2021 AUGUST ONE 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 AUGUST 1 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/ PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032 AND THIS WEEK WE START at the end, or, is it the beginning? The beginning of our great hobby electronics then, before our news in detail we jump forward to today in our hobby where resident "thinker" Geoff Emory VK4ZPP has, this week, been READING. But now lets rewind to the start.. With REWIND, I'm John Knox VK4FJRK Radio & Electronics History Fascinating information descriptions, stories, and information about radio and electronics history. Everything from the famous scientists, pioneers and great engineers themselves to the technologies they developed. Radio and electronics history reveals many fascinating insights. Pioneers who developed new technologies to the explanations of how these technologies developed. Morse code and the first telegraph systems to vintage radio,, how valves were developed, worked and much more. Electronics Notes have started adding a virtual museum and directory of various vintage radios of all sorts from old crystal antiques radios to vintage valve radios, ex-government communications radios, ham radio equipment through to early transistor radios and the like. Each radio is given a description, details of the specification and circuit where possible, so a good amount of interesting information is available on each type. There is a huge amount of work yet to work on in preparing a good selection of radios that will be of interest, but Electronics-notes.com have started. So far the radios investigated and written about include the Philco 111 superhet radio from 1931, some of the EKCO Art Deco round radio sets from the 1930s and 1940s as well as a selection of government surplus communications radios like the AR88, Marconi CR100 & 150, some ham radio sets, a Tandberg radio from the 1970s and a few others. As you can imagine, this is very much a "work in progress" so more will be added as time permits, ending up with a useful selection of radios that people will find interesting to browse and read about. If you are interested, check back from time to time to see all the new additions. tinyurl.com/9a5vtnf8 My time is up With REWIND I'm John Knox, VK4FJRK WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y DISCUSSION POINT Hello I'm Geoff Emory, VK4ZPP, and I've been READING. Last week, my copy of the WIA house magazine, Amateur Radio, arrived and it was then that I read the 2 page spread of Over to You, a letter to the editor by a correspondent who provided documentation supporting his statements but who had his personal details withheld from publication. This letter is printed on pp 47 & 48 of the magazine and if you havent already read it, I would recommend you take some time to go over it. The main gist of this letter is that the procedures for RPL have been amended and no longer follow the previously published criteria posted on the AMC web site. The is now the possibility that a verbal exam or viva can be conducted by an AMC assessor, either in person or over the phone. The writer points out that this amounts to a form of examination duplication which is obviously not the usual procedure for a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). The writer of the letter quotes correspondence from an ACMA manager in June of this year in which the matter is effectively duck shoved under the table. One of the options floated by the ACMA was to have assessments conducted by an RTO. Amateurs rejected that choice and now we have a level of inconsistency being applied, it seems, by both the ACMA and the AMC. A level of inconsistency which stands the chance of destabilising the stability of international relations established over decades in managing amateur radio affairs. Im Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and thats what I think, how about you? 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. 23cm band and Sat-Nav Coexistence: Preliminary Studies considered in ITU-R WP4C During the period 513 July 2021, the preparatory work for WRC-23 agenda item 9.1b continued in ITU-R Working Party 4C (WP4C). The IARU member representatives from here in Australia, along with Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, UK and USA, participated in the meeting and delivered additional information on amateur activities in this KEY microwave band. Preliminary studies came from France based on the ongoing CEPT work to provide initial estimates of separation distances required between RNSS GALILEO receivers and a sample of amateur emissions. The European Commission GALILEO team provided a set of observations pertaining to a RNSS interference event in northern Italy. More information is on the IARU page: bit.ly/3kKEmRq Transatlantic Cable Anniversary As part of the anniversary celebrations of the Transatlantic Cable on Tuesday 27th July, between Valentia Cable station and the Hearts Content Cable station in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the Kerry Amateur Radio Group E I 1K will continue the tradition of making HF QSO's with their friends at VO 1 TAC (TransAtlanticCable). In July 1866, the first permanent telegraph cable connecting Europe and North America was hauled ashore at Heart's Content and connect to Valentia. REGION ONE Volunteer Amateur Radio operators to the rescue in Belgian floods Emily Hough writes in the Crisis Response Journal about the 30 radio amateurs who were deployed in the provinces of Brabant Wallon and Hainaut following the flooding in Belgium Early morning of July 16, the Police building in Wavre including its Tetra antenna and computers was left completely underwater. "This antenna is critical for the Astrid national Tetra system, which is used by firefighters, medics, the police, civil protection, the army and crisis communicators. We also had several local electrical blackouts in Lige, Luxembourg and Brabant Wallon." Here, the ham radio volunteers came into their own. Emergency despatch requested their help and about 30 volunteers were deployed in the provinces. They connected fire stations, ambulance stations, hospitals (including medical emergency vehicles), the main command post in Wavre (the Governor's Crisis Centre and Field Multidisciplinary Command Post) and 112 dispatch in Mons. (Our version of triple zero). Read the full article on crj.co/Articles/615508/_Volunteer_radio.aspx REGION TWO GREENBANK - THE QUIETEST PLACE IN AMERICA. AB 7 RG writing in eham.net tells how every week, Chuck Niday makes the rounds in Pocahontas County in search of rogue radio frequencies. This 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia is home to Green Bank Observatory -- and known for being "the quietest town in America." The observatory boasts the largest steerable radio telescopes in the world, used to measure invisible energy waves raining down on Earth, but in order to do its job, it requires complete electromagnetic silence. Since it opened in 1958, the observatory has discovered black holes, radiation belts and gravitational waves. Sitting in a valley, the surrounding mountains offer a natural barrier against the outside worlds noise REGION THREE IS INSPECTOR MORSE BACK? The Indian Express newspaper reports Police in Pune are keeping Morse Code as a robust stand-by communications mode In this era of satellite communication, which involves transmitting signals into space and back, and internet based systems transferring gigabytes of data in a flash, police in India have kept alive the age-old system of Morse Code a now somewhat primitive method of sending messages in the form of dots and dashes. Every Sunday, an operator with Pune Polices wireless wing sends a Morse Code message to the office of the Director General of Police, Maharashtra. While this is their way of paying tributes to one of the earliest modes of telecommunication, it is primarily a way of maintaining a robust stand-by mode of message delivery in case other means of communication fail. Read the full article on tinyurl.com/rn9mt4ss GOLD GOLD GOLD Olympic Games - JA1TOKYO is on the air On July 16 JARL opened the special commemorative station 'JA1 TOKYO' in Nishitokyo City, Tokyo, to commemorate the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games being held from July 23 After the opening ceremony of "JA1TOKYO", an operator in charge was assigned to each band for active operation. In the evening, a member of Japan's House of Representatives Hirohiko Izumida 7K1KJK, who is an amateur radio operator and a member of JARL, attended the venue and operated the station in the 7 MHz band. The station will be active until September 5. tinyurl.com/IARU-Japan ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- 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 -------------- Now joining us at Contest HQ is Alan, VK4SN with the Trans-Tasman Contest results and Remembrance Day reminder. "This year we had 76 log entries. Most seemed to agree conditions were good at least after the 1st time block. I hope the new one button click to submit your log from VKCL logger made log submission easier. Thank you Mike. Congratulations go to these first place achievers. SO HP, VK2EFM SO LP, VK5LJ SO QRP, VK7VH M1, VK4HH with ops VK4ZD and VK4DI There were no MM entries this year as the east coast were in lockdown. Please visit the WIA Trans-Tasman contest page to download the PDF Report that contains certificates, stats, and a list of logging errors that operators made. While I've got the microphone.. In two weeks time the Remembrance Day contest is on over the weekend of 14 and 15th of August. Running for 24 hours the contest runs between 0300z Saturday and 0300z Sunday. There are no restrictions regarding COVID lockdowns, but please honour your local COVID guidelines. As some clubs may not be able to activate multi op stations, may I suggest submitting nominations for Teams this year instead. Please email me with team nominations prior to the start of the contest. From this year onward, there awards for the Foundation category are deleted as 3 letter callsigns no longer represent licence category. Please visit the WIA Remembrance day contest page for further info. Best 73 This is Alan VK4SN." -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- THE RAAF who have been flying high with VK100AF to celebrate it's 100 years back March 31 will land and go QRT with VK100AF August 31 (vk4bb) -------------- 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) -------------- Navajo Code Talkers special event Look for Special Event Station N7C to be active between August 10-14th with the 17th annual special event station's celebration of the 'Navajo Code Talkers', normally from Window Rock, Arizona. However, because of the continued closure of the Navajo Nation due to the COVID-19 outbreak, N7C will be on the air from several home stations, including Herb-N7HG whose father was a Code Talker. QSL to N7HG or N7C at the QRZ.com address. (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) -------------- 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) -------------- ST. HELENA ISLAND. No not the St Helena in VK4's Moreton bay but ZD7 laying in the South Atlantic Ocean. QRV is ZD 7 GB from Jamestown until September 6. Activity on 40 to 10 meters, including Satellite QO-100, using SSB, FT8 and FT4. QSL via operator Gerry's instructions. Gerry, whose callsigns include G3WIP and VK0GB, among others received the callsign ZD 7 GB for his activation from the main village of Jamestown on St. Helena Island whilst he is working there as a medical doctor (arrl - arnewsline.org) -------------- Here's a "hi-flyer" worth keeping an ear out for. NZART news say that ARI Cadore and ARI Brunico have activated special call II 3 TDD celebrating a century from the opening of the most famous ALPS railway:- "Trenino delle DOLOMITI - DOLOMITES Mountains Train." They are on air till September 30th on all bands and modes. -------------- RUSSIA. Call sign R 100 KOMI celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Komi Republic until the end of September. QSL via ClubLog OQRS and R1II. (southgatearc.org) -------------- 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) -------------- PANAMA. Special event stations 3 F 200 AT and 3 F 200 NG are QRV until November 30 celebrating Panama's Bicentennial anniversary of Independence and qsl route is via LoTW. (arrl) -------------- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------------------------------------* 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/ minesontheair.com/about-mota Tom Read M 1 EYP, prominent Summits on the Air activator from Cheshire, is suddenly experiencing a significant change to his portable operating habits. Tom, who with 3551 summit activations to his name over 19 years, is the worlds most experienced SOTA activator, has commenced work as a professional musician on board Sagas brand new cruise ship Spirit of Adventure. Tom has taken his trusty FT-817 and an Alexloop antenna and has secured the enthusiastic permission of the Master of the Vessel, Captain Kim Tanner to talk to we SOTA gang from his cabin balcony, but Captain Tanner has urged him to also operate from the public decks, believing the activity to be something that would be of great interest to the guests. Toms SOTA activities will now obviously be restricted to chasing, but look out for M1EYP/MM, possibly with the addition of some CEPT prefixes, from this brand new luxury boutique cruise ship. The itineraries include around Britain and Ireland, the Baltic, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Canaries. Tom will be active from the Saga Spirit of Adventure until mid November 2021 on 40m to 10m, and using CW, SSB and FT4/FT8. For our WIA supporters in Europe, there may be some local 2m FM as well (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station are planning to transmit Slow Scan TV images on 145.800 MHz FM using the SSTV mode PD-120. The transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment and will be made from the amateur radio station RS 0 ISS in the Russian ISS Service module using a Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver. August 6, 2021 (Friday) from 10:50 GMT until 19:10 GMT* August 7, 2021 (Saturday) from 09:50 GMT until 15:55 GMT* *Dates and times subject to change. ( ariss-sstv.blogspot.com ) The annual DATV QSO Party is scheduled for Friday 27th August and Saturday 28th August which may now include additional Repeaters in the USA. The principle is that DATV Stations transmit to their local Repeaters and a local Anchor ports the signal internationally. More details of this event will follow in subsequent broadcasts. WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DIGITAL vkdmr.info/ brandmeister.network/?page=repeaters Stations to Celebrate Fourth Anniversary of FT8 Many stations will take to the airwaves August 2 15, to celebrate the 4th anniversary of FT8. All stations will use call signs with FT DMC or FT DM in the suffix. Stations planning to participate include: 4 J 8 FTDM OZ 8 FTDMC 9 K 8 FTDMC (ARRL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org AM 1 SAT International Award From September 13-19 AM 1 SAT will be active on the amateur radio satellites from a number of locations in Spain and diplomas will be available for contacting the stations AMSAT-EA will celebrate in September, coinciding with the IberRadio Fair organized by URE in vila and which is the largest meeting point for radio amateurs in Spain and Portugal, the third edition of its International Competition and AM1SAT Award. To do this, AMSAT-EA operators will be in the air everywhere, all available satellites with the callsign AM 1 SAT between the 13th and 19th of September activating a minimum of 14 different locations. (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS raotc.org.au Hallo everyone, this is Clive VK6CSW reminding you that tomorrow is the first Monday of month, time for the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australias August bulletin to go to air. This month we have for you: * Special item by Ian VK3JS in club news recognising Barry VK3SY who along with Bill Roper VK3BR was also an OAM recipient in the recent Queens Birthday Awards Honours list. * An item from Peter Clee VK8ZZ, RAOTC committee member and WIA Secretary, with an update of the WIAs discussions with the ACMA. This is followed by two short items read by Ian VK3JS, * Earthquake Detection, and * Go Go Gadget CubeSat, then finally * Bruce VK3 UV tells us about Solar Flares, including an event on 3rd July this year which briefly obliterated HF communications. Everyone, RAOTC members and non-Members alike, is most welcome to listen to the program and join in the call-backs afterwards. Full details of all transmissions times and modes can be found on the RAOTC website on raotc.org.au or just 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, brief feedback would be appreciated. Members and Friends of the RAOTC in Perth are reminded that the next lunchtime meeting at the Bayswater Hotel is on Tuesday, August 10th and youll be pleased to know that the buffet is back on. Once again, tune in tomorrow for the August RAOTC bulletin, enjoy the program and dont forget to join in the call backs afterwards. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. 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 In the last week of May, hours before cyclone Yaas made landfall in northern coastal Odisha and battered coastal West Bengal, Ambarish Nag Biswas VU2JFA, secretary of the West Bengal Radio Club, got a call from a senior bureaucrat about deployment of some HAM radio operatives in Purba Medinipur district, where the maximum damage was expected. Mr. Biswas said it was difficult for the operators who had already positioned themselves in different areas to move to Purba Medinipur. Communication turns out to be a major challenge during the cyclones and particularly in the Sunderbans with more than 50 inhabited islands located in remote areas some of them at the mouth of the Bay of Bengal. They remain cut off often for days. The State had in the past three years faced four tropical cyclones, Fani (May 2019) , Bulbul (November 2019), Amphan ( May 2020) and Yaas ( May 2021) and on all occasions the administration had to wait for connection to be restored to assess damage and send relief. A few months after Yaas, Mr. Nag Biswas got a call from the district administration of the South 24 Parganas to train local youths from the Sunderbans in operating Ham Radio sets. This was to augment the community-based disaster preparedness of the region. Accordingly, training of 60 volunteers mostly residing in the Sunderbans has started earlier this month. 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) On behalf of ROAR Editor Diane Main VK4DI and President Ed Tyler N4EDT, we provide a link to the latest (2021) ROAR Communicator and thank the various contributors. If you, as a ROAR member, have something you wish to have included in the next Communicator, send it to Diane now - editor@ifroar.org You can view the latest Communicator by going to the ROAR website on www.ifroar.org (ROAR) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota IARU Region One Working Group, in collaboration with the IARU R1 Executive Committee, has made the following arrangement: Youth events scheduled within 2021 will remain in the calendar for the time being. We, the IARU R1 Youth WG, will review the forecast evolution of the pandemic sufficiently prior to each event and make an announcement about whether it will take place. Generally this will be 3 months prior to the scheduled date. Those planning to attend should thus have sufficient time to make the necessary bookings and travel arrangements. IARU Region 1s intent is to ensure that any events which take place do so in an environment which respects national requirements for pandemic control and which does not place at risk the health and well-being of those participating. Source iaru-r1.org/ 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. COUPLED WITH ----------> SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ROTA ROTA Recipes On The Air Finally, this last segment is really two WW Special Interest Groups combined. ROTA, Recipes On The Air and Radio Scouting. Today, August 1st is World Scout Day and Cub Scouts in Victorias Northern Rivers District will gather in Swan Hill to showcase displays of cultures from countries including Poland, Spain, Denmark, Peru, Kenya and America, and prepare and cook traditional meals from those world regions. On the amateur radio side, Ross, VK3ZNR and yours truly, VK3GTV will be there, both in our capacity as scouting leaders and hams to hopefully make contact with other scouts in those nations, similar to JOTA, Jamboree On The Air. Well operate mostly on 40 metres around 7.090Mhz and 20 metres around 14.310Mhz. Well also try the local VK3RSH 2 metre repeater. When you hear our CQ calls, wed love hams from anywhere to come back to us and have a chat to the kids, sometime between 10am and 3pm today, local time. Hopefully Ill chat to some of you during the day. Im Col, VK3GTV. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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/ VK4 - REDCLIFFE AR Club Car Boot Sale Aug 21 9am (vk4tfn) VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention Mount Gambier 18th and 19 of September. (vk5dj) VK4 - Cardwell Gathering October1 to 4 at Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park. (BackScatter) VK4 - SunFest Field Day Monday October 4, Nambour Showgrounds, Queensland. ( mark@qslcomms.com ) The Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club is pleased to announce the annual SunFest event for 2021 will be held once again at the Nambour Showgrounds this year. Take pride in building your own gear? You could win some awesome prizes by entering your work in the SunFest 2021 Queensland Homebrew Competition. There will be both rookie (licenced less than two years) and open divisions, and a special category for U18s. Perhaps youre more of a car or truck lover with some radio on the side, well why not enter the 2021 SunFest Echinda Concours d'Elegance? We are looking for entries that showcase the best of both worlds, neat cars and neat radio installations. You will need to display your vehicle at the event on the day, and be prepared to answer the odd question or two. You never know, you could come away with the crowd favourite award (grand champion)! Along with our car boot sale space, we will also have a table sales area as well this year. Fox hunts, and licence exams are also being looked at, and there might even be communication from another world on display as well. Finally dont forget our MONSTER RAFFLE, were looking at offering some awesome prizes including a Yaesu FT-DX10. SunFest 2021 Field Day is being held on Monday the 4th of October, @ Nambour Showgrounds, Queensland. Please note unlike past years, due to venue availability, the event will be held on Monday Oct 4, which happens to be a long weekend not only in Queensland, but also NSW, ACT and South Australia. More info will be on our website ( vk4wis.org ) and Facebook page. VK6 - PerthTech October 23 (vk6pop) 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. Local news follows National news in all states. 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