2021 JUNE 13 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 JUNE 13 2021 IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS ( 1937 in a mention we've come across relating to weekly broadcasts of information prepared by VK4 was a plea to restart the weekly news service which was on air in the late 1920's ) 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/ WIA Director Phil VK2CPR with news re ACMA / AGM / IARU THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y WIA BOARD MINUTES www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/minutes/ WIA BOARD NEWSLETTERS (older) Giving members to have a better awareness of Board activities. www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/newsletters/ Hi Im WIA Director Phil VK2CPR. The annual general meeting of the WIA will be held on the 26th of June. Due to the fluid situation with Covid, the AGM will be virtual. That is, the public will be able to view the meeting via YouTube and members may interact in the meeting via Zoom. Registrations will open shortly for Zoom. Dont forget to check your spam folders for updates and AGM details. The board is developing an Australian amateur radio code of conduct. A code has value as both an internal guideline and an external statement of values and commitments. Particularly, a code of conduct and ethics may become a benchmark against which individual and organisational performance can be measured. The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) recently made a submission to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the regulatory authority for radio spectrum in Australia, in response to the ACMAs 5-year spectrum outlook. There are two key items on ACMAs agenda that are of special interest to radio amateurs: continued work on the non-assigned amateur service licensing review review of arrangements for amateur service stations operating at increased transmitter power levels The WIA made a significant submission on the first point. That submission led to a meeting between the WIA and relevant staff of the ACMA to discuss the submission. The aim of the meeting was to seek clarity on aspects of the ACMAs proposal that were unclear; to discuss specific areas of concern; and to understand the next steps in the process. The second point is proposed to commence in the second quarter of 2022. The WIA welcomes the opportunity to again explore how Australian amateurs may operate with higher transmitter power. Also in the pipe line are other key issues the WIA believes are important to the amateur service at this time. They are: Define and implement a new model for managing the AOCP syllabus that retains amateur service engagement in the process Review the effectiveness of the amateur service examination system in light of the lack of growth of newly licenced operators in Australia, particularly through 2020 under COVID compared to other countries WIA continues to advocate spectrum access to ACMA on behalf of radio amateurs. Particularly, the WIA is seeking to address the following matters: Extension of operating privileges for AOCP(S) class licensees to include access to the 50-52 MHz band and The ACMA conduct a further review of the defined usage of 7.100-7.200 MHz in the Australian Radio Spectrum Plan. The WIA has continued to lobby for access to the 60 metre band but opposition from military and commercial users ensures that this item is difficult to attain in the immediate future. We will re-visit this in a subsequent 5 year plan. As the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representative in Australia, the WIA is the only authority authorised to recommend to the IARU, the use of Amateur frequencies in satellites. The WIA has recently published a policy document detailing the requirements for the processing of Australian amateur satellite licence applications. The WIA has authorised the BINAR-1 project as well as tentatively authorised the CSIRO-Sat 1 Project. The IARU are responsible for Amateur Radio band planning. The WIA represents Australia at the IARU triennial conferences where decisions on changes to the band plan are ratified. Subsequently the WIA implements the IARU band plans for Australia. Until next time 73s from Phil VK2CPR WIA NATIONAL NEWS AND YOUR 3 W's. WASH YOUR HANDS WEAR YOUR MASK WATCH YOUR DISTANCE (1.5 metres) www.health.gov.au/ ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. REGION ONE New IARU-R1 HF band plan released IARU Region 1 have released an HF band plan and annex incorporation changes agreed at the General Conference in October. The band plan comprises 2 pages, as does the explanatory annex. It can be downloaded from the link we like on the text edition of this the worlds oldest Amateur Radio News Service. www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/hf_r1_bandplan.pdf This 'tall story' comes from Turkey. The amlca TV-Radio Tower in Istanbul stands 369 meters tall, a futuristic, state of the art structure being heralded as the tallest telecommunications tower in all of Europe. At its inauguration, the Turkish President praised the high-tech structure for its ability to carry 100 FM broadcasts simultaneously, noting that it replaces numerous outdated facilities that had previously stood on the same hill. The mass of older towers had long been criticized as marring the city's skyline. The tower is located on the Asian side of the city and its highest point is more than 580 meters above sea level. Kyrgyzstan latest to arrive on 60 m/5 MHz The Union of Radio Amateurs of Kyrgyz Republic announced that on 4th June 2021, their Telecommunications Regulator made the WRC-15 Amateur Secondary Allocation of 60 meters available at a maximum power of 100W. Other Secondary allocations made at the same time were 472.00 - 479 kHz at 1W, 122.25 - 123 GHz at 100W 134.00 - 141 GHz also at 100W. HAMNET Expansion in Europe Amateur Radio Digital Communications, the ARDC, has awarded a grant to support European expansion of HAMNET, the high-speed digital network that interconnects automated amateur radio stations using links in the 13, 6, and 3 centimetre bands. This marks the first international grant from ARDC since it began awarding grants in 2019. Amateur radio is a global hobby, and ARDC wanted to enable international funding from day one, ARDC President Phil Karn, KA9Q, said. One way to do this is to work with international organizations that meet requirements and are able to implement funding in their region. We look forward to entering into similar partnerships with other organizations outside the USA. DARC will present this project in more detail at the virtual HAM RADIO World, June 25 27. REGION TWO FLY ME TO THE MOON. The first Bitcoin transaction using the moon was conducted in April when Brazilian researchers sent morse code radio signals to deflect off the moon down to Earth, and completed a Bitcoin transaction. Imagine that you are without an Internet connection, in an isolated region and without communication. A small HT radio, a cell phone, or notebook with a bitcoin wallet, and a few meters of copper wire to mount a dipole antenna is what you will need to trade your coins freely, across the planet. But, what if the other person who is going to receive it has no knowledge of radio amateurism and electronics? How will they receive that signal? How will it replicate on the Bitcoin network. This transaction that now flies through space at the speed of light will use radio amateur radio satellites to listen to these sent transactions and replicate them on the network. tinyurl.com/prt8uc2n Marcel Mongeon, VA3DDD, and Tim Ellam, VE6SH, have both been nominated for the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canadian Lawyer magazines annual contest. Marcel has served as RACs Legal Counsel for over 10 years and Tim, served in Executive positions for the Canadian Radio Relay League and Radio Amateurs of Canada from 1990 to 1999 including as RACs Legal Counsel before volunteering with the International Amateur Radio Union in 2001 and becoming its President in 2009. REGION THREE Unsurprisingly, a pandemic is no good time for anyone or anything. From shuttered factory doors to cultural traditions ambling on their last legs, COVID-19 has done its work, in fact, even inspiring a new and now commonly used phrase for the worldwide turmoil it has caused: Koronaka, or literally, corona damage. But like all things in life, some silver linings have arisen from this situation, and this is especially the case for the amateur radio community in Japan. According to the Japan Amateur Radio League, for the first time in 27 years, an increase in membership was recorded in 2020 with 578 new members, putting the total number of JARL participants at 65,788 hams So why are folks in Japan pursuing amateur radio as their "pandemic passion project?" It comes down to two reasons: lack of human contact and easing of government restrictions. With COVID-19 preventative policies stressing measures like social distancing, its no surprise some folks are bunkering down at home and looking for new as well as safe hobbies which dont require going out or talking to other people face-to-face. Amateur radio is perfect for this, because all you really need is the proper paperwork and a radio. The other factor completely unrelated to COVID-19 which has given the amateur radio community a boost in its numbers is a new ordinance passed by the Japanese government in March 2021, essentially easing restrictions, now days in JA anyone can operate a radio station as long as theyre working with or are supervised by an individual who is already certified as a radio operator. tinyurl.com/vm6ff629 INDONESIA Yono, YD 0 NXX of the AMSAT Indonesia Technical Team has advised the activation of FM voice repeater on IO-86 (the amateur payload on LAPAN-A2/ORARI satellite) will be reduced, to preserve the life of the 45 year old repeater. If required for emergency communication, they will activate the repeater fully as per usual. Col VK3GTV will have more news from the final frontier in this weeks Special Interest Group news in just a while but how about this item from Mars. The team behind NASA's InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft's energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander's robotic arm trickled sand near one solar panel, helping the wind to carry off some of the panel's dust. The result was a gain of about 30 watt-hours of energy per sol, or Martian day. ------------------------------------------------------------* Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to nationalnews@wia.org.au and don't JUST send url's links or posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution. To submit audio, email nationalnews@wia.org.au and send BOTH the audio and the text We would appreciate items certainly no longer than 1.5 mts in length as we only have a half hour. Remember the sooner you submit material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition of WIA National News. Each item will only be broadcast once, if you want a couple of mentions, please submit different slants to keep your event 'fresh' and always if the news room is to read your item --- write it in the 3rd person. (First if YOU are reading your own item) A reminder when supplying HamFest info we obviously can't plug DEALS from commercial traders "on air", but we at the WIA will put your supporters 'goods' in this text edition "no worries." We cannot give blatant 'plugs' to raffles. ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT FOX MIKE HOTEL CHALLENGE Wherever you are reading or listening to this the WIA News, get ready for the return of the Fox Mike Hotel Portable Ops Challenge coming September 4 and 5. The contest is designed to create equal operating conditions between portable and fixed stations. For details visit foxmikehotel.com/challenge -------------- NZ STRAIGHT KEY NIGHT. Tonight 8-9pm ZL time Sunday 13 June. (NZART) -------------- WINTER VHF-UHF Field Days - June 26 - 27 -------------- Slow CW Contest - June 26th, 2021. The second Peel Amateur Radio Groups (PARG) Slow CW contest will be held on Saturday 26 June 1100 UTC 1300 UTC Not only is the competition is open to PARG members but all other AR club members and it is all about having fun, while trying your hand at morse code. Please read the rules which are available for download from tinyurl.com/hajbs2n5 This document also contains some handy hints for you during the contest. www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk6/PeelAmateurRadioGroup/ ( vk4bb from www.parg.org.au/ ) -------------- IARU HF World Championship July 10-11 -------------- TRANS TASMAN LOWBAND CONTEST JUL 17 - 160 80 and 40M using SSB, CW and RTTY OR PSK -------------- RD or Remembrance Day Contest will be August 14-15. -------------- ALARA CONTEST 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 -------------- -------------- Pride Radio Group are on air again with special event callsign VI 2021 PRIDE during Pride month, 1st to 30th of June. -------------- THE RAAF is flying high to celebrate it's 100 years on March 31.. VK 100 AF Until 31 August (vk8nsb) -------------- VI 50 SG is QRV until December 31 commemorating 50 years of the St. George Amateur Radio Society in New South Wales. QSL via bureau. (SouthGate) -------------- VK 20 HOME Dont forget that the WIA special event callsign VK 20 HOME is still available for members to use until December 31st 2021. Now that Victoria is enduring another lockdown period it might make for some on air activity from some VK3s or welcomed activity from the other states. Check the WIA website and Special Event pages to book your time slot for use. (VK3GK) -------------- And another Covid-19 special event To pay tribute to all the YL's and OM's who have suffered, those who are currently suffering or have become Silent Keys as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, look for TM 57 COV. TM57COV is on air between June 15-29th. They also pay tribute to the caregivers who with strength and courage do an extraordinary job saving lives everyday throughout the world. (SouthGate) -------------- -------------- ON LINE RADIO CLUB England, G. Special call signs GB 1 ORC is on air till 20th June and GB 0 ARC until 24th of June celebrating the first anniversary of the Online Amateur Radio Community M0OUK, www.oarc.uk/ , is an online based club affiliated with the British Society the RSGB. (sarl) -------------- 4 U 29 MAY is on air from the UN Global Service Centre in Brindisi, Italy, until Junes end to celebrate "International Day of UN Peace- keepers" (May 29th) Yes runs a month from the Suffix date of May29 (SouthGate) -------------- A large number of special event stations are now on the air to commemorate the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics until September 5th: Listen and work stations with 8N as the prefix and OLP as suffix. Calls are from 8N 0 OLP all the way through to 8n 9 olp (SouthGate) -------------- NIGERIA, 5N. 5 N 7 MSF Jean-Louis is on air while working with Doctors Without Borders in Abuja until September 2021. Activity is on 20 and 15 meters using SSB and you QSL via operator's instructions. (eHam) -------------- REPUBLIC OF KOREA. Special event station D 90 EXPO is QRV to October 17 promoting "2021 World Military Culture Expo" that is taking place in the city of Gyeryong in October. QSL via DS 3 BBC. (SouthGate) -------------- Mark, W5MED is stationed at McMurdo Station on Ross Island in Antarctica, AN-011, until October. Look for him on 14243 kHz SSB and 14070 kHz FT8. QSL direct to K7MT and Logbook of The World. (rsgb) -------------- Belgian special prefix The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications has announced that Belgian radio amateurs and Belgian radio clubs may replace the normal prefix 'ON' in their call-sign by the special prefix OS until December 12, 2021. This to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the first transatlantic radio transmission, on December 12 when Guglielmo MARCONI first succeeded in bridging the Atlantic Ocean with radio signals. -------------- CROATIA, 9A. Members of the Croatian Flora Fauna ARC are QRV with special event call 9A10FF during all of 2021 to celebrate the club's 10th anniversary. QSL via 9A2MF. (ARRL) -------------- PORTUGAL, CT. CQ 750 RSI throughout 2021 commemorates the 750th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth of Aragon, the queen consort of Portugal and patron saint of their city of Coimbra. QSL to home call CT 7 AQD. -------------- FINLAND, OH. Special event station OH 100 SRAL is QRV during all of 2021 to celebrate the centennial of the Finnish Amateur Radio League. QSL via bureau. (arrl) -------------- 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) -------------- POLAND. Special event stations SN 0 ZOSP and SN 100 ZOSP are QRV until February 5, 2022 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Association of the Voluntary Fire Brigades of the Republic of Poland. (SouthGate) ------------------------------------------------------------* BOOK EM NICK Hi, this is Nick VK7 Whiskey Whiskey. Active amateur radio operator Don Keith, N4KC has released his 36th and 37th published books, one fiction and the other non-fiction. Warshot, the sixth book in The Hunter Killer Series of submarine / Navy SEAL thrillers, was co-written by Keith and former submarine skipper George Wallace. The title book in the series, Hunter Killer, was the basis for the major motion picture of the same name, starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. Keiths latest non-fiction work is Only the Brave, which tells the story of the World War II battle for Guam, in the Marianna Islands. While it was a key conflict in the Pacific Theatre, few are aware of the scope of the battle or its effect on the natives of the island, the Chamorros. Keith holds the Amateur Extra license and is a member of the ARRL. He has also published four books about amateur radio. This is Nick VK7 Whiskey Whiskey Signing Clear For more on all of N4KCs books, visit www.donkeith.com or www.n4kc.com (eHam) -----------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS SUMMITS ON THE AIR, WORLD WIDE FLORA, FAUNA PROGRAM and other ADVENTURE GROUPS. www.sota.org.uk sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/ www.wwffaustralia.com/ ZS-SOTA news Congratulations to Adele Tyler, ZS 5 APT who on Sunday May 30 activated ZS/KN-451 to get her 1000 SOTA points and achieve SOTA Goat status. Well done, Adele! 8P-SOTA news Summits on the air association manager Philip Als, 8 P 5 AA in Barbados is the main mountaineer in this new SOTA region or association. Just on 13 days old it's a new one to keep an eye on and an ear open for. The summit, Mount Hillaby is just some 340 meters high. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW Slow CW Contest - June 26th, 2021. The second Peel Amateur Radio Groups (PARG) Slow CW contest will be held on Saturday 26 June 1100 UTC 1300 UTC Not only is the competition is open to PARG members but all other AR club members and it is all about having fun, while trying your hand at morse code. Please read the rules which are available for download from tinyurl.com/hajbs2n5 This document also contains some handy hints for you during the contest. www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk6/PeelAmateurRadioGroup/ ( vk4bb from www.parg.org.au/ ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FEMALES IN RADIO. OR should I say FEMALES IN SPACE. Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti IZ 0 UDF, has also become the first European woman chosen to command the International Space Station. The European Space Agency in announcing the former fighter pilot's selection said She is to launch in 2022 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. This will be her second stay on board the ISS where she will become the first female commander. (ARNewsLine) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Here in your WIA National News of late much has been said about "space junk or debris. Now comes word that the International Space Stations robotic arm, Canadarm2, has been struck by a piece of space debris. Luckily, it appears to be only a flesh wound, and the arm has been cleared for nominal operations while analysis on the strike continues. NASA and Canadian Space Agency officials dont know exactly what hit it but the damage was noticed during a routine inspection. The hole is quite small, approximately 5 mm in diameter. An absolutely mesmerizing and very instructional video graphic on the problem of orbital debris created by the European Space Agency, may be viewed at the link we like in this weeks text edition of this news cast. tinyurl.com/r9ws42x9 (ANS) THE NUMBERS GAME The Cargo Dragon capsule which took off June 3, on top of a Falcon 9 rocket to begin a two-day trip to the space station helped cluck up some impressive numbers. This was the: 120th Falcon 9 flight 17th SpaceX launch of 2021 22nd SpaceX cargo flight to ISS 130th launch from pad 39A This mission, to deliver experiments, food, spare parts, a NASA-sponsored CubeSat built by middle school students in Tennessee, and other equipment to the space stations seven-person crew. Among the equipment sent was the first satellite to be built by the island nation of Mauritius. The callsign is 3 B 8 MIR A camera and a digipeater (bent tube) will be made available to the HAM community worldwide when it is not downloading images or used for experimental purposes, the uplink will be on 145.9875 MHz and the downlink on 436.925 MHz. (9K2 GMSK as coordinated with IARU). spacemauritius.com The Dragons cargo load makes it the heaviest supply shipment SpaceX has ever sent to the space station. (ANS) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - VLF SAQ Grimeton Transmission on July 4th The annual transmission event on the Alexanderson Day with the Alexanderson Alternator from 1924, on VLF 17.2 kHz CW with the call sign SAQ, is scheduled for Sunday, July 4th. The Alexander Grimeton Association are planning to carry out two broadcasts to the world from the old Alexanderson alternator SAQ. Only required staff will be in place, due to the ongoing pandemic. Transmission schedule: Start-up and tuning at 08:30 UTC with a transmission of a message at 09:00 UTC. Start-up and tuning at 11:30 UTC with a transmission of a message at 12:00 UTC. Both transmission events can be seen live on YouTube Channel, 5 minutes before the start up and tuning. mailchi.mp/aff85163e64f/alexanderson-day-2021?e=2c0cbe870f (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- PRIDE The Pride Radio Group is working to take the financial sting out of becoming a ham. The group is making free kits with basic equipment available to Pride members who qualify for the assistance and live in Australia. Pride is also providing tutorials on how to get started with the kits. The kits contain, in part, an FM/DMR Hand Held, a NanoVNA with RF Demo board, a hotspot, cables and adapters along with several other basic essentials. Michaela Wheeler, VK3FUR/VK4XSS, the group's founder, said this is one way to offset the cost of starting in amateur radio. Pride Radio Group, which was formed last year as a welcoming organisation for amateur radio operators in the LGBTQ community, has shown a consistent growth in membership and now has a roster of 241. Michaela said the Australian Communications and Media Authority has extended Pride's club license through to the end of the year and organisers are presently forming a board. (ARNewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2021 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. 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/ VK2 - ON NOW Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Field Day (vk2zhe) at Wauchope Showground 12 and 13 of June. 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