2021 JUNE 20 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ------------------------------------------------------------* THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos ------------------------------------------------------------* NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING JUNE 20 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/ WIA's Bill Roper honoured by an OAM. - Australia's WIA offers help to the Australian Maritime College. - WIA Director Oscar VK3TX with a brief look at how IARU continues engagement in the WRC-23 preparations. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA Here in Brisbane, VK4, Nokia has just deployed Australias first interleaved passive-active antenna in collaboration with Optus In Yeerongpilly, a Brisbane suburb the solution helps ease site-related challenges accelerating the introduction of 5G services across the country. It allows operators to upgrade existing sites to 5G by simply replacing existing antennas with a similar sized unit that supports all legacy technologies as well as the 5G massive MIMO-active antenna, all in a single compact solution. By utilising this solution, deployment challenges may be overcome that typically hinder the introduction of 5G. tinyurl.com/rrpzbb89 WIA Ian VK3JS here and hello Listeners. The name Bill Roper VK3BR will be known to quite a few, particularly older operators in the hobby today. Bill had the great honour of being the recipient of an Order of Australia Medal announced last weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours list and we in the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club send Bill our very sincere best wishes on this most prestigious award. Bill has been an experienced banker for most of his life and has continued his contact with the bank through editing a magazine for retired bank officers. He started doing that in 2002. He also he edits a magazine, Old Timers News, for the Old Timers Club. Bill has been a committee member of RAOTC since 2000, editor of Old Timers News, the twice-yearly journal of the Old Timers Club, from sometime in 1990s. He is currently Membership Secretary, a former President of the club, a former Secretary and a Life Member. But Bill has not confined his efforts just to the Old Timers. For quite a few years he was heavily involved in Wireless Institute of Australia activities. He was the Federal Office Manager from 1989 to 1993; Editor and Assistant Editor of Amateur Radio from 1972 to 1978; Treasurer of the Victorian Division 1962 to 1972 and appointed a Life Member in 2005. All the best to you Bill. Our very sincere congratulations on the award and we hope that you will have many happy years yet to pursue your interest in and support of amateur radio. The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) has offered to help the Australian Maritime College (AMC) with the implementation of the 2X1 Contest callsigns. COVID and other workload related delays have impacted the start and issuing of the new 2x1 callsign block allocations which were announced in December 2020 by AMC as being available when ready to issue these callsigns. The WIA has offered to get the 2X1 callsigns up and going in a very short period, owing to the existing robust systems in place from when the WIA implemented the exam system. Also we have a fully functioning online 2x1 Callsign availability checker for use running now. Check for available 2x1 Callsigns: wiaawards.com/call2x1/call2x1.php "READ ALL ABOUT IT" www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2021/20210611-1/index.php (Trent Sampson VK4TS) IARU continues engagement in the WRC-23 preparations. IARU has been continuously engaging in the ITUR WRC-23 preparations during May 2021. IARU provided a contribution putting forward the agreed preliminary IARU positions for different agenda items. IARUs overall objective is to safeguard the allocations to the Amateur and Amateur-Satellite services in the co and adjacent frequency bands within the scope of each agenda item. If you are interested in IARUs agenda for the next World Radio Conference, please visit the IARU webpage. This is Oscar VK3TX for WIA National News. 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 On June 12 the IARU Region 1 Workshop on the Future of Amateur Radio continued with a session addressing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Societies addressing the Future of Amateur Radios prepared SWOT analysis (S-trengths, W-eaknesses, O-pportunities, T-hreats) on amateur radio. A photographic slide showing the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats identified from the survey held by the RSGB and other member societies can be seen on the link we like in this weeks text edition of news from YOUR VK1WIA tinyurl.com/45k9vst2 Bouvet Island, a sub-Antarctic volcanic island, is in the South Atlantic Ocean, at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge making it the world's most remote island. Uninhabited it's an island annexed by the Norwegians. And it would appear it will be uninhabited for some time. 3 Y 0 J DXpedition to Bouvet Island Has Been Cancelled. The Intrepid-DX Group announced it has cancelled its long-anticipated 3Y0J DXpedition to Bouvet Island. The DXpedition team had planned to travel to Bouvet via the RV Braveheart, owned by Nigel Jolly, K6NRJ. Jolly has told the DXpedition that Braveheart is being sold and hes cancelled its contract for the 3Y0J voyage. The DXpedition said that it has stopped accepting donations and will refund 100% of the donations using the same method they were received. This process will take several weeks to sort out, so please be patient, the announcement said. REGION TWO FLY ME TO THE MOON - OR WAS IT A "BIT" OF A HOAX? Although 5 Amateurs were named as taking part in the transfer of bit coin using EME some say "No-Way-Jose" more of a 'fake' news story, or in the Aussie vernacular a "BS" story. WIA National News ran the story, which we sourced from Currency Analytics ( tinyurl.com/prt8uc2n ) but Dale Hughes VK 1 DH did some investigating and, in part, received a note from Edson PY 2 SDR pointing out how the Brazilian equivalent of our WIA, LABRE, has had to declare the following: "International legislation, specifically the Radio Regulations RR1-1, item 1.56 of the International Telecommunications Union, states that Amateur Radio Service stations must operate without pecuniary interest , that is, WITHOUT pecuniary interest. It is also important to state that the experimental nature of the amateur radio service does not extend to the point where it can accommodate pecuniary use, even if it is on an experimental and eventual basis. Thus, in line with Brazilian and international legislation, which is crystal clear on this point, LABRE CONDEMNS the use of amateur radio bands for validation, implementation or any other use that involves money, even if it does not characterize profit, and RECOMMENDS to Brazilian radio amateurs and other radio operators who do not practice or participate in any such experiment, under penalty of being sanctioned by the Law. tinyurl.com/28k93h8u The solar scientist who's been bucking the tide of pessimism from most of his colleagues and predicting a huge sunspot cycle continues to see lots and lots of spots in the future. According to spaceweather.com, Scott McIntosh of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, USA along with colleague Bob Leamon of the University of Maryland / Baltimore County, are predicting that a " terminator event, " in which oppositely charged magnetic fields collide near the sun's equator and annihilate each other, will be occurring soon. This is a normal occurrence between solar cycles, they say, but the key to predicting the strength of the new cycle lies in the timing between terminator events the longer the time between them, the weaker the new cycle will be. They are predicting a short 10 years between the previous terminator event and the upcoming one, and McIntosh says, " If the Terminator Event happens soon, as we expect, new Solar Cycle 25 could have a magnitude that rivals the top few since record-keeping began." REGION THREE NEW ZEALAND:- Call Book 2021/2022 Good news for our ZL viewers, NZART have announced that a full paper version call book will be produced this year and included with their November / December issue of Break In Magazine. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 -------------- WINTER VHF-UHF Field Days - June 26 - 27 ALSO IN AUSTRALIA it's the Peel Amateur Radio Group's June Slow CW Contest. With more here is David VK 6 ARG the Secretary of Peel Amateur Radio Group "Following the success of the first PARG Slow CW Contest, the club has organized another event, from 1900 to 2100hrs Western Standard Time, on Saturday 26 June 21. Lock the date and time in your calendar now, so you don't miss it. The first contest attracted participants from all over VK land and the club thanks all those who joined in and welcome their participation again. The purpose of the contest, is to encourage people to have a go and enjoy playing with morse code. Experienced morse operators are more than welcome to join in the fun. Short Wave Listeners are also catered for. Please visit our website www.parg.org.au and look for the SCW Jun 21 page. You will find the rules, helpful hints and a logger. The club hopes to see you (or should that be hear you) on the 26 Jun from 1900 to 2100hrs Western Standard Time. Happy CW'ing to all. 73 and dit dit. David Secretary Peel Amateur Radio Group VK6ARG -------------- 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 -------------- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, A6. A 65 IX from Dubai has been heard on 40 and 20 meters CW and SSB. QSL route, 2 E 0 MMU (arrl) -------------- Active is XV 9 RH from Hanoi and will remain in Vietnam until the 26th of June. CW and FT8 on the 20 to 10m bands. QSL via OE 1 JUN. (rsgb) -------------- Be listening for Adrien, F4IHM, who is using the callsign 5 UAIHM until June 27th from Niger. He is on 40m and 20m using CW and SSB. 5 UAIHM is the unusual BUT correct callsign! QSL to F 4 IHM, direct or by the Bureau. (arnewsline.org) -------------- In Scotland, listen for Paul, G4PVM, Actually maybe I should say FROM Scotland listen for Paul. He will be using the callsign GM 4 PVM from the Isle of Lismore (IOTA EU-008) between June 29th and July 4th. Paul will be on 40m to 10m, both CW and SSB. Send QSLs via LoTW, eQSL or ClubLog if for IOTA points. (sourced to arnewsline.org) -------------- Finally a reminder again this week of : - 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. Check the WIA.ORG.AU website and Special Event pages to book your time slot for the use of VK20HOME. ------------------------------------------------------------* With REWIND, I'm John Knox VK4FJRK This year many Amateur Radio stations will be celebrating the anniversary of crossing of the Atlantic by radio. Some celebrating 100 years, others 120 years. So what's in a date? The answer lies in the small print of just WHAT the special event stations are celebrating. Chronologically we discover on December 12 1901 was the first radio transmission sent across the Atlantic Ocean when Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission to 200 miles or less. The messagesimply the Morse-code signal for the letter Stravelled more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada. He set up a specially designed wireless receiver in Newfoundland, using a coherer (a glass tube filled with iron filings) to conduct radio waves, and balloons to lift the antenna as high as possible. The signals being sent in Morse code from in England. Marconi later wrote about the experience: "Shortly before midday I placed the single earphone to my ear and started listening. The receiver on the table before me was very crude -- a few coils and condensers and a coherer -- no valves, no amplifiers, not even a crystal. But I was at last on the point of putting the correctness of all my beliefs to test. The answer came when I heard, faintly but distinctly, dit-dit-did. I handed the phone to my assistant George Kemp: "Can you hear anything?" I asked. "Yes," Kemp said. "The letter S." He could hear it. I knew then that all my anticipations had been justified. The electric waves sent out into space from Poldhu had traversed the Atlantic -- the distance, enormous as it seemed then, of 1,700 miles -- unimpeded by the curvature of the earth. The result meant much more to me than the mere successful realization of an experiment. As Sir Oliver Lodge has stated, it was an epoch in history. I now felt for the first time absolutely certain that the day would come when mankind would be able to send messages without wires not only across the Atlantic but between the farthermost ends of the earth. 120 YEARS DECEMBER THIS YEAR. So what is being celebrated this year? 100 years ago, December 12, 1921 Paul Godley 2ZE, who had been sent by the ARRL overseas and was listening in Ardrossan Scotland received the first transatlantic radio signals from an AMATEUR station, transmitted by 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut: Eight other radio amateurs in the United Kingdom also correctly copied the transmission from the USA. Godley (using 2ZE) also heard several other amateur radio transmissions from North America during his stay. 100 YEARS DECEMBER THIS YEAR. To celebrate the first one-way AMATEUR radio signal across the Atlantic that took place on 12 December 1921, the ARRL have joined with a group of UK operators who plan to recreate the event in December this year. To celebrate the centenary of Paul Godley, 2ZEs success, in collaboration with North Ayrshire Council, special event stations GB 2 ZE and GB 100 2 ZE respectively will be operating from 1 to 28 December 2021. With REWIND, I'm John Knox VK4FJRK tinyurl.com/m7x2bhm tinyurl.com/2jx23z6w tinyurl.com/5datkdah tinyurl.com/abprkyzd ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV HAMVENTION FORUM VIDEOS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE Hamventionhad it happenedwould have lasted 2 to 3 days. You are now able to participate in two highlights of that weekend held virtually in May by spending a little more than eight hours on YouTube. Contest University, held May 20th, and many of the Hamvention Forums, held May 21st, are now available. They include the CQ Contest Hall of Fame presentation by John K1AR; youth in contesting, by Phillip DK6SP, contesting from Russia by Willy UA9BA; "There is Nothing Magic about Propagation" by Jose CT1BOH and a memorial reading of the Silent Keys. (ARNewsLine) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org ARISS report there will be an 'Amateur Radio on Shuttle, Mir and ISS' Slow Scan TV (SSTV) event from June 21-26. Transmissions from the International Space Station will be on 145.800 MHz FM using PD 120 The ARISS team will be transmitting SSTV images continuously from tomorrow, June 21 until NEXT Saturday June 26. The images will be related to some of the amateur radio activities that have occurred on the Space Shuttle, Mir space station and the International Space Station. The schedule start and stop times are: Monday, June 21 Setup is scheduled to begin at 09:40 UTC (transmissions should start a little later). Saturday, June 26 Transmissions are scheduled to end by 18:30 UTC. Downlink frequency will be 145.800 MHz and the mode should be PD120. Those that recently missed the opportunity during the limited period of MAI transmissions should have numerous chances over the 6 day period to capture many (if not all 12) of the images. Check the ARISS SSTV blog for the latest information http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/ You can get predictions for the ISS pass times at www.amsat.org/track/ WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org OC-177. Bimbo, YB 3 MM, will be active as YB3MM/0 from Virgin Sand Beach on Pari Island north of the capital of Jakarta this weekend June 19-20th. QSL via YB3MM, direct, or by the Bureau but that route Bimbo says may take 3 yrs!. OC-021. Pri, YB 0 ECT, will be active from Java Island during the RSGB IOTA Contest next weekend July 24-25th as a Single-Op/Single-Band (20m)/ High-Power entry. QSL via W 2 FB only - again that is W2FB (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP --- OPTICS NASA TO TEST DATA TRANSFER VIA LASER COMMUNICAIONS If you're interested in an alternate communications mode, consider the option that NASA is exploring. Kent Peterson KC0DGY based at Amateur Radio NewsLine brings us those details here on WIA National News. "Welcome to the age of optical communications. This month NASA is launching the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration or LCRD, as a payload on a US satellite in geosynchronous orbit some 22,000 miles from Earth. This demonstration will test higher bandwidth transfer using optical communications which may supplement traditional data transfer using radio. The infrared light used for laser communications differs from radio waves because the laser packs the data into significantly tighter waves increasing the data throughput 10 to 100 times more than that of radio frequency systems. Laser communications systems are also smaller and weigh less. The LCRD is expected to use a data rate of 1.2 gigabits per second in its communications with ground stations in California and Hawaii. NASA said on its website that radio technology's limits are being challenged by newer technologies.. For Amateur Radio NewsLine I'm Kent Peterson KC0DGY." At this data rate, one could download a two-hour movie in about 20 seconds. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- QRP and WEAK SIGNAL COMMUNICATION Up in the REPUBLIC OF KOREA, special event station D 72 1LP is QRV until June 30 to celebrate IARU HF QRP Day. QSL via LoTW. Way back at the 10th IARU Region 3 Conference in 1997 held in Beijing it was resolved that Region 3 Societies help to promote the IARU objectives for QRP operation, particularly to support QRP operation on June 17 each year; to encourage regular publication of QRP articles in national magazines; and to provide QRP sections in national contests. A new version of WSJT-X, the software suite that includes FT8 and other digital protocols, has introduced a new mode, Q 65. According to the release notes, it is designed to accommodate fast-fading signals and paths with Doppler shifts of more than a few Hertz. "Q65 is particularly effective," the notes say, "for tropospheric scatter, rain scatter, ionospheric scatter, TEP (trans-equatorial propagation) and EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) on VHF and higher bands." It uses the same message formats and sequencing as those used in FST4, FT4, FT8 and MSK144. Q65 is one of 11 total modes included in the latest WSJT-X package. For more information or to download the free software, tinyurl.com/nzcmxywm 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 The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) launched a new SATERN International SSB Net on June 2 on 14.325 MHz. Net sessions will take place Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1600 hours UTC, in cooperation with the Hurricane Watch Net (HWN), which has used 14.325 MHz for many years. Just down the band, a 'splinter group', a net sporting the same SATERN acronym the Strategic Auxiliary Team Emergency Readiness Net has established itself on the Salvation Army's former frequency of 14.265 MHz. The latter net was organized by Lee Glassman, WA5LEE, a former manager of the original SATERN. The Salvation Army made the distinction clear in its announcement launching the new SSB net on 20 meters. The new Strategic Auxiliary Team Emergency Readiness Net is not associated with The Salvation Army, At this time, Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network is no longer associated with Lee Glassman and does not support his new efforts. This is a breakaway organization. (arrl) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ROAR ROTARIANS OF AMATEUR RADIO website: froar.org email: webmaster@ifroar.org FaceBook: facebook.com/groups/RotariansROAR/ 0645z - 0730z ANZO Net 7.118 (varies due to propagation) 0730z - 0830z International net 14.293 (varies due to propagation) The ROAR Annual group meeting has been set for July 31, 2021, 1200Z. Please join them, an opportunity to meet, great, and confirm as new ROAR President, Vernon Readhead, G0EGW. Annual reports on the activities and health of the Fellowship will be presented. All ROAR members should note if you don't already have your ZOOM check in credentials email RAOR "soonest." ( Ed Tyler - N4EDT President, ROAR ) 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) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2021 Social Scene 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/ VK - WIA AGM Saturday 26th June 11.00 am (vk8zz) VK6 - PerthTech October 23 (vk6pop) VK3 - ROSEBUD RadioFest by SPARC 9:30am Nov 14 (vk3pdg) FINAL FINAL If you are traveling to the NSW Ski fields or southern NSW this year this note from Angelo is worth taking heed of. VK2NWT tells that the Snowy Mountains Amateur Radio Club would like to advise those skiers heading to the snow, that the NSW South East 2m network provides coverage from Bredbo, and that IS Bredbo WHICH is a village 34 kilometres north of Cooma, to North Eastern Victoria and right up into the Snowy Mountains and Ski resorts areas. Skiers in Perisher can also access the 70cm VK2RLJ repeater on Mt Perisher covering Perisher Valley and surrounding towns. The network has IRLP and EchoLink access if others wish to call in, maybe even on the Snowy Mountains Amateur Radio Club weekly Net at 1930 hours and everyone is welcome to join in and say hi. You can also listen to this the WIA Weekly News Broadcast at 0900 and 1800 hours every Sunday over the network. For details of frequencies, repeaters locations, node numbers etc. visit the club's webpage www.smarc.org.au or look them up on QRZ using the Club's callsign, VK2SNO. 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