2021 FEBRUARY 14 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 FEBRUARY 14 2021 IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures, contacts and answers to your questions. www.health.gov.au/ In this weeks edition of the news you trust we'll hear from WIA Directors Peter VK8ZZ and Oscar VK3TX along with resident 'thinker' Geoff VK4 Z PP and go to the movies with John VK4JJW THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA Last weeks 160m news in VK6 was broadcast by Chris, VK6JI, who kindly stepped in for Phil VK6GX, as he has no antennas, due to the enormous bush fires there. Local bush fire brigade managed to save Phils house and garage, bur the rest of the property was incinerated, including all antennas and above ground feeders, as were most of the power lines in the area. Many of our friends and neighbours, in the Tilden Park area were not so lucky, with many homes lost. He's running off generators and expects to do so for several weeks until mains power is restored. VK6GX is currently isolated by road blocks, but thankfully a local store, that he can access, has fuel and groceries. The local CWA girls have been distributing donated food and essentials at their Gidgie Hall. Thoughts with you and your Family Phil VK6GX, wia rebroadcaster in the west. Last week when we mentioned how Bob VK6POP managed to escape those fires and would be continuing bringing the local area news to VK6 from News West we mentioned he'd be doing so as neither Fire nor Covid would stop his efforts. Little did we know then that COVID WOULD stop 2 hamfests. WYONG and EMDRC. " The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry And so it is with the 2021 Eastern and Mountain district radio club Hamfest. With ongoing covid restrictions in Melbourne and some specific event requirements surrounding our chosen school hall venue. EMDRC has decided it best to cancel our Sunday March 28th 2021 Hamfest. The club wishes to thank everyone who has supported our events in the past and we look forward to welcoming you back again soon. Once we all get through this challenge. Keep an eye on the EMDRC club website and our social media channels with planning already underway for our next event. Thanks. The Eastern and Mountain District radio club committee. VK3ER. Thanks Vk3bq on behalf of EMDRC committee Andrew Scott AND WYONG - the Southern Hemispheres largest Ham Gathering. Ed VK2JI / DD5LP picks up the story In light of the recent new COVID events across Australia and the situation's changeable nature at present, the executive committee of the Central Coast ARC, with input from a survey of club members, has decided not to run the Wyong Field Day 2021 which was planned for Sunday the 28th of February. This is a decision that was not easy and was taken considering the safety of the club members, traders and those who attend the day. However, open your calendar's as the club wishes to announce the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club MayHam event which will be held on Sunday the 30th of May 2021 at the Wyong Race Course. We would like to see this one-time event attract as many visitors as the Field Day does every year, who knows, this could be the largest gathering of radio amateurs in the Southern Hemisphere this year! Traders have already been contacted and informed of the new date and we expect the exhibitor and lecturer variety to be just as broad as was planned for the 2021 Field Day. Full details and information regarding this event will be updated on the clubs website on ccarc.org.au and through social media as it becomes available. Looking forward to NO MAYHEM at the MayHam event, For the Central Coast ARC this was Ed VK2JI. Some 55 years ago we Aussies had to learn a whole new monetry system, no doubt to keep in good with our EU mates who were at the time arriving in droves! HiHi. As we draw closer to the end of this weeks news = The Aussie News you can trust, we'll pay a visit to decametric Radio emissions, thanks to Hobarts REAST club. WIA NATIONAL NEWS AND OUR 3 W's. WEAR A MASK WASH YOUR HANDS WATCH YOUR DISTANCE (1.5 metres) www.health.gov.au/ Advanced Mobile Location (AML) technology has been used to save stranded kayakers from rough waters at Seacliff in South Australia, pinpointing the pairs location after a Triple Zero call on New Years Eve. AML speeds up emergency response times for people in need of urgent help, and it proved crucial when two people became caught in strong winds on the kayak approximately 3 kilometres offshore and unable to paddle back to safety. Criticalcomms.com.au say a man on the kayak called Triple Zero, automatically activating AML, which honed in on the remote location with lifesaving accuracy. With AML, smartphones use GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile network information to automatically send an SMS text message to Triple Zero with the phones estimated location. This SMS is sent in the background; the caller is not required to perform an action. Read more: tinyurl.com/l1pjznkk New car prices here in Australia are probably going to remain relatively high all due to a world-wide shortage of, of all things a shortage of the humble semi-conductor. Delays on most main stream cars here are said to have in some cases delays of several months. At the end of the first year of the corona virus car sales actually boomed here, then the shortage of semi-conductors 'hit home'. Computer chip makers are running at maximum capacity and its not feasible for companies to build factories to compensate for the increase in demand, Bloomberg has reported. Phone makers like Apple are more prepared to pay higher prices for the chips than automakers are, according to an analyst. That doesnt mean phone makers havent been negatively impacted by the chip shortage though Apple reportedly faced supply issues for chips to power its 5G-equipped iPhone 12 models that debuted in last October. But the auto industry specifically has felt the pinch, and some have even had to halt production due to the shortage. Ford and Fiat are temporarily pausing production because they dont have enough chips. With not enough chips in supply, the auto making industry could lose $US61 billion in 2021, according to consulting firm Alix Partners as Bloomberg reported. (Bloomberg, AAP, Business Insider) 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 DIRECTOR AND SECRETARY PETER CLEE VK8ZZ Good morning Graham and good morning listeners, Last week President Greg and Vice President Lee spoke about the upcoming consultation by our regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). tinyurl.com/1wa5pu7e Greg mentioned that this consultation is "Something that should be of both interest and concern of all Radio Amateurs in Australia". Greg also said the this very important consultation has the potential for major changes to the Amateur Radio Service and its licensing regime. We as amateurs must carefully consider and weigh up the options that have been proposed by the ACMA. The board of the Wireless Institute of Australia met last Tuesday to discuss the proposed consultation and the WIA response. At this stage, the board will require more information in order to form an opinion on the proposed changes. The board has decided to meet with experts within our Amateur Community and for them to write a discussion paper which will be put out to members for comment, probably in the form of a poll like that recently conducted by the WIA. That panel will meet next week to commence the process. I will report again once the panel has met and a timetable has been determined. This has been WIA Director and Secretary Peter VL8ZZ for the VK1WIA national news service This is WIA Director Oscar, VK3TX. hamradio.org Domain now to promote amateur radio. In past days Andrew, KI7RYC, donated the hamradio.org domain to the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) to be used for educational purposes and to promote the amateur and amateur satellite services. IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH, has expressed: The hamradio.org domain offers a unique opportunity for which we are deeply grateful to Andrew. It is our intention to develop a website that can serve as a focal point for anyone, anywhere, who may be seeking information on amateur radio, which is better known as ham radio by the general public. Whats IARU? The IARU is the global federation of national amateur radio organisations with member-societies in more than 160 countries and separate territories. Since 1925, the IARU has successfully defended and expanded access to the radio spectrum by radio amateurs internationally. This is Oscar, VK3TX for WIA national news. DISCUSSION POINT Hello, Im Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and Ive been thinking. As if the gods of coincidence had looked upon us, when Amateur Radio magazine number one for 2021 arrived I was delighted to read a well presented and constructive 2 page article/contribution by VK4YE, Chris Bourke. It is serendipity that this piece has been published coinciding with the release of the ACMA Consultation. Chris who is a graduate teacher has drawn the practices of other English speaking jurisdictions in training and examining for accreditation of the various grades of amateur radio licence and the issuance of the necessary documentation. Amateur Radio, Vol.89 No 1 2021 pp56-57 I can do no better than quote the closing paragraph from Chris, For our futures sake, the present system must not be allowed to continue in its current guise. So from the video of VK3YE last week to the written words of VK4YE, this week, I ask that people forget their hobby horses and consider where you want Amateur Radio to be in the future. Im Geoff Emery and thats what I think.how about you? ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. IARU Assignment of new coordinator of Region 3 Disaster Communication Committee Shizuo Endo, Secretary, IARU Region 3 tells us that YB 0 LBT Emir Yudha Amangku, is now assigned the chairman as the successor of YB2TJV who passed away on December 12th, 2020. A new targeted phishing campaign includes the novel obfuscation technique of using Morse code to hide malicious URLs in an email attachment. For example, if your computer was targeted, the attachment would be named with something like "yourname_invoice_1308._xlsx.hTML.' When viewing the attachment in a text editor, you can see that they include JavaScript that maps letters and numbers to Morse code. For example, the letter 'e' is mapped to a single dot the letter 'b' is mapped to 'dash dot dot dot' The script then calls a decode Morse function to decode a Morse code string into a hexadecimal string. This hexadecimal string is further decoded into JavaScript tags that are injected into the HTML page. These injected scripts combined with the HTML attachment contain the various resources necessary to render a fake Excel spreadsheet that states your sign-in timed out and prompts you to enter their password again. INDONESIA First QO-100 satellite contact from Indonesia Indonesia's national amateur radio society, ORARI, reports on the first contacts from Indonesia via the Qatar-Oscar-100 geostationary satellite transponder which took place on January 27 and involved Farid Farhan YC1HVZ. ORARI's report says a team from the Telkom University Telecommunication Engineering Student Association led by YC1HVZ, succeeded in conducting the first contact from Grid square OI 33 UD), West Java with a satellite elevation of 0.8 degrees at an altitude of 1200m. Additional information is available at: bit.ly/3jgIC8B CHINA The first PRIVATE Chinese company to reach orbit met with failure Feb. 1 during its second attempt to go to space. iSpace's four-stage Hyperbola-1 rocket failed after lift-off while attempting to carry the CubeSat-sized Fangzhou-2 (Ark-2) satellite into space. Media reports indicate the launch attempt happened around 0815z from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert. AUSTRIA Austria's national amateur radio society OVSV has published its opinion of the draft of the amendment to the Telecommunications Act 2020 (TKG 2020) Michael Kastelic, OE1MCU, a Board Member of the OVSV says the most important topics that the VSV has taken up: Carry out amateur radio exams by radio amateurs Prevent our callsigns from expiring [Lifetime license] Reduce fees and penalties Promote emergency and disaster radio Troubleshooting by the authority Austrian Hams have been asked to make their own submissions but warn against just 'copying' previous submissions. FRANCE Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine and dozens of vine shoots are back home in southwest France after spending months on the International Space Station for an unusual astrochemistry experiment. The red wine and 320 mature shoots known as canes arrived February 1 after their return to Earth via a Dragon capsule operated by SpaceX. They will be analysed at the Institute of Vine and Wine Science in Bordeaux to see how the stresses produced by zero gravity affect both grape growth and the finished product, which could spur new agricultural research. USA RMS Titanic, Inc., (RMST) the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck, has indefinitely put off its plans to retrieve the vessels radio equipment for exhibit. The company cited the coronavirus pandemic for the delay, according to a court filing the company made on January 29. The Atlanta-based company said its plans have faced increasing difficulty associated with international travel and logistics, and the associated health risks to the expedition team. RMSTs primary source of revenue comes from its exhibits of its vast collection of Titanic relics, which have been closed or seen only limited attendance due to virus-related restrictions. RMST a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions and the salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck site said its planned expedition to recover the ships wireless station equipment remains a top priority, however, and will take place as soon as reasonably practicable. The Marconi-equipped station transmitted the distress calls after the Titanic (on its maiden voyage) struck an iceberg some 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912 and began sinking. The transmissions, heard by nearby vessels, have been credited with helping rescue some 700 passengers in lifeboats deployed from the Titanic, but about 1,500 passengers were lost in the disaster. RMST has said the radio transmitter could unlock some of the secrets about a missed warning message and distress calls sent from the ship. ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT Ross Hull Memorial VHF UHF Contest logs due by weeks end. Dont forget if you made contacts in the Ross Hull during January you only have til February 19. Remember the "jobs not done til the paperworks finished". --------------------- The big contest on now is the CQ Worldwide RTTY WPX contest running for forty-eight hours from midnight Friday to midnight Sunday. Single operators may only operate for 30 hours in total. The multipliers in this one are prefixes and the exchange is signal report plus serial number. CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest this weekend February 13-14 -------------- International DX CW Contest February 20-21 -------------- the CQWW 160M SSB CONTEST is end of the month, February 26 - 28. -------------- 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 -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- Pride Radio Group will be operating the special event callsign VI2021PRIDE throughout the Sydney Mardi Gras, February 19th to March 7th -------------- Kuwait Amateur Radio Society is operating as 9 K 60 NLD throughout February celebrating Kuwait's 60th National Day, which is February 25th, and Liberation Day, which is February 26th. QSL via 9 K 2 RA. All stations from Kuwait may also use the prefix 9 K 60 during this time (arrl and ARNewsLine) -------------- Mozambique, C 91 BVA from Maputo starts February 18. Be listening on 80/40/20/15 and 10 meters SSB and Digital. QSL via the Bureau (using S7 AMN). (ARNewsLine) -------------- THE RAAF is flying high to celebrate it's 100 years on March 31.. The Royal Australian Airforce call signs to 'target' are VI 100 AF March 1 - 29 May VK 100 AF March 1 - 31 August (vk8nsb) -------------- Promoting the 30th Anniversary of Japanese 7-CALL issuance with the special station until 22nd April, is 8 J 17 CALL So far overall result from the beginning is over 18,500 QSOs and the month taking in December / January over 2,000 including 204 DX QSOs. (SouthGate) -------------- ARGENTINA, LU. Special event station L 21 RCA is QRV during all of 2021 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of IARU member society Radio Club Argentino. QSL via LU 4 AA. (arrl) -------------- JUST REPEATING New Repeater Equipment at Mount Archer Steve VK4SM has advised via the Rockhampton and District Amateur Radio Club FaceBook page that different equipment for the VK4RAR 2metre repeater has been installed and is under test with early indications that the new equipment is 6 decibels more sensitive on receive than the old equipment. VK4SM asks that regional hams living a bit further out of Rocky do some listening and report the results. (FaceBook) ------------------------------------------------------------* MEDIA WATCH WITH JOHN VK4JJW Freestyle Digital Media has released a trailer for " Dead Air ", a supernatural / psychological thriller from filmmaker Kevin Hicks. Not to be confused with the zombies radio horror film also titled Dead Air from 2009, they both involve radio, but this is a different kind of radio. Struggling to uncover the truth of a deeply repressed memory of an old trauma, William discovers an old ham radio that belonged to his dead father. In his fascination with it, he stumbles into contact with Eva, a woman with a dark secret of her own. Their two worlds collide, and William is rushed down a path that is paved with deceit, lies and an awful truth, a truth that pulls him into a world of darkness from which he cannot escape. For many an "old" radio broadcaster the title alone sends shivers up your spine! Dead Air! Will the Content Director be first to phone? tinyurl.com/yyrpazro ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 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 As of 31 January only 61 radio hams use CW in South Africa SARL News reports there are plans to hold a bi-annual census of amateur radio CW users in South Africa BUT Michael, ZS6MSW says that it's a GROWING population of CW operators. These 61 are regularly on CW within the Republic of South Africa. The aim of the census is to have the call signs and names published in a SARL newsletter in April this year, to begin an historic growth pattern, with which they can monitor significance. It will be a bi-annual census with a cut-off date on 1 April 2021 as the first half. Canadian (Belleville) Sea Cadet PO2 Duncan Culliton VA3FSY, has recently received his federal Morse Code operator licence endorsement. His examiner is quoted as reporting "He has a particularly good fist - perfect character formation and spacing steady speed." As one of the cadets that obtained his Amateur Radio Licence, Duncan went on to study Morse Code adding that endorsement to his license. The Communications Department of the Sea Cadet Corps, led by Matthew Batten VE3ZQW, was launched as a local unit initiative to introduce more science, technology, engineering, and math back into the optional Sea Cadet training program, as well as a primer for naval/maritime communications using amateur radio. Cadets are currently being trained towards their own amateur radio qualifications, with plans to have the unit station, VA3GKY accredited as a Canadian Forces Affiliate Radio Service station, as well as an Amateur Radio Emergency Service ARES station, allowing Duncan and the other cadets to take part in Canadian Forces, Coast Guard, Police/Emergency and disaster communications training. quintenews.com/2021/02/07/release-a-first-for-a-canadian-cadet/ WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E Is Designated AMSAT-OSCAR 109 (AO-109) On January 17, 2021, the RadFxSat-2 CubeSat was launched on a LauncherOne vehicle off the coast of California. RadFxSat-2 is a joint mission of AMSAT and the Institute for Space and Defence Electronics at Vanderbilt University. The satellite carries a telemetry beacon and a linear transponder, along with radiation effects experiments. The telemetry beacon has not yet been heard, but the transponder is partially operational at reduced signal strength. Work continues to recover the telemetry beacon and characterize the transponder with the goal of opening it for general use. AMSAT hereby designates RadFxSat-2 as AO-109. (AMSAT-NA) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP --- MILITARY New quantum receiver is the first to detect the ENTIRE radio frequency spectrum says the US Army Research Laboratory Both RF and real-world signals, unleashing new potentials for soldier communications, spectrum awareness and electronic warfare. Army researchers built the quantum sensor, which can sample the radio-frequency spectrumfrom zero frequency up to 20 GHz and detect AM and FM radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other communication signals. tinyurl.com/47mcmuxa WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING scouts.com.au scout.org/jota international.scouts.com.au jotajoti.info/ Brett Nicholas VK2BNN Scouts Australia National co-ordinator for JOTA. Lorraine OHare VK2FICQ is Girl Guides Australia National JOTA-JOTI Co-ordinator. CALLING FREQUENCIES Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication. Australian voice calling frequencies: 3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160 World CW calling frequencies: 3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160 World voice calling frequencies: 3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160 Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV): 3.630, 7.033, 14.227 Calling Frequencies for PSK31 14.070 Girl Guides Thinking Day on the Air 20 - 21 February 2021. The ALARA EchoLink conference station will be available for use by Girl Guides during the weekend. For more details contact VK2YL Norma on VK2YL@fanden.com ------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING Held a couple of Wednesday's back REAST in Hobart had a presentation by Dr. Mike, VK7MJ. "Listening to the Planets" Decametric Radio emissions from the planet Jupiter, were first identified by Burke and Franklin while calibrating a 22 MHz antenna array in Maryland USA in 1955. This was confirmed by data collected by Alex Shain in Australia some 4 years earlier, and opened a new field of planetary astronomy. This talk was a brief outline of the early history of decametric radio astronomy and how observations in Tasmania and New Zealand between 1971 and 1975, provided the first dynamic spectra of the Jovian radio bursts. All this achieved on a shoestring budget, and using an early generation of domestic videotape recorders in a way their manufacturers never intended. This was the subject of Mike's PhD! 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