2022 MAY 15 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 MAY 15 2022 IN OUR 27th 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/ THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. LAST WEEKEND WAS OUR WIA AGM WIA SECRETARY PETER CLEE JOINS US THIS WEEK WIA VICE PRESIDENT LEE MOYLE VK3GK STEPS UP TO THE "MIC." as does WIA's AR MAGAZINE EDITOR IN CHIEF ROGER HARRISON VK2ZRH and the latest magazine is out, I got my Digital Version this week. Speaking of digital, don't forget all points of contact, sources, urls associated with every weeks WIA National News Service is found in the printed text edition of our newscast. Worth a read because more often than not the text contains a bit more info than we can squeeze into this 30 minute spoken word version. best read at wia.org.au WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y FOLLOWING FROM WIA SECTRETARY PETER CLEE VK8ZZ WIA Merit Awards announced at 2022 AGM There were eight (8) WIA Merit Awards announced at the WIA AGM today. Recipients of the WIA Merit awards in 2022 were:- Peter Young VK3MV - Presidents Commendation In recognition of a very extended service to the WIA. A recipient of the GA Taylor Medal (2012), for exceptional services to the Wireless Institute of Australia Peter has been of a significant assistance to the institute over many years. He has only recently stood down from the position of WIA Monitoring Service Co-ordinator and as a director of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Dale Hughes VK1DSH - Presidents Commendation Dale has previously received the G A Taylor medal (2016), the highest WIA Merit Award. Dale was also a recipient of the Ron Wilkinson Achievement award in 2012. Dale continues to serve the WIA on committees and as our representative to the World Radio Conference. He is an active member of the Spectrum Strategy Committee and the Regulatory Liaison Group. Dale is also an active member of the IARU liaison sub-committee. Dale also chairs one of the principal working groups. Graham Kemp VK4BB - Presidents Commendation In recognition of his contribution as Team Leader of the WIA News service group and anchor of the weekly broadcast. Graham has a high profile in WIA Media circles and is trusted to bring the weekly news to our members throughout Australia. Graham was a recipient of the GA Taylor medal in 2005 Ian Jackson VK3BUF - Technical Excellence Award In recognition of his technically contribution to the amateur service and articles and videos on the reduction of QRM and RFI including his article on ferrites and how they can be applied to RFI suppression. Andrew Chapman VK4QF - Chris Jones Award In recognition of his special achievements and longstanding efforts for the benefit of the Amateur Radio community in Queensland. In particular for being integral in the establishment of the SE Queensland Wide Area Network (SEQWAN). SEQWAN is a network of seven crosslinked repeaters providing reliable communications for a large part of south east Queensland. Hayden Honeywood VK7HH - Michael Owen Medal In recognition of service to Amateur Radio through the publication of HRDX internet web site and the HRDX YouTube Video Streaming channel. These internet and social media streaming outlets are educational, informative, entertaining and inspirational. Appealing to both younger and newer recruits as well as the older stalwarts of the Amateur Radio service. Bevan Daniel VK5BD - Ron Wilkinson Achievement Award In recognition of his valued contribution to value adding to the WIA National News Service by compiling a professional video version each week which is made available for retransmission on ATV systems around the world, including the British Amateur Television network as well as being published on YouTube and for personal use. Grant Willis VK5GR - GA Taylor Award In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Amateur Radio Service and to the Wireless Institute of Australia as a member of the Spectrum Strategy committee and the IARU Liaison Sub Committee. Grant is the WIA representative to the IARU Region 3 HF Band Plan Committee and is the Chair of that committee of the IARU. Grant Willis is also a keen contester and was a recipient of a Presidents Commendation in 2018. Publications Committee awards 2022 The Publications Committee found itself with an embarrassment of riches when it came to reviewing 2021s magazines and nominating recipients of the three annual PubCom awards. It has been an extraordinary year, all round. As you can see, the Committee decided to make multiple awards in two categories. This is not without precedent, as the WIA website Awards pages reveal. Al Shawsmith Award for Journalism. Licensed since 1935, Al Shawsmith VK4SS (SK 2010), a noted CW operator and DXer, gained fame as a prolific author in AR. He was the Official Historian for the former Queensland Division of the WIA. The award is made for the best non-technical article published in Amateur Radio magazine in the previous calendar year. The standard of general-subject articles submitted for publication in 2021 was remarkably high. Accordingly, there are two recipients, these being: Rex James VK3OF, for What a weekend moonbounce on HF!, published in Issue 6; and Rex Moncur VK7MO, for Antarctica and the Australian Antarctic Program, published in Issue 5. Higginbotham Award This Award is named after Ron Higginbotham VK3RN, who produced Amateur Radio magazine at The Richmond Chronicle in Melbourne over the decades from 1949 through 1973. For service to the amateur radio community, this award for 2021 goes to Jenny Wardrop VK3WQ, for her reliable continuance in contributing the ALARA column for AR, and consistent promotion and support of YLs of all ages. Technical Award The earliest mention that we could find of an award for technical articles published in AR magazine is in the April 1959 edition (p.17). While not saying specifically so, in noting that VK6EC/T was granted the 1958 Technical Award for his article series on Amateur TV the note hints that there were previous awards. It seems the granting of a Technical Award for articles in AR over the previous calendar year has a chequered history since that era. However, it has been more consistent over the last decade. The standard of articles submitted for publication in 2021 has certainly been high, and particularly, the significance of topics authors wrote about. The Committee settled on three recipients of the award for technical articles published in 2021: Andrew Anderson VK3CV for his article on Practical communications at 30 THz, published in Issue 2; Lou Destefano VK3AQZ, for his series on The VK3AQZ HF antenna tuner project, published from Issue 2 through to Issue 2 - 2022; and Dale Hughes (VK1DSH) and Dimitrios Tsifakis VK2COW, for their article on Experiments with LoRa digital transmissions, published in Issue 3. This is WIA Vice President Lee Moyle VK3GK On behalf of the WIA Board of Directors, just a couple of messages from me this week. The WIA Board has resolved that to show our respect to silent keys, the WIA will read out any silent keys that we have become aware of in the previous month. We will also continue with the tradition of reading out and paying our respects to silent keys at our yearly AGM. The WIA will also publish a dedicated page on our website, which will list all silent keys as we continue to pay our respects and remember our close friends and colleagues that have sadly left us. On behalf of the WIA Board of Directors and all members of the WIA, we pass on our sincere condolences and our thoughts are with the family, friends, colleagues of the loved ones we have lost may they Rest in Peace. As outlined in the February broadcast by President Scott Williams, the WIA offers all WIA Affiliated Clubs access to a Group Buying Arrangement for Public Liability Insurance. The amount of WIA Affiliated Clubs that participate, allows the WIA to go out to the insurance market through a Broker, and obtain a group discount or reduced premiums that would otherwise not be able to be obtained. WIA Affiliated Clubs are able to choose liability amounts of $10 million and $20 million and a fee is charged subject to the state or territory in which the club is located and a fee per member. We are delighted to announce that well in excess of 100 clubs have participated in obtaining insurance through the program this year. Just a little reminder to those clubs that have not yet paid, it was essential to pay no later than 30 April to ensure your insurance remains valid. The WIA is proud to be able to assist clubs in obtaining this insurance and this is just another example of the great benefits of being an Affiliated Club with the WIA. Thats it for me this week. 73 from Lee VK3GK This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. Issue 3 of Amateur Radio magazine: - The theme for the issue as foreshadowed on Page 3 of Issue 2 is Homebrew hacks and hints! And I dont mean the liquid kind of homebrew. Every inveterate homebrewer is confronted at one time or another with a situation where you have to turn a knob but the shaft for the pot or capacitor is necessarily located out of reach. Jim Sosnin VK3 Juliet-Sierra-Tango VK3JST found a cheap and cheerful solution to that problem, without using an Arduino or RaspberryPi digital device. He called it the uTurn a minimum parts count remote control. Jim describes his charmingly simple project in this issue. Having an issue with RF feedback in your shack? The likely culprit may be RF travelling down the outside of the coax leading from your multi-band HF dipole. An inveterate homebrewer you all know Lou Destefano VK3 Alpha Quebec Zulu VK3AQZ describes how he solved his problem, describing tricks and traps in selecting and building a low-cost choke balun. Whats more, its rated for use up to 400 watts. For those venturing on the bands beyond six and two metres, homebrew hacks and hints can get a little more complicated. A veteran of many years mountain-topping with his homebrew creations for bands from six metres through the well, millimetres Doug Friend VK4OE who shares his hints and hacks for getting the most from a lollygagging long-boom loop Yagi. What! Lollygagging? All is explained in Issue 3. To carry on . . . Naturally, we continue with Part 2 of our major feature on the unsung pioneers of TV technology in Australia, by WIA Historian, Peter Wolfenden VK3 Romeo Victor VK3RV. Peter reveals further details on some astonishing activities before the start of broadcast television in the 1950s, when radio amateurs trumped the broadcasters. Amateur Radio magazine, Volume 90, Issue Number 3 for 2022. Serving Australian radio amateurs since 1933. 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 Amateur Radio Supported a Special Mother's Day Event for Ukraine. Tens of thousands of mothers and children have left their home without a father, heading to the safety of nearby countries and away from the war-zone. Amateur Radio was suspended in Ukraine on February 24th, but now there is an allowance obtained to transmit amateur radio remotely, by using an Ukraine CEPT license as long as the RF emissions are not from the Ukrainian soil. Well-known DXpeditioner Alex, UT5UY, went on the air on May 4th as EA4/UT5UY using a remote station in Madrid, Spain. Amateur Radio was also used Mother's day when Alex greeted his wife, Sasha and his 12 year old son Daniel, currently living in Finland. This is in line with IARU's theme: "Never Alone", and showcasing the fact that Amateur Radio has an important role even during the world's most turbulent times. A novel contest was organized by the Croatian Amateur Radio Association. The 64th state level competition of Young Technicians of the Republic of Croatia. The competitions took place in 12 categories. 14 youngsters from 14 Croatian counties competed in the "Radio Communication" category. The first part, was where competitors took a written test of general technical knowledge. The second part was the construction of a small radio transmitter. The third part simulated an emergency, the task, to find an injured person. This part involved orienteering with the help of a map, locating a radio beacon carried by the injured person by means of a radio direction finder, determining the person's coordinates and distance, and relaying the position by radio. REGION TWO Aircraft Altimeter Retrofits The United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have met with telecom and airline industry officials in a push to retrofit and ultimately replace some airplane radio altimeters that could face interference from C-Band 5G wireless services. The altimeters give data on a plane's height above the ground and are crucial for bad-weather landings. Potential wireless interference from a planned 5G rollout led to disruptions at some U.S. airports earlier this year. The round-table meeting considered retrofits with antenna filters, which mitigate potential interference from 5G. NEW TEST OF WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER CALLED A SUCCESS In the United States, military researchers' latest test of wireless power transfer over microwave frequencies has been called a success. Kent Peterson KCDGY brings us the update thanks to ARNewsLine The still-experimental practice of beaming power over microwave frequencies to transfer electrical power using so-called "ground bounce" has completed its most successful test to date. The United States Naval Research Laboratory recently completed a trial in which 1.6 kilowatts of power was transmitted terrestrially using a 10-GHz beam over a distance of 1 kilometre, or six tenths of a mile. This kind of point-to-point transfer of electrical power is an emerging technology that is becoming increasingly favourable for scientists looking to expand its application. An IEEE (I Triple E) paper published late last year said the use of the ground-based transmitter is part of ongoing exploration that researchers hope will eventually open the door to space-to-earth wireless transmission of power. Scientists believe that limiting the frequencies in use to those below 10GHz will lessen the loss of power during transmission. Paul Jaffe, KJ4IKI, the project lead, said in an April 20th press release that the systems have been developed keeping safety limits in mind for animals and people. For Amateur Radio NewsLine, I'm Kent Peterson KCDGY. Chairman of the ARRL RF Safety Committee Gregory D. Lapin, N9GL, Ph.D., P.E., will receive an award at the 2022 Dayton Hamvention from the Radio Society of Great Britain. He will receive the Founders' Trophy, recognizing his outstanding service to the society. Along with members of the RSGB, the ARRL RFSC members formed an EMF Oversight Group, which has been meeting since August 2020 to help develop tools and procedures for complying with the new RF Exposure regulations for amateur radio operators in Great Britain. The new rules in the UK are similar to those already in effect in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2022 -------------- N.Z.A.R.T. Sangster Shield Contest Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd May 0800 - 1100 UTC Rules for this year are unchanged and as per the NZART website:- nzart.org.nz/activities/contests/sangster-shield Remember to that ZL stations can only operate with 5w but we here in VK may use power up to our legal limit. (wia) -------------- International CQ Pride contest June 4-6 (Luke VK3UKW) -------------- New World Wide Digital Contest also June 4-6 arrl.org/news/arrl-announces-new-world-wide-digital-contest (SouthGate) -------------- 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). -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- ANTARCTICA VK0. Warren, VK7WN is reported QRV as VK0WN while stationed at Casey Research Station. QSL VK 0 WN as per his on air instructions. (sourced to eHam) -------------- T42, CUBA T 42 ITU is active between May 14 - 17, to commemorate the 157th anniversary of the ITU constitution. Activity will be on all bands and modes including the satellites. All contacts will be confirmed via LoTW and QRZ. (opdx) ------------- PAPUA NEW GUINEA. On air to our north is P 29 LL from Port Moresby. Active on most HF bands. QSL via EA 7 FTR. (eHam) -------------- INDONESIA. 7B2C, 7B2E, 7B2T, 7B2H and 7B2O are QRV until the end of October to celebrate the Javanese-Hindu Ceto Temple that was built in 1475. Activity is on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters using SSB and FT8. QSL via operators' instructions. (arrl) -------------- Danish DX Group celebrates 50 years The Danish DX Group (DDXG) to celebrate their 50th anniversary station OZ 50 DDXG is on-the-air until December 31, 2022 Radio amateurs around the world can obtain the anniversary award by having contacts using CW, Phone or Digital modes with the anniversary station OZ 5 DDXG. The anniversary station may be contacted once on each band and with each modulation type in every month. Each approved contact counts 1 point. Full details on qrz.com/db/OZ50DDXG SouthGate) -------------- Frans, PC2F will be active as PF 01 MAX until the 20th of November, over the twenty-two Grand Prix weekends of this year's FIA Formula One World Championship. for PF 01 MAX, you QSL via PC2F either direct, via the bureau, Logbook of The World or eQSL (rsgb) -------------- BBC centenary special event GB 100 BBC Members of the BBCs radio club, The London BBC Radio Group, have been granted an exceptional all-year Special Event callsign to help celebrate the BBCs centenary year. Ofcom will permit GB 100 BBC to operate throughout the year, from the headquarters station in Broadcasting House, London. (southgatearc.org) -------------- In the World of DX, be listening on the HF bands for 8 N 65 JP, the special call sign being used by the Japan Amateur Radio League's Okinawa Branch. Hams are marking the 50th anniversary of the return of the Okinawa Prefecture to Japan from United States administration. The callsign 8 N 650 JP is active through the 30th of September. QSOs will be confirmed automatically through the bureau. -------------- Hadrian's Wall Special Event Station There are two special event stations GB1900HA and GB1900HW running throughout the year to commemorate 1900 years since the building of Hadrians Wall. QSL Via Logbook of the World and Club Log OQRS. See QRZ.com for more info on GB1900HA and GB1900HW Further info at: tinyurl.com/a78xy29x -------------- Irish Radio Transmitters Society hams are using the special callsign EI 90I RTS to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Ireland's national society. Listen for the EI90IRTS callsign. QSL via EI6AL. (ARNewsLine) -------------- NETHERLANDS. Members of VERON's section of Mid and North Limburg are QRV with special call sign PI 75 LIM all this year to celebrate their 75th anniversary. QSL via bureau. (arrl) -------------- A year-long special event is call HG 2 PS. Hams are marking the 200th birthday of Sandor Petofi, a revolutionary and celebrated poet and their station is on air until March 15 2023. Be listening on all bands for operators using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via HA 8 RD, ClubLog or LoTW. (ARNewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS (text not in same order as you hear on the audio news or see on ATV) ALARA This is Linda VK7QP with news of ALARAmeet 2023 The next ALARAmeet will be held in Hobart in November 2023. ALARAmeet itself will be on Sat 4 and Sun 5 November 2023. Registration will be on Friday 3 November and there will be some optional tours on Monday 6th. Expressions of interest are now due. The form is on the ALARA website or contact me at luther8@bigpond.com This is not a booking, it is just to help with planning, and so we can reserve a block of rooms at The Old Woolstore at competitive rates. We have received a good number of expressions of interest so far, and the planning team will be meeting to review these at the end of the month. So, please return the Expressions of Interest form to me by email or send to P.O. Box 308, Rosny Park, Tas 7018 as soon as possible. Thanks. 73 from Linda VK7QP SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- APRS and it's to VK5DAD Nathan from the SCARC in SA. SCARC APRS PROJECT UPDATE Hi all yes this is Nathan VKDAD from the South Coast Amateur Radio Club with an update on our APRS project. The SCARC Amateur Radio Club currently has a TNC APRS repeater at our Willunga Hill site. VK5RSC-1 Upgraded on 14 May, 2022 to a Digipeater at Willunga Hill Site (Igate facilities). Digipeater (Rpi with USB Soundcard and TAIT 8110) VHF radios. From the old TNC. VK5RSC-2 located Normanville. Was switched on the 11 May, 2022 VK5RVH-1 located Victor Harbor. Date to be advised. This project has taken months to source, negotiate and finalise the setups. Below in the text edition is a list of people (in NO particular order) we wish to thank for helping bringing this together Shane VK5URD- Stef VK5HSX - Dean VK5HMV -. Nathan VK5DAD - Rick VK5VCR - Dave VK5LEX - Tony VK5AH - Steve VK5SPJ - Neville Vk5ZHP Andrew Vk5one Phil Kern vk5ZEY who sponsors our club though his business Kern Wi-Fi who supplies internet to our repeater site. We would like to thank our partners as this has taken us many times away from our families thank you to them. Also thank you to all the members and amateur radio operators who have made this success full. Thank you from the South Coast Amateur Radio Club 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 A new YouTube video is called "Two Teens, a Ham Radio, and Operation Deep Freeze." Produced by Lance Geiger, known as The History Guy, the video chronicles two teenage hams back in the mid to late 1950's who helped keep an expedition at the South Pole, during the international Geophysical year in 1957, in touch with family and friends throughout the entire winter. Jules Madey, K2KGJ, his brother John, K2KGH (now SK) are the hams profiled and their use of phone patches and relays to pass on messages from the crew at the pole. The video presents the back story of how this all came about with frequent expeditions by the US Navy to begin setting up a polar base. (arrl) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW www.morsecodeclassnet.com Thanks to ARRL Newsletter for this, an unusual Morse Code story from John Ruckert, WE4IAS. "About 3 AM, I was awakened by someone sending S-O-S on their car horn. I leaped out of bed, grabbed a bathrobe, and with an extra-long metal-flashlight zoomed down a flight of stairs to our apartment buildings' carport. There I found a young lady sitting just inside our rolling car-gate. I inquired, 'Are you the person sending S-O-S on a car horn?' She smiled saying, 'Yes. I guessed if I just leaned on my car horn, to get someone to let me out with an electronic gate-opener, no one would respond. So I sent S-O-S and you got here in about 30-seconds!'" WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org What it's like to become a NASA astronaut? More than 18,000 Americans, THATS EIGHTEEN THOUSAND, competed in the latest round of NASA's astronaut selection. The new candidates will be announced Wednesday (June 7), and will report for basic training in August. See what it takes to be a NASA astronaut and what happens after the selection at the link in this weeks WIA National News tinyurl.com/ANS-128-Astronauts. [ANS] WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org OC-130. Irek, will be active as DV8/KH7EA from Mindanao Island until May 27 on 80-6 meters using CW and SSB during his daytime. Mindanao Island is in the southern Philippines. QSL via SP3SUX by the Bureau. (opdx) 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 A special event station for young Scouts in the United States is back after two years, and it logged an impressive array of contacts. You might consider special event station W2P the official station of the Comeback Kids. The 58th annual Scout Camporee at the West Point Military Academy in New York had to be cancelled for two consecutive years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the weekend of April 22nd to 24th, it returned and got on the air, making 577 contacts on CW and phone, covering 41 states and 25 DXCC entities on three continents. James Gallo, KB2FMH, one of the organizers, told NewsLine that organizers and the West Point Scoutmaster's Council saw that the camporee itself made up for lost time, even with the usual number of 6,000 attendees reduced to 4,000 as a COVID precaution. W2P had about 13 operators working in rotation on five stations, the contacts were devoted to mini-rag chews, giving everyone a chance to share memories of being in Scouting or the military. Most memorable contact was logged in the middle of the night on 20 meters: a 5-watt station with the call sign R 5 AJ. The operator told James he'd been a Scout as a boy and when he found the listing on QRZ he had to make the call. (Amateur Radio NewsLine) 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 21360kHz Radio ham helps save man swept overboard April 28 an emergency call came in that a ship had a man overboard. A Norwegian radio amateur helped to save the person in question A translation of the post by Norway's national society NRRL says: In addition to being an avid radio amateur, Geir Tore Christiansen LA 5 ZO is also an avid sailor. He received the emergency call on digital selective call at 12 MHz. The call came from the Hong Kong-registered bulk carrier. They reported person overboard and stated their position at 27.39N and 88.49E. BUT luckily when LA 5 ZO plotted this it was INLAND IN BANGLADESH He had the boats MMSI number and searched for it on MarineTraffic. There was the right position, i.e. that 88 E should be WEST and he was then 100 Nm south of New Orleans. He found the phone number of the US Coast Guard who has this area. They had not received any call and thanked for the info and said it would call them on the satellite phone. " Next day Geir Tore could read online that a search operation had been launched, overboard man found by a plane with heat-seeking camera, and then rescued by a helicopter. The person in question was wearing an inflatable vest. This case ended well. One man's curiosity became another man's salvation. ( Source NRRL https://tinyurl.com/IARU-Norway via SouthGate ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota YOTA Contest 2022 Youth On The Air (ham-yota.com) Now Alec,VK2APC. INDEXA is supporting the Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure The INDEXA Board of Directors is honoured to be sponsoring this project which encourages youth to experience DXing from the other side of the pileups. This year their DX operation will be conducted at the PJ2T superstation in Curacao. President Bob Schenck, N2OO, says, "INDEXA has gotten behind this worthwhile project because we realize it can only create a better understanding of DXpeditioning for the youth in our hobby. We see this as a great opportunity for them to gain first-hand experience from the DXing point of view and perhaps spur interest with our future generation of DXpeditioners." The YDXA was founded in 2009 by Dave Kalter, KB8OCP (SK); Don DuBon, N6JRL, and Jim Storms, AB8YK, with the purpose of introducing young amateur radio operators, between the age of 11 to 17, to the excitement of operating as a team at DX locations. Young hams who participate with the YDXA team are required to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. INDEXA encourages everybody to consider supporting this worthwhile youth DX activity and look for them when they are on the air! qsl.net/n6jrl ------------------------------------------------------------* 2022 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/ VK2 - Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Field Day June 11/12 (VK2ZHE) VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention Mt Gambier Queens Birthday weekend June (vk5dj) VK6 - PerthTech October 21-23 (vk6pop) VK7 - Miena HamFest Saturday 19th November. (vk7wi news) 2023 VK - ALARAMeet2023 Sat 4 / Sun 5 November HOBART (luther8@bigpond.com) 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. It would be great if those SWL's would email their reception reports and location to callbacks@wia.org.au 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. To submit audio, email nationalnews@wia.org.au and send BOTH the audio and the text We would appreciate items certainly no longer than 1.5 mts in length as we only have a half hour. Remember the sooner you submit material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition of WIA National News. 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