2022 AUGUST 28 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ------------------------------------------------------------* THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos ------------------------------------------------------------* NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING AUGUST 28 2022 IN OUR 27th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS The Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania Inc (REAST) would like to invite you to the newest and most exciting event on the Amateur Radio calendar. THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA Tassie Ham Radio Conference and Expo Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November 2022 Held in Hobart at the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Campus in a spacious and contemporary venue The Sir Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre. Plenty of free car parking and only a short 20 minute trip from the airport, flights into Hobart run from all major capital cities and direct to Auckland, NZ. You can attend in person or online (via zoom). Saturday 5th of November 2022 is the Amateur Radio Conference A full day of speakers from across VK and the World with presentations including Youth Engagement and Amateur Radio, Remote Stations, Electrical and RF safety, Low Power Portable EME, QRP SOTA POTA WWFF, Interference mitigation, Digital Amateur TV, Microwave Experimentation and much more - these will be delivered both In-person and Online. Sunday 6th of November 2022 is the huge Ham Expo With Amateur Radio Vendors and Traders including - ICOM, All About DX and many more making their way to Hobart. There will be many preloved equipment tables, Fox Hunts on the Day, Raffles including transceivers and handhelds and Information Stands - ALARA, Parks, SOTA, ROAR + more! Registrations for attendance, Vendors and Pre-loved tables are NOW open and registration for the event is essential. For more information and the registration links please visit the reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference-and-expo/ We look forward to seeing you all in Hobart! 73 Tassie Ham Expo Organizing Committee WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y ROSTERED WIA DIRECTOR BRINGING US NEWS FROM THE WIA ON HAPPENINGS AT BOARD LEVEL WILL BE:- Chris VK3FY -- Sept 4 Steve VK2TSG -- Sept 4 Scott VK3KJ -- Sept 11 Greg VK2GPK Peter VK8ZZ Lee VK3GK WIA SECRETARY PETER CLEE VK8ZZ The Board of the WIA are seeking expressions of interest to hold the Annual General Meeting in 2023. The meeting needs to be held late in April or any time in May 2023. This can be held in conjunction with or without a club convention, hamfest or other gathering. The WIA is able to offer financial assistance for such an event. Would any club who is interested in holding this event please email me at SECRETARY@wia.org.au ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. REGION ONE Algerian broadcaster causing interference to radio amateurs DARC report the broadcast station Tldiffusion d'Algerie has been causing interference to the 21 MHz primary amateur radio band at 21450 kHz with the lower sideband of its A3E signal in the 15 m band. Bandwatch has already involved the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in order to effect a frequency change. Tldiffusion d'Algerie recently attracted negative attention with its broadcasts on 7200 kHz. There, too, the transmitter radiates into an exclusive amateur radio band with the lower sideband. darc.de/ Physicists in Europe say they have found a key to creating smaller capacitors, allowing for some electronic devices to be greatly miniaturized. The IEEE Spectrum reports that scientists are saying these capacitors could even be as small as one-hundredth the size of many of the ones presently in use. They are creating them with materials they call superlattices and they are made from materials that mimic antiferroelectrics. Antiferroelectrics are important because they have positive and negative poles -- electric dipoles -- pointed in opposing directions, creating zero electric polarization. Exposed to an electric field having sufficient strength, antiferroelectrics can become highly polarized, which results in the large energy densities needed. Because there are few antiferrelectric materials that occur naturally, scientists have created and used artificial ones and report in the Journal, Science, that their work with the superlattices shows promise for working on a much smaller scale: their ability for energy storing is 100 times greater than conventional capacitors. Younger adults now watch almost seven times less scheduled TV within the UK than those aged 65 and over, Ofcom has found, as the generation gap in media habits reaches a record high. People aged 16-24 spend 53 minutes in front of broadcast TV in an average day a fall of two-thirds in the last ten years. In contrast, those aged 65 and over still spend around a third of their waking day enjoying broadcast TV, sitting down for almost six hours daily. DJIBOUTI, J2 has a new club station located in a US Army military camp. Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. It is near some of the world's busiest shipping lanes, controlling access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. It serves as a key refuelling and transshipment center, and the principal maritime port for imports from and exports to neighboring Ethiopia. A burgeoning commercial hub, the nation is the site of various foreign military bases and now you can work one, J 2 8RC is a new club station located in a US Army military camp. QSL via EA5GL. REGION TWO Brazilian radio show features amateur radio LABRE was invited to talk about amateur radio and DXing in one of the programs of the series 'One Hundred Years in 100 Programs' and which celebrates the 100 years of radio in Brazil Brazil's national amateur radio society LABRE says the production is from Radio MEC, based in Rio de Janeiro, the first broadcasting station to officially operate in Brazilian territory. The program had the testimony of LABRE's Communication Advisory and also colleague Ricardo Benedito, PY2QB, who also gave his contribution within the theme amateur radio and DXing. tinyurl.com/49h3ftfs Ham radio operators honored in Tennessee County leaders Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and state Rep. John Ragan, both Oak Ridge Republicans, attended the Anderson County Commission meeting recently to present Senate Joint Resolution No. 1646, honoring amateur radio operators and their service across the state. Anderson County leaders joined the legislators in recognizing the service of a number of local residents who are licensed amateur radio operators and members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), according to a county government news release. The states resolution recognizes the 19,835 licensed amateur radio operators who embody the historic spirit of the Volunteer State and provide invaluable services to their fellow citizens and local first responders during emergencies and natural disasters. tinyurl.com/2yc5mpe9 ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW WIA CONTESTS:- 2022 -------------- ALARA CONTEST THIS WEEKEND AUGUST 27 and 28 alara.org.au -------------- 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 0100 UTC Saturday 26 through 0059 UTC Sunday 27 November This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, manager for the VHF-UHF Field Days. For all contestants who submitted logs for the past three Field Days that is, the Spring 2021, Summer and Winter 2022 events I have good news. Firstly, all the log files sent to the Field Day log uploader on the WIA website have been retrieved successfully. Secondly, while you have all been waiting patiently for the preparation and publication of results, a small team of problem solvers has doggedly worked at finding a log-checking application suited to our purpose to satisfy your not unreasonable desire to know how you went. And how others went, too. Well, a log-checking application suited to our purpose has been found and panel-beaten into shape so as to do the job required. Accordingly, work has proceeded to prepare a table of claimed scores for the 2021 Spring event from the logs submitted. You will find this posted on the VHF-UHF Field Days website. Similarly, claimed scores for the 2022 Summer and Winter events will be posted to the website also. wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/ This has been Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. This is Kevin VK4UH and I am the new manager for the WIA VHF-UHF Records program. I have great pleasure this morning in announcing TWO new Australian Distance records that have been approved by the Board. Firstly A new 1296 MHz (23cms) National (Digital) distance record acknowledging the contact between VK3ZAZ and VK6CPU/p on the 18th February this year. At a distance of 2168.7 km, this contact extended the existing 23cms Digital record by 75km Secondly A new 3.4GHz (9cms) National (Digital) distance record Acknowledging the contact between VK4AFL and VK4UH/p on 27th May this year. At a distance of 524km, this contact extended the existing 9cms digital record by 21.2km The WIA has maintained an Historical Archive of distance records achieved on all the bands above 50MHz dating back to 1947. These Historical Records have been maintained in date-order, even when superseded. The Archive also records distance records on VHF bands that have since been withdrawn from the amateur service in Australia. Until his recent passing the VHF-UHF records had been managed and maintained by John Martin VK3KM (sk) as one of his many roles as Charman of the Technical Advisory Committee. After review, the Board has created a new independent position for a manager to take on this role - moving forwards. In the light or recent advances, particularly with digital operating modes on the VHF and microwave bands, the board has also requested a review of all record categories for the future. There is a new e-mail address now for new distance record claims:- E-mail new record claims to:- istancerecords@wia.org.au All outstanding record claims that I am aware of have now been processed. I ask that if there are other claims outstanding then please contact me at the same record claims address above. This has been Kevin VK4UH VHF-UHF Records Manager for the WIA -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- Invite from Jo'burg Radio Club ZS 6 TJ situated in Johannesburg, South Africa would like to extend an invitation to join their QSO party 27th from 4am UTC on 20m bands to make as many contacts before , during and after the rugby match between the Springboks/ Australian. (Mark ZS6MJO) -------------- 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) -------------- Listen for Rafael, EA5XV, who hopes to be on the air from Panama as EA5XV/HP1 until September 12th. Listen for him on SSB. Send QSLs to his home call EA 5 XV (sourced to ARNewsLine) -------------- Be listening for Giuseppe, IK5WWA, operating as IMM (Eye Em Zero Em) from La Maddalena between September 1st and 13th on various HF bands plus 6 metres. He will also participate in the I.I.A. Italian Island Award. Send QSLs to home callsign IK5WWA , via the bureau or direct. (sourced to ARNewsLine) -------------- In the World of DX be listening for Fred, DL5YM, and his XYL Tina, DL5YL, operating as HB0/DL5YM and HB0/DL5YL, respectively, from Lichtenstein between September 7th and 27th. They will hike during the daytime and later operate on 160-6 metres using mostly CW, with some SSB and RTTY. You may also hear them in the CQWW DX RTTY Contest on September 24th and 25th. QSL via their home callsigns, direct, via the DARC Bureau or ClubLog. (sourced to ARNewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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/ British Inland Waterways on the Air is taking place this weekend between 27 and 29 August. It is open to all amateurs who are boaters, cyclists, walkers; and other users of the canals, rivers, towpaths and riverbanks for work or recreation in the UK Even lakes and reservoirs that are used for recreation classify as an inland waterway, so there are many places for activating. The primary HF band will be 40m so wherever in the world you are, " listen up. " (Category: Front Page News, GB2RS Headlines) 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 SEE WHO YOU WORK 9 Y 60 TT is on many modes BUT their SSTV is one to look out for. Trinidad and Tobago (9Y60) celebrates the 60th Independence Anniversary, the Diamond Jubilee on Wednesday next, 31st The amateur radio special event station, 9Y60TT, is operating till September 2. QSL is via Logbook of The World. The Special Event represents a unique opportunity for hams to work a new prefix. Work 1, or 5-plus unique QSOs with the Special Event call sign for a commemorative certificate. 9y60tt.info/certificate-request WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FAITH. Churches and Chapels On The Air, takes place on Saturday September 10 between 10am and 4pm GMT. Stations will be operating mainly on the 20, 40 and 80m bands usually using SSB. The latest list of stations taking part can be found at wacral.org ( John G3XYF at jhwresdell@gmail.com ) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org The cross-band voice repeater and the APRS node aboard the International Space Station can now be used simultaneously. The FM repeater uplink is on 145.990 MHz, a 67 Hertz PL tone is needed to activate the downlink transmitter on 3.800 MHz. APRS and packet mode uses 145.825 MHz for uplink and downlink. The Columbus module radio uses the call-sign NA 1 SS and the new service module radio uses the call-sign RS 0 ISS. The two radios are identical and the packet operation is the same as before. You can use RS0ISS, ARISS or APRSAT as data paths. Both radios are expected to be on at all times except during school contacts, spacewalks and docking maneuvers. Frank Bauer KA 3 HDO ARISS Chairman welcomes the simultaneous operation of APRS and the voice repeater on the ISS as a key element of the ARISS 2.0 initiative. It offers 24/7 interactive opportunities for young people and learners to get involved and train. The operational state of the ISS ham-radio station can be found on the ARISS website ariss.org FalconSat-3 continues to operate, but due to poor battery condition, the transmitter needs to be reactivated by command stations periodically. The satellite is expected to re-enter in 6-9 months, so, now is the time to use it! Artemis I, the first uncrewed launch of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion capsule on a mission around the moon, will carry a number of CubeSats and other payloads to the moon, including Omotenashi, which will transmit in the 70 cm amateur radio band. Radio frequencies can be found at sgcderek.github.io/blog/artemis-1.html The launch is currently scheduled for August 29th and NASA is also encouraging the general public to track the S-band telemetry from Artemis I. sam.gov/opp/9e894407ff12427d800b2457421914e0/view?linkId=177463503 John, VK5DJ has been contacted by Wataru Torii of the JAXA Ham Radio Club regarding this OMOTENASHI project which plans to launch a moon orbiter and lander late August for arrival at the moon in early September. Wataru Torii works at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The landing device is very small and the entire system orbiter and lander is only 6U CubeSat dimensions. The issue they face is that earlier launches were planned such that their agency would be able to hear the devices when the lander was due to reach the moons surface. Unfortunately the launch date has been put off several times and is now due for tomorrow, 29/8/22. It may land on the moon on 4/9/22 at 2:45UTC to 3:30UTC at which time it will not be visible from Japan so they are hoping to enlist the support of Australian and New Zealand amateurs to record and monitor the orbiter and lander. As the landing may be quite hard they are especially interested in loss of signal and any recordings prior to this, preferably from SDRs for the frequency range 437.31 (orbiter) and 437.41 (the lander). They are using PSK31. All the details are available on their website: isas.jaxa.jp/home/omotenashi/JHRCweb/jhrc.html Timings and our window is all dependent on the launch being on the 29th of August. Reasonably good satellite systems should be able to hear the 1W signals. If you are interested in helping send me an email john@vk5dj.com and Ill send you the contact address for Wataru. NOT ONLY BUT ALSO Check out the South East Radio Group website serg.org.au/index.php/2022/08/16/japanese-orbiter-and-lander/ (John VK5DJ AMSAT-NA) 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 Its only just over 50 days to go to this years JOTA/JOTI and at this time we have only been fed JOTA info from VK7 where there are at least 5 stations being organised. Thanks to members of North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club, the station at Paton Park has been upgraded ready for activation. They are also waiting to hear if Spreyton group has a building to operate from this year, which will mean an extra couple of operators Burnie will be having a station operating, probably 10 to some time on the Saturday. The Storm Hut at The Lea has been booked and Noel VK7FLCN and Danny VK7HDM are planning to activate this site. The REAST station at the Domain is planned to be open. The Radio Patrol comprising licensed scouts from Huonville are considering operating probably portable in their district. There is another possibility that they may operate portable in Hobart city as part of a district cub event. (Peter VK7KPC, Project Commissioner Radio, Scouts Tasmania) 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) Youth makes an amateur radio contact with the international space station Isabella, an eight-year-old from the UK, used her father's amateur radio equipment to chat to an astronaut aboard the ISS and Alec VK2APC has the story for us:- "Isabella spoke to American astronaut Kjell Lindgren for about 45 seconds as the ISS passed overhead. Dr Lindgren said the conversation "may be my favourite so far". Isabella said it was "amazing", adding: "Once he found out I was eight, his voice instantly turned from normal to joyful." Her father Matthew, who has held an amateur radio licence for more than 15 years, found out the ISS was passing overhead from fellow ham radio enthusiasts. He said: "You have to get the right time when the space station is passing overhead, and it has to be the right time of day when the astronaut is using the equipment. Isabella's parents said their daughter has long held an interest in space and ham radio, and they are encouraging her to apply for an amateur radio licence. For VK1WIA National News, I am Alec VK2APC in Sydney Now back to you Bruce bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-62563215 ------------------------------------------------------------* 2022 Social Scene VK5 - AREG Car Boot Sale Sept 3 (THREE) David Roche Park Kilburn (vk5tr) VK4 - SunFest Sunday 18 September 10:00 AM Mountain Creek State School (noreply email) VK6 - PerthTech October 21-23 (vk6pop) VK7 - November 5-6 Tassie Ham Radio Conference and Expo. Hobart reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference-and-expo/ VK4 - GOLD COAST HAMFEST Nov 13. @ Country Paradise Parklands 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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