2020 DECEMBER 27 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 27 2020 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA Directors Phil VK2CPR, Lee VK3GK and Greg VK2GK join us this week. President Greg will run through what the WIA has achieved for us this year, Phil VK2CPR will enhance of a couple of those achievements and our Vice President explains what's involved in becoming a WIA Director. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA NEW PHONES ON THE BLOCK FOR CHRISTMAS Many a kid this year would have received a mobile phone, for some it would have been an upgrade. New research from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that almost half (46%) of Australian children aged between 6 to 13 years use a mobile phoneup from 41% in 2015. The ACMAs latest report reveals around one third of Australian children aged 6 to 13 owned a mobile phone. Ownership of a mobile phone is higher for the 12 to 13 year olds, with just over three quarters (76%) of children in this age group owning the mobile they used. Around half of girls (48%) and boys (45%) had accessed a mobile phone. Access among boys has risen, up from 38% in 2015. In contrast, usage among girls has remained steady over the 6 year period. The most common reason for girls to reach for their phones was to take photos or videos, while for boys it was to play games. Children are also using mobiles to access apps, send or receive text messages, call their parents or family and listen to music. The report measures how childrens use of mobile phones is changing, including how habits compare across different ages, locations and backgrounds. tinyurl.com/yactwqwb acma.gov.au/research-program WA announces plans for new emergency radio network with the first phase of the project seeing more than 11,000 radio devices replaced with newer technology. The Western Australian Government has announced a $60 million plan for part one of a multistage project to build a dedicated, secure, state-wide emergency services radio network to be used and shared by all first responder agencies. Presently, emergency services agencies such as police, fire and ambulance, along with other organisations such as the prison system, all use their own dedicated radio systems. This means there is no ability for, for instance, police officers to communicate over the same channels as firefighters at an emergency scene, said the story in Criticalcomms.com.au The first phase of the project for which tenders will be released in early 2021 is expected to include the replacement of more than 11,000 end-of-life and outdated radio devices used by WA Police, Fire and Emergency Services, and Justice. tinyurl.com/yb76hpvn 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/ Hi, I am WIA Director Phil, VK2CPR. The WIA board has met and overcome many challenges during the year. It has been a steep learning curve for me. The year started with the re-booting of the magazine. The task took a great deal of reconstruction and with the help of our secretary Peter VK8KZZ and the publication committee, it was achieved. Our WIA region 3 representatives to the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) have been busy looking after amateur radio interests; particularly, mounting commercial pressure on the 70cm and other favourite bands used by the majority of amateurs. For example, an Australian research authority proposed that their satellite use the 70cm band to download telemetry. We responded that our condition for the use of this band was that the satellite carry some benefit to amateur operators such as SSTV or APRS transponders. Talks are ongoing. As is most technologies, social media is a double edged sword. I must say when I started there was disquieting social media use by some people bent on anarchy. They provided a barrage of spoof emails purporting to come from other board members, a spoof web site and a stream of targeted emails trying to get a rise. Anyway, all that has tailed off to zero. Peter Schrader (vk4ea) is working on the WIA social media guidelines document which will help us wrangle social media. Covid wasnt all bad news for us. The board was successful in obtaining multiple government grants. Also, we constructed our first ever virtual AGM which worked well. We had to work out the nitty gritty with ASIC to make sure all was ok. It is a testament for the amateurs involved that when the pressure is on amateurs use their technical expertise to come up with the goods. If you run a business in Australia you know the cost of ever escalating insurance premiums. Ever escalating premiums are caused by the failure of self-regulation in the insurance industry, the ombudsman, Ms Carnell said. Ms Carnell recommends Australia follow the lead of New Zealand, which has applied statutory caps on liability for personal injury. Our ZL cousins are ahead of Australia in this respect. Here in VK land, the risk environment for public liability litigation can only change through government intervention. We designed and produced our membership card with the help of Robert Broomhead (VK3DN) who integrated the card into our web page provider Memnet and Lee Moyle (VK3GK) who did the legwork linking membership cards with benefits provided by various companies. Memnet supplies the business logic behind our web page. We are working with them to introduce a quarterly membership payment option next year. I marvel at our weekly news broadcast, it is world class, thanks to everyone involved, particularly, Graham (VK4BB) who integrates our spoken and written news items when our turn rolls around with alarming regularity, for me anyway. Cheers for now and 73, have a happy New Year, Phil VK2CPR Hi this is Lee VK3GK, WIA Vice President. WIA Director Nominations The WIA will soon be calling for nominations for the 2021 half-board election. Directors are elected for a two-year term and hence each year approximately half the board positions are up for nominations. The nomination process closes late January each new year. Forms and instructions will be on the website, plus you will need another member to support your nomination. If you believe you can add value to the WIA particularly in any one of the areas of marketing, finance / accounting, strategy, commercial management or governance plus have a passion for the future of amateur radio, then we would like you to seriously consider nominating. To continue the now 110 year legacy of the WIA, the WIA needs you! Also if you know someone that has these or similar attributes, maybe apply some gentle persuasion! The WIA Board of Directors wish all our Volunteers, Members, Helpers and Friends a Safe and Prosperous New Year 2021. 73 from Lee VK3GK, WIA Vice President for WIA National 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. RUSSIA Russian 'doomsday' plane's radio equipment stolen by thieves Thieves have stolen electronic equipment from a Russian military aircraft known as a "doomsday plane" for its role in the country's nuclear arsenal, Russian local media report. "Reports say unknown thieves broke into the Ilyushin Il-80 plane at an airfield in the southern region of Rostov. It is unclear when the incident took place, but 39 units of equipment and five radio boards were taken. Their local government said an investigation was under way. Military experts say the aircraft is one of four Il-80s designed to be used as airborne command posts for Russian officials, including the president, in the event of a nuclear conflict. Interfax news agency describes them as among Russia's most classified aircraft. Further details have not been publicly disclosed about the equipment taken by the thieves. Read the full BBC story bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55229438 GERMANY Germanys temporary license for the amateur radio 160m band has been extended until the end of 2021 The IARU-R1 site says that in agreement with the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure) and the Federal Ministry of Defence and in accordance with Official Journal 24 of the BNetzA, the following deviations from the usage regulations are permitted for the use of the frequency ranges 1850-1890 kHz and 18902000 kHz in amateur radio until December 31, 2021: (1) in the frequency ranges 18501890 kHz and 18902000 kHz, the use of a maximum transmit power of 750 watts PEP by holders of a licence to participate in the Class A amateur radio service shall be permitted at weekends. (2) in the same ranges the use of a maximum transmit power of 100 watts PEP by holders of a licence to participate in the Class E amateur radio service at weekends shall be permitted. and (3) Contest operation is permitted on weekends. UNITED KINGDOM The RSGB's Get on the air for Christmas charity auction has ended with an incredibly generous final bid of 1,025.99 Roy Bailey, G0VFS won the Lockdown Category in the RSGBs annual Construction Competition and donated the beautifully engineered VirusPerpleXed Bug CW Key for this auction. Ellie Orton, Chief Executive of NHS Charities Together says: Thank you so much Roy for choosing to raise funds for NHS Charities Together in such a unique way. In addition, a huge thank you to the RSGB for kindly match-funding the winning bid. These funds mean we can continue to help NHS charities to support NHS staff, volunteers and patients at the centre of this crisis. So in all close to $4000 Australian dollars raised, well done RSGB. USA The coronavirus pandemic has made life difficult for everyone. On the plus side, however, its prompted creative solutions to work around the various roadblocks the pandemic has imposed Volunteer Examiners in Oregon, affiliated with the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator put their heads together to overcome the adversity and hold a safe and secure exam session Current health regulations in Oregon precluded both indoor and outdoor gatherings. Nonetheless, the Grant County Amateur Radio Club, the local ARES Group, and the Grant County Emergency Radio Infrastructure Coalition combined forces to offer 5 candidates the chance to obtain their first license or to upgrade their existing license, all from the comfort of their vehicles. Each candidate took the exam in the front seat of their own vehicle. Cell phones, papers, and anything not required for the exam were removed. 3 new Technician licensees and two new General-class radio amateurs resulted from the drive in session. WALK THE PLANK! The Federal Communications Commissions Enforcement Bureau has begun targeting property owners and managers that tolerate pirate broadcasting on their properties. It started by notifying owners of three properties in Queens in New York City that there is apparent illegal broadcasting happening at their buildings. The bureau issued an announcement that it is exercising the FCCs new authority under the recently enacted PIRATE Act, which gave the commission a significant new hammer in its anti-pirate toolkit: Parties that knowingly facilitate illegal broadcasting on their property are liable for fines of up to $2 million, it stated. ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ASTRONOMICAL Astronomers in Parkes NSW are calling the mysterious radio signal they heard BLC-1. It's their way of describing the narrowband emission they detected in the spring of 2019 coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star closest to our sun. The unexplained signal was picked up by the Parkes telescope and later analysed remotely at Penn State University in the USA, with findings just posted this month on the National Geographic website. Was this a type of special event station from an alien life form? Well, the listeners who received the signal are naturally hoping so. That narrowband reception in VK2 gave them some hope - at least initially - experts have advised the researchers that there is more likely a rather ordinary, terrestrial explanation since the signal is more akin to what is produced by our very earthbound Wi-Fi, GPS and cell towers. They have also yet to receive that signal again. (sourced to ARNewsLine) VENUS AND MARS ARE ALRIGHT TONIGHT - BUT JUPITER AND SATURN WERE OUTSTANDING, FOR SOME. Whenever Jupiter and Saturn are in conjunction that is, when they appear from earth to be very close together in the sky it is referred to as a Great Conjunction, primarily because unlike conjunctions with the other bright planets, these two dont get together very often. Many enthusiastic star gazers were out early last week gazing upwards. The last time these two planets appeared so close was on July 16, 1623, when they were only 5 arc minutes apart. So did YOU miss the heavenly vista? You will get another 6-arc minute separation on March 15, 2080, yes TWENTY EIGHTY [ANS] 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 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 ARRL STRAIGHT KEY NIGHT This 24-hour event is not a contest; rather it is a day dedicated to celebrating our CW heritage. Participants are encouraged to get on the air and simply make enjoyable, conversational CW QSOs. The use of straight keys or bugs to send CW is preferred. There are no points scored and all who participate are winners. Straight Key Night is held every January 1 from 0000 UTC through 2359 UTC. (ARRL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org OC-150. Members connected with ORARI are now active as 7 C 9 N from Mataram City on Lombok Island until Thursday December 31st. Activity will be on various HF bands. QSL route for 7C9N is via HA 3J B. (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- QRP and WEAK SIGNAL COMMUNICATION 49th O R I G I N A L - Q R P - C O N T E S T The contest promotes creative or unconventional QRP, like home brewing or just doing it without your usual 'luxurious' QRO equipment. 2nd/3rd J A N U A R Y 2021 CW segments of the 80-, 40-, and 20m band. Your Q to call is CQ OQRP ( i.e. Original QRP) Four Categories: V L P ( 1 W out or 2 W in) Q R P ( 5 W out or 10 W in) M P (20 W out or 40 W in) No QRO as it suggests, power above 40 W Promoting the creative aspects of QRP the usage of equipment homemade by the operator will be rewarded by:- 15% bonus of QSO points for a TX or TRX assembled from a kit. 30% bonus for a unique individual handmade TX or TRX. qrpcc.de/contestrules/oqrpr.html 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 WICEN NSW, is a communications support squad of the NSW Volunteer Rescue Association. Members are asked to remain prepared for activation as summer is a time when things seem to go wobbly sometimes literally for example, the small earthquake of magnitude 2.1 recorded just some 50k from Sydney last Sunday the 20th. This "trembler" was cantered 2.8 km south of Menangle, Wollondilly, New South Wales and was said to be at a depth of just under 3kms. There will be a remote training exercise on January 9 and 10, 2021 conducted in small, physically distributed teams, and will include practice of field operations. WICEN weekly nets are on Sunday evenings; the main net is at 6pm with a secondary digital voice check-in net at 6:30pm. The WICEN website is on nsw.wicen.org.au (vk2news plus earthquakes of australia) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota In Austria, their Telecommunications Office has announced young people will be permitted to send a greetings message over amateur radio during certain specified events - these must be messages of insignificant content! Kids Days January 2 World Amateur Radio Day - April 18 Girls Day: April 22 School Stations Europe Day: May 5 Young Helpers on the Air - YHOTA (international amateur radio project of youth groups from aid organizations) : May 8-9 Kids Day: June 19 International Youth Day: August 12 Young Helpers on the Air-YHOTA : September 25-26 The radio amateur operating the amateur radio station is and remains responsible for the proper handling of amateur radio traffic. Source VSV tinyurl.com/AustriaOeVSV ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- 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. -------------- the CQ World Wide SSB WPX Contest March 27-28 the CQ World Wide CW WPX Contest May 29-30 -------------- April 25 AM / CW ANZAC Day, Mon 25th from 9am on 7125kHz AM. -------------- Harry Angel Sprint will be May First 2021. 10:00 - 11:46 UTC. -------------- The VK SHIRES the June long weekend, which is the weekend prior to the second Monday of June each year.. making it June 12-13 in 2021 -------------- WINTER VHF-UHF Field Days - June 26 - 27 -------------- IARU HF World Championship July 10-11 -------------- TRANS TASMAN LOWBAND CONTEST Next contest - JUL 17 2021 - and has the aim of encouraging Low Band activity between VK and ZL on 160 80 and 40M using SSB, CW and RTTY OR PSK -------------- RD or Remembrance Day Contest will be August 14-15. -------------- 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 -------------- OCEANA CONTEST VOICE from 0800 UTC Saturday 2 October to 0800 UTC Sunday October 3 CW from 0800 UTC Saturday 9 October to 0800 UTC Sunday October 10 -------------- SPRING VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS November 27-28 -------------- December 4-5 160 Meter WW -------------- DECEMBER 11 - 12 10 Mtr World Wide -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- Be listening for the special call sign HZ 18 SAT, through until days end UTC DATE (December 27. Saudi Amateur Radio Society is marking the 18th anniversary of the launch of the Saudi satellite 1C SO-50. QSOs will be on the satellite SO-50 only, using 145.800 MHz uplink and 436.795 MHz downlink. For more details, see QRZ.com (ARNewsLine) -------------- Special event station HF 2021 HNY Poland now till January 10 celebrates the New Year, hence the suffix HNY. Members of the "Enigma" club SP 2 PBM are operating. Send QSLs to SP2PBM by the bureau. (sourced to ARNewsLine) -------------- SLOVENIA, S5. Members of the Radio Club Elektron Brezice are QRV with special event station S 520 SAFE until January 31, 2021 supports the STAY SAFE campaign and expresses their gratitude to medical staff and care workers. QSL direct to S 56 IPS. (arrl) -------------- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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. (vk4zz) VK2 - WYONG FIELD DAY February 28 ( vk4zz) VK3 - EMDRC HamFest - March 28th 10am (vk3bq) VK4 - REDFEST 2021 April Ten (vk4tfn) VK - ALARAMEET 2021 Bendigo VK3 October 1 - 4 (vk5yl) VK3 - ROSEBUD RadioFest by SPARC 9:30am Nov 14 (vk3pdg) SOCIAL DISTANCING KEEP ONE WAVELENGTH AWAY AT 144 Megacycles FINAL FINAL With Christmas over thoughts turn to the OM's who "failed" at Gift Giving for their spouse. Here's a list for those OM's who I just K N O W W W W need to do some "extra" shopping for the YL in their lives. It's a list from businessinsider.com a list of the best tech gifts for women that she'd have loved receiving for Christmas, but now's not to late guys. Included is a gorgeous piece of smart jewellery the Leaf Urban and new Leaf Chakra make excellent gifts. Not only does smart jewellery look fabulous as a necklace, bracelet, or brooch, it also packs a lot of smart features. The Leaf Urban and Chakra can track -- wait for it-- Activity Mindfulness Breathing exercises and Sleep patterns. It also doubles as a silent alarm so she'll awaken peacefully each morning. The company also has a new Leaf Crystal tracker that has a Swarovski crystal on it! Many more 'smart late' ideas.. it's worth a peek.. businessinsider.com/tech-gifts-for-women?r=AU&IR=T ------------------------------------------------------------* This is Greg VK2GPK President of your WIA. Wrapping up this weeks WIA National News, AND also wrapping up the news broadcast for this eventful year, lets also look at 2020 from a WIA perspective. Could 2020 have been a more challenging year? The year started in January with extreme drought conditions continuing across most of the Australian continent, plus raging bushfires many of which had been burning uncontrolled for months across massive areas. Great palls of bushfire smoke engulfed many cities for weeks on end, eventually spreading across to New Zealand. It was only January, the rest of the year just had to be better. Then in February came the rain, lots of it and we went from a land of droughts to one of flooding rains. Surely, things couldnt get worse it seemed, but by March end Australia had closed its international borders as a once in a hundred year pandemic begun its first wave. With lock-downs in force, life changed drastically for many. These lockdowns had many impacts on Australians, Radio Amateurs and the WIA. But not all of these impacts were negative. Sales of amateur gear in Australia were up substantially, more operators were on the air and many used the time to study for their amateur licence or upgrade. And many learnt to do things remotely just because they had to The WIA had to cancel its annual radio and electronics conference in Hobart scheduled for May. The WIA Annual General Meeting (AGM), usually held at the same time and venue as the conference was deferred and then was held as a virtual meeting. This virtual meeting proved very successful and we will continue with facilitating online participation in our 2021 AGM next year. From the emails we have received, many have been impacted by excessive delays for exam and callsign processing carried out by the Australian Marine College. Note that the WIA hopes to publish some additional information in the new year as to options that may help us rectify this untenable situation going forward. With the New Zealand announcement closing their trial access to 60 metres due to defence objections the outlook for Australia for access looked less than certain. Which brings me to the recently announced decision by the ACMA to not allow access to the new 60 metre band. Back in 2015, the Australian World Radio Conference (WRC-15) delegation which, among others, included WIA and ADF representation, had agreed to support a 10KHz allocation in the new 60 metre band. WRC-15 approved a 15KHz allocation. Reviewing the ACMA statements, the reasoning appears based primarily on impact to existing allocations of the band for NSW Ambulance plus undefined defence usage, with defence appearing to have now reneged on their 2015 WRC-15 support of access to at least a10kHz allocation. With preparatory meetings already underway in 2020 for the next WRC in 2023, the WIA continues its long-term commitment to international representation. The WIA views attendance is vital at the most significant RF Spectrum allocation global event where the loss of Radio Amateur spectrum to commercial interests is ALWAYS on the agenda. We also look forward to attending the Region 3 IARU conference planned for late next year (2021). This IARU event is held every 3 years and addresses regional radio amateur issues. The WIA continues its ongoing support for Australian satellite experimentation and has published a draft satellite policy for member feedback before finalisation early in the New Year. And, dont forgot the call for nominations for WIA director positions you will find in the final 2020 issue of AR magazine. Nominations close end January 2021. The WIA needs you (or someone you know!) to continue its 110-year support of the Australian Amateur Radio Service. I wish to thank all the volunteers that assist with the production and transmission of WIA National News across Australia and particularly the news editor Graham Kemp. With the end of the year fast approaching; I wish everyone all the very best for the Christmas holiday period and a hopefully better New Year. Until next time... 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