2021 SEPTEMBER 26 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 SEPTEMBER 26 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/ Peter, V K 4 E A, recently elected as a director of the W I A board joins us and good news re Oscar VK3TX and IARU THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. RADIO HISTORY IN VK4's CAPITAL CITY. Nine Radio has announced that 4BC will swap frequencies with sister station 4BH, moving down to 882 AM and 4BH moving up to 1116 This is the first time a radio station in Brisbane has EVER 'swapped' frequencies, and new positions on the dial BECOME effective from Friday, October 8, at 8.08am. 4BH has had quite a few frequency changes, QSY's. 1390 kHz to 880 kHz in the mid-1970s and from 880 kHz to 882 kHz on 23 November 1978 But why the new change when more and more listeners are using DAB+ or Apps ? Both stations have arguably the worst signal strength in the metro area, and the 1116 KHz frequency becomes a lower power at sunset to prevent interference with other Aussie stations. Having worked at BOTH these onetime commercial giants in Brisbane, greater minds than mine know why the change... I for one would love to know! World aviation giant Boeing has selected Toowoomba VK4 as the preferred site for an un-crewedaircraft production facility which will be their first ever outside North America. Boeing Australia will establish the facility at Toowoombas Wellcamp Aerospace and Defence Precinct to produce and assemble the Boeing Airpower Teaming System, also known as the Loyal Wingman, subject to defence orders. The aircraft made its first flight in February this year, 2021 and is the first military combat aircraft designed, developed and manufactured in Australia in half a century. Clocking up a FULL century, a hams Birthday, On the 23rd September, VK7KH celebrated his 100th Birthday. Ken Hancock VK7KH resided in Burnie, and became the Toyota Motor vehicle distributor and was responsible for importing the first diesel Land cruisers into Tasmania. With no tax on diesel in the early days, according to Bob VK7BY, a 44 gallon drum of diesel cost $15, so many farmers were keen to purchase a diesel 4WD! Besides his amateur radio, Ken was a very keen golfer, and according to Malcolm VK7NSS, he played a game of golf with Ken, with a trailer load of sheep as the prize to the winner, Yep that time Ken lost -- baaah. Ken was a prolific operator on the HF bands both CW & SSB, and had said obtaining his amateur licence, opened many doors he spoke to many amateurs in Japan and Europe, as well as many other countries. Ken travelled to Japan on numerous occasions, and stayed with amateurs he regularly talked to on air. Ken once stayed in a castle in Europe, with a real Count who he communicated with on HF. In 2003 Ken was the QSL Manager for the then WIA NW Branch in VK7. It's said Ken VK7KH is honoured on the WIA VK7 Divisional Honour Roll board, now located at REAST in Hobart. A very happy hundredth birthday Ken for last Thursday. (vk7news) And from a true "OM" to a "new kid on the block". WIA Director Oscar Reyes VK3TX who has just been elected to the 6 Director team of IARU Region 3 at the 18th IARU Conference organised and held in Thailand by the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand, RAST. Although new to our region, 3, Oscar has a wealth of knowledge when associated with IARU region 2. Congratulations Oscar. JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y Good morning, this is Peter, V K 4 E A, recently elected as a director of the W I A board. I am pleased to announce the appointment of Angelo, V K 2 N W T, to the position of W I A Club Coordinator. We look forward to working with Angelo to support our affiliated clubs in a constructive and meaningful manner. And this of course means Ted Thrift, VK2ARA can now enjoy his retirement with, hopefully, a bit more spare time. The WIA Board are extremely grateful for Teds long service to the Clubs in Australia and I am sure you will join me in wishing Ted all the best, and again, thank you Ted. Ted and Angelo have been working on a handover for that last couple of months, no doubt Clubs will hear from Angelo shortly. Another important announcement is our nomination for Oscar, VK3TX, WIA board member and all round nice guy, has been elected for a directors position with the International Amateur Radio Union, region 3, Executive Committee. We wish Oscar all the best. Our participation in this organisation is vital to help protect our spectrum and encourage harmonisation of band plans throughout the region. We thank Peter Young ( V K 3 M V ) for his time as a Region 3, I A R U director and hope his retirement from the committee will give back some spare time to enjoy the hobby. Lastly for this weeks report, the W I A Board has adopted a social media policy to ensure that we utilise the various platforms in a fair and equitable fashion. Watch our various accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the web site for more details. Thats it for me this week, this has been Peter VK4EA on behalf of the WIA Board This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. Have you got Issue 5, yet? Well, if not, then the latest edition is still making its way through the Australia Post distribution system to land in your mailboxes. For those of you who take the electronic edition only, check your email inbox for notification of your download. And when you get your September-October edition, turn to Page 7 for details on our reader survey. There you will find a QR or Quick Response code. Its a small square patch with an array of black and white squares, used for storing website addresses or other information for reading by the camera on a smartphone. Scan that with your smartphone and off you go to our reader survey! The Publications Committee wants to hear about your ideas and opinions on Amateur Radio magazine to help shape its future. Completing the survey only takes about 12 minutes. So, I have been reading the results, comments and suggestions of the more than 100 people who had completed the survey up to last weekend. Some of those results to-date have been quite unexpected, while others reveal issues that have been tossed around among the Publications Committee members. For example: using our resources to improve things for readers such as posting on the WIA website additional material that supports articles published in the magazine software and printed circuit artwork, for example. Well, Im happy to report that I am acting on that already. I will have details about it in a future broadcast as well as in the magazine and on the website. So. Amateur Radio magazines reader survey its worth doing. I cant promise well be able to act on every suggestion made, but the Publications Committee will chew over the survey results with great interest. Your magazine. Your views. Please do the survey. This has been AR magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 La Palma volcanic eruption - radio hams on standby The Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palmas in Spains Canary Islands erupted for the first time in 50 years last Sunday, September 19 IARU Region 1 reports: The lava flow has triggered the evacuation of 5000 people on the island so far but authorities have deployed all the resources of the Canary Islands Government as well as military support from the mainland to manage the situation. In order to facilitate communications to and from that area, EMCOM-SPAIN is asking for the Emergency Centre Of Activity frequencies to be kept clear in case the situation gets worse The frequencies are as follows: 80m band: 3.760 MHz 40m band: 7.110 MHz 20m band: 14.300 MHz 15m band: 21.360 MHz Deaf pupils to talk to astronauts on the International Space Station in a world first. This group of pupils at the Mary Hare School for deaf children in Newbury will be talking to an Astronaut aboard the International Space Station as it orbits above them at 11,000 miles per hour. In October the school will be using Amateur Radio equipment set up with the help of Radio Amateurs from the Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society. These will be the first deaf children to have done this, making it a world first. The pupils will each ask a question to the astronaut who will then answer live over amateur radio. The reply will then be interpreted into subtitles. Mary Hare School, with Pippa Middleton as its Ambassador, is the largest school for deaf children in the UK. Pippa, or Philippa Matthews is the younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Sweden: High power permits extended automatically Good news from the Swedish regulator PTS regarding high power permits. PTS has extended higher power permits for the next 5 years, so radio amateurs do not need to apply for a new permit REGION TWO When IDA came to town. A New Jersey club has lost towers and antennas due to Hurricane Ida. The Gloucester County Amateur Radio Club, W2MMD, suffered extensive damage to two of its towers and multiple antennas, during a EF3 tornado spawned by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Many nearby homes and several farms were severely damaged or destroyed. The W2MMD club station building, a 14x70 mobile home, miraculously was undamaged despite being directly in the path of the twister, and the radio equipment remained safe and dry, but is unusable now without towers and antennas. PATIENCE REQUIRED ARISS Contact with Patients at the Childrens National Hospital in Washington, DC, participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station contact. They chatted with ISS Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI, on Tuesday, September 21. The Childrens Hospital is not a school, but it does work with school districts to coordinate home and hospital teachers to provide an educational program for patients. The hospital partnered with members of a local ham radio club in Virginia. REGION THREE Japanese Manufacturer Icom, is allowing the download of 3D data of the exterior case of the IC-705 HF/VHF/UHF Mobile Transceiver allowing customers to create their own related accessories. The 3D data that will be made available will be compatible with several free 3D modelling softwares and 3D applications and will allow individual users to create their own IC-705 related items. All users of this data will be required to agree to a memorandum stating specific rules of use before download. The principle of any items created with the data is that it will be for individual use only and not for commercial purpose. This is the first time that Icom have done something like this and will be a test as whether they will consider disclosing 3D data for other products in the future. www.icomjapan.com/support/IC-705_STL/ The IARU Region 3 online conference hosted by Thailand's RAST this past week looked at many topics, one of which under discussion was band plans. Among the band plan problems the conference seeked to address was: The use of bandwidth as a defining transmission characteristic is failing given advances particularly in data modes over the last decade. It no longer provides clear separation of these activities: Data vs Voice both can use 2700 Hz (and wider) bandwidths Data vs CW both can use 200 Hz (and narrower) bandwidths The changes proposed included a significant expansion of the data mode segments. DO NOT READ FOLLOWING IN ACCOUSTIC VERSIONS Each band is detailed in the slides in the document "Attachment to Doc.031 International Amateur Radio Union - HF band plan revision 2021 - Proposal.pdf" The PDF can be downloaded from the bottom of the Input documents page on the conference site at https://www.iarur3conf2021.org/documents/ ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- Hi this is Alan VK4SN with Remembrance Day Contest Results. Seems everyone totally enjoyed this years Remembrance Day Contest. Overseas stations commenting on an RD stream, said that Australian operators are so polite. Conditions were mostly favourable which is reflected in logs containing more contacts and points than seen in many years. On average an extra 100 logs were submitted this year for a total of 310. VK7 have taken honours again with significant numbers sending in logs to support their state score. VK5 are runners up this year. Congratulations go to the following individuals; SOPH Alan VK2EFM set a new record with 1215 points, SOCW Allan VK2GR 456, SOMX Lawrie VK5LJ with a new record of 1176, QRP PH Heath VK3TWO set a new record with 612 points, QRP CW Chris VK3QB 278, QPR MX Gerard VK2IO with 293 points. The highest scoring Rookie was won by Scott VK2SDX scoring 210 points in the Single Op Phone section. Top Foundation operator will not be included in future because call sign allocations no longer represent licence grade. Multi-multi section goes to the Northern Corridor Radio Group VK6NC with 1334 points. Multi-single section was taken out by VK4KW with 1150 points. Top Team was Cronies+1 (Richard VK7ZBX, Murray VK7ZMS, Hayden VK7HH) with a score of 2932. A full report with all the gory details can be downloaded from the WIA contest page, as can be the state certificates for all participant. The report includes the managers report, team results, overall results, statistics, operator comments, and records since 2012. Included is a list of callsigns who had score adjustments and the reasons why. Surprisingly over 200 contacts were not logged for whatever reason, resulting in Not In Log errors and loss of points. The report is in callsign order for ease of use. Thanks to all the participants, especially those who submitted logs and photos, and to Peter VK1PE for organising the speech. Best 73 and see you next year Alan VK4SN -------------- 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 Hi, this is Martin VK7GN on behalf of the Oceania DX Contest committee. We are approaching the month of October and the 76th running of the contest. Full rules are at www.oceaniadxcontest.com The contest dates in 2021 are PHONE 0600 UTC Saturday 2nd October to 0600 Sunday 3rd October CW 0600 UTC Saturday 8th October to 0600 Sun 10th October Multipliers are prefixes counted on each band. There are many trophies and certificates available. Please put in an entry even if you only make a few contacts. First that enables better log checking but also I remember winning a certificate for just 5 QSOs ! There are new YL plaques and new awards for country and band entries check out the lists on the website and please support our sponsors. We especially thank our principle sponsors the WIA and NZART. Please have fun and enjoy the event. Maybe we will have some sunspots to help us! -------------- SPRING VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS November 27-28 -------------- December 4-5 160 Meter WW -------------- DECEMBER 11 - 12 10 Mtr World Wide -------------- 2022 -------------- January, the entire month every year is the WIA ROSS HULL VJF - UHF MARATHON CONTEST 00:00 UTC 1 January to 23:59 UTC 31 January Over the 70 plus years of the Ross Hull Memorial Contest there have been many winners. The secret to Ross Hull success does not appear to be location but rather dedication. Running over the month of January, the chances of DX openings are strong and as you only need to score well on the best 7 days, part of the strategy is to be around the radio at the right times. Who has been the most successful? VK2AFA Ted Thrift with 7 wins, VK3XRS with 6, VK5XU with 5 wins. But VK6 doesn't miss out often with VK6ADI, VK6BO and VK6KZ all notching up contest wins in the Ross Hull. and VK4 with Glenn VK4BG and Adrian VK2FZ/VK4 lead the way with 3 wins each for a state-wide total of 14 wins. We are still waiting for a VK7 Winner but that may be a long way off. Nudge Nudge... This has been Trent VK4TS for the Ross Hull Memorial Contest. -------------- WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS Summer 2022 - 0100 UTC Saturday 15 January through 0059 UTC Sunday 16 January (differs in VK6). -------------- John Moyle Memorial Field Day March 2022 (No date has been published as yet) -------------- Harry Angel Memorial 80m Sprint Saturday May 7th 2022 10:00 UTC - 11:46 UTC -------------- VK SHIRES CONTEST 11th JUNE 2022 -------------- WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS Winter 2022 - 0200 UTC Saturday 25 June through 0159 UTC Sunday 26 June (differs in VK6). -------------- WIA Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest 16 JUL 2022 The Trans-Tasman contest, held on the 3rd weekend in July aims to encourage Low Band activity between VK and ZL -------------- WIA RD or Remembrance Day Contest Weekend closest to the 15th August each year. 2022 its Sat Sun August 13 and 14 -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- MEXICO. Special event station 6I 1 M is QRV until September 27 to celebrate 200 years of Mexican independence, this on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, FT8 and FT4. QSL direct to XE 1 SPM. READ THE CREDIT ( info from Paty Mohedano XE1SPM via ALARA ) -------------- BAKER BAKER DOES BRITIAN Riviera Amateur Radio Club has been running GB 8 B(aker) B(aker) this September in commemoration of those who served in the Battle of Britain. This is the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Also, GB 8 ROC will be operating from Scotlands "Secret Bunker," in Fife, this coming Thursday, the 30th of September. This is to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the national stand-down of the Royal Observer Corps, and also to mark the 80th anniversary of the award of Royal title to the Observer Corps, in recognition of their services in the Battle of Britain. (rsgb) -------------- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS COMPUTING Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 Sir Clive Sinclair died at home in the UK last Thursday after battling a long illness. Sir Clive invented the pocket calculator but was best known for popularising the home computer, bringing it to British high-street stores at relatively affordable prices. He left school at 17 and worked for four years as a technical journalist to raise funds to found Sinclair Radionics. He then became the man behind the Sinclair Spectrum and the first computer, the Sinclair ZX-81, to retail for under a hundred dollars. Sir Clive Sinclair, Rest in Peace. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Four radio hams will head to space station They are Raja Chari, KI5LIU; Tom Marshburn, KE5HOC; Kayla Barron, KI5LAL, and Matthias Maurer, KI5KFH. As the most experienced space traveller, Matthias Maurer, who is a European Space Agency Astronaut, could end up with a very heavy work schedule. The targeted launch date is no sooner than October 31, from Kennedy Space Centre here on Earth. The launch will mark the third SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket launch combination as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program, which provides reliable and affordable transportation to and from the ISS. The crew is scheduled for a long-duration stay aboard the orbiting laboratory, living and working as part of whats expected to be a seven-member crew. Read the full ARRL story on tinyurl.com/9yn322zz (southgatearc.org) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org AF-007 D 60 AC and D 60 AD from the Comoros archipelago, until the 2nd of October. They will operate SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8 on the 80, 40, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m bands. The preferred method of QSL is via Club Logs OQRS. AS-200 Look for JI 3 DST/5, JR 8 YLY/5 and JR 8 YLY/p using FT8 from Shodo Island, AS-200, between the 25th and 28th September. All QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and made available for Club Log Matching on the IOTA website. IOTA Contest Results Results of the RSGB Islands on the Air contest, held at the end of July have now been published. More than 2,400 logs were submitted, including almost 800 entries from island stations. The island entries covered 151 different IOTA references, just over half of which were in Europe. There were 94 Island DXpedition stations in the contest, 10 from out here in Oceania. 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 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 JOTA-JOTI JOTA-JOTI takes place from the 15th to the 17th of October, hundreds of Scout stations take part including many from here in VK. More information, including a full list of participating stations can be found at www.jotajoti.info (sourced to irts) 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) SNOW HITS TOWNSVILLE ROTARY Townsville Amateur Radio Club President VK4ME, Snow Herodes and Secretary Gavin Reibelt VK4ZZ along with Ron VK4JBY visited the local Rotary Club of Thuringowa and gave a talk on Amateur Radio. A pleasant surprise awaited Ron VK4JBY at the end of this Vocational Talk August 25th when he was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Thuringowa's President Laurie Nolan Ron, VK4JBY had put 10 years hard work into the club when a Rotarian... so --- hurry back to the fold Ron. (backscatter) ------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club celebrates 60 years It was a double celebration for the Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club last Saturday with members commemorating 60 years in the community as well as news of a new clubhouse. Amazing where we picked this news item up from, from eHam, in the USA. The club hosted an open day for residents to attend to find out more about their radio endeavours. Event-goers Ryan Flynn and his children said they were excited to see what radios could do. Weve been learning about radios and the morse code, Dalyhla said. Kids dont normally get to learn about radios and stuff unless they are out on a farm. And we don't get to hear of the good work many, and in particular Queensland clubs do, so was good to pick up om this from the USA. BTW Those who take the acoustic QNEWS bulletin today will hear from a regular contributor, the Ipswich and District radio club, so keep your ears tuned! Speaking of clubs and input to this news, I'd like to both thank all who record info for us, unlike some club newscasts we don't conjure up the magic ingredients but rather await' the news DIRECT from the people involved. An email in a few weeks back said " but it sounds like I'm skiting, bragging. NO It's sharing your experience with the wider ham community. Next week, all being well it's WIA News's pleasure to bring you a story on a special net that is clocking up a 3 year anniversary - ably conducted by the same net controller. As they say in the classics "stay tuned". ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 - 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 ) 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) Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to nationalnews@wia.org.au and don't JUST send url's links or posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution. 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