2021 JANUARY 31 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 JANUARY 31 2021 IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA SECRETARY PETER AND WIA MERIT AWARDS and WIA DX AWARDS . - WIA EDITOR IN CHIEF ROGER LOOKS AT THE NEW 2021 AR MAGAZINE. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA MAYBE 111 years we, the WIA commenced, but 100 years ago saw the SARL start up. S ARL? The Finnish Amateur Radio League and using their year long special anniversary call sign, OH 100 SRAL it is being used from the Aland Islands, January 29 February 3 for the CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest (CW) and a few days afterward. Operators include Martti Laine, OH2BH. Floating 'In A Tin Can' was Major Tom, only to be outdone quite a few years back by that 'floating in space' Russian Cosmonaut suit rigged as a satellite transmitting as SuitSat One. This week a true "Horror Story" from the darkness of space involving the return of.. you guessed it SUITSAT - I'll have that in the broadcast a little latter. Our new edition of AR Magazine is ready to hit - and Roger VK2ZRH, Editor in Chief has something rather special, a look at Valentines Day, no word yet on if this will be in a 'sealed section'.. Roger will join us to tell us more and also this week the Man From Snowy River, who moved to the NT, WIA Director and Secretary Peter, VK8ZZ looks at WIA Merit Awards and WIA DX awards. 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/ WIA Merit Awards The AGM is the time of the year when the WIA announces its annual merit awards and nominations are currently are open for the 2021 MERIT AWARDS. The WIA Merit Award program identifies and recognises sustained outstanding achievement in a field of Amateur Radio that furthers the science of radio, and/or for service to the WIA. It plays an important role in promoting excellence with nominations made by members and the final decision made by the WIA Board of Directors. Nominations are made using a specific form that is available on the WIA web site. tinyurl.com/ybumueev If the nomination is successful, the awards will be announced at the WIA annual general meeting. All of the WIA Merit Awards are not necessarily awarded every year. Full details of all of the WIA Merit Awards including the nomination form is on the WIA web site:- wia.org.au/members/wiaawards/about/ Not only but also:- WIA DX Awards Program The WIA has an excellent DX Awards program. The program has been operating for many years and has operating awards which have proven to be attractive to both radio amateurs and shortwave listeners alike. The WIA DX Awards program is managed by the WIA AWARDS COMMITTEE under the management of Graham VK3GA. All awards are free for WIA members. Submissions for WIA DX Awards are made online. The WIA DX Awards categories and the specific rules are here:- wia.org.au/members/wiadxawards/about/ This has been WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine. Well. Another issue of AR magazine is at the printers. The first issue for 2021 is scheduled to be delivered on or around the fourth of February. Judging from past experience, the majority of you who are either members or subscribers will receive your issue in time for Saint Valentines Day! Apart from the romantic reason for celebrating the 14th of February, brought to the sensibilities of Western though by that famous poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer, the date has many reasons to be marked on the calendar. But, more of that later. Listeners will all be asking I can hear Graham VK4 Baker Baker and John VK4 Jay-Jay-W champing at the bit, there what are you serving up for us this issue, Harrison? Its another theme issue this time, focusing on digital amateur TV DATV, for short. Prolific author and WIA rep at international meetings, Dale Hughes VK1DSH, presents a detailed description of his own DATV station. When I received Dales contribution, I thought that our readership might care to know quote the broader picture unquote pun intended about digital ATV. I cast a challenge among some practitioners I knew, seeking an article on the subject. And I was pleased to hook 2 replies! Dale VK1DSH shot me a snappy article on DATV, covering the which, what, and why of the general subject. Hands up who can tell me the difference between DVB-S and DVB-T? Dale explains in his inevitably succinct way the state-of-play with DATV in VK today. The other response to my challenge came from Roger Jordan VK5YYY, who details his journey with DATV and how he found his path in amateur radio. Heartfelt words from an authentic enthusiast. If anyone at this stage is entertaining thoughts that we may have abandoned albeit, temporarily the traditional amateur interests you hold dear think again, dear friends. One author we havent see in AR for a while David Doc Wescombe-Down VK5-B-U-G has been back behind the keyboard and delivered an article entitled: A vertical beam for 7 MHz in suburbia. Displaying typical ham radio ingenuity, Doc sets out how he designed and built a multi-element beam for 40 metres using readily-available component parts, which can be assembled by one person. Not only does he tell the story he illustrates it with a series of salient shots from his camera! As you would be aware, every amateur licensee is required to have a basic knowledge of electromagnetic radiation safety and to assess the risk that your station presents in relation to human exposure to your RF fields. To simplify the evaluation and reporting requirements for most transmitting stations, including Amateur stations, the ACMA has adopted a system of two compliance levels titled simply: Level 1 and Level 2. You are required to determine the compliance level of your station. But, how do you know if you comply? Well, Martin Luther VK7GN offers some help with his article on Visualising your electromagnetic radiation limits with Google Earth. Hands up all you contesters out there! Do we have a story for you. Three guys from a small Brisbane club affiliated with the WIA, of course conspired to win one of the entry categories in a WIA-sponsored contest. All for the sake of a weekend of fun and a paper certificate to post on the club wall. In a wonderful bedtime story, the triumphant trio tell us all about How to mount a VHF-UHF Field Day multi-operator station and win your category without losing friends, breaking the bank, or going bonkers! Its a cracker! A song of joy and praise to the VHF-UHF Field Days. This issue, we have quietly introduced something new. Ill let you find it. Something the Publications Committee discussed late last year. Theres a whole lot more. As Ive said before sit tight, it will soon be with you. Apart from Valentines Day, the 14th of February has significance in many ways, all over the world. Australia got decimal currency in 1966. A bunch of US college students launched YouTube. The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. And the list goes on. 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. BALTIC A month or so back WIA National News brought you the story of how an Enigma machine was found on the Baltic Sea-bed. Now ARCHAEOLOGY enthusiasts scanning the Baltic Sea for lost treasures have stumbled upon six, yes 6, enigma machines which were used by Nazi Germany during World War II and were likely thrown overboard in a panic. "Some of them have obviously already been made unusable before they were disposed of. A couple of keys peeked out." said one expert who believes Nazi Germany created more than 100,000 enigma machines to help beat the Allies, yet only 4,000 have been discovered. Many were likely destroyed after the code was cracked by a British team of code-breakers led by mathematician Alan Turing, this team managed to crack the code by analysing the position of the three rotas each day. UNTITED KINGDOM RSGB NRC volunteers recognised Despite the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) being closed to visitors since March last year, a lot of work has gone on to install or upgrade the radio station set-up and the supporting PC applications in the radio room. Many a VK Amateur has made the pilgrimage to Bletchley Park the home of the RSGB National Radio Centre The NRC 80m NET has also run continuously every weekday and a slow Morse training session has been run for the volunteers. NRC Coordinator Martyn Baker, G 0 GMB has highlighted the special assistance provided by three of the NRC volunteers to enable these things to happen during these challenging times: Nigel, G 4 RWI the help given in setting up software at the NRC and his superb commitment in running the NRC net Dave, G 4 UFS helping to set up the OSCAR100 station John, G 4 FZA the help and enthusiasm given with running the Morse sessions each morning USA Radio Amateur is Co-Leader of Just-Published Blood Plasma Research Study Scott Wright, K0MD -- a well-known amateur radio contester and past editor of the National Contest Journal (NCJ) was a co-principal investigator of a research project into the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients. The study, appeared in the January 13 edition of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine The study began early last April under the co-leadership of Wright, K0MD and Dr. Michael Joyner, MD, both of the Mayo Clinic and among many others Dr. Peter Marks, MD, PhD, of the US Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Marks is AB3XC. The Mayo Clinic was the lead institution for the program. The US government-supported study collected and provided blood plasma recovered from COVID-19 patients containing antibodies that, it was theorized, could help these individuals fight the disease. US President Joseph Biden has designated FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chair of the FCC. She succeeds, at least temporarily, former FCC chair Ajit Pai, who resigned effective on January 20. Prior to joining the FCC, she served as Senior Communications Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Before entering public service, she practiced communications law in Washington, DC In this International World of ours are MANY a dangerous area. Now the Intrepid-DX Group is inviting nominations for the individual or group that most displayed their Intrepid spirit in 2020. For the purposes of this award, an Intrepid spirit is bold, courageous, dedicated, innovative, fearless, generous, resolute, and visionary in their approach to amateur radio, the organization says. We want to recognize those individuals or groups that activated the rare, difficult and dangerous places in 1920, exhibiting an unshakable commitment to the amateur radio DX community. Submit nominations via email by February 15, 2021. The Board of Directors of the Intrepid-DX Group will evaluate the nominations, and the award will be presented in May 2021. Look on QRZ.com or google Intrepid-DX Group ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- ON NOW 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 -------------- Commonwealth Contest (BERU) 13/14 March. --------------- 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 June 12-13 in 2021 -------------- WINTER VHF-UHF Field Days - June 26 - 27 -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- BULGARIA. LZ 1340 B is QRV to celebrate the 1340th anniversary of the First Bulgarian Empire. QSL via LZ3SM. (arrl) -------------- UK SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS ON CYPRUS, ZC4. Garry, 2M1DHG is QRV as ZC 4GR for the next few years. Activity is mainly on 40 to 10 meters using SSB FT8, and possibly SSTV, PSK31 and WSPR in his spare time. QSL via EB7DX. (arrl) -------------- ISRAEL 4 X 0 RMN is operating from the Ramon Crater, Israel's largest national park, in the Negev desert only until tomorrow, i.e. the 1st of February. Send QSLs to 4X6ZM, LoTW and eQSL. A certificate will be available for working three out of the four special stations that are operating as part of the ongoing "Land of Craters Program" that kicked off last year. For more details visit QRZ.COM. (ARNewsLine) -------------- ZL 100 RSC throughout February will celebrate the 100th birthday of the first meeting of NZART's Branch 5. the Christchurch ARC. (SouthGate) -------------- This is Scotty reporting in for Pride Radio Group,VK3PRG. Pride Radio Group will be operating the special event callsign VI2021PRIDE throughout: - Sydney Mardi Gras, February 19th to March 7th - Midsumma, April 19th to May 5th - Pride month, June 1st to June 30th QSL cards and awards will be available for contacts made with VI2021PRIDE and for more information visit the Pride Radio Group website on prideradio.group I'm Scotty for Pride Radio Group. ( Michaela Wheeler vk3fur@prideradio.group ) -------------- Polish Amateur Radio Union 90th Anniversary Awards Last year, 2020, I made note of the Polish Amateur Radio Union celebrating its 90th anniversary and to mark the occasion they ran an award scheme "90 years of the PZK and 95 years of the IARU" which proved very popular with operators in Poland, VK in fact all over the world. They ran 14 special calls for the event and they made close on 100,000 QSOs working 171 DXCC entities. The closing date for downloading the certificates has been extended to April 30th 2021. Log on to 90.pzk.org.pl where you can search their online log to see your award status. (irts) -------------- LAST HURRAH FOR 'LAST MAN' Finally, we close Operational News from the WIA with this report from Amateur Radio NewsLines Neil Rapp W8VPG and it's all about that TV show "Last Man Standing." When the show wraps up its final day of shooting this spring, it's going to be saying farewell ham radio style. The prime time show, which became a showcase for amateur radio through its main character Mike Baxter KA0XTT who is leaving the air after nine years -- but not before it first gets ON the air on the amateur bands. Executive producer John Amodeo AA6JA told NewsLine that a big farewell special event station is planned for KA6LMS between March 14th and March 30th, the last day of the show's production. At that point, the mailing address of the Last Man Standing Amateur Radio Club will also change to 11684 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 810, Studio City, California 91604. The show grew even more popular after star Tim Allen made things real by getting the callsign KK6OTD. It also featured guest radio operators on the set during meal breaks. John told NewsLine: "Rather than have it slip away silently, we should have one more activation of KA6LMS now." With operators from the Great South Bay Amateur Radio club, the K2H special event station and the 12 Days of Christmas, the activation will give everyone a last chance to work KA6LMS in an ambitious special event. Be listening on CW, SSB, D-STAR, DMR, RTTY, PSK and FT-8. Consider it one last hurrah for "Last Man Standing." ------------------------------------------------------------* MEDIA WATCH Ham Radios SuitSat Returns in Short Horror Film SuitSat loses its innocence in a new video short sci-fi thriller Decommissioned. Inspired by true events, the video short resurrects the 2006 spacesuit/satellite that transmitted messages on 2 meters as it circled Earth. The original SuitSat-1 project, conceived by an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station team, repurposed a decommissioned Russian Orlan spacesuit to function as a free-floating amateur radio transmit-only satellite. In the film, a SuitSat returns in the future to haunt International Space Station commander Diaz, played by Joey Vieira. Diaz spies some distant space debris and radios Houston to express concern. As the object closes in, an increasingly anxious Diaz recognizes the debris as SuitSat. This is SuitSat, comes a voice on the ham radio. Decommissioned was directed by Australian filmmaker Josh Tanner. (arrl) ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS --- DIGITAL vkdmr.info/ brandmeister.network/?page=repeaters Our RAOTC gang will recall a song Bing Crosby made famous back in 1941 - "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland." Well whether your Mother, Uncle, friend or you just want to contact anyone in the Emerald Isle there is a new Yaesu C4FM Digital Gateway for North Dublin area. C4FM Wires-X Gateway with the call sign, EI2PMD, located in Dublin, became active on the 19th of January. The Gateway is operating on 2 meters and is linked to the CQ-IRELAND Room along with systems from Galway, Limerick, and Northern Ireland. YSF-Ireland, DMR TG 2724, and the Peanut App. This is the first Digital System to be placed on the air in Dublin and it will cover a wide area. ( IRTS ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FAITH. HAMS SUPPORT COMMUNICATIONS AT INDIAN RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGE An annual religious pilgrimage in India once again had the support of a local amateur radio club which, this year, also made use of a satellite. Amateur Radio NewsLine say the callsign AT 2 GSI wasn't your average DX. It was being used between the 9th and the 19th of January by members of the West Bengal Radio Club where hams were calling QRZ from Sagar Island, IOTA AS-153. There was a lot more to this activation, however. The hams were also present on the island as they always are during the annual Hindu pilgrimage to where the Bay of Bengal meets the river Ganges. Using hand helds and a ground station for the Qatar OSCAR 100 satellite made them even more capable this year of keeping emergency support communications open. More than 700,000 pilgrims took place, thats ALMOST 3/4 of a MILLION ! (ARNewsLine) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org AMSAT CUBESAT PART OF UNUSUAL VIRGIN ORBIT LAUNCH An unlikely launch system, one using a 70-foot rocket fired from a converted jumbo jet, sent 10 small satellites into low-earth orbit January 17th. One of those CubeSats was AMSAT's RadFxSat-2/Fox 1E, the fifth and final FOX-1 satellite built by AMSAT. It was constructed under a partnership between AMSAT and Vanderbilt University and carries a radiation effects experiment. Hams SHOULD have been able to decode data from telemetry and experiments using FoxTelem version 1.09 or later. But Command even though trying a multitude of sequences that that might overcome the problem of "nothing heard from the beacon". As time draws on they continue brainstorming and steps to activate other functions that would provide proof of life. This until they exhaust all possibilities that they are able to draw from the expertise and satellite experience of Engineering Team and Operations Team drawing from the design of RadFxSat-2 and lessons learned in the Fox-1 program as well as any from missions prior to AMSATs first CubeSats. AMSAT still needs your help as always, to help detect any sign of activity from RadFxSat-2. This includes ability to listen for local oscillators or transponder driver output in the case of a failed PA. The CubeSat launch was a demonstration flight staged by billionaire Richard Branson's California-based company, Virgin Orbit. BTW RadFxSat-2 Signals Detected, AMSAT Engineering Continues to Assess Status Following on from this story in late breaking text news AMSAT Engineering and Operations have now determined that RadFxSat-2 is partially functioning, though signals are extremely weak. At this point in time it is essential do not attempt to transmit through the transponder until further notice. This is very important to the next steps AMSAT are taking. More next week. ( ARNewsLine and AMSAT-NA ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- INTERNET, THE HAMS DOMAIN. I mentioned an app, the Peanut App earlier. Peanut is an app for Android or Windows developed by PA 7 LIM that allows VOIP communication on unique Rooms of which some are connected to D-Star, C4FM or DMR and output via Gateways or Repeaters. This is an excellent system for those who do not have radio equipment. Firstly, it is necessary to register your callsign with D-Star and DMR so that the system will recognise you. It is wise to have a PDF or snapshot of your licence handy as this will be requested for the DMR registration. Full information is available on galwayvhfgroup.blogspot.com (irts) 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 Australias first bulletin for this year goes to air tomorrow, Monday February 1st. Perth members are also reminded that the next lunchtime meeting at the Basie is on Tuesday, February 9th. The program starts with a summary of the latest club news, after which Ian VK3JS presents 3 articles. The first is entitled Small Crystals, an article which first featured in OTN magazine for September 1985, followed by an item on Potassium Batteries, after which Ian tells us about William Bragg, the Australian physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Everyone, RAOTC member and non-Member alike, is most welcome to listen to the program and join in the call backs afterwards. The monthly RAOTC bulletin is transmitted on a wide range of frequencies and modes including UHF and VHF FM, HF ssb, D-STAR, Digital Mobile Radio and EchoLink. Regular listeners will of course have their favourite time and frequency to tune in, but a full list of transmissions is on the RAOTC website. www.raotc.org.au/ or simply Google RAOTC broadcasts. If none of the transmission times suit you you can download the audio file at any time from today from the RAOTC website. If you do listen this way, a brief feedback comment would be appreciated. Once again, tune in tomorrow for the February RAOTC bulletin, and dont forget to join in the call backs afterwards. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING Girl Guides Thinking Day on the Air 20 - 21 February 2021. Station registration can be made on UK Girl Guide website guides-on-the-air.co.uk/station-list.html The ALARA EchoLink conference station will be available for use by Girl Guides during the weekend. For more details contact Norma on VK2YL@fanden.com ------------------------------------------------------------* 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. VK4 - A WICEN event at the Ipswich and District Radio Clubhouse. February 13 between 1000 and 1400 hours (vk4hit) VK3 - Warc HamFest Italian Sports Club Werribee Feb 21 (vk3vkt) It's HamFest time welcome to the Warc HamFest on the 21st Feb 2021 in these days of Covid we are proud to be the first HamFest in Victoria in the last 12 months. we have ticked all the boxes and have all the protocols we need in place. the pockets have had a full 12 months to fill up and vendors have not been able to sell so bargains will be in a abundance. at this time we have 25 confirmed vendors with another 3 weeks to go. HamFest is in the same place as last year. Italian Sports Club of Werribee 601 Heaths Rd, Werribee VIC 3030 Sunday 21st February 2021 * HUGE VENUE * HEAPS OF PARKING* MAJOR AND MINOR DOOR PRIZES*ALL UNDERCOVER AND INDOORS* FOOD SUPPLIED FROM 9AM* FREE TEA AND COFFEE* THE ONLY WESTERN SUBURBS HAMFEST Entry is only $7.00 (Doors open from 10 am entry tickets will be on sale from 9 am) ticket includes one free draw in the major prize extra tickets available for purchase. Tables are available at $20.00 each includes 1 entry only please contact Andy Kay VK3VKT on 0409 160 948 or vk3vkt@gmail.com VK2 - WYONG FIELD DAY February 28 (still tentative) (dd5lp) 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) 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. 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