2021 AUGUST 29 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 29 2021 IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS Alan VK4SN, the Remembrance Day Contest Manager. - Peter VK8ZZ, the WIA Secretary and a Director. - Robert VK4LA, the new 10 meter beacon from Brisbane. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. First up in the news that IS news, news on last weekends RD or Remembrance Day Contest. "Hi, This is Alan VK4SN, the Remembrance Day Contest Manager. We now have over 290 log submissions which is the best in over 10 years. So if you haven't done so yet, please upload your log to vklogchecker.com or email it to rdlogs@wia.org.au Log submission ends today at 0300z, that's 1pm Eastern standard time Sunday August 29. Due to a server issue you may not get a response on upload, but rest assured your log has been accepted, unless you get an error that one of the log lines is incorrect. if not sure please email it to me. Best 73's and good luck in the contest." Of course the RD contest is where we recall, remember and pause to reflect on the Duty and the Sacrifice paid by our men and women in not only World War Two but all conflicts. This year special thoughts to those Men and Women of the ADF serving in Afghanistan. Particularly those of Task Force 633 tasked with transforming our ADF's main operating base in the Middle East into a facility catering for up to 400 evacuees at a time. "Well Done Those Men and Women" Speaking militarily, this next story, too late for last weeks WIA National News we did attempt to have the powers that be post it to WIA front page news, but, maybe like the RD server that fell over. So forgive me if you have read this on a myriad of overseas Ham Radio Websites but just in case.. here we go again.. Flight Lieutenant Julia Ravell writing for the Australian Governments Department of Defence has told the story of one Corporal Andrew Ashbrook who enjoyed science subjects at school went on to enjoy CB and Amateur Radio so much he became a RAAF instructor. The 50-year-old is now an avionics instructor at the Royal Australian Air Force School of Technical Training in Wagga and reflecting on his interest in radio said Back then, the CB radio was our equivalent of the internet, friends and I communicated on CB every day. There were no books or manuals; we just had to figure out how it all worked so we could build, use and maintain our own equipment. When I was 16, I found out by accident that the fundamentals of radio and electronic engineering were a bit more complicated than Id thought. We were living in Kirrawee, a hilly area where you needed a lot of power to transmit, so I built a 45-foot antenna on top of my fathers roof and put 150 watts of power through my CB so I could be heard. I ended up wiping TV sets for 37km and sending the signal all the way to west coast USA. That was how I learned about filtering and harmonics on single-side band. As an avionics instructor at RAAFSTT, he put his innovative mind to work, using computer-assisted design and 3D printing, Corporal Ashbrook machined rare CAC Aermacchi MB-326H aircraft parts. With the aircraft parts long gone from industry production lines, his efforts created a fully functional, interactive electronic environment in the Macchi, an enduring training aid for avionics students. His outstanding achievement was recognised when he was awarded an Australia Day Medallion in January. After gaining his Training and Assessment Certificate IV late last year, Corporal Ashbrook went back to working with his hands in the hangar, imparting his passion for electronics and experience in fault-finding components to trainee avionics technicians. news.defence.gov.au/people/riding-radio-waves-air-force-career Now a blatant "plug" The WIA's publication "Wireless Men and Women at War" is available from the WIA Bookshop... oh and if you wondered what I looked like back in 1966.. check out pages 145-147. Graham VK4BB WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y WIA SECRETARY VK8ZZ WITH BOARD COMMENT FOR 29 August 2021 Good morning Graham and good morning listeners The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is the worldwide federation of national amateur radio organizations. The membership of the IARU consists of more than 160 member-societies in as many countries and separate territories. It is the peak body for Amateur Radio in the world. The membership of the IARU consists of its member-societies, who have been voted into membership by the already existing member societies. There can be only one member-society in each country or separate territory. The Wireless Institute of Australia is recognised as the peak body for Amateur Radio in Australia. The IARU is recognised by the United Nations as a NGO, Non-Governmental Organisation by virtue of its consultative status with other United Nations bodies, such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). IARU has worked with the ITU for nearly a century and is a Sector Member of the Radiocommunication Sector (ITU R), playing a full part in the work of ITU R as it affects amateur radio spectrum, and also of the Development Sector (ITU D), relating to developing countries and emergency communication. The International Amateur Radio Union has been the worldwide voice of radio amateurs, securing and safeguarding the amateur radio spectrum since 1925 The three IARU Regions are organised to broadly mirror the structure of the International Telecommunications Union and its related regional telecommunications organisations. The Regions comprise: IARU Region 1: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia IARU Region 2: The Americas IARU Region 3: Asia-Pacific and as such Australia is part of IARU region 3. In September of this year the IARU-Region 3 will hold its three yearly conference. This year the conference will be hosted by The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST). The IARU R3 Conference 2021 in Thailand will be held September 20-23. We all realise that our world has been shaken by COVID-19. The pandemic has forced us all to now work in ways only made possible through technology. Planning for the 2021 conference started nearly 3 years ago. The expectation was to run this in Bangkok city, Thailand. The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented us from attending a conference on site and the hosts are excited about the opportunities of holding an innovative virtual conference. As the conference host, RAST are going to be hosting a Digital virtual Conference, with a wide range of remote speakers and conversations. This conference will bring the member societies together at what is a very difficult time for us all. The WIA will have a three person delegation attending virtually and representing Australia. They are:- Peter Young VK3MV as WIA Delegate Dale Hughes VK1DSH as WIA Observer Greg Kelly VK2GPK as WIA Observer The final agenda has not been published at this time, but we will keep our WIA members informed. This has been WIA Director and Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ. 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 The Alexander Grimeton Friendship Association reports an incredible number of listener reports, 524 in all, for its July 4 Alexanderson Day transmissions from SAQ, the Alexanderson alternator very-low-frequency station in Sweden. SAQ transmits on 17.2 kHz. The first transmission was initiated at 0830 UTC, with the start-up and tuning of the Alexanderson alternator. The message was sent out a half-hour later, and the transmission event was livestreamed via YouTube. Amateur station SK6SAQ, which operates from the SAQ site, was on the air for Alexanderson Day, HF conditions were not optimal, but the radio amateurs reached 169 QSOs with 21 countries, mostly in Europe and a few from the US. SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN The antenna of DP 0 GVN in Antarctica for the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur radio transponder is completely destroyed. AMSAT - DL in a press release say a severe winter storm hit Atka Bay (Antarctica) and at Neumayer Station III, about 20 kilometres away, wind speeds of around 176 km/h) were recorded. The strongest gust was 207 km/h. Unfortunately, the satellite antenna for the geostationary QO-100 amateur radio satellite was completely destroyed despite the weatherproof radome, so no school contacts with DP0GVN can take place until further notice. Now over 4,000 ham radio repeaters in Germany The German Society, DARC, reports the online map of German repeaters now contains over 4000 entries. Yes the repeater map recently cracked the threshold of 4000 entries. One wonders why in such a relatively small country so many repeaters are needed? or even used. Putting this into numbers we here in VK can understand, Germany has a land size of just over 350,000 Km2 and Australia? a whopping 7.692 Km2 so it would be like VK having some 840,000 repeaters!!!! www.repeatermap.de androiddmr.com/ www.wia.org.au/members/repeaters/data/ REGION TWO Radio ham constructs 40-foot rocket for daughter The Bemidji Pioneer reports radio amateur Roben Beyer KG 0 OC constructed a 40-foot rocket as a send-off gift for his daughter as she 'blasts off to Uni." The mock rocket was constructed on his amateur radio tower as a send-off gift for his daughter, Allie, who will be attending the University of Minnesota Duluth for biochemistry and biology. Climbing the tower isnt quite as easy as it used to be, Beyer said. Its been about 10 years since Ive been up there before now. Beyer removed the towers antennas, then installed reinforced plastic for the rockets body. He also added a flared base before cutting custom lettering out of scrap wood. A 2021 graduate, Allie plans to work at the Marshall Alworth Planetarium at UMD to gain exposure to the space industry while at college. In the next couple of years, she plans to apply for internships at NASA or a private company. tinyurl.com/u74pt38 A Florida woman is taking on her neighbourhood association, in a matter she said puts her health at risk. According to WFTV Channel 9 the woman, a Type 1 Diabetic, and a consultant determined that her neighbours ham radio might have interfered with the doses of insulin being pushed out from her pump. The 55-plus community where she lives hired that consultant and told the neighbour to shut down his amateur radio station. WFTV Investigates learned that her complaint went all the way to the state level, wanting the Florida Commission on Human Relations to make a determination whether the communitys board and management is doing enough to protect her and others with medical devices. She has been in the back and forth with the communitys association for more than a year after noticing the insulin pump she uses to manage her Type 1 Diabetes was suddenly giving the wrong amount of the medicine that keeps her alive. So I switched pumps, bought another one, switched reservoirs, threw insulin away, did everything I knew of to troubleshoot, she said. After doing some research, she suspected the problem might be a few doors down in equipment that is now unplugged and collecting dust. ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- 41st 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 So that's THIS WEEKEND. -------------- CWops next weekend September 4 This CW contest has 3 "sessions" 0000-0359 Z 1200-1559 Z 2000-2359 Z Each session is separately logged, checked and awarded. 3 separate contests! The exchange is QSO number plus your given name and on the HF contest bands using High, Low or QRP. (HP more than 100 watts; LP more than 5 watts up to 100 AND QRP 5 watts of less) More details are in the text edition of this WIA National News *Use of spotting? *No limitations on using clusters, RBN or skimmers, but please, no self-spotting. *Scoring? *1 point per QSO per band (each session); 1 multiplier for callsign the first time it is worked (each session). Scores start at 0 for each session. Work someone once per band per session. *Reporting? *Separate logs for each session. Logs must be in Cabrillo format and may be submitted via /www.b4h.net/cwops/ Paper logs are NOT accepted! *Logging? *CW Open is supported by many logging programs. See www.cwops.org/cwopen.html *Teams? *Team competition is supported (see www.cwops.org/cwopen.html for signup). No geography limitations. -------------- 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 -------------- -------------- UGANDA, 5X. Elvira is signing 5 X 3 R until September 2, She has 100 watts to a dipole, doing SSB, digital and CW. QSL via the bureau. (arrl) -------------- SOUTH KOREA. Members of the Korean Amateur Radio League Chungbuk HQ have activated special event station HL 76 V to celebrate the 76th anniversary of South Korea's Liberation. Activity will continue until August 31. QSL via the Bureau. (arrl) -------------- To celebrate the 64rd anniversary of Malaysia's independence August 31, 1957, look for special event stations using the prefix 9M64. Operations will be on 80-10 meters using CW, SSB and Digital. Activity will end on September 1st: (southgatearc.org) -------------- What could be better than radio honouring radio? When it's amateur honouring professional. Listen for callsigns W1W, W1B, W1Z, and WB1Z on all bands CW, SSB, the digital modes and, of course, AM. In the US region known as New England, their oldest broadcast station is marking its 100th anniversary and two amateur radio clubs in Massachusetts are inviting everyone to the party. On the amateur bands. The event is planned for September 17th through 19th. The dates closely follow the first day Westinghouse put WBZ on the air as an AM radio station: September 15th 1921. So again, listen for W1W, W1B, W1Z, and WB1Z. (arnewsline.org) -------------- Matthew is operating as VP8ZMS is on air for a few more days yet from the RAF station at Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands. He is using digital modes, CW and occasionally SSB. QSL via M 0 ZMS (home call) using LoTW. (irts) -------------- Currently operating is ZC4CBK out of the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area on Cyprus and he plans to be QRV on a regular basis until October, QSL via EB7DX. (irts) -------------- BEACONS 28.205.8 "Thanks Felix" I Would like to Let everyone know of a New Ten Meter Band Beacon that has been operating for the Last 6 months or so, about 27 Kilometre's N/W of Brisbane City at the my Home QTH, I'm Robert VK4LA. The Beacon is Located In Northlakes and is homebrew . It operates using callsign VK4LA and is on 28.205.8 cw. The Beacon consists of a 5 watt Transmitter with a 1/2 wave vertical antenna 35ft off the ground. I would Appreciate some Signal Reports from all who can hear it. If you wish to send a signal report VIA EMAIL, my email address is huntingqld@bigpond.com and I also have some photos of beacon in use to view on my page on qrz.com Looking forward to getting some signal reports from all. for WIA National news this is Robert VK4LA ------------------------------------------------------------* WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPs --- MARITIME Sailing Vessel with Ham Radio History Marks 100 Years The schooner Bowdoin is a century old this year. Now owned by the Maine Maritime Academy as a training vessel, the ham radio history of the 88-foot Bowdoin is often neglected. Constructed in Maine specifically for Arctic exploration, the vessel relied on amateur radio for communication during Arctic Expeditions of 1923 and 1925. In 1923, the ARRL helped in outfitting with better wireless gear. M.B. West, an ARRL Board member, designed the gear, which was then built by amateurs at his firm, Zenith Electronics and the ARRL Board recruited Donald H. Mix, 1TS, to accompany the crew as its radio operator. The transmitter operated on the medium-wave bands of 185, 220, and 300 meters, running 100 W. Earlier exploratory missions had used gear that operated on longwave frequencies. The shipboard station on board the Bowdoin was given call WNP Wireless North Pole. (sourced to arrl) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - ASTRONOMICAL Scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized feature of our Milky Way galaxy: A contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds is sticking out of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms like a splinter poking out from a plank of wood. Stretching some 3,000 light-years, this is the first major structure identified with an orientation so dramatically different than the arm's. ( ANS ) WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- 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 Nothing - not even a solar flare or even a pandemic - could stop the a "Backyards on the Air activation" from going ahead recently in New Zealand. Graham VK4BB filed this story this week to ARNewsLine. "The pandemic, in fact, was actually the inspiration for the event on Sunday, August 22nd. It was born in the spring of 2020 as lockdown enveloped New Zealand. A group of SOTA activators looked for new options because their beloved summits had been declared off limits. Organiser Mark Sullivan ZL3AB said this recent activation found participants once again in their backyards and after two hours of calling QRZ, some boasted contacts with the US and VK, as well as around New Zealand. Mark described his own activation as a bit less successful, owing to a pole that collapsed and someone's child next-door playing with an incredibly loud toy lawn mower. Mark did encourage and reward experimentation, however. In his invitation to participants, he wrote: [quote] "It should go without saying that double points will be awarded to anyone who operates using.....a..... Delta loop." [endquote] 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 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org AMSAT news have reported on how the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has now completed its 12th flight, where it acted as a scout, looking ahead for dangerous terrain for its partner in crime, the Perseverance rover. The just under 2 kilogram autonomous rotorcraft climbed over almost 10 meters high, and travelled a total of 450 meters in 169 seconds. It flew over the over an area dubbed the South Seitah region of Mars, where Perseverance will explore. ( ANS ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org NA-037. Fred, KL7FBI from Shemya Island, is being called back there on an emergency to fill-in following the passing of one of their technicians. Fred will travel to Shemya September 8 and is expected to remain there for a two full months. He will use KL 7 FBI and operate 40/20 meters SSB. QSL via KB 4 DMQ. (southgatearc.org) Again one of the reasons we seldom give publicity to many DX peditions is this note we have in regarding OC-194. Yep it's cancelled/postponed A group of mainly VK2 Ops were planning activity as VK2FM from the keepers cottage on South Solitary Island (ILLW AU0054) during the International Lighthouse-Lightship days but cancelled their South Solitary Island event due to .. wait for it.. lockdown. They state, "It will be happening in August 2022 ( if all goes well. ) www.southgatearc.org/iota/opdx/index.htm#.YSS0IUviuUk WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING scouts.com.au scout.org/jota international.scouts.com.au jotajoti.info/ Brett Nicholas VK2BNN Scouts Australia National co-ordinator for JOTA. Lorraine OHare VK2FICQ is Girl Guides Australia National JOTA-JOTI Co-ordinator. CALLING FREQUENCIES Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication. Australian voice calling frequencies: 3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160 World CW calling frequencies: 3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160 World voice calling frequencies: 3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160 Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV): 3.630, 7.033, 14.227 Calling Frequencies for PSK31 14.070 Quickly here it's congratulations to five Scouts Aiva, Seb Alex, Rohan & Jack who recently undertook their foundation licence assessments organised by VLK7's REAST at the Huonville Scout Hall and all 5 passed! (vk7news) The Scout Communication Club in Pia, Poland has obtained special call SP 0 PILKON to mark the Pilski convention of games and fantasy this weekend August 27-29 After a one-year break the convention for fans of fantasy, comics, books, series and electronic board games will be taking place at the University in Pia, on the site of the former military airport. tinyurl.com/IARU-Poland ------------------------------------------------------------* REWIND We rewind back to 1949 as Victor Hoeflich holds a press conference to introduce the Man from Mars, Radio Hat. Victor knew a picture would tell the story so he had several teenagers modelling the radio hats for the reporters and photographers, soon pictures and news stories appeared in newspapers coast to coast across the USA Although the radio hat had a futuristic appearance at the time, this was in fact due to technical limitations. While the transistor had been invented in 1947, it was still experimental and not widely available. The hats radio relied on valve or vacuum tube technology, and Victor made the tubes a prominent feature, as well as the loop aerial. The tuning knob sat between the two valves. The battery was carried in the users pocket. The massive publicity did not lead to lasting sales. Advertisements for the radio hat stopped in early 1950. Its failure was primarily due to technical limitations. It had only two valves, it's loop antenna was directional and the signal could be lost as the user turned his or her head. The Radio Hat - weird and wonderful from radios past. I should give you the "heads up" pardon the pun, but "head" on over to view a range of this headgear in the video edition of this the WIA National News Service. I's on BEVAN VK5BD's YouTube channel each week and easily sourced from both the link at the top of each text edition and at the top of the wia.org.au weekly news page. My time is up With REWIND I'm John Knox, VK4FJRK rarehistoricalphotos.com/radio-hat-pictures-history-1949/ THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 28 9am (vk4tfn) VK7 - REAST SEPTEMBER ONE PRESENTATION NIGHT (REAST) P25 Emergency Services Network Build VK4 - GLADSTONE FUN DAY September 11 at 10am (vk4xmc) VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention CANCELLED FOR 2021 (vk5dj) VK4 - Cardwell Gathering October1 to 4 at Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park. 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