2022 SEPTEMBER 04 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ------------------------------------------------------------* THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos ------------------------------------------------------------* NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 4 2022 IN OUR 27th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS 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:- Chris VK3FY Steve VK2TSG SEPT 4 MISSED Scott VK3KJ SEPT 11 Greg VK2GPK SEPT 18 Peter VK8ZZ SEPT 25 Lee VK3GK Hi this is Chris VK3FY. My topic for this broadcast is the WIA QSL Bureau. The Board recently received the quarterly QSL Report from John VK3JSL (National QSL Manger). At the last Board meeting held on Tuesday 23rd of August 2022, the following was noted. 1. The WIA QSL Bureau has received over 37,000 QSL Cards over the past six (6) months up until the end of June 2022. 2. The WIA QSL Bureau had by time sent out all cards to registered members and clubs. 3. The bureau by mid-July 2022 had received a further 13,000 QSL cards, which indicate the Bureau is nearing pre-pandemic QSL Inward numbers 4. The report indicated that they are meeting their minimum obligation of a mail out of at least once per month to each state and territory. 5. There are other special arrangements for VK9 / 0 and special event stations The WIA QSL Bureau is not the only Bureau in Australia. There are others. It is imperative that one is registered with the WIA Bureau if you wish to utilise this service. Please note that this is service that is provided to members and affiliated clubs of the WIA only. Some stats on the WIA QSL Bureau. Majority of the incoming cards are from Japan >50% followed by Germany around 20% June Sim VK4SJ has decided to retire as the VK4 QSL Manager, and Bernard VK4KX has moved into this role. The WIA Board wishes to thank June for her service to the VK4 ham community and appreciate Bernard moving into this role to ensure a smooth transition. 73 from Chris VK3FY for the WIA National 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 WRC23 preparatory activities are intensifying As WRC23 gets closer so the preparatory activities for the agenda items are increasing in intensity. The most pressing for the amateur community is the 23cm band radio navigation satellite service coexistence agenda item 9.1b. Following presentations given during the IARU R1 interim conference and the HamRadio2022 event, the IARU was kindly invited to present the 23cm band situation to the eme community at the 19th EME conference in Prague. Reactions were mixed. However the IARU maintains its objective to find a solution that can facilitate all the amateur radio applications active in the band today including eme operations even if some compromises will be inevitable. To progress the 23cm band studies, ITUR Working Party 4C will meet during the second week of September. At this meeting the technical studies regarding the amateur service and radio navigation satellite service will be developed further. The IARU global 9.1b team is preparing contributions and will be participating in the meeting. REGION TWO The Ohio Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) has completed a dry-run exercise for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Lake County, Ohio. ARRL Ohio Section Emergency Coordinator Stan Broadway, N8BHL, said the drill was practice for the federally judged exercise scheduled for September. The Ohio Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) amateur station, W8SGT, was utilized and on the air to communicate with several counties in northeast Ohio. Amateur radio serves in the emergency planning as a backup communications resource. The actual exercise is focused more on the power plant and its operation, "In real life, this was a low-key type of exercise. It does not involve a lot of hams or activity, just establishes the line of communication," said N8BHL. "It's satisfying to know, through many conversations during the planning stage, that amateur radio is a key ingredient to assure communication with the state." Ohio ARES is also working on a Simulated Emergency Test (SET) drill for October 1. VOLUNTEER MONITORS SEND HAMS COMMENDATIONS, NOTICES A recent trip to the mailbox brought surprises for some US hams - some pleasant surprises, others not-so-pleasant. Sel Embee KB3TZD explains. The Volunteer Monitor Program, begun in 2020 as a cooperative effort between the FCC and the ARRL, recently released its report for July of this year. The program delivers commendations as well as notices of improper operation to hams as a way of boosting compliance with amateur radio license regulations. The latest commendations include a ham in Columbia, South Carolina for helping amateurs complete programs for the Community Emergency Response Team and for assisting those involved in the county's Emergency Operations Centre. Commendations were also given to hams in Poughkeepsie New York for conducting the community bulletin board on a local repeater. Hams in Roslyn, Pennsylvania were also given commendations for involving the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club in Field Day and MESH operations. Meanwhile, notices for unlicensed operation were sent to logging companies in Washington state for their use of 2-meter amateur frequencies. Another notice for unlicensed operation was sent to an operator in Indian Hills, California for operating 2m simplex APRS during a high-altitude balloon flight, one year after the operator's license had been cancelled by the FCC. Notices for operating FT8 outside license privileges were issued to a Technician class operator in Martinez, California and a General-class operator in Trenton, New Jersey. Notices for operating on SSB outside their General class privileges were issued to hams in Massapequa, New York, and Trenton, New Jersey. This is Sel Embee KB3TZD. HamSCI founder and University of Scranton professor Nathaniel Frissell, W 2 NAF, has been awarded a nearly $400,000 US grant from the National Science Foundation to study changes in the ionosphere at dawn and dusk (a period we hams know as grayline) and during solar eclipses. According to the university, W2NAF will work with students there and at Case Western Reserve University, as well as amateurs around the country, to gather data using so-called Grape receivers designed using another NSF grant for the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station project. There will be an annular solar eclipse visible in the continental U.S. next year, as well as a total eclipse in 2024, noting that these will be the last solar eclipses to traverse the USA until 2044. The grant will fund an additional 30 Grape receivers that will be provided to HamSCI volunteers across North America. The stations will run continuously at least through 2025, the end of the project period, monitoring WWV and CHU to collect data daily at sunrise and sunset as well as during the two solar eclipses. ------------------------------------------------------------* WEIRD AND WONDERFUL. John here with a report with a story about field day. No, not THAT field day. For this story, we're going straight to the field - the corn field, that is. I've got 'kernels of wisdom' to share today. If you're 'stalking' the newest and most unusual kind of antenna, look no further than the two 8-foot-tall green stalks that Kevin K KLB harvested recently in an Iowa cornfield to create the homebrew vertical he called the CornTenna. Relying on the combination of two stalks plus their inherent conductive moisture, Kevin had a hunch that by joining them and adding a copper wire, mounting them on a wooden batten and adding radials, he might get an SWR acceptable enough for some QSOs on 20m. With a little adjusting, the CornTenna tuned right up in the field and, well, things were soon 'popping.' Operating at 5w QRP, he logged two contacts in Texas and had a few other contacts that almost made it into the log. Not quite smooth as silk, but for a Corn-Tenna? Downright a-maize-ing. You can see Kevin and the CornTenna in action on YouTube at the link in the text version of this week's WIA National News, wia.org.au He's got a real antenna farm and yes, he's having a field day. Meanwhile, one lingering question remains: Whether this innovative vertical can hold its own in a real amateur radio DX CORNtest. We're all ears. youtube.com/watch?v=WG1e1K1RR-s&t=165s (ARNewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2022 -------------- -------------- JARL SPONSORED, All Asian DX Contest, Phone THIS weekend. Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m Find rules at: jarl.org/English/4_Library/A-4-3_Contests/2022AA_rule.htm -------------- The RSGB HF SSB Field Day runs from 1300UTC on Saturday the 3rd to 1300UTC on Sunday the 4th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. (rsgb) -------------- The IARU Region 1 Field Day runs for the same 24 hour period as the RSGB HF Field Day. Using SSB only on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands the exchange is signal report and serial number. (rsgb) -------------- Saturday the 3rd of September, the CWops CW Open contest runs for 24 hours from 0000UTC. Using CW only on the 1.8 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is the serial number and your name. (rsgb) -------------- WIA - NZART OCEANIA CONTEST CW - Second full weekend in October 0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday PHONE - First 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 -------------- 160 METER CW CONTEST - ARRL SPONSORED Objective is for Amateurs worldwide to exchange information with W/VE amateurs on 160-meter CW. Dates: First full weekend in December (December 2-4, 2022). Contest Period: Begins 2200 UTC Friday, ends 1559 UTC Sunday. This is a forty-two hour period with no time limitation. Logs are due within SEVEN (7) days after the event is over. -------------- 10 METER CONTEST - ARRL SPONSORED For Amateurs worldwide to exchange QSO information with as many stations as possible on the 10 meter band. Dates: Second full weekend of December. Starts 0000 UTC Saturday; runs through 2359 UTC Sunday (December 10-11, 2022) Logs are due within SEVEN (7) days after the event is over. -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- The Transatlantic Centenary Tests The RSGB are hosting an International Amateur Radio Activation, The Transatlantic Centenary Tests, on the HF bands, for the entire month of December 2022, to commemorate the centenary of the achievement of Amateur Transatlantic communication, during the Transatlantic Tests that were held between 1921 and 1923. In anticipation of this centenary celebration, with the assistance of Ofcom (the UK licensing authority), the RSGB have reactivated five call signs which they held in the 1920s: G5WS, used for the 1922 tests the first to get across G5AT, used for the 1923 tests G6XX, used for the 1923 tests G6ZZ, used for the first amateur tests on a moving railway train in 1924 G3DR, Scottish Highlands Call - GM3DR. -------------- United States special event Look for special event station N3U/Flt93 (N3U/United Flight 93) to be activated once again between September 9-14th, to remind 'Amateur Radio Operators World-Wide' of the tragic events that happened near Shanksville (Pa), New York City and Washington DC, on September 11th, 2001. This will be the 13th year for N3U and this memorial operation. N 3 U was 1st activated in 2010 and has continued every year since. We also ran a special Aruba call P41USA for several years but COVID 19 got in the way." Activity will be on all bands that are open at the time using mostly FT8/FT4 as well as CW and SSB. QSL via club callsign W3PN (QRZ.com) if needed. LoTW will also be used for logging all Digital, SSB and CW. (OPDX) -------------- 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. -------------- TIMOR-LESTE, 4W. Satoshi, JH2EUV is QRV as 4W/JH2EUV. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using mostly FT8. QSL to home call jh 2 euv ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN The 10th annual Amateur TV QSO Party was held Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th of August. With more than 40 stations exchanging high quality digital video from various locations in Sydney, Melbourne , Port Pirie and Whyalla . On the Saturday operators from the USA joined in from California, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio and New York, exchanging valuable information on equipment, techniques and renewing friendships. Noted was not only the high standard of the shacks but the various home brew digital transmitters and ATV equipment displayed. The dedication and self-training needed to master their commercial audio video processing equipment and produce such high quality results is commendable. Then on the Saturday afternoon one station operated portable from a Whyalla S.A. beach transmitting high quality digital pictures back to their local repeater to be seen world-wide. Peter Cossins, VK3BFG was the co-ordinator and did a sterling job of organising the event. All in all it was very successful with many watching via the British Amateur TV Club streamer website and with unanimous agreement to be held again next year. (John VK2ATU) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org A SpaceX Dragon supply freighter undocked from the International Space Station August 19 with about two tons of cargo, experiments, and a leaky spacesuit. The unpiloted cargo carrier brought home a spacesuit worn by European astronaut Matthias Maurer when the station crew noticed water leaking in Maurers helmet after he returned to the labs pressurized airlock. NASA has suspended use of U.S. spacesuits for non-emergency spacewalks until the suit is inspected and analysis done. Also Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyevs spacewalk was cut short by a suit battery issue and with NASAs suits grounded at the moment, the ISS is running out of EVA options. (AMSAT-NA) AMSAT-EA satellites to launch in September Felix EA4GQS reports Spain's latest amateur radio satellites to launch will be GENESIS-G and GENESIS-J on September 11 and YOU can come for the ride as this flight will be streamed by Everyday Astronaut: everydayastronaut.com/ The AMSAT Bulletin post says: This is to confirm that the launch of our new GENESIS-G and GENESIS-J satellites with Firefly will take place September 11, with the launch window starting at 22h GMT, from Vandenberg. The expected orbit altitude is 300 km with an inclination of 137 degrees. This will be the second attempt of Firefly to reach orbit after the first attempt made in 2021 had to be aborted after two minutes of flight, causing GENESIS-N and GENESIS-L to be lost, GENESIS-G/ASTROLAND-1 145.875 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (no sub tone) and FSK 50 bps, AFSK, AX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps 436.888 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW, FSK 50 bps, FM voice beacon with AM2SAT callsign GENESIS-J/ASTROLAND-2 145.925 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (no sub tone) and FSK 50 bps, AFSK, AX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps 436.666 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW FSK 50 bps, SSTV Robot 36, FM voice beacon with AM3SAT callsign We encourage all of you to try to receive their first transmissions once the first keplerians are available. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FREEMASONS - CALL CQ MORE LIGHT. Masonic Lodges on the Air, an amateur radio special event, will be on the air Saturday, September 24. The event is open to all amateur radio operators, and the idea for the event grew out of the realization that many Freemasons also have a love for amateur radio. The object is to promote public awareness of ham radio and Freemasonry; to promote fraternal bonds within the ranks of Free & Accepted Masonic Lodges and its many Amateur Radio operators who are also brothers in the fraternity; and to encourage contact with other Amateur Radio Operators around the state, country, and world. Full contest rules and information can be found at cqmorelight.com/rules (arrl) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA iota-world.org OC240, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Rolf, DL7VEE, has announced the following: "Our team from Germany is planning another light weight, but serious DXpedition to Papua New Guinea from October 25 until November 10. "We learned on August 27th, the callsign will be P 29 RO, and the German team will be active from Loloata Island (OC-240) in Papua New Guinea's Coastal Island East IOTA Group." (OPDX) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS qcwa.org raotc.org.au Hallo everyone, this is Clive VK6CSW reminding you that tomorrow is the first Monday of the month, time for the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia's September bulletin to go to air. This month as well as the latest Club news: * Ron VK3AFW - tells us about Retirement Village living, * This is followed by Andrew VK3CAH with an update of other options available to keep active and on-air if moving to a retirement home. * Ill be reminiscing about an early electromechanically tuned radio, the SCR522 VHF R/T set. * Lastly, Andrew, VK3CAH talks about another very special birthday this year, the inauguration of the BBC. Everyone, RAOTC members and non-members alike, is most welcome to listen to the program and join in the call-backs afterwards. Full details of all transmissions, times and modes can be found on the RAOTC website, www.raotc.org.au or just Google RAOTC broadcasts. If none of the transmission times suit you, you can download the audio file at any time from today from the website. Members and Friends of the RAOTC in Perth are reminded that the next lunchtime meeting at the Bayswater Hotel is on Tuesday, September 13th. All are welcome to come along for an eyeball QSO. For details, email coordinator Phil VK6ZKO pbcasper@bigpond.com Once again, tune in tomorrow for the September RAOTC bulletin, enjoy the program and please join in the call-backs afterwards. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. 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 1st Yass Scout Group turns 100 Yesterday, the 3rd of September, 1st Yass Scout Group celebrated their 100th Birthday. From when the group was formed in 1922, Yass Scout members have taken part in many radio activities. The early years focused on morse code and crystal sets. Several of these first scouts took up radio communication roles during the second world war. Their members have been taking part in JOTA and other amateur radio activities over the years. In recent times the group is building their own shack for scouts to use. 1st Yass Scout Group will be on air during the next 12 months making contacts with other operators in celebration of the Groups birthday. Keep a listen out across the bands for the special event callsign Victor India 100 Yankee Sierra Golf and say hi to the scouts. The Scouts are designing a QSL card for the occasion to send to those that would like one. For VK1WIA National News, I am Alec VK2APC in Sydney Now back over to you Col tinyurl.com/4mrzkyjj tinyurl.com/3yac83r9 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) FELIX VK4FUQ has been reminding all about the up-coming WIA - NZART OCEANIA CONTEST PHONE - First full weekend in October Now word of interest to YOUTH A new plaque is being sponsored by Oscar Reyes VK3TX (many thanks Oscar) for the highest scoring youth entrant, no older than 25 years of age, from Australia in any of the Phone Single Operator categories. So please encourage all VK amateurs no older than 25 years age to have a go at entering the contest! Meet the 13-year-old restoring old Soviet tech in Georgia Mariam Ben Nakhi is not your usual teenager. Unlike most 13-year-old girls, she has a passion for fixing phones and computers. After school, Mariam can be found tinkering away in her familys workshop in Tbilisi. Peering into a magnifying glass, the Georgian native connects tiny intergrate parts to breathe life back into defective devices. I like to replace the batteries or clean the fans, replace the paste that is used for cooling down the computers. I like how concentrated I am with connecting the small pieces, she tells Scenes. 'Feed that curiosity' Mariams interest in electronics was sparked when she was nine years old. Her stepfather, Thomas Burns, a former Hollywood cinematographer and self-proclaimed electronic nerd, was helping fix a friends iMac computer. The colourful wires and shiny components instantly caught Mariam's eye. When they took the screen off, there were a lot of small parts that I was interested in. Also, these wires just going through the computer and I was curious about them. I wanted to how the computer worked, she recounts. I was like, let me just ask him about what this is and what that is, and maybe I could help with the things that he's doing. With her father's help, Mariam replaced the iMac's hard drive. To cultivate and hone his daughter's interest, Thomas offered to fix more friends and family's broken gadgets. It didn't take long for word to spread and referrals to start flowing in. Friends of friends began dropping off their broken hardware in the hopes the duo would restore them back to life. At some point, we realised that we were one Facebook page away from an actual business and so we made it official, and now it is very much a full-time endeavour, says Thomas. In 2021, the father-daughter team launched their family business. I called it Mariam's Computer Repair, not only is it projecting the fact that women can repair things, which I think is critically important, but it's also a point of pride for us as a family, explains Thomas. Read the full story and watch the video here: tinyurl.com/mty69k6s (EuroNews) ------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING REAST September Presentation Night September 7 Casey Station Calling REAST presentation night will be an interview with Warren, VK7WN / VK0WN direct from Casey Station in Antarctica. This will be a free-flowing discussion with Warren following an outline of a typical day at Casey with some interesting stories thrown in. The interview will take place Wednesday 7th September from 7:30pm from the Queens Domain clubrooms and via Zoom. NOT ONLY BUT ALSO The interview and Q&A will be streamed on the REAST YouTube channel. tinyurl.com/46esey8z {REAST Committee} ------------------------------------------------------------* 2022 Social Scene 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. 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