2021 AUGUST 8 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 8 2021 IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS WIA VICE PRESIDENT VK3GK WITH NEWS RE ROGER HARRISON VK2ZRH THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. WIA NATIONAL NEWS AND YOUR 3 W's. WASH YOUR HANDS WEAR YOUR MASK WATCH YOUR DISTANCE (1.5 metres) www.health.gov.au/ WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y Good morning from Lee Moyle VK3GK WIA Vice President. The WIA Board wishes to inform the members and welcome back to Pubcom Roger Harrison VK2ZRH to the role of Editor in Chief of Amateur Radio magazine. As some of you will recall, Roger's former careers in journalism and publishing include terms as editor of Electronics Today International (ETI), editor-publisher of Australian Electronics Monthly (AEM) and editor of CB Australia. He also served terms as editor of leading trade journals Manufacturers Monthly and Electronics News, not to mention Medical Imaging & Monitoring. He was also a successful contributor to The Australian, the Age, the Bulletin, and other mass media titles. Naturally, Rogers contributions to Amateur Radio magazine over decades also needs mentioning. The WIA board look forward to once again seeing Roger perform his expertise along with the amazing Pubcom group to produce a first class dedicated Amateur Radio magazine published in both hard copy and digital formats for our readers. The August September edition is being compiled as we speak and a blockbuster it will be. If you would like to contribute an article or other content to AR Magazine or thinking of joining the Pubcom team, please email your expression of interest to the secretary, Simon Rumble VK2VSR who can be reached on simon@simonrumble.com 73 from Lee VK3GK ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. The international community has been 'abuzz' this week with news that the Bouvet Island DXpedition could be ' back on track.' They are said to be negotiating with a New Charter Vessel. Yes Planning Begins Anew The Intrepid-DX Groups plans for a 2023 DXpedition to Bouvet Island are back on the front burner. In a brief announcement to the global DX community, DXpedition co-leader Paul Ewing, N6PSE, said a new charter vessel contract is in the offing. The 3Y0J DXpedition has refunded all donations to its earlier announced plan, advanced before losing its contract with the charter vessel Braveheart, and Ewing conceded, there was a high degree of uncertainty that we could move forward. Braveheart captain Nigel Jolly, K6NRJ, told the DXpedition in June that the Braveheart was being put up for sale, and he was cancelling its contract for the 3Y0J voyage. Ewing said this week that the team has found a suitable and affordable vessel whose skipper is willing to take a group of a dozen DXers to Bouvet, and they are negotiating the terms of that charter contract at present. We have submitted a new application to the Norwegian Polar Institute, Ewing said. REGION ONE RFI from water IRTS News report that devices called 'Wassermatrix', sold by a Swiss company by the same name have been identified as the source of QRM around 144.015 MHz across European countries. The manufacturer claims it will vitalize, structure or energize water, thus making drinking water healthier and curing a wide span of diseases from oncologic and virological to orthopaedic kinds. Following complaints, those devices has now been banned from sale in Germany after an investigation by the local communications regulator. Reports include direct identification of devices near Frankfurt airport. The devices use an unstable power oscillator around 144.015 MHz. with a wide noise skirt, and produce 20 Watts output over periods of five minutes. Strong overtones can be heard at 288 and 432 MHz. For the user of the 'purifier' this translates into a calculated EMF exposure of about 28Volt/meter, enough to possibly upset a heart pacemaker. LA2FDA and LB6RI cross the North Sea in a sailing vessel These two radio amateurs, one passenger and one crew are aboard 'Statsraad Lehmkuhl' as it is cruising from Northern Norway to the southern parts. This cruise is being televised on national TV 6 days a week, and the edited programmes are available via internet. Saturday 31st July, the two were shown on national TV talking about amateur radio while the vessel was underway from the Shetlands and back to Western Norway. Their interview is at 3 hrs 11 mins into the recording that is available via the link we like in this weeks text edition. tinyurl.com/ynpk9adb REGION TWO Chile's Defence Minister recognises radio amateurs Chiles Minister of National Defence CE 1 JIU has been a radio amateur since 1980. In a QSO recently held between he and colleagues Dino Besomi, CE3PG, Radio Club de Chile President, and Angel Toranzo, CE3NY, Director of the Chilean Federation of Amateur Radio Clubs, he highlighted the relevance of radio amateurs, who are always willing and able to help their communities when it becomes necessary. In Chile, the work of radio amateurs in the area of communications during of emergency and disaster situations is well recognized and taken into account by the government, natural disasters are frequent in Chile and its territory is widespread. Therefore, emergency preparedness is one of the activities where many Chilean amateurs usually participate. www.iaru-r2.org/en/on-the-air/emergency-communications/ REGION THREE Prosecution for possessing a prohibited radio Recently, New Zealand's Radio Spectrum Management successfully brought charges against a person who was found guilty of possessing an Unrestricted Two Way Radio. The prohibited radio was found in a vehicle by police officers during a routine pull over. On further analysis, the prohibited radio had police frequencies programmed into the unit and was able to transmit on police channels. The owner appeared in the Whangarei District Court and was found guilty of charges under the Radiocommunications Act 1989. It is illegal for any person (apart from NZ Police) to transmit on Police channels. Unsolicited radiocommunication can cause serious harm and put Officers and the New Zealand public in danger. Amateur radio operator 'digs deep' for yet another award The Hindu newspaper reports on the achievements of radio amateur M. Sanil Deep VU3SIO The ham from Kozhikode who recently entered the America Book of Records, has certificates of 14 such records adorning the drawing room of his home. All these records for the longest running broadcast show, BC-DX NET, for short wave radio listeners every Sunday for the last 30 years. As a net controller with the individual call sign VU 3 SIO, he has been broadcasting since 1990. In 1998, a talk given by Mr. Deep was aired by Adventist World Radio from Guam in the Pacific Ocean on the 10th anniversary of BC-DX NET, and again in 2008 for the 20th anniversary of the show. So far, he has connected with radio stations in around 200 countries using the ham radio set up at his residence. The Golden Book of Records, India Book of Records, World Records India, Limca Book of Records, Arabian World Record and Asia Book of Records have already acknowledged his achievement. tinyurl.com/c7dhj9xk This report originaly reported to Amateur Radio Newsline by WIA Editor Graham VK4BB "As floods from the recent monsoon in the western Indian state of Maharashtra swept through villages, raising the death toll to nearly 200, amateur radio operators traded their radios for relief kits and dispersed through the villages in the Satara District to distribute help. The flooding late last month, which resulted in landslides and water levels surging to heights of 20 feet in some areas, prompted officials to undertake the state's largest flood evacuation in recent decades. The Satara Institute of Hams handed over more than 100 kits containing basic groceries, blankets, water and medicine, according to postings on social media. Hams assisting in the assembly and distribution of the kits included:- Niranjan Supekar VU3GBX Shantanu Karande VU3GBZ Rohit Bhosale VU2MIB/W2MIB. Rohit told Newsline in an email that the ham radio team also helped establish communications between people in the affected area and officials in the local District Administration. Writing on their Facebook page, the hams acknowledged the generosity of the action's benefactors. They wrote: [quote] "Thank you donors. This wouldn't have been possible without your support." [endquote] ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- RD or Remembrance Day Contest will be NEXT weekend August 14-15. -------------- ALARA CONTEST Hi this is Sue VK5AYL. The Alara Contest will be held again on the last weekend of August that is Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th. Starting time is 0600 UTC, finishing 24 hours later at 0559 UTC. All YLs and OMs are invited to take part, and it is hoped that YLs especially will enjoy this contest. It is not about making the highest score, but to enjoy a chat with those that we dont usually meet on air. We would love to hear some young YLs joining in again this year. We have also invited Scouts and Guides to join us and we hope it will give them some contesting experience. Some of the Committee will be handing out numbers on HF and Echolink during the contest. We had quite a few entries last year with OMs also sending in logs and being awarded certificates. I cant believe we still have covid around but ham radio has made life a little more bearable because we can speak to the world without leaving home. We hope to support those in lockdown again this year, so please turn on your radio and join in on the fun! -------------- The second year of a contest has been announced that will level the competitive playing field between the Big Guns and the Little Pistols who operate a portable station. Its name, as complicated as is the test itself is SO worth a crack at as it is arguably the hardest to win.. It's called the Fox Mike Hotel Portable Operations Challenge ( The F M H P O C ) 'The scoring metric is the distance-per-power metric with multipliers for portable operators and the difficulty of the transmission mode,' said Bill AC 0 W, a member of the Steering Committee. We are using/kilometres-per-watt/as the score for a contact. But those using a more difficult transmission mode such as phone will get a higher multiplier than those using the more efficient modes of CW and digital. As I said, COMPLICATED BUT.. for all the details in WRITING of this contest scheduled for September 4 and 5, 2021, the POCs rules and other relevant documents are located on foxmikehotel.com/challenge -------------- 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 -------------- Holy Land DX Group in Rwanda Members of the Holy Land DX Group will operate from Rwanda signing 9X 4X between November 24th and December 1st. They will run 3 stations on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8 and will also participate in the CQWW DX CW Contest November 27-28th. QSL via Ruben, 4Z5FI. (opdx) -------------- The Road To Morocco Listen for Moroccan operators using the special prefixes 'CN22' until today, August 8th, and then '5E' between August 20 - 29th for the celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the enthronement of 'His Majesty the King of Morocco Mohammed VI.' (OPDX) -------------- HS 18 IARU, Thailand promotes the upcoming 18th IARU Region 3 Conference that will be hosted online by RAST in September is on all amateur radio bands until September 30. (southgatearc.com) -------------- To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the International Police Association Radio Club (IPARC) of Switzerland, look for special event station HB 40 POLICE to be active until December 31st on 160 - 6 meters (sourced to SouthGate) -------------- ARGENTINA. 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) -------------- The Slovenian Amateur Radio Union will celebrate the country's 30 years of Independence by issuing a special award eligible to amateur radio enthusiasts all over the World. For this event, starting next Saturday June 26 until December 31 the Slovenian amateur radio stations can use special call signs. Those will add the number '30' into the suffix. For example: S 50 ZZ will be S 50 30 ZZ, S 51 A will be S 51 30 A, S 57 XXX will be S 57 30 XXX etc. In order to obtain the award we here in VK and in fact all foreign (to Slovenian) amateur radio station must have at least 30 contacts with S5 stations, out of which 10 or more must have the special '30' suffix. The easy part though is any band/mode counts for the award! Send the log - list of contacts, date, time, call, band and mode to scc@hamradio.si ( icqpodcast.com ) -------------- 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) -------------- -------------- THE QNEWS WORK BENCH - the nuts and volts report Measure Twice cut Once. NASA DEVELOPS ANTENNA TO SURVIVE HARSH ENVIRONMENT If you've ever dreamed of the perfect antenna, well, it doesn't yet exist but scientists over at NASA have developed one they believe is robust enough for one of Jupiter's moons. From our friends at Amateur Radio NewsLine here's Ralph Squillace KK 6 ITB with the details. "Think of it as a kind of super antenna: The unprecedented design from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is an all-metal structure created to withstand the intensely radioactive environment of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Its designer, Nacer Chahat, a senior antenna engineer at NASA, created it even before an actual robotic lander for Europa becomes a reality. He said it was important to be ready for effective communications from such a harsh, watery, radioactive environment as Europa. Writing on the IEEE Spectrum website, Nacer said the antenna is able to transmit at a high data rate, is lightweight enough to not impede take-off and landing, can communicate with Earth from 550 million miles away and is resistant to the intense ionizing radiation of Jupiter. He said a critical point was the antenna's construction of circularly polarized union cells that are entirely aluminium. They are capable of transmitting and receiving on X-band frequencies 7.145 to 7.19 GHz for the uplink and 8.4 to 8.45 GHz for the downlink. Nacer wrote: [QUOTE] "Although it was designed for Europa, it is a revolutionary enough design that were already successfully implementing it in future missions for other destinations in the solar system." [ENDQUOTE] He said that meanwhile, the lab might make use of this design in 2026 on a joint JPL/European Space Agency mission to bring rocks back from Mars. Nacer wrote that when a Europa lander mission becomes a reality, the antenna will further prove its real worth: [quote] "Without a working antenna, the lander will never be able to tell us whether we could have living neighbours on Europa." [ENDQUOTE] (Amateur Radio NewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 MONTENEGRO, 4O. Alex, YU0W has been QRV as 4O/YU0W/p from several SOTA peaks but "climbs down" today August 8. Have a quick listen out on 40, 30 and 20 meters using CW. QSL to home call which again is YU 0 W. (SouthGate) In other SOTA news, today is also the VK1 SOTA Winter QSO Party, so keep an ear out for those activators looking for chasers. (VK3GTV) WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DIGITAL vkdmr.info/ brandmeister.network/?page=repeaters Evgeny UA3AHM / OH5HM and Sergej UA9OV have developed a mode of digital shortwave communications, which aims to be easy to use, capable and most importantly friendly to the operators resources. Apart from a low power battery operated transceiver and a small digital interface, only an Android smartphone is needed, which can be recharged with cheap and readily available consumer-grade solar chargers. Evgeny and Sergej have created an app called HFpager which allows the use of smartphones sound chip to encode and decode audio signals in the SSB audio passband of the transceiver similar to PC based modes like FT8 and JS8Call. It uses rates of transmission of 1.46, 5.86, 23.44 and 46.88 Baud. Modulation is 18-tone Incremental Frequency Shift Keying (IFSK) with forward error correcting Reed-Solomon code RS ( 15, 7 ) and a superblock by 4 RS blocks with interleaving. Over in the US of A, Dale Thomas has built HamMessenger which is a portable device that enables users to send text messages through their ham radios. If you remember the early days of the internet, you have heard for yourself that audio can carry digital data. Dial-up internet uses a modem to transmit that audio through standard "twisted pair" phone lines. HamMessenger uses a similar methodology to encode a text message as audio. If someone listening on that frequency also has a HamMessenger device, they can decode the text message. Messages are not encrypted, so you shouldnt use HamMessenger for sensitive information. BUT Its a fun way to chat with your ham radio buddies. www.blogdot.tv/send-text-messages-over-ham-radio-with-the-hammessenger/ Top story on qrper.com/2021/07/the-hf-pager-application/ (BOTH credit to southgatearc.org) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org The Young Ham of the Year for 2021 is a Satellite Operator Faith Hannah Lea, KD3Z has been selected as the 2021 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio NewsLine Young Ham of the Year. She said her journey began at the age of 10 in December 2014. I started studying for Technician license with my brother, she recalled. And we both went in and got it. And two weeks later, I had earned my General ... Then, two months later, I earned my Extra. Just 18 months after being licensed, Faith Hannah was invited to join the 2016 Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX team operating PJ6 from the Dutch island of Saba. And thats when I realized especially that DXing is amazing because I absolutely love those huge pileups and getting to talk to all of those different people, she explained. Among her PJ6 achievements was a satellite contact that broke the SO-50 distance world record. She wrote an article about the event which was published in the March/April 2017 issue of The AMSAT Journal. In August 2018, Faith Hannah took part in the week-long Youngsters on the Air program in Johannesburg, South Africa where she participated in kit-building and antenna building projects, satellite operations and a high-altitude balloon launch. Again, she wrote an article about her experiences in that was published in CQ magazine. In December 2018, Faith Hannah and her younger sister, Hope, ND 2 L, and her father organized a 36-hour mini-DXpedition to the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southwest coast of Florida, where they activated N 4 T. The girls logged 1,970 HF contacts and 100 satellite contacts. (ANS Another step towards space exploration from UK soil has been unlocked with the passing of the spaceflight regulations, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced. The legislation provides the framework to regulate the UK space industry and enable launches to take place from British soil for the very first time. (ANS) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org OC-139. Grant, VK5GR, reports a new operator, Tony, VK5AVB, is on the air with his new license and is a permanent resident of Kangaroo Island. Tony, VK5AVB, reports on QRZ.com: "I am the only permanent operator on Kangaroo Island and just set up my station a few days ago. There have been no permanent operators here for at least 20 years, and the DX here is amazing with very little QRM. I can work from the East to the West and love my DX as I'm on a hill with a 16m tower and plenty of ocean around me." QSL via the address on QRZ.com. (sourced to SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ILLW illw.net/ Indian ILLW operation Operators Ramesh/VU2LU, Lion/VU2JHM, Murthy/VU2MTT and many others will be active as AT 8 KLH from the Kapu Light House 'Kapu' (ARLHS WLOL IND-091) during the 24th Annual International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend between August 21-22nd. QSL via VU2JHM. (OPDX) GB5CWL is the station at the Cape Wrath Lighthouse built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson and was manned until 1998, when it was converted to automatic operation. It is located at the most North-Westerly point on the British mainland, quite a distance from Lands End in Southern UK. Lands End is where, on August First, two hams set off from on their bikes, for a 1,000 mile bicycle, lighthouse and radio expedition. Kev G0PEK and Lauren 2E0HLR have set out on this 1640 km expedition to Cape Wrath and John o' Groats and during their 28 day DXpedition they will use APRS, WSPR, 145/430 MHz FM and HF QRP. The callsigns used will be G 0 PEK and 2 E 0 HLR when riding MX 0 KRO when at camp locations and GB 5 CWL for the ILLW August 23-24. (Southgate/vk4bb) 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 MARS HF Net Participants Aid in Response to Fatal Maritime Disaster An evening Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) HF practice net in Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 2 (New York and New Jersey) was interrupted by several mayday distress calls on the channel, which is shared with the maritime service. Net control station Ron Tomo, KE2UK, immediately halted training and attempted (without success) to establish radio communication with the station in distress. Tomo then directed two other net members who heard the distress call to attempt to establish communication and offer assistance. While the other net members were attempting to contact the vessel by radio, Tomo contacted the US Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach Island in New York, which alerted the USCG Sector Command at Long Island Sound to join the MARS operators on frequency. MARS operators remained on frequency to assist the USCG in listening for the distress call. Several hours later, the fishing vessel Falling Star was identified as missing with 15 individuals on board, all from Honduras. Ten days later, the USCG confirmed that 10 of the passengers survived in a skiff and were rescued by a passing commercial oil tanker. Tragically, the skipper of the Falling Star died 1 day before the survivors were found and was buried at sea. The vessel was en route from Jamaica to Guatemala when its reported to have rolled over without warning. (sourced to arrl) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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/ 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. 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