2020 DECEMBER 20 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 DECEMBER 20 2020 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS Linda VK7QP President of ALARA is joined by Lyndall VK4ZM, Lesley VK5LOL and Shirley VK5YL to read this Christmas News Broadcast along with WIA Vice-president who takes a look at AR Magazine and the on line trial exams plus the Secretary with a look at our next Board. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA The federal government has announced it is providing $13.2 million to Telstra, Optus and TPG to extend battery backup at 467 mobile phone towers in regional and remote communities to provide a minimum of 12 hours of backup power. The investment is part of the $650 million bushfire recovery relief package announced by the Prime Minister and Minister for Emergency Management in May 2020. tinyurl.com/y2s5pkcs The NSW Telco Authority has awarded a five-year contract to manage the Public Safety Network (PSN) to BAI Communications. The PSN, formerly known as the Government Radio Network, aims to provide emergency services organisations with a single, integrated platform to communicate, rather, than separate networks. NSW's Telco Authoritys Managing Director, Kylie De Courteney has said Its technology that saves lives and we are working to ensure that frontline responders have the critical infrastructure they need to protect communities." Next to Australias triple zero emergency hotline, the PSN is the most critical communications network in NSW. tinyurl.com/y573h29d ( criticalcomms.com.au ) THE exciting news to pop up this week would HAVE to be a remarkable 13,000 km opening on 50 MHz between Australia and South America. With the Summer Sporadic-E season here in the southern hemisphere in full swing, there was a remarkable opening on the 6 Mtr band 12th of December between Australia and South America. The opening which is believed to have been multi-hop Sporadic-E was remarkable because of the distances involved which were in the region of 13,000kms and the fact that some of the signals crossed over part of Antarctica. One of the longest distances reported was between VK 5 BC near Adelaide and PT 9 FD in the south of Brazil, a distance of 13,530 kms. (ei7gl blog) WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y WIA BOARD MINUTES wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/minutes/ WIA BOARD NEWSLETTERS (older) Giving members to have a better awareness of Board activities. wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/newsletters/ NOW to the WIA Vice Present Lee Moyle VK3GK Thanks Linda. WIA Foundation Exam Training Portal Update In late September you may recall I mentioned that the WIA had released the Online Trial Foundation exam portal as a response to the many requests from potential Foundation candidates needing access to trial exam practice. Well that has that been an absolute winner with the Foundation candidates with the numbers and success rates increasing. Often I ask the Foundation candidates whether they used the WIA trial exam portal for their studies and an overwhelming majority say yes, absolutely, and the success rate proves its worth from AMC candidate results I receive as an AMC assessor. Statistics from Marc Hillman VK3OHM from Wednesday earlier this week show that 4351 trial exams have been attempted and completed since 3rd of September until 16th December, thats in the last 104 days and that equates to about 42 exams per day every day. We have now had over 1055 unique IP addresses access the portal, up about 755 from the 300 since September 3. So what does it really mean? In a nutshell, that potential new candidates approve and appreciate the effort and support the WIA offer to help them enter and start their new adventure of Amateur Radio. wia.org.au/licenses/foundation/onlineexams/foundation.php AR Magazine As one of the WIA Board representatives that attend the regular AR Pub Com meetings, what can I say to Roger Harrison and the team but Congratulations and Well Done! Lets be honest, the effort, commitment and results Pub Com have delivered is seriously quite amazing, given the distractions during 2020 and to manage all six issues of AR magazines delivered to the members by the end of the year, as promised. We all look forward to AR magazine what instalments await us in 2021. wia.org.au/members/armag/about/ Continuing news direct from WIA HQ - "listen up" WIA Board Nominations Recently I announced the opening of nominations for members interested in becoming part of the Board of the WIA. There are 3 retiring directors Greg VK2GPK, myself Peter VK8ZZ and Scott VK3KJ. There is also a current vacancy to be filled. So just a reminder that the nomination form is available on the WIA web site. tinyurl.com/y7ku53up This is WIA Secretary / Director Peter VK8ZZ ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. We'll start with a movement originating in the USA and set to open 'chapters' in Canada and Mexico during 2021 WOMAN IN ELECTONICS It's a gathering, "Thought Leadership", powered by Women. Women in Electronics or "WE" strives to expand the talent in the Electronics Industry. As Jackie Mattox, Founder and President says:- You can become the change you seek to create if you have the will to create it. The link we like to WE is in this weeks text edition of the news YOU like wia.org.au womeninelectronics.com/ INDONESIA 103 people take ham radio exam and for the first time an amateur radio exam using the Online system although it was held in an "all in environment" in rooms at a computer laboratory at a general senior secondary school or SMA. In starting this exam, the participants were subjected to a medical examination according to medical protocol procedures. In the exam, there were several participants who could not operate computers, so they were accompanied by the committee. In taking this exam, if there are participants who do not pass they will be given the opportunity to take the retest three times BUT if on the 3rd occasion they still do not pass, the participant is declared to have failed the exam. CHINA Last week on WIA National News Jason VK2LAW brought us the story from Cuba on what is now referred to as the "HAVANNA SYNDRONE". The Microwave 'attack' on US and Canadian embassy's. Now we learn how China has allegedly turned a Ladakh battleground with India into a microwave oven. India dismisses claim that China used microwave weapons on its troops in Himalayan border battle as 'fake news' and says 'our soldiers are still there' India has denied claims from a Chinese professor that the weapons were used officials said that the claim was 'pure and poor physiological operations from China' Electromagnetic weapons were allegedly used on disputed Himalayan border They cleared out Indian troops without violating ban on gunfire, professor said It came weeks after soldiers fought with rocks and clubs in a deadly brawl tinyurl.com/yyfa5p2u GERMANY Divers on a WWF expedition to search for ghost nets in the Baltic Sea have turned up a more unusual discovery. What was initially mistaken for an old typewriter turned out to be an Enigma code machine used by the Nazis in WWII. The infamous encryption machines were used by the Nazis to encode messages sent via Morse code during the war, scuppering the Allied Forces attempts to track German military movements. That is until a British team of mathematicians and scientists led by Alan Turing, and building on breakthroughs by Polish codebreakers -- broke the encryption in 1941; something historians credit with shortening the war. The German divers were searching for abandoned fishing nets, known as ghost nets, which can be deadly to marine life, in the Bay of Gelting in northern Germany when their sonar picked up what they thought was a typewriter caught in a net. The letters were still legible. FINLAND Radio hams ask for 1240-1300 MHz replacement Finland lost the important 1240-1300 MHz amateur radio band on April 24, 2020. National society SRAL is now asking for 220-225 MHz as a replacement, their initial request for 902-928 MHz having been rejected The request is to provide spectrum for Amateur Television operation. It seems that currently operation in 1240-1300 MHz is still possible but only by applying for a Special Permit. These Special Permits will cease when the Galileo GNSS constellation becomes fully operational. UNITED KINGDOM The BBC has revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020. This year '100 Women' is highlighting those who are leading change and making a difference during these turbulent times. The list includes Sanna Marin, who leads Finland's all-female coalition government, Michelle Yeoh, star of the new Avatar and Marvel films and Sarah Gilbert, who heads the Oxford University research into a coronavirus vaccine, as well as Jane Fonda, climate activist and actress. And in an extraordinary year - when countless women around the world have made sacrifices to help others - one name on the 100 Women list has been left blank ----- as a tribute. bbc.com/news/world-55042935 ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT With no further contests from VK for this year I think time you diarised our ALARA CONTEST. A Combined phone and CW run over 24 hours starting on Saturday 28th August at 0600 hours UTC finishing Sunday 29th August at 0559 hours UTC ----2021------- Ross Hull Memorial VHF/UHF Contest takes place ALL of January 2021 -------------- VHF-UHF SUMMER FIELD DAY - Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 January. -------------- CQWW 160M CW CONTEST January 29 - 31. CQWW 160M SSB CONTEST February 26 - 28. -------------- CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest February 13-14 -------------- International DX CW Contest February 20-21 -------------- International DX Phone Contest March 6 - 7 -------------- WIA John Moyle Field Day 2021 March from UTC 0100 on Saturday 20 to 0059 Sunday 21nd. -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- Antarctica operation Alexei will be active as RI 01 ANT from Antarctica between December 25th, and May 30th. Activity will be from Russian Progress (WAP RUS-11) and Vostok (WAP RUS-13) Base stations. Operations will be on 40 meters and higher using CW and FT8. QSL via RX6A. ADDED NOTES: Alexei, RX6A, is currently operating as RX6A/MM from on-board a Russian scientific research icebreaker on its way to Antarctica. DXClusters show activity on FT8 and SSB, on 30/12/10 meters. (SouthGate) -------------- ROTUMA, 3D2. Tony QRV as 3D2AG/p until mid-January on 160 to 6 meters, including 60 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL direct to 3D2AG. (arrl) -------------- ITALY, I. Special Event station IO 5 CNPP until today, December 20, is in remembrance of the Heroes of Chernobyl. QSL via IZ 5 RHU. (arrl) -------------- SANTA ALERT LITHUANIA, LY. LY 20 XMAS for the Christmas holiday. QSL to home call LY2QT (ARRL) CANCELL CHRISTMAS ! SAQ Christmas Transmission cancelled Grimeton World Heritage Foundation & Alexander GVV Friends Association unfortunately have informed 'SantaAlert' that the traditional VLF Christmas Eve transmission with SAQ is cancelled. (SouthGate) BULGARIA. LZ 2020 XMAS is QRV until January 1, 2021. QSL via LZ 1 VKI. (arrl) In the UK GB 4XMS is, from today the 20th of December to the 3rd of January, on air. (rsgb) FINLAND, OH. Special event station OH 9 SCL is QRV from Lapland during Santa Clause Month, the SCL for Santa Clause Land. QSL via LoTW. Welland Valley Amateur Radio Society are running special callsigns:- GB1 XMS GB2 XMS, GB5 XMS and GB9 XMS celebrating Christmas and saying farewell to 2020. QSL via eQSL and Logbook of The World. (rsgb) Celebrating Christmas and the New Year, TM 20 XMAS and TM 21 HNY QSL via eQSL only (sourced to rsgb) Members of the Holy land DX Group will operate 4 X 7 T from 0800 UTC on the 25th ending 1300 UTC the 26th of December. They will have three running stations on the 80 to 10m bands using CW, SSB and FT-8. The QSL Manager is Ros, 4Z5LA. Hope QSO parties over Christmas The first starts Tomorrow Monday, 21 December. A Second, Monday, 4 January 2021. Each series has two phone, two CW, two RTTY and two FT4 events For more informationincluding a link to the rulesvisit the Get on the air for Christmas page at rsgb.org/gota4c. As part of this RSGB and NHS campaign Get On the Air for Christmas the NHS amateur radio station GB 1 NHS will be on air TODAY Sunday, 20 December and Wednesday, 30 December. The Society is also delighted that Ofcom is supporting the use of /NHS as a suffix to call signs during the campaign, which started yesterday Saturday, 19 through to Saturday, 9 January 2021. 3 special calls celebrate Christmas BUT no QSL cards. PA 20 XMAS, PD 20 SANTA and PD20ELF during the Christmas holiday season NO cards BUT an award for working 2 or more. ( qrz.com/db/PA20XMAS ) Well, that is all for OPERATIONAL NEWS this week. This has been Lyndall VK4ZM for the ALARA Just Before Christmas edition of WIA National News. ------------------------------------------------------------* WIRELESS WEATHER Sunspot Cycle 25 Strongest Ever A research paper, "Overlapping Magnetic Activity Cycles and the Sunspot Number: Forecasting Sunspot Cycle 25 Amplitude," by Scott W. McIntosh, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, et al., has concluded that Solar Cycle 25 could be among the strongest sunspot cycles ever observed, and will almost certainly be stronger than the just-ended Solar Cycle 24 (sunspot number of 116). The scientists say it will also most likely be stronger than Solar Cycle 23 (sunspot number of 180). Keeping a 'safe' eye on the new cycle is the world's largest solar observatory, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii. It has now released its first image of a sunspot, which captures the phenomenon in striking detail. The image, taken last January, is among the first solar images of the new Solar Cycle 25 and this Hawaii telescope's 4m primary mirror will give the best views of the sun from Earth throughout solar cycle 25. tinyurl.com/gb2rs-sunspot (arrl and rsgb) MEDIA WATCH DSTAR & DMR Rebroadcasts Continuing Popularity WIA National News and VK7 Amateur Radio News are broadcast on the Tasmania hosted DSTAR Reflector 91 C and regularly get 8-10 call-backs each week from all over the place. On DMR Talk Group regularly 10-15 call-backs each week. Clayton VK7ZCR says these numbers are consistent and demonstrate the strong take-up of the digital modes. (vk7wi news) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 ARISS Slow Scan TV event Another ARISS Slow Scan TV event is scheduled from the International Space Station for late December. This will be a special SSTV event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARISS. The event is scheduled to begin on December 24 and continue through December 31. Dates are subject to change due to ISS operational adjustments. (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FEMALES IN RADIO. More young radio amateurs in India The Bangalore Mirror newspaper reports two 13-year-olds, Smrithi Hegde and Prama Rao, have become the youngest female radio amateurs in India For the last two years, I have been closely following my father operating and communicating with HAM radios. I was fascinated by the way it works and decided to apply for the course and become a qualified HAM operator. After I got my licence I have been regularly communicating with the HAM community, said Smrithi. Read the article at bangaloremirror. indiatimes.com tinyurl.com/y2cntf34 REAST Open Day At the start of the month REAST held an Open Day at the heritage listed Queens Domain clubrooms in Hobart It was setup as a showcase of amateur radio in Southern Tasmania for the general public. The first impressions were there were many younger couples who went along to see what amateur radio was about. ALARA President Linda VK7QP added five (YES 5 !) new ladies to her contact list who are in various stages of the amateur radio journey. (VK7WI NEWS) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Two ground-breaking robotic sample return missions dominated much of the space news these past weeks. A capsule holding grains of rock and dust sampled from asteroid Ryugu hit the Earths atmosphere at 11.6 km/s and safely parachuted into the Australian outback. Hayabusa2 launched in 2014, took four years to reach Ryugu, then did a bunch of science (including shooting it with a tantalum bullet and dropping numerous deployables on the body, before returning with ~100 mg of samples, After travelling more than 5.2 billion kilometres over 6 years, it lined up and sent it's capsule towards VK5, Woomera to be precise. Hayabusa2 spacecraft itself will not return to Earth. Instead, after it separated from the capsule a day ahead of the landing, it flew away on a new mission to rendezvous with three other asteroids between 2026 and 2031. After 19 hours of drilling and scooping samples, Change 5s ascent vehicle spring-launched and then blasted off, returning to lunar orbit carrying ~2 kg of regolith. It successfully rendezvoused with the return vehicle, transferred the sample, and the return vehicle has embarked on its multi-day return trip. After arriving in an Earth orbit, the re-entry capsule will conduct a series of complicated manoeuvres to return to a pre-set landing site in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. A 24-year-old female space commander has become a viral sensation on Chinese social media for her work on the Chang'e-5 Moon exploration programme. Despite being the youngest commander at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, Ms Zhou was in charge of the rocket connector system, described as a pivotal role. Chinese state media highlighted her as but just one of the women involved in the successful launch of the Chang'e-5 lunar probe. These will be the first lunar samples returned since the 70s and the first sample return mission for China. (ams bbc and www) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- QRP and WEAK SIGNAL COMMUNICATION New YouTube channel dedicated to low power ham radio The G-QRP club have launched a YouTube channel for those interested in low power amateur radio operation An initial batch of 18 videos have been uploaded featuring presentations delivered to the 2020 Virtual G-QRP Convention. See the new G-QRP YouTube channel at youtube.com/channel/UClhe-ybLZzpnJh80VmFuS-A/videos (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO IARU REGION 3 Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz Region 1 3760 7110 14300 18160 21360 kHz Region 2 3750 3985 7060 7240 7275 14300 18160 21360 kHz HAM RADIO SAVES THE BACON (AND OTHER GROCERIES) This is a very personal story of how ham radio recently saved the bacon - along with some other groceries. It happened to her when she arrived at her local store to pick up the order she had placed in advance. Unfortunately, when she arrived she discovered she'd left her mobile phone at home and couldn't call to say she was parked outside and ready for delivery. So Amanda Alden K1DDN reached for her mobile RADIO and did what hams do best: [INSERT 3 SECOND PLEA FOR HELP AUDIO] AMANDA: Robert KF0BVR, whose QTH is 35 minutes away, responded to my distress call. The freshness of our fruits and vegetables was at stake. Oh and even our steak was at stake. [INSERT 5 SECOND ANSWER AUDIO] AMANDA: Robert phoned the grocery store and got us checked in so they could bring the groceries out to the car. [INSERT 2 SECOND "YOU'RE CHECKED IN" AUDIO] [INSERT 3 SECOND THANK YOU AUDIO] AMANDA: When all else fails - including your own memory to carry your cellphone - there's always ham radio. For Amateur Radio NewsLine, with a happy and full refrigerator I'm Amanda Alden K1DDN. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SUMMITS ON THE AIR sotawatch.org sota.org.uk Over in VK7 a Summits On The Air / World Wide Flora and Fauna parks group is now meeting twice weekly. Mondays and Fridays 10.30 AM till 12.00 at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry Street, Launceston. For more information contact Al VK7AN on 0417 354 410. (vk7wi news) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota The EI 0 YOTA callsign has been activated a number of times since the start of December. A special thanks to 8 year-old Ryan EI8KW, eleven-year-old Siobhan, daughter of Adrian EI9HAB and Slav EI6KW and his daughter, who have all taken the time to operate the EI0YOTA callsign. Between them they have achieved over one thousand QSOs so far. ------------------------------------------------------------* REWIND CELEBRATING WOMEN RADIO PIONEERS A collection from the National Sound and Film Archives in Canberra, and available on the "interweb" celebrates the women who played an important professional role during Australias early years of radio broadcasting and became pioneers in media production techniques. They gained prominence as producers, directors, writers and performers at a time when most women were encouraged to stay at home as housewives and mothers. Many of these womens stories in radio can be told through items in the NFSA collection, including radio recordings, photographs, scrapbooks, scripts, books, magazines and oral histories. Notably, this collection includes several episodes of radio dramas made by Grace Gibson Productions in Sydney. nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/women-radio ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 and even without Covid dates have an uncanny knack of being changed at last moment. TARC will count down the minutes and seconds until 2021 utilising the original Talking Clock on the Townsville VHF Repeater, VK4PQ AllStarLink and EchoLink Nodes and VK4MSS AllStar Link node (vk4zz) VK4 - VKCC Christmas Get-Together Norman Hotel Dec 27 (vk4ts) 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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