2022 JUNE 19 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 JUNE 19 2022 IN OUR 27th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS Roger Harrison VK2ZRH manager of the VHF-UHF Field Days:- Diane VK4DI VKShires Contest Manager:- Kevin VK4UH Contest Manager for the Harry Angel.- THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. Two Brits arrested in Albania as police accuse them of spying after seizing radio gear Two Britons were quizzed on allegations of espionage by officers at Tirana International Airport in Albania after police discovered sophisticated Kenwood radios in their luggage They told the officials they were IT engineers who were carrying the amateur gear to indulge their hobby while on holiday in Albania. One suspect was registered as using a ham radio in the Tirana region on online profiles, which also say he specialises in electronic warfare. A source said: Its highly unusual to be carrying this sort of equipment and even more strange for someone to be stopped and accused of being a covert agent. The two Britons were held on May 30 and then allowed to return to the UK. However they remain under investigation, police say. Their Kenwood was sent to the Albanian Criminal Laboratory for further examination. You can read the full Daily Mirror article at mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-brits-arrested-albania-police-271 WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y NEXT WEEK'S ROSTERED WIA DIRECTOR BRINGING US NEWS FROM THE WIA ON HAPPENINGS AT BOARD LEVEL WILL BE:- Lee VK3GK FOLLOWING WEEKS FROM JULY ONWARDS ROTATING IN THIS ORDER TO AGM:- Chris VK3FY Peter VK4EA Steve VK2TSG President Scott VK3KJ Greg VK2GPK Peter VK8ZZ Lee VK3GK ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. REGION ONE ITUs ham radio station celebrates 60 years on air United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies owns and operates 4 U 1 ITU at the headquarters of the International Telecommunications Union. It started broadcasting on 10 June 1962 and was officially inaugurated the following month by then UN Secretary-General U Thant and ITU Secretary-General Gerald Gross himself a ham radio enthusiast, callsign W 3 GG. From its long-time home on the 5th floor of the Varemb Building in Genevas international district, this unique broadcasting outlet still today serves as a model for the highest standards of amateur radio station operation everywhere. 4U1ITUs first contact, or QSO, was made with German station DL 4 VK. Further QSOs followed, amounting to over 1,300 contacts worldwide in the first 24 hours. In the six decades since, ITUs radio station has made over a million contacts using CW, SSB, and digital operational modes with radio amateurs around the world. USE IT OR LOSE IT BEGORRAH The Irish Radio Transmitters Society say: It's not too often these days to hear our beautiful native Irish language spoken on amateur radio. As the newly appointed Irish language officer on the IRTS Committee Tony, EI5EM, would like to launch a pilot project, initially in the Dublin area, to promote the Irish language. The plan is to start a net on the Kippure two-metre repeater catering for all levels of fluency. If this proves a success, it is planned to expand it onto HF so the world can listen! As they say in Rugby parlance, "Use it or lose it!" REGION TWO The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to fine an amateur radio operator for alleged interference with firefighting efforts in Idaho last year. It said Jason Frawley, WA7CQ, apparently interfered with radio communications that were guiding fire suppression aircraft working the Johnson fire near Elk River. Frawley later told the FCC he was only trying to help. The $34,000 fine would the largest of its kind, the commission said in issuing its notice of apparent liability. All four commissioners approved the N.A.L. Frawley now has the opportunity to respond and the FCC would then consider final action. Commenting on the notice, Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wrote: You cant interfere with public safety communications. Full stop. So today we propose the largest fine of its type for this interference that put fire suppression and public safety itself at risk. The commission says Frawley the owner of Leader Communications, licensee of eight microwave licenses and one business license told the FCC he did not mean harm and instead meant to help the firefighters by providing them with details regarding Elk Butte. radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fcc-to-fine-ham-for-firefighting-interference REGION THREE Amateur radio activists who are members of the ORARI, the Indonesian Amateur Radio Organization, met at the Indonesian Homebrewers Club event at South Jakarta, Sunday, June 5. Homebrew is the activity of radio amateurs who assemble home devices to channel a hobby in the field of radio engineering. This event is a vehicle for education and trials of radio devices. It is an honour for those who can present their work in this performance. The event entitled, "Friendly in the Air, Familiar on the Ground" was attended by 400 MEMBERS of ORARI, the SAR team and electronics observers. tinyurl.com/IARU-Indonesia WIRELESS WEATHER Why did Sunspots disappear for 70 years? Eos reports five decades of data revealed a star undergoing a pause in magnetic activity similar to what the Sun experienced almost 400 years ago Every 11 years, the number of spots dotting the surface of the Sun increases and decreases like clockwork. Astronomers have been tracking the 11-year sunspot cycle for more than 400 years, using it to better understand the chaotic magnetic field the Sun puts out. (The current solar cycle, number 25, started in 2019.) The timing of the solar cycle is remarkably consistent: Sunspot numbers rise and fall, rise and fall EXCEPT for that time that they disappeared and werent seen again for 70 years. That period of time, from 1645 to 1715, is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after 19th century British astronomers Edward and Annie Maunder. Astronomers still dont understand why the Sun ceased making sunspots for 70 years, but a new analysis of more than 5 decades of measurements of nearby stars has identified one that might be undergoing its own Maunder-like minimum. The star, HD 166620, could help scientists understand this mysteriously quiescent period of the Suns history and unlock clues about how the solar dynamo functions. We cant build a time machine and go back to the Maunder Minimum and study the Sun as it was, said Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University and co-author on the new analysis. But we can find an analogue and study its Maunder minimum. Read the Eos article at tinyurl.com/bdecduat (Southgate) ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2022 -------------- -------------- WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS -NEXT WEEKEND Winter 2022 - 0200 UTC Saturday 25 June through 0159 UTC Sunday 26 June More on this in a moment. -------------- IARU HF World Championship NEXT contest is July 9 and 10. (ref) -------------- 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 -------------- RSGB IOTA Contest is July 30 - 31st (SouthGate) -------------- WIA RD or Remembrance Day Contest Weekend closest to the 15th August each year. 2022 its Sat Sun August 13 and 14 -------------- ALARA CONTEST AUGUST 27 and 28 alara.org.au (vk5maz) -------------- WIA - NZART OCEANIA CONTEST PHONE - First full weekend in October 0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday CW - Second full weekend in October 0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday Log deadline for ALL logs - 31 October. -------------- WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS -NEXT WEEKEND Winter 2022 - 0200 UTC Saturday 25 June through 0159 UTC Sunday 26 June This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, manager of the VHF-UHF Field Days. As most of you know, the VHF-UHF Field Days are held three times a year not twice in Summer, Winter and Spring. Here we are, its the 19th of June, the Winter solstice arrives on Tuesday next and the Winter VHF-UHF Field Day is on next weekend! The Field Day page on the WIA website has been updated, but the Rules are the same as those for previous events. However, I do have some news for all you Field Day tragics. Following the passing of Mike VK3 A V V in January, there has been somewhat of a hiatus regarding future support for his brilliant V K C L logging software as well as the log-checking software he developed and used to generate the results of each VHF-UHF Field Day event. In the meantime, Doug VK4 A D C, on his own initiative, embarked recently on developing a new contest logger, which he has titled Yet Another Contest Logger YACL. Doug has launched it for contesters to try out for the Winter event next weekend. You can download it from:- vk4adc.com/YACLSupport/index.php While YACL has been developed to have the familiar look-and-feel of VKCL, Doug says the new logger employs a few different design principles that should make it even more flexible. The on-screen format is based on VKCL, but its vastly different inside, Doug says, having been written from scratch in a different programming language. It has an inbuilt interface to WSJT-X for direct logging of digital QSOs, and includes OmniRig support for two radios. Partial microwave transverter support is also incorporated, says Doug. While YACL development is continuing, it can be used for the Winter VHF/UHF Field Day as those rules have already been transformed into a configuration file, with more Australian contests to be supported in the future. YACL follows the well-known N1MM+ logger principle, where contests are defined in an external file to match the published rules. With rule changes, it only needs a new text file, rather than a rewrite of the software. Doug is also working on log-checking software that is important to providing fully-checked and ranked results. If you plan to give YACL a go, remember to jump online and re-check immediately before the Winter Field Day next weekend to ensure that you have the absolutely latest version, with fewer bugs WAIT, lets just call them anomalies! Or, you can stick with VKCL for the time being. Either way, submit your logs to the WIA website log uploader as usual The link is on the VHF-UHF Field Days web page. Best wishes for the contest to one and all! This has been Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- JAN MAYEN, JX. Helge, LB4MI is QRV as JX/LB4MI until early October. Activity is in his spare time on 20 and 17 meters using SSB. QSL to home call LB4MI (arrl) -------------- 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) -------------- Frans, PC2F will be active as PF01MAX 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 GB100BBC to operate throughout the year, from the headquarters station in Broadcasting House, London however GB100BBC has also been operating from Northern Ireland BBC News reported on the station in Northern Ireland commemorating the centenary of the BBC where two BBC newsreaders, Radio Ulster's Keith Burnside GI 4 IYO and Radio Four's Jim Lee G 4 AEH got on the ham waveband from Broadcasting House in Belfast from the BBC's main transmission at Divis Mountain, near Belfast. (southgatearc.org) -------------- Hello I'm Diane VK4DI VKShires Contest Manager 2022. Last weekend saw the bands light up for the VK Shires Contest with a return to Pre Covid Rules, as well as the inclusions of 4 hour re-work blocks, Rover category and 160m. Bill & I decided to run a Multi 2 station from our shack as an excuse to check the upgrades and alterations we have made in the past year or so. Activity seemed good from our location, although some operators have said they didnt have much propagation to anywhere. The sunspot numbers werent exceptional. There were a number of newbies to contesting which was fantastic to see. Quite a good number of logs have been received, but there are plenty out there who havent done so yet. Please submit your log, the amount of qsos isnt important, its more about having some fun and seeing if you can get a PB (Personal Best) for your own satisfaction. Thanks to Marc Hillman VK3OHM we had an updated Shires Excel spreadsheet for the Shires and also a new Db3 file of shires for those still using VKCL. Also a huge Thank You to Alan VK4SN who has been assisting me with learning to use the VKLogchecker software and the UDC he wrote for the N1MM Contest software. All Logs must be submitted in Cabrillo format to www.vklogchecker.com Once uploaded you will receive an automated reply. If you dont receive an email, first check the Logs Received on the vklogger website: your callsign will be displayed after a successful submission. If it is not shown then email vkshires@wia.org.au and I will follow up ASAP. Im happy to receive queries regarding log submissions etc., so please feel free to contact me via the same email address. I will respond as soon as I can. Diane VK4DI VKShires Contest Manager 2022 Good morning, everyone this is Kevin VK4UH from the Redcliffe Radio Club and Im the contest Manager for the Harry Angel 80m Sprint. As Im talking this morning, I have my cap in my hands and Im here to offer some serious apologies. The contest this year was in its 23rd year and was held on the 7th of May. We had anticipated that we might have some issues with log submission this year. In particular we had concerns that we might not capture log entries sent directly from within the VKCL contest logging software rather than through our own Redcliffe Club e-mail contest server. In fact, we already had help with a contingency to forward on logs submitted that way. What we had not anticipated were problems within our own server. The server was set up to automatically forward all contest entries to both of the contest managers and to a safety-net person. We applied what we thought was due diligence and had sent several dummy logs to the contest address all of which came through OK. The contest came and went and we immediately started to receive the log entries as expected. All the logs received by the managers were confirmed by e-mail. What we did not know was that for reasons best known to itself, the server decided NOT to forward a small number of received logs to either manager and instead place them in a spam file. We have since identified several logs that met this fate. Sadly of course all the follow-up massages and e-mails from the same senders were treated in the same way. After the closing date all the logs were cross checked and collated independently by the two managers and then compared. We then posted the final results earlier this week on the WIA contest page. It was not until this point that we became aware that we had a problem and that a small number of entries, some with very scores, had not been captured. Not surprisingly, very soon after that we received a number of complaints from several justifiably aggrieved contesters complaints for which we are very grateful. Our immediate response was to suspend the reporting process while we searched for an explanation and all the missing log files. We extended the closing date by a further two weeks and put out a call for any participants not in receipt of a confirmation e-mail to resubmit their logs. The intention is to amend the results table as we receive any missed logs and republish the final results on the Harry Angel Contest page after the new closing date. So - we would like to ask everyone who entered the Harry Angel this year to check the updated provisional results list on the contest webpage to confirm your log has been captured and if not contact us. Every log we have appears there. I want to offer our sincere apologies to all participants whose logs we missed and I want to apologise to everyone whose position in the league table has had to be changed. We have to be fair to everyone. We also wish to give our undertaking to revise the entire log submission process before the 2023 contest. We intend that by next year we will have a 100% reliable, fully automated, submission and crosschecking system in place. The problem we faced was totally beyond our control, entirely unforeseen and was NOT recognised until the results were published. We can only apologise again and thank all those who have been affected for their forbearance. This is Kevin VK4UH Contest Manager for the Harry Angel ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 Ten Seconds for Amateur Radio Television In the age of TikTok, Polish Hams go with the times and explore new ways to get their message across to potential new licensees. The Polish Amateur Radio Union, PZK, writes: "Let's create a short film together. In no more than ten seconds, finish this sentence in front of the camera. Why is it worth becoming a Walkie-Talkie user? PZK will assemble a movie that will help promote the AR passion! There are many reasons why it is worth becoming a ham! PZK are curious what the most important is for you! PZK asks to send in a video file without editing, filters, additional subtitles, ideally in horizontal polarization, but vertical format will also be accepted. We look forward to hearing and seeing the results, a great idea and one which Societies world-wide could easily piggy-back on. (irts) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FEMALES IN RADIO. YL Meeting in Finland Turku welcomes Scandinavia's YL Radio Amateurs, SYLRA, along with their handbag carriers and friends, to hold the SYLRA meeting in Turku, Finland from the 18th to the 21st of August. The event is open to all YLs and their companions, they're invited not only to the workshops, but also to enjoy Turku tourism and culinary delights. After the actual meeting, there will be a YL gathering at Katanp Castle Island. See more and sign up at the meeting's website at oh.syrla.is Oh and Turku, is a city on the southwest coast of Finland, straddles the Aura River. Dating from the 13th century, it's known for Turku Castle, a medieval fortress with a history museum, perched at the river mouth. (IRTS) WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS - AND - SUMMITS ON THE AIR, WORLD WIDE FLORA, FAUNA PROGRAM, PARKS ON THE AIR and other ADVENTURE GROUPS. hema.org.uk/index.jsp minesontheair.com/about-mota parksontheair.com/ sota.org.uk sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/ wwffaustralia.com/ HIGHER THAN A SUMMIT THIS STORY KINDA "FALLS" INTO REAL ADVENTURE GROUP NEWS - An imaginative leap. Literally. It isn't always easy for new ops to take that big leap into HF operations, from our friends at Amateur Radio NewsLine K 9 AWM Andy Morrison tells us about one ham in Indiana who took that leap! Carlos Felix, KD9OLN, has spent 12 years as a skydiver in Indiana and three of those years as a skydiving ham on the air. He started jumping from a plane holding an HT making 2m activations and progressed later to a small mobile rig with more power. This year, however, Carlos landed - or rather he leaped - into operating parachute mobile on 10m, specifically on 28.419MHz. He said his first attempt last month didn't work out because of a damaged feedline. Carlos more than made up for it on Friday, June 3rd, by jumping twice from 13,000 feet, calling CQ parachute mobile. Among those answering his call was someone taking a big leap of their own while keeping both feet on the ground: a Technician class operator making a first-time contact on HF. Carlos said that's the whole point. He chose the 10m band to give Technicians a taste of HF and encourage them to go forward to the next level. Many of his other HF jumps have used frequencies on 20m where Technicians have no privileges. He said he couldn't do it without the support of the TOADS and Ham Radio Clubhouse Discord groups, who help coordinate and hold the frequency for him. It also helps that Carlos is a skydiving instructor and is qualified to teach tandem and accelerated free-fall. Mainly, though, he is just a ham taking a leap of faith so that others will too. For Amateur Radio NewsLine, I'm Andy Morrison K9AWM. Carlos later told ARNewsLine he logged a total of nine QSOs during his June 3rd jump. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org THE "CZECH's IN THE MAIL" OR IN THIS CASE "IN SPACE". A new Czech satellite, their eleventh in a row, was placed into orbit on the evening of May 25 after launch by Falcon-9 rocket from Florida PLANETUM-1 transmits as OK 0 PLA in the 2-meter and 70-centimeter bands with CW and GFSK. The control centre is the Planetarium in the capital city of Prague. More information about PLANETUM -1 is available at this link: planetum.cz/druzice-planetum1/pro_radioamatery. (arrl letter) The Hubble Telescope has broken its own record, detecting an individual star 12.9 billion light-years away). The (very Lord of the Rings-sounding) star "Earendel" existed when the Universe was just 900 million years old. (Around the same time that the Milky Way started to form.) It is only visible due to gravitational lensing. (ANS) As we made mention of last week in this bulletin you will be aware that FUNcube-1 has been transmitting a special Fitter message to commemorate her Majesty the Queens Platinum Jubilee earlier this month. Everyone who receives this message and uploads it to the Data Warehouse using the Dashboard can generate a certificate to remember this historic event. The special message includes a link to a website that has the full instructions. It is intended to keep this message active until the end of June. Operators may have noticed that the spacecraft is now in high power telemetry mode when in sunlight and the high power telemetry setting will assist listeners to decode the data more easily. The information you are providing is invaluable to the FUNcube team and will greatly assist in managing the spacecraft through its middle age after more than eight years in space! amsat-uk.org/ twitter.com/amsatuk 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. Youth Forum at Hamvention An ARRL Youth Outreach forum at Dayton Hamvention highlighted resources and ideas for attracting and developing young hams and is available on YouTube for us all to watch. ARRL Education and Learning Manager Steve Goodgame, K5ATA, led the crowd of attendees through a highly interactive session discussing strategies, tools, and reasons for engaging we youth. Cantered around the theme of 'How and Why to Engage Youth in Amateur Radio," forum attendees participated in discussion groups and shared their findings throughout the forum. The entire presentation was recorded by Josh KI 6 NAZ. Watch Amateur Radio Youth Outreach: The Why And How - ARRL Education & Learning on the link in this weeks text edition of WIA NATIONAL NEWS youtube.com/watch?v=QZco6tElKBc (ARNEWSLINE) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS qcwa.org raotc.org.au Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (QCWA) provides donation to support ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, Inc. (ARISS-USA) is very pleased to announce that the Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc.(QCWA) has made a highly notable contribution $4,500to support the ARISS program. QCWA President Ken Oelke VE6AFO presented the generous gift to ARISS-USA at Hamvention, during the ARISS Forum. ARISS is the acronym for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. 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