied ships fighting to get personnel and crucial supplies to Britain faced U-boats, mined waters, enemy aircraft, and the perils of the sea as a battlefield. Fern was aboard 78 of one ships (the Mosdale) record 96 transatlantic crossings. Later in this WIA News Bulletin Nick VK7WW will take a look at Australias first woman to hold a wireless experimenters licence rac.ca/battle-of-atlantic-and-fern-blodgett.../ ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT ----2020 THIS WEEKEND---------- CQ WW DX SSB OCTOBER 24-25 -------------- CQ WW DX CW NOVEMBER 28-29 -------------- SPRING VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS November 27-28 -------------- December 6 - 8 160 Meter WW -------------- DECEMBER 14 - 15 10 Mtr World Wide -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- AUSTRALIA VK 65 PFA, will continue until the 24th of November marking World Polio Day. The special event station VK 65 PFA, will continue until the 24th of November. Visit the QRZ page of VK65PFA for operating and QSL details. ( This just in from VK4DI -" Bill & I will be kicking off this event during the CQWW SSB contest this weekend. Other ROAR members will be activating the call on FT8 and CW during November - We will post on the DX Cluster and on the ROAR FB page when we can. facebook.com/groups/RotariansROAR/ The full info is on QRZ.com. Club Log and LOTW have been set up as well. Logs will be updated as we receive them from the various operators in VK *Special Event Station VK65PFA (Polio Free Africa)" -------------- 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. Activity is on the HF bands and QSL is via LoTW. -------------- OR 39 CLM in Belgium commemorates the liberation in 1944 by Canadian troops. Folk all through the region take part in the 'Canadian Liberation March' where 'pre-Covid many thousands of walkers participated in the march that follows the route that was taken by the soldiers, that being between the Western Scheldt in the Netherlands and Knokke-Heist in Belgium. This is the 39th year they have had special event station on the air. So, the special event call this year will be OR39CLM (Canadian Liberation March). OR39CLM is QRV until only November 13. onz.be/or39clm/ -------------- Listen for Don, K6ZO, who is active as 7 Q 6 M from a mission hospital at the Loudon Station in Malawi, a landlocked country in south-eastern Africa through until the middle of December. He will be using CW and SSB at various times, usually on 20, 40 and 80 meters and his residence, he will operate FT8. You can also listen for him during the CQWW DX SSB Contest this weekend October 24th and 25th and the CQWW DX CW Contest on November 28th and 29th. Send QSLs to K6ZO. (ARNewsLine) -------------- Updated October 16th is a list provided by the U.S. Postal Service re temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to service impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Suspension Due to Foreign Postal Operator Service Suspension includes Madagascar, Turkmenistan and Libya whilst suspension due to unavailability of transportation includes Lebanon, Republic of Congo, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Syria. about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm -------------- NET ADVICE Australian amateurs have recently launched a new international club to promote and embrace diversity in the radio hobbies. The Pride Radio Group exists as a safe and friendly community for people from all walks of life to discuss and experiment with radio while showing pride in their identity. Membership in the Pride Radio Group is free and has already attracted over 100 signups. Activities include a global net, a future contest and special events to promote the group and build a community. Learn more about the Pride Radio Group on the web site: _prideradio.group_ (vk3fur) ------------------------------------------------------------* MEDIA WATCH Hi this is Nick VK7WW. It wasn't that long ago when we heard about the book Four Men and a Walrus; but heres a new one! Take note, because its about our Amateur Radio Heritage. This book is called RADIO GIRL by David Dufty. Its the story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneer engineer and wartime legend, Florence Violet McKenzie. She created an epicentre in 1921 for Amateur Wireless Operators in Sydney with The Wireless Shop. Mrs Mac was the first woman in Australia to hold a wireless experimenters licence - in the 1920s the majority of Communications was by CW; and Mrs Mac was captivated by Morse Code. But there is much more in the book than what Ive mentioned here... As Dick Smith describes RADIO GIRL by DAVID DUFTY, Its a cracking story about the famous Australian radio engineer youve never heard of Ill be back soon with another BOOK NOTE. This is Nick VK7WW Signing Clear. ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN Ham Radio Perspectives on YouTube has posted the first history of ham radio print media, from QST and CQ magazine to callbooks, manuals, catalogues, and even fiction. Also covered are some pre-ham periodicals that influenced the growth of the hobby, and special columns in publications such as Popular Electronics. youtu.be/lCVUgybTmwY (eHam.net) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- BALLOONING Eleven schools across the US launched helium-filled balloons carrying amateur radio payloads on October 9. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum live-streamed the multiple launches and the balloons were trackable via ham radio on APRS The lighter-than-air vehicles were intended to head east around the globe, although theres no accounting for upper air currents. Altitudes were expected to be in the 20,000 25,000 foot range, with the balloons taking a few days to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Some of the balloons are already out over the Atlantic, and one, the KS1LAS-1 balloon, launched from Washington, was reported over the Mediterranean on October 14, moving at a speedy 69 MPH at an altitude of some 40,400 feet. (qrznow.com) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW FISTS Club - East Asia feacw.net FISTS Club - Australasia fdu.org.au FISTS Club - UK & Europe fists.co.uk FISTS Club - Americas fists.org Recommended FISTS calling frequencies (MHz): 1.808 3.528 7.028 10.118 14.058 18.085 21.058 24.908 28.058 The Reverse Beacon Network CW operators, the Reverse Beacon Network or RBN is an invaluable tool. It is made up of dozens of dedicated receiving stations who report on all signals heard, both signal strength and CW speed. It is especially useful as a propagation tool. Just call CQ and see where and how well you are being heard. Use it to compare antenna performance or to see how you are doing compared to other stations. Probably the most useful feature is a database of past spots so you can look back over time to see what was happening on the bands. The RBN is hosted by DXwatch.com and to use the system, just log into reversebeacon.net (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Last week in this news I spoke of the "Kessler Syndrome," the theory that space above Earth could one day become so crowded, so polluted with both active satellites and the detritus of space explorations past, that it could render future space endeavours difficult, if not impossible. Now comes word that in comments to the FCC, ARRL has targeted two specific areas of concern regarding a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, that being mitigation of orbital debris in the new space age. In comments filed the ARRL focused on the areas of indemnification and maneuverability/propulsion. Indemnification places the liability for any possible damage from a satellite on an individual or entity. ARRL reiterated its assertion that, as a practical matter, an indemnification requirement "would seriously impair the ability of amateur and university experimenters to launch and operate satellites under US auspices" due to the potential liability and high insurance cost. The FNPRM can be found here docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-54A1.pdf (arrl) Although the FCC has announced plans to delete the secondary amateur radio 3.3 - 3.5 GHz allocation, that amateur allocation will remain in place just across the northern US border. Radio Amateurs of Canada said that the FCC action has raised concerns among Canadian amateurs BUT this FCC action does not directly affect Canadian amateurs, who continue to have a secondary allocation on this band. World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23) will include an agenda item to consider worldwide allocations to mobile internet services in several bands, among them 3.3 - 3.4 GHz and 10.0 - 10.5 GHz. The International Amateur Radio Union has announced its intention to vigorously defend amateur interests in both bands at WRC-23 and RAC representatives in Canadian working groups preparing the Canadian positions for WRC-23 agenda items will be doing likewise, RAC said. (eHam) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org OC-139. Grant VK5GR, advises all that he is " returning to Kangaroo Island (OC-139) - January 11-22nd, 2021 -- After a successful trip in July 2020, I will be returning to KI in January for a longer break. As we get closer, details of what bands and modes will be active will be announced on my web page." vk5gr-iota.net (SouthGate) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ROTA ROTA Recipes On The Air ANZA NET 14.183 0515 UTC Daily and Thursdays do they have the recipe (for fun) Ladies Day is now held on Thursdays each week with the ANZA net -controls are Lyn VK4SWE when available and Shirley VK5YL and is usually followed by ROTA (Recipes on the Air). These YLs (and OMs) would love to hear some new voices. Join in the fun! (ALARA NewsLetter) ------------------------------------------------------------* REWIND - WITH JOHN KNOX Recording Industry Pioneer Jac Holzman, ex-K2VEH, Marks a Milestone: A recent online Rolling Stone magazine article chronicled the career of Jack, at one time a Radio Ham who went on and became a recording industry and technology pioneer. Seventy years ago, K2VEH co-founded Elektra Records, a label best known for folk and blues fare, and he signed such diverse acts as The Doors and Judy Collins. "He helped launch both the CD format and home video, and sat on the board of Atari, which revolutionized home entertainment in 1977 with the Atari 2600 game console. He also set up the pilot program that became MTV, and held executive roles at Pioneer Electronics and Panavision," Rolling Stone's Tim Ingham wrote. Jack was also behind the Authentic Sound Effects albums that became popular with radio and TV producers and helped pull Elektra out of debt. In a photo in Rolling Stone a young Jac Holzman is sitting with cans on and right hand on a key, in front of a desk laden with now-vintage ham gear. The image does capture a professional tape machine, however, so it's possible that Holzman's ham shack and home studio were one and the same. A WRL-print QSL card -- visible in the background and a bit hard to see -- displays Holzman's call sign, K2VEH. It's not known how long Holzman was a radio amateur, but judging from the stack of equipment in front of him in the photo, he must have fired up that Globe Scout once in a while, when not building the Elektra label. rollingstone.com/pro/features/elektra-records-the-doors-jac-holzman-1074071/ (The ARRL Letter and eHam) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2020 Social Scene THIS WEEKEND - SATURDAY 24 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 (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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