2021 SEPTEMBER 5 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 ( 1937 in a mention we've come across relating to weekly broadcasts of information prepared by VK4 was a plea to restart the weekly news service which was on air in the late 1920's ) AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures, contacts and answers to your questions. www.health.gov.au/ WIA Amateur Radio Magazine Your View, a survey by the new Publications Committee. - WIA Vice President Lee Moyle VK3GK with this weeks report on behalf of the WIA Board. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. CUAVA-1 and Binar-1 now in space. The USA has launched into space aboard SpaceX's Commercial Resupply 23 2 aussie satellites. One is called Binar-1. Binar is Aboriginal ( Wadjuk people of the Noongar Nation ) for Fireball. Lets hope it's NOT when deployed with CUAVA-1 from the ISS. Binar-1 is the first integrated satellite fully designed and built in Western Australia by students and engineers at Curtin University in harmony with Japanese space start-up Space BD Inc tinyurl.com/x8mhsjz4 Your WIA also provided support for the Binar-1 satellite program initiated by the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin. We brought you early advice on this in WIA National News, particularly of the work done by Dale Hughes VK1DSH who helped draft the WIA's satellite policy. tinyurl.com/epyphpuu Be this just a small CubeSat, it will help validate new technologies in space and lay the foundations for future Moon missions to locate and produce high resolution digital mapping of resources on the Moon's surface. A total of seven Binar CubeSat launches are planned for this year and next year, 2022. CUAVA-1 is three times bigger. Also designed and built in Australia, its a collaboration between several Australian universities, corporations and government labs and is carrying four Australian experiments and two technology demonstrators. This larger satellite's mission purpose is scientific research, technology demonstration, linking with the international radio amateur community, and national capacity building. It's satellite reference number currently is announced as VK2USY CUAVA-1 Both CubeSats are building blocks for much bigger and better things. www.cuava.com.au/projects/cuava-1/ WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y Your Magazine Your View The new Publications Committee is delighted to bring each edition of Amateur Radio magazine to life. We would love to hear about your ideas and opinions about the magazine to help shape its future. Therefore, we ask that you complete this survey covering the content, advertising and, most importantly, what you would like to see. The survey is open to all magazine readers to have a single response. You will find the survey URL and QR code in the magazine or on the WIA website; you can then complete the survey online or on your phone or tablet. If you prefer to have a hard copy of the survey sent to you, don't hesitate to contact the WIA National Office. The survey URL is: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VYCG2HL The survey closes on 22 October 2021. If you have questions, please email David@wia.org.au WIA BOARD TALK Good morning from Lee Moyle, VK3GK, WIA Vice President. Here in Victoria we are still in Covid lockdown number 6 which so far totals around 215 days of restrictions of minimal travel and stay home orders. This puts an incredible strain on the WIA headquarters functions and around 50% or more of the office manager Bruce Deefholtss time has been spent operating and working from home. Simple tasks such as attending to the mailbox, responding to letters and membership applications via mail along with banking and shipping out bookshop orders can be often delayed. The board is currently in the process of having an independent audit on the WIAs IT systems, including emails and hosted services looking for efficiencies. The office has also been experiencing some challenges with our ticketing system WIA Concierge with considerable spam and stray emails clogging or congesting the system this is also being addressed for improvements to better respond to member requests and inquiries. The WIA along with the NZART are the major sponsors to the Oceania DX Contest which is on again in about 5 weeks time, More with Felix later in this bulletin. Amateur radio magazine is on track and the next issue out soon has some excellent articles and projects. The team at PubCom is really doing a great job and their voluntary efforts need recognition as they deliver an excellent top class publication to the membership. The WIA sponsored special callsigns VK 100 AF and VI 100 AF commemorating the 100 Years Centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force special event activity has finished up on 31st August. It was a magnificently well organised special event coordinated by Stuie VK8NSB in Darwin. Congratulations and a thank you to all the operators that contributed their time over the last 6 months to its success. Totals were: just under 100 thousand QRZ page lookups, 38,677 QSOs and 155 DXCC countries worked. 73 from Lee VK3GK 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 South Africas regulatory body, ICASA, recently published the 2021 draft National Frequency Plan. The SARL has carefully studied the plan and has found some errors in respect of amateur allocations particularly in the 160 metre band and the omission of the 40 MHz allocation. The SARL has submitted its findings to ICASA and has requested to make a presentation at the hearing scheduled for this month, September. tinyurl.com/42adtz25 FLOCKING TO SATLEITTE BROADBAND From a BBC London news report, "It's actually been very good but I noticed a series of outages - some a second, some longer," says Prof Alan Woodward. The University of Surrey cyber-security expert is talking about his new satellite broadband service from space entrepreneur Elon Musk's Starlink company. The outages, he thinks, may be caused by a lot of "pesky pigeons", which "have taken a fancy to sitting on the dish". That small grey dish sits on the kitchen roof. To the curious pigeon, it might conceivably look like a modern bird bath rather short on water. It is one earthbound end of the Starlink satellite internet system. Mr Musk recently announced that he has shipped 100,000 of the terminals. The little dish receives and sends signals to passing satellites, part of a constellation of 1,700 which are hurtling overhead at a height of about 550km. Tens of thousands more are planned, but new launches are being affected by liquid oxygen fuel shortages, brought about by the treatment of Covid-19 patients which has increased demand for commercial oxygen - leaving less for fuel. Prof Woodward is still investigating the root cause of the glitches, though an expert told the BBC a "pigeon sitting on a Starlink antenna would certainly degrade its performance". www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58061230 REGION TWO The FCC has granted an ARRL emergency request for a temporary waiver intended to facilitate relief communications in the wake of Hurricane Ida. The waiver permits amateur data transmissions related to Hurricane Ida traffic to employ a higher symbol rate for data transmissions than the current limit of 300 baud. ARRL pointed out in its request that Amateur Radio Emergency Service members are working with federal, state, and local emergency management officials to assist with disaster relief. Many use radio modems and personal computers capable of using digital protocols and modes that would permit faster messaging rates than normally permitted under the FCC's rules. ARRL pointed out that higher data rates can be critical to timely transmission of relief communications, such as lists of needed and distributed supplies. Recognising the importance of Amateur Radio, 2 channels, both digital and voice on 60 meters are available for interoperability between US government and US amateur radio stations involved in Hurricane Ida emergency communications until not required, or, tomorrow, the 6th, whichever comes first. REGION THREE Japan delays transition deadline for new spurious standard JARL reports The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has solicited opinions on the extension of the deadline for transition to the new spurious standards, and the federation has also submitted opinions in favour of it. With this amendment, it has been decided that the transitional measure, which sets the deadline for transition to the new spurious standard to November 30, 2022, will be extended for the time being. In addition, if the radio station license has a condition that it must be until November 30 2022, considered that the condition is not attached, and even after December 1st, it is considered that it can be used only if it does not interfere with the operation of other radio stations. tinyurl.com/IARU-Japan ------------------------------------------------------------* WEIRD AND WONDERFUL GET THE 'LED' OUT If you ever get the feeling someone is watching you, maybe they are listening, too. At least they might be listening to whats coming over your computer speakers, with no thanks to a new attack called 'glow worm.' In this novel attack, careful observations of a power LED on a speaker allowed an attacker to reproduce the sound playing thanks to virtually imperceptible fluctuations in the LED brightness, most likely due to the speakers power line sagging and recovering. You might think that if you could see the LED, you could just hear the output of the speaker, but a telescope through a window 100 feet away appears to be sufficient. You can imagine that from a distance across a noisy office you might be able to pull the same trick. We dont know - but we suspect - even if headphones were plugged into the speakers, the LED would still modulate the audio. Any device supplying power to the speakers is a potential source of a leak. On the one hand, this is insidious because, unlike more active forms of bugging, this would be pretty much undetectable. On the other hand, there are a variety of low-tech and high-tech mitigations to the attack, too. Low tech? Close your blinds or cover the LED with some tape. High tech? Feed a random frequency into the LED to destroy any leaking information. Super spy tech? Put fake speakers in front of your real speakers that silently playback misinformation on their LEDs. Passive bugs are hard to find. Even a fancy junction detector wont tell you if your speakers are compromised by glow worm. hackaday.com/2021/08/25/eavesdropping-by-led/ (voiced by VK4JJW thanks to SouthGate) ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT CW Pow-Wow Peel Amateur Radio Group is running its third Slow CW event on September 18th details on:- tinyurl.com/4nnhjv67 ( Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI ) -------------- 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 The WIA along with the NZART are the major sponsors to the Oceania DX Contest which is on again in about 5 weeks time. The OCDX contest is one of the longest running in the world with this being the 76th year and many plaques and certificates are on offer. The WIA sponsors the Frank Hine Trophy for the top VK Single Operator CW score. The majority of the WIA directors are active HF and VHF/UHF contesters and I expect a number of them will be active during the OCDX contest in October. Rules and OCDX contest information can be found on www.oceaniadxcontest.com (vk3gk) -------------- SPRING VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS November 27-28 -------------- December 4-5 160 Meter WW -------------- DECEMBER 11 - 12 10 Mtr World Wide -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- 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) -------------- AX 4 WIT Again, early news of this station for its "just about" 'once a year day.' JANUARY 26, which is Australia Day and a Wednesday next year Townsville Club will activate from their annual camp out Bluewater way. Bluewater for the uninitiated is about 30 klicks from Townsville CBD. -------------- VK 20 HOME Dont forget that the WIA special event callsign VK 20 HOME is still available for members use until December 31st 2021. Check the WIA website and Special Event pages to book your time slot for use. (VK3GK) -------------- ST. HELENA ISLAND. Gerry is QRV as ZD 7 GB from Jamestown until tomorrow, 6th. 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) -------------- United States special event Members of the Alabama Contest Group will be active as K4A between 0000z, September 5th and 2359z September 12th to reflect and remember the 20th anniversary of 9-11. Activity will be on various bands using CW, SSB and the Digital modes RTTY / FT8. alabamacontestgroup.org (OPDX) -------------- Also a 9/11 station will be QRV September 9 to 14 to remember the 9/11 victims who crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania and those in New York City and Washington, D.C. in 2001. QSL via W3PN. (arrl) -------------- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A60. Emirates Amateur Radio Society have activated A 60 EXPO until October 1 to promote World Expo 2020 in Dubai. QSL via EA7FTR. (arrl) -------------- SPAIN, AN5. AN 5 WAR all of September remembers the 82nd anniversary of the beginning of World War II. Activity will be on various HF bands. QSL via LoTW or eQSL. (arrl) -------------- 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) -------------- 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) -------------- 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) -------------- Listen up for members of the Radio Club Queretaro in Mexico, using the special callsign 6 E 0 CC to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Consummated Independence from Spain. They will be on various HF bands until September 30th. QSL via XE1EE, direct or LoTW. (arnewsline.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) -------------- 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) -------------- 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) -------------- 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) -------------- 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) -------------- Switzerland joins Antarctic Treaty celebrations Members of the Swiss national organisation USKA, supported by the Radio Amateur Club Swissair, HB 9 VC join the celebrations around the Antarctic Treaty with the callsign HB 60 ANT until the end of the year. QSL via ClubLog OQRS; sending a card is not necessary. (southgatearc.org) ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN CQ-DATV magazine to close after 100 issues with its final 'run' this month, September. The free magazine had been produced every month by a group out ATV enthusiasts including VK5TM, in the editorial in the 99th edition, September 2021, in part it says: " We've been producing this magazine every month for 8 years in three formats. We also have in the library an electronic index which allows a search for all the articles by description and author, also the omnibus PDF, which is every issue in one single file. These have been updated after each publication. This is taking its toll and this is the penultimate issue! Cameras, ---- , fade to black. ( sourced to southgatearc.org ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW www.morsecodeclassnet.com Click Clack of keys and click clack of hooves. Members of the radio club OE3XAS (Austria District Locator [ADL] 305 Tulln-Stockerau) will activate special event station OE 130 KUK between September 1st and October 30th, to commemorate the 130 year anniversary of the first telegraphy course in the "Franz Josef-Casern" in Tulln. In 1891 a k.u.k cavalry telegraphist course was first established in the "Franz Josef-Casern" Lower Austria. QSLs will be sent automatically via the Bureau. Check scheduled/planned operating times for OE 130 KUK at: www.oe3ide.com/oe130kuk (OPDX) CW Pow-Wow Don't forget, the Peel Amateur Radio Group is running its third Slow CW event September 18th details on:- tinyurl.com/4nnhjv67 ( Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Launch of lunar CubeSat slated for New Zealand: The launch of a miniature trailblazer probe for NASAs planned Gateway lunar space station has been moved from Rocket Labs new launch pad in Virginia to the companys spaceport in New Zealand. NASAs Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission will test deep space navigation and communications technology in the vicinity of the moon. CAPSTONE will also demonstrate manoeuvres to enter and operate in an orbit around the moon that will be home to the Gateway which is a mini-space station NASA intends to use as a staging point for crewed lunar landings later in the 2020s. ( bit.ly/3BjP8mP ) (ANS) WAKEY WAKEY Vanderbilts silent CubeSat awakens 6 months after launch AMSAT volunteers have established communications with RadFxSat-2, a small CubeSat that had been silent since it deployed in a Virgin Orbit launch Jan. 17. Its alive after all, said a research associate professor of electrical engineering and a member of Vanderbilts Institute for Space and Defence Electronics. After 6 months of hard work, our AMSAT partners were able to establish communication with the satellite, which had been unresponsive since the launch. Read more at: tinyurl.com/85467u36 (southgatearc.org) DISK JOCKEY IN SPACE At Space Symposium , Aerospace Corp have proposed ab new form factor alternative to CubeSats: DiskSats. These disks could be 1 m in diameter and 2.5 cm thick, allowing enough surface area for 200 watts of solar panels. On a CubeSat, this would require deployables. The point of DiskSat is that it complements CubeSats for missions that consist primarily of electronics that need higher power. A stack of 20 plates is also easier to launch on a small launch vehicle than 20 CubeSats. ( NA + www.spacesymposium.org/ ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - ASTRONOMICAL NASA MAKING PLANS FOR A 'LUNAR ARECIBO' DISH Radio astronomers' beloved Arecibo dish is no more at least not in Puerto Rico. But how about a replacement that's....not of this earth? Amateur Radio Newslines Kent Peterson KC0GDY explains. KENT: How do you top Arecibo, the iconic radio telescope that collapsed last December, leading to its dismantling? You build one similar to itand you do it on the far side of the moon. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope is just a concept for now but in theory its massive dish would be capable of detecting those radio waves that eluded even the best of the telescopes here on earth. Better yet, that reception wouldn't be competing against the atmospheric interference that challenge earth-based telescopes. The lunar telescope would be able to more clearly detect radio waves above 10 metres, which were inaccessible to the Arecibo dish. Joseph Lazio, one of the NASA radio astronomers on the lunar radio telescope project, was quoted on the Business Insider website as saying [quote] With a sufficiently large radio telescope off Earth, we could track the processes that would have led to the formation of the first stars, maybe even find clues to the nature of dark matter" [end quote] He made his remarks in a press release about the project, which is still considered very preliminary. This past spring, NASA awarded $500,000 for further research and development on the telescope, which will be designed to rest inside a lunar crater on the far side of the moon. For Amateur Radio NewsLine I'm Kent Peterson KC0DGY. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org EU-125. Fabian, DF3XY, is expected to be active as OZ / DF3XY from the Island of Romo (WWFF OZFF-0004) in Denmark while on holiday. Although his length of stay is unknown, his antenna, a dipole, mounted on a fibre pole about 10m over the ground as INVERTED VEE. QSL via his home callsigns, direct, by the German Bureau or even eQSL. (sourced to southgatearc.org) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP --- MILITARY Over in VK7 next month, Sunday 3rd October from 12 noon, REAST are having a BYO BBQ lunch and then a presentation and demonstration on military radios and antennas. This given by Peter VK7KPC and Kim VK7KB, both avid collectors of military radios. So thats AFTER this National then State news at the Queens Domain clubrooms October 3rd. (vk7news) 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 September bulletin to go to air. First, an important announcement: Due to ongoing Covid restrictions precluding face-to-face meetings in Melbourne, the Annual General Meeting on Thursday September 23rd will now be held on Zoom starting at 2.00 pm Victorian time. All RAOTC members wishing to join this on-line meeting must register their interest by email no later than Thursday September 9th. An expanded Club News will contain more information on this topic but full details of the registration procedure can be found at the RAOTC site www.raotc.org.au Following the Club news, we have two articles for you: Ian VK3JS explains Where and How will we get the metals to feed our future technology needs, after which Bruce VK3UV tells us What was it like to use an IBM PC in 1981? 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 www.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, September 14th. Once again, tune in tomorrow for the September RAOTC bulletin, enjoy the program and dont forget to join in the call backs afterwards. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ROTA ROTA Recipes On The Air There's a 5 by 9 in very block. International Chocolate Day Members of the URE section of Torrent (Valencia) Union of Radio Amateurs Torrent (EB 5 URT) will activate the special event callsign EG 5 DIC to celebrate 'International Chocolate Day' `which as EVERY chocoholic knows is Monday week (September 13th). Activity will take place between September 10 - 17 Operations will be on 80-10m using CW, SSB and Digital mode FT8. A downloadable special diploma/award (PDF) is available from QRZ.com QSL via the Bureau (sourced to southgatearc.org) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 - GLADSTONE FUN DAY September 11 at 10am (vk4xmc) 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 ) VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention CANCELLED FOR 2021 (vk5dj) VK6 - PerthTech October 23 (vk6pop) VK3 - ROSEBUD RadioFest by SPARC 9:30am Nov 14 (vk3pdg) VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention Mount Gambier SA Queens Birthday weekend June 2022 (vk5dj) 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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