2022 JULY 10 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 JULY 10 2022 IN OUR 27th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS THIS WEEK ON AUSTRALIA'S NEWS LEADER - THE NEWS THAT'S OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER DUPLICATED - WITH YOURS TRUY VK4BB GRAHAM, I'M JOINED BY DD5LP / VK2LAW / VK4SN / VK3GTV / KE5CXP / VK3GRK / VK3FY and VK4EA. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032. WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y ROSTERED WIA DIRECTOR BRINGING US NEWS FROM THE WIA ON HAPPENINGS AT BOARD LEVEL WILL BE IN ROTATION:- Steve VK2TSG President Scott VK3KJ Greg VK2GPK Peter VK8ZZ Lee VK3GK Chris VK3FY Peter VK4EA Chris VK3FY:- Peter VK4EA:- Hello, this is Peter VK4EA on behalf of the WIA board. At the last board meeting we had a briefing from Peter Mill (VK3APO) and Steve Ireland (VK2MD) talking about the repeater and beacon management processes. We all came away impressed with the competency of Steves coding skills and encourage members to utilise the maintained repeater and beacon lists available from the website. A development that most directors were not aware of is the work done by Steve to produce Google Earth KML files. I will make sure the link to the KML is distributed using the WIA socials. Peter Mill also went through the repeater and beacon process emphasising that the ACMA has very little capability to process applications sent directly to the licensing section. An AP (Authorised Person) makes the process a lot faster, however, this costs the AP $200-$250 for each frequency assignment. This situation is completely out of the WIAs control and a direct result of the federal public service downsizing drive. Clubs and Individuals can still lodge applications direct with the ACMA for the much lower fee of $29, however, this method can take up to 6 months after Peter has made his recommendation. The repeater and beacon application process is well documented in the WIA website, while we would love to make the process quick, painless and cheap, it is, what it is. An improvement suggestion from Steve was to make a form available on the website for corrections and additions to the WIA repeater and beacon list. We are proceeding with this excellent suggestion. The board welcomes Dr Kevin Johnston (VK4UH) to the WIA Records Manager role. Kevin has a long association with pushing the microwave distance boundaries in my part of VK4 and holds a number of records for bands above 50MHz. Thanks Kevin for volunteering. On the subject of record breaking activities, the VK7s are punching well above their weight, yet again. Rex (VK7MO) is currently in Hawaii preparing to smash the 10GHz terrestrial record. Rex is, or might even has already, setting up his considerably impressive 10GHz system in conjunction with a number of US amateurs in California. The board wishes Rex good DX. Cheers for now, this has been Peter VK4EA on behalf of the WIA board. NOT ONLY BUT ALSO Hi this is Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY. I was appointed to WIA Board back in May 2022 at the WIA AGM. For those that dont know me, a little bit about me. Currently I am a Communications/Telecommunications Consultant with over forty years experience having worked in almost all aspects of Communications with Australia and overseas. I have been licenced for over 40 years, first obtaining my New Zealand technician licence ZL2TZV before immigrating to Australia in 1979 and upgrading to a AOCP in 1981 having passed the Morse Code requirement at the time. I am a keen DXer both in the chase and being active on numerous DXpeditions and IOTA activations. Still chasing that illusive P5 to have worked all the current countries. DXing is not my only interest in Amateur Radio. Contesting is also a major interest of mine and its one that I believe will promote Amateur Radio to younger prospects within the community. It was during the John Moyle Memorial Field Day that I introduced Amateur Radio and contesting to my sons Nik and Norman. They are both now Advanced licensees. Further interests are in VHF/UHF (I can go on all modes up to 23cm) I am currently the Trustee of the AUS REPEATER NET a C4FM System Fusion repeater network which is located on WiresX Room #24160. In addition, I am also hosting a repeater in Melbourne for Philippine Link. Why have I chosen to go onto the Board of the Wireless Institute of Australia? and that would be a good question to ask me. Its simple really, this hobby has given me a wealth of enjoyment and some sad moments most of my entire life. Hence, I want to give back what I have enjoyed and hence with my experiences I am sure I will be able to assist in promoting Amateur Radio in Australia, so that we can attract additional new operators to and in turn additional members to the Wireless Institute of Australia. I hope that I can bring new and/or additional fresh ideas to further enhance the membership. Simple things like having a fully functioning Amateur Radio Station at the Wireless Institute of Australia Headquarters for members, prospective members and promote this to new prospective Amateur Radio Operators. Next week in drop zone one WIA Director Steve VK2TSG will bring us up todate with the goings on at the WIA Board table - ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 Asteroid Day is the United Nations-sanctioned day of public awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts, held annually on 30 June. Just in time for the 2022 worldwide Asteroid Day, a threatening space rock that had lingered at the top of risk lists around the globe for months -- with a real chance of impacting Earth in 2052 has been deemed not to be a threat. ESA's asteroid team, working with experts at the European Southern Observatory, have officially removed '2021 QM1' from their asteroid risk list. After skilled observations and analysis of the faintest asteroid ever observed, the asteroid, which was discovered in August of 2021, was calculated to be a "near miss". The Spanish Amateur Radio Union (URE) in Galicia, Spain has organized an event to commemorate the 2022 jubilee of The Way of Saint James with amateur radio. Diploma Xacobeo 2021 - 2022, "Galicia for the world", will take place July 18 - 25 and is a 1,500 kilometre walk along coastlines and through 10 public routes of landscapes and legends with Hostels on the Camino de Santiago in Galicia. There will be 10 special event stations along the routes from July 18 - 25 and a "diploma" will be issued for making all 10 contacts. On July 25, special event station A 02022 XAC will be activated and a separate diploma will be issued for contact with that station. For additional information visit galiciaxacobeo2022@ure.es RADIO EXPO RETURNS TO FRIEDRICHSHAFEN In Europe, Ham Radio Expo made a triumphant return and Newsline's Ed Durrant DD5LP was there. " All were eager to get back to the "Neue Messe" in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance in the south of Germany. Turnout was expected to be around 10,000 compared to just under 14,000 in 2019. After the effects of the pandemic and with the current inflation levels this is not a bad showing. While the main hall seemed a little less full than normal due to the stands of Kenwood and Yaesu not being there along with the large WIMO retailer, the flea market in its two Zeppelin-sized halls was fuller than in 2019. Talking with dealers and manufacturers, I learned they were all glad to have, it seems, come through the pandemic. Several, however, said it was close and another lockdown would have meant the end of their businesses. Many are worried about parts supply and while most have stockpiled components, their stock is dwindling. Talking with the national societies and the IARU, I learned there is concern on how we will keep our band allocations especially in the microwave frequencies and a need is seen to have the hobby change and be open to new technologies and possibilities to attract more people. There were positive notes too: The Austrian national society's president, Michael Zwingl, OE3MZC, was very enthusiastic over several new projects. An institute will be a platform for hams, makers and professionals to work together on new technology projects in Austria. WRAN, will supply a way for access from 6 metres, 2 metres and 70 centimetres into the Europe-wide HamNet, which is a 2.4 and 5 GHz ham radio high-speed RF data network. A Lora-based network linking low power IOT devices using the QO-100 satellite will enable data communications between devices across a third of the world's surface. Overall there was a very positive feel at HAM RADIO 2022 and as this year's motto said, it was indeed "A reunion with friends." For Amateur Radio NewsLine I'm Ed DD5LP." REGION TWO ARRL FIELD DAY A MIGHTY SUCCESS At the beginning of this month a total of over 517,000 contacts were reported for the event and those numbers are changing daily. In 2021, there were 1.5 million contacts made during Field Day activities. Southern California Exercise Tests Win link Global Radio Email For 2 days back in mid-June, over 100 amateur radio operators were joined by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), local and county law enforcement agencies, and the EmComm Training Organization (ETO) for participation in a functional earthquake exercise in southern California, known as SoCal Shifting 2022. The goal of the exercise, was to test the operational capability and readiness of the WinLink Global Radio Email system using amateur radio frequencies. Oliver Dully, K6OLI, District Emergency Coordinator of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service Los Angeles Northeast District, said the exercise came together quickly over 5 days, with the help of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Disaster Communications Service, the San Diego ARES, and the Ventura County ARES. K6OLI said, "Amateur operators routinely hold weekly tests but need to be network-aware and used to the battle rhythm during emergencies to move traffic in a timely manner." REGION THREE Tribute to Zorro, JH1AJT 3 D 2 AJT is the special callsign that Dom, 3D2USU will be using for one month from Nadi in the Fiji Islands in memory of the late Yasuo Zorro Miyazawa, JH1AJT. Activity will end on 27 July, which would have marked Zorros 73rd birthday. Zorro was also known for his DXpeditions and charitable work on behalf of children in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Japan and elsewhere. The special event operators will be on the air using CW, SSB, FT4 and FT8. QSL via Club Logs OQRS. You can read more about 3 D 2 AJT on qrz.com ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2022 -------------- -------------- IARU HF World Championship NEXT contest is THIS weekend July 9 and 10. (ref) -------------- WIA Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest 16 JUL The Trans-Tasman contest, held on the 3rd weekend in July aims to encourage Low Band activity between VK and ZL Hi Contesters, This is Alan VK4SN. Yes the Trans-Tasman contest is almost upon us. On Saturday night, the 16th of July, The contest kicks off at 0800Z and ends at 1400z. That's 6pm to midnight AEST. Amateurs in VK and ZL will endeavour to contact other amateurs in VK and ZL on 160, 80 and 40 meters, using SSB, CW, and RTTY/PSK. The contest is made up of 3 individual two hour blocks where you can rework stations again in the new block. Categories include SOHP, SOLP, and SO QRP. MultiOP-one Tx, and MultiOp Multi transmitter. What does QRP, low and high power mean: QRP is up to 5watts Low power is 5 to 100 watts High power is 100 to 400 watts Logs are due by 7 days after the contest and can be submitted via vklogchecker.com in Cabrillo 3 format. Thanks to Geoff ZL3GA for promoting the contest for our ZL neighbours See the WIA website for all the rules. https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/transtasman/ 73 de Alan VK4SN. -------------- 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 SPRING 2022 is in NOVEMBER -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- The 'DXCC Most Wanted' list has been updated. Topping the list is North Korea in 1st place and is unlikely to appear on the air anytime soon. Bouvet Island is in second place and Crozet Island in third place, with both islands to be activated by DXpeditions later this year. -------------- Now my four to strive for :- Z 81 D from Juba in South Sudan until the 11th of September. Activity is holiday style. QSL Z 81 D via OM 3 JW. (RSGB) -------------- In the World of DX, be listening on the HF bands for 8N65JP, 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. -------------- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------- WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- INTERNET, THE HAMS DOMAIN. TikTok promises to keep its U.S. users data safe and sound are not satisfying at least one member of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a blistering letter that the Chinese company has proved it cant be trusted with the information users give it, and should bundled up and tossed out the airlock. Carr posted an open letter sent to both Google and Apple on his Twitter account. In it, he called on the companies to jettison the TikTok app from their app stores. Carr cites multiple cases of the company being exceptionally data-hungry. Most recently, BuzzFeed News reported that the Chinese government had gained access to American users data despite TikToks claims that it kept U.S. user info on servers on U.S. soil, far from the prying eyes of Beijing. Carr said in his letter that both Apple and Google parent company Alphabet should remove TikTok from the app stores or else send him a letter by last Friday, July 8 explaining themselves. (this week in amateur radio website) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW www.morsecodeclassnet.com Herman, VK 2 IXV is looking for a Morse code key, not just ANY key but a New Zealand made AKRAD or ULTIMATE Morse key. email: hermanusw@gmail.com (breakin) 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/ This week we introduce a radio amateur who is lucky enough to have found a way to combine two things she really loves - amateur radio and flying kites. Mike Askins KE5CXP from Amateur Radio NewsLine tells us about her adventures in Kite POTA. "Lisa Neuscheler KC1YL has found a way to string together her Parks on the Air contacts from as close to her Florida home as Texas and as far away as the western states, the Caribbean and Europe. That's because the string she uses is the string of a kite. The kite enthusiast launched her first high-flying ham radio antenna in October of last year on Florida's east coast with friends. Back home on the west coast near Tampa, she and her small team have done eight kite activations since that time. This past March, she was on Florida's Honeymoon Island when she achieved her first POTA kite-to-kite contact with another team that also brought their kite there. Lisa told NewsLine that she credits Kourt de Haas, KB5PRZ, with inspiring her lofty goals after she learned that the Texas amateur accomplished his QSO with her in 2016 - while she was still living in Connecticut - using an antenna on a kite over the Gulf of Mexico. Now she runs along the Florida beaches with a POTA kite team of her own, including Julie NF1T, Jack W1BBU and others. Her next challenge is a longer-distance POTA kite-to-kite contact with her friend Paul W1IP in Connecticut. Their first attempt on June 13th was scrapped by insufficient wind on Paul's local beach. Lisa made 95 regular POTA contacts that day using her kite antenna but none were made with Paul. So they're trying again on July 11th. Lisa told NewsLine: [quote] "You have to be happy when you are holding a kite string." [endquote] For Amateur Radio NewsLine I'm Mike Askins KE5CXP. No doubt she'll be even happier if on that day the wind helps carry her ambition to reality. You might even say it will be 'uplifting'. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org We Amateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between amateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The downlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide. (ANS) CAPSTONE, NASAs CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit, is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is heading toward an orbit intended in the future for Gateway, a lunar space station built by the agency and its commercial and international partners that will support NASAs Artemis program, including astronaut missions. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission launched aboard Rocket Labs Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. (ANS) The European Space Agency has noticed that satellites of its Swarm constellation lost altitude due to an increasingly violent solar cycle which started in 2019 and is likely to intensify. The year 2019 marked the beginning of a new solar cycle and fast-forward four years, this cycle has resulted in an increase in the Suns disruptive activities. Currently, the sun is halfway into the new solar cycle, and this is the period when the number of sunspots will continue to increase which in turn would amplify the number of solar eruptions. Surprisingly, scientists have started noticing the ill effects of this phenomenon as the satellites in low-Earth orbit, the LEO's are taking the hits. (eham) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org Be listening also for KL7RRC from Kiska Island, NA-070, during the RSGB IOTA contest on July 30th and 31st. Send QSLs to N7RO. VK5KI will be on the air for the Radio Society of Great Britain's IOTA Contest from Kangaroo Island, IOTA number OC-139, off the South Australia coast, from Friday July 29th to Sunday July 31st. The station will operate in CW and SSB. Before the contest, be listening on 80m through 10m. During the contest, be listening on 80/40/20/15/ and 10m. QSL via Charles MOXO. (ARNewsLine) The TX 5 N DXpedition that took place in April from the Austral Islands OC-114, has updated the information on QSL cards. All TX5N QSL cards were taken to the post office on the 30th of June so please allow sufficient time for the card to reach you. Bureau cards will be shipped to the individual IARU bureaux in the next bureau mailing (sourced to rsgb) 2022 Social Scene VK3 - JULY 15 BAREC Hi, I'm Graeme, VK3GRK. Bendigo Amateur Radio & Electronics Club invites you to our July meeting, where Ron VK3AAN will be providing a very informative presentation on Baluns and RF Transformers. This will be an interactive session, so bring your questions and any baluns and RF transformers for discussion. Many of us are making antennas for field activities such as Summits on the Air, and activating parks. It can be very handy to know what kind of baluns to use and how to make them. The presentation commences at 7.30 pm, Friday July 15th at BAREC headquarters, Bendigo East Hall, 35 Lansell St. A gold coin donation would be appreciated, and supper is provided. The presentation will also be streamed on the BAREC YouTube channel. VK4 - Redcliffe Club Car Boot Sale Saturday 20th August 9am club house Macfarlane Park, Klingner Road Kippa-Ring. (vk4tfn) VK4 - SunFest Sunday 18 September 10:00 AM Mountain Creek State School (noreply email) VK6 - PerthTech October 21-23 (vk6pop) VK7 - Miena HamFest Saturday 19th November. (vk7wi news) C A N C E L L E D VK3 - Rosebud RadioFest November 20 9.3Oam. (vk3pdg) 2023 VK - ALARAMeet2023 4/5 November in 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. 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