2022 NOVEMBER 06 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 NOVEMBER 06 2022 THIS WEEK YOU'LL HEAR FROM WIA IMMEADIATE PAST PRESIDENT. - CURRENT PRESIDENT WIA. - VICE PRESIDENT WIA. - SECRETARY WIA along with OUR ALWAYS TO BE RELIED ON TEAM OF PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR NEWS LEADERS . - WE'LL DOUBLE DOWN WITH A PAIR OF JOHNS, 4JJW and 4FJRK. - TO FINISH IF TIME A LITTLE 'GARDENING', YES ITS ROSEBUD TIME IN VK3. THIS AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y Election of 2023 Directors of the WIA Last weekend on the national news broadcast we announced that nominations to become a director of the WIA were now open. There are 4 positions up for election this time around. The 4 directors will retire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting which will be held in May 2023. Each retiring director is eligible for re-election. Nominations for position of WIA Director Close at 2.00pm 16 December 2022. Nominations must be in the approved form. Nomination forms are available on the WIA web site and a link to the form was provided in last weeks text edition of the broadcast. wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/board/documents/Nomination%20Form%20-%20WIA%20Board%20of%20Directors.pdf Members must be financial as at 31 December 2022 in order to vote in this election. This year the election will be held electronically with an option for a postal vote. Application for a postal vote has been printed on the reverse side of the Amateur Radio Magazines November / December issues address label. An application for a postal vote is also available for download from the WIA web site. wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/about/member_documents/application_for_a_postalvote.pdf Registration for a Postal Vote is are now open and will close on 15th December 2022. An Application for a postal vote may be posted to the WIA post office box or delivered by email to the returning officer. Details of which are on the application for a postal vote form. An application for a Postal Vote will close on 15 December 2022 This announcement has been authorised by the Board of the Wireless Institute of Australia. This is WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ This is WIA Vice President Lee Moyle VK3GK Have you recently renewed you Amateur Radio Licence with ACMA? A number of Amateur Radio operators have recently reported that their Amateur Radio licences have shown up on the ACMA RRL database as Expired when they have previously thought to have been successfully renewed well prior to the expiry date. One affected WIA Member, on phoning ACMA to rectify the issue was instructed by ACMA staff to forward by email, with an ACMA reference number, supporting evidence of the successful payment to ACMA. This could consist of a screen grab of your bank statement, receipt numbers etc. ACMA would then investigate and resolve the issues. It was reported that the new recently installed ACMA payment portal may have some anomalies to still be ironed out with Credit and Debit card payments seemed to have created the non-payment status. Payments to ACMA using the Bpay method is said to be currently functioning without any known issues. Although ACMA do notify us of the upcoming licence expiry date, it is our responsibility to renew our licences prior to the date of expiry. You can find the ACMA RRL at https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/register_search.main_page Just enter your callsign in the appropriate box on the website and your file with you client ID should be shown displaying your licence details. Please take note and if you have recently paid your ACMA renewal in the last few months, please check that you licence is still current and flagged as Granted. If it states Expired, then check the expiry date and check your records to confirm you have actually paid. ACMA can be contacted directly on 1300 850 115 to discuss payment or any other issues. Have your client ACMA ID available along with your ACMA invoice number to make things easier. To be safe it would be wise for everyone to check that current status of your licence on the ACMA RRL database as an expired licence after 60 days will lose the callsigns attached and they will be relinquished back into the Callsigns Available register for others to apply for. Losing our callsign can be very disappointing and the process to recover your old callsign once reissued can be a frustrating long drawn out process and in the end not always possible. Lets try and avoid that situation altogether and check the ACMA RRL. Please do it now. 73 from Lee VK3GK currently in Sunny Hobart, Tasmania where many have gathered to attend the REAST Conference and EXPO this weekend. This is Greg VK2GPK with this weeks board comment: As we all travel at 107,00 thousand kilometres an hour on spaceship earth around the sun, the end of another year is quickly approaching. The year 2022 has been, like the last few years, quite tumultuous. For most of us, especially in eastern Australia, incessant rain has been an unwanted guest, and flooding has been widespread with devastating impacts on many communities. The upside is the rallying of community spirit with so many volunteers selflessly assisting those affected. November 2022 is an important month for Australian radio amateurs. The spectrum regulator, the Australian Media and Communications Authority aka the ACMA has a consultation period that closes on November 29 for drastic changes to our licencing arrangements. The ACMA is proposing to implement a single Class Licence for Radio Amateurs starting mid next year (July 2023) that will totally eliminate the individual licences we currently hold. Additionally, and quite separately, the ACMA are seeking comment on increased power options but on this unrelated issue there is no definite proposal or timeframe to implement. It is vitally important not to focus solely on the increased power part of this consultation as the only part of ACMAs proposals that has an implementation date is the Class Licence. I have seen a great deal of discussion on social media that focusses only on increased power and ignores the elephant in the room of a Class Licence. The WIA has constituted an expert working group to address this consultation and is well underway to release a position paper early November on the ACMA proposals this will be published to our members very soon and the WIA will, of course, be seeking your considered feedback. As I have mentioned a prior news item, my personal opinion is that the ACMA Class Licence proposal has no apparent tangible benefits for the Australian Amateur Service, and appears entirely motivated by a business case to decouple the ACMA from the Amateur Service and reduce ACMAs overheads. The ACMAs motivation and business case is completely understandable given the year-on-year budget cuts to the ACMA by the previous Federal Government euphemistically described as efficiency dividends. I also firmly believe that there are simpler alternatives for the ACMA to minimise overheads and costs that are utilised by regulators in other similar jurisdictions. Significantly, the WIA has a adopted a negotiation position of no disadvantage to the Amateur Service should ACMA proceed with their Class Licence proposal as is their current intent. The WIA has already met with the ACMA executives on multiple occasions to discuss their Class Licence proposal. It is vitally important that we have your support in ensuring the best outcome for Australian radio amateurs. WIA members, to ensure you dont miss any import updates please check your email spam folder regularly, as many email providers have very aggressive filters in force for mass mailings. Finally, a reminder that WIA director nominations for the half-board elections will close mid-December. As a democratic member-based organisation, the WIA can only continue its 112 history of representing the radio amateur fraternity with your support as a volunteer. So, if you have management, strategy, financial or other relevant experience ( or know someone who does ) please volunteer. Details will be in AR magazine and our website. This is Greg, VK2GPK DISCUSSION POINT Hi, this is Dan VK6NAD and we've just wrapped up Perth Tech and I've got a couple of gentlemen here that hosted one of the sessions. So we've got Paul VK2APA and we've got Scott VK3KJ. Now the thing these two guys have got in common. If you haven't already guessed, is they're both presidents. We've got Paul, President of RASA and we've got Scott, President of the WIA , and they hosted a PerthTech presentation together. Gentlemen can you tell me how you came to be sitting together on the stage and talking about a common subject? Paul VK2APA Well, be honest with you. I had dinner last night with Scott and he also shared with me what he was going to talk about, and I noticed that we are talking about the same things in amateur radio. It's surprising what we have in common, our concerns. Interests in amateur radio. Scott VK3KJ Yeah, and look from my side firstly to say it's not the first time that Paul and I have actually come together. You know we talk from time to time. There's obviously items of common discussion about things that are happening within the amateur radio sector, and it was great to have dinner last night. But look, you know today I guess you know I spoke about just some of the things that are probably close to my heart. Some of the things in the hobby that need to change and the things that obviously come to mind. Today we were talking a bit about, politicisation where there's really no role for that within the hobby and you know we must get along and we've just got to be better role citizens. The next thing we spoke about today was around bullying, harassment, victimisation and some of the behaviours in the industry which are just not conducive to what we want within the hobby. You know where we obviously all want to be united and I guess, look, you know we identified today and I was talking from a personal level. That you know, irrespective of your views of either organisation, everybody will make a decision who they want to join and many people obviously are members of both organisations. But I think you know the takeaway today for us was you know we've just got to do it better. We've got to do the yards we've got to work together. We've got to influence ACMA, but importantly, we just need to represent the hobby better. Dan On that subject you both sat together with ACMA in recent times and one of the things that surprised me from your conversation was how much impact some of the politics had on amateur radio relationship with the ACMA and how they view us. Paul Well, what happened is there was a quite a surprise I think from the people attending the meeting. They did comment it was good to see both the WIA and RASA joining together in a meeting and I think that was quite an eye opener for the ACMA. Dan The noise that's coming out of the amateur community in the ACMA s ears - has that had any impact? Scott Yeah, well look there there's no doubt and I think you know I commented about this today in the talk that you know if we sort of reflect back in time and you know we're talking today of course, about class licencing we're talking about increased power. Obviously, you know last year we got our two by one call signs after a lot of work that took place in the background, and I guess if we were united and were all working as one, that probably would have happened a lot earlier. Would have happened years ago. So I think you know the point of it is that you know we're stronger as one. That was a really strong sort of theme today coming through, we're stronger as one and you know, there's not a lot of amateur radio operators in Australia. And I think we all share a common interest and a common goal. And you know, I think we can do it better. Dan So that begs the question, do we need two entities? If you're both on the same page? Paul Well, RASA came out of a need and I guess we're a little bit different. We're a modern organisation that operates a little differently. We've adopted perhaps a different approach to amateur radio representation. We put some initiatives out there. We support things like QRM Guru. We've got things like the regs info website which supports those people learning their regulations or those people who want to top things up so we do a lot of different bits and pieces which are a little different to the WIA. However, you know we've often spoken within RASA whether or not there is a need for us in the future if things changed, and that would be something we would have to cross in the future, but perhaps there isn't a need for RASA if things do change. Dan Well, I think right now we support having both of you here, so thank you very much gents. I look forward to seeing you in the future. Paul and Scott Thank you, thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 OH2A is ready for use IRTS news is reporting " Work HF from anywhere with SRAL's new remote-controlled amateur radio station. The Swedish remote station OH2A is used via an internet connection on a computer or mobile device with a standard web browser such as Firefox, Chrome or Safari. You can find more information about the remote station and instructions for obtaining personal user IDs on SRAL's website at www.sral.fi/palvelut/etaasemat RSGB launches its latest construction competition. To enable members across the country, and even the world, to enter, entries will be judged over the internet rather than in person. There are four categoriesBeginners, Construction Excellence, Innovation, and Softwareand the deadline for entries is 1 March 2023. Special recognition will be given to entries submitted by hams under the age of 24, and to those who have just gained a Foundation licence. RSGB members to find out more, including how to enter, see the full details on the RSGB website. rsgb.org/construction-competition. REGION THREE Better wireless communication during the festival season? Thank Indian LEDs Millions of LED chains are used to decorate Puja pandals ( temporary stages and structural decorations) along with surrounding areas during the Hindu festive season. Even government agencies use LED chains to decorate structures in public places like parks and gardens during the festival. The replacement of Chinese made Light Emitting Diodes with Indian ones led to a marked improvement in VHF radio communication this year. A senior officer of the West Bengal Police noted how communications between the control room and personnel on the ground used to be a big challenge due to severe interference during the 1o day festival known as Durga Puja in previous years. We didnt know the reason till amateur radio operators from the West Bengal Radio Club carried out their own research, the officer said. Ambarish Nag Biswas, secretary, WBRC, said that they detected the phenomenon while carrying out tests on their ham VHF sets. Chinese LEDs use tin while Indian ones use metals like copper. All this interference has to do with photon particles that are key to emission of light by the diodes. Whenever the cheap LEDs are used, a noise is emitted that travels along the radio waves, causing interference." As Indian LEDs are now replacing the Chinese ones, the problem has come down significantly, it's said. YOUNG HAM FROM INDIA SET FOR ANTARCTIC TRIP Imagine being a young amateur radio operator chosen for a first-time trip outside your home country - to Antarctica. Well for one young ham in India, that just became a reality. John Williams VK4JJW tells us about him. Congratulations to Sarabjeet Singh Chhabra, VU2CUW, who at age 27 becomes part of a team going to Antarctica in December as part of the 42nd Indian Scientific Expedition there. Sarabjeet has been a ham since 2015 and according to a news report in Telengana Today, this will be his first international journey. He was chosen to join the logistics team by a panel of 11 at the Ministry of Earth Sciences in Delhi. His work will involve providing support to the primary research team. Each team has two radio operators who will be using handheld VHF radios or larger HF rigs to cover greater distances, depending on what type of communication the team needs. This is an annual expedition to India's Antarctica Base Station conducted by the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research. This is John Williams VK2JJW. Astronomers Richard C. Carrington and Richard Hodgson saw the most powerful geomagnetic storm ever seen in history in September 1859, which was forever known as the Carrington Event. If a storm hits our planet again, it will cause severe damage to our electric networks and technologies. The Carrington Event, though, is nothing compared to another solar event. Many astronomers have long held that the cosmos experiences solar storms around every thousand years that are nearly 12 times more powerful, destructive, and intense than the Carrington Event. The Miyake Event is the name given to this stronger solar storm. But more interestingly, a group of researchers from the University of Queensland in VK4, claimed that data from tree rings might be able to help us anticipate when the next Miyake Event would likely occur. Enter the humble tree ring. First author UQ undergraduate maths student Qingyuan Zhang developed software to analyse every available piece of data on tree rings. Because you can count a trees rings to identify its age, you can also observe historical cosmic events going back thousands of years, Mr Zhang said. When radiation strikes the atmosphere it produces radioactive carbon-14, which filters through the air, oceans, plants, and animals, and produces an annual record of radiation in tree rings. We modelled the global carbon cycle to reconstruct the process over a 10,000-year period, to gain insight into the scale and nature of the Miyake Events. The University of Queensland announced in a press release October 26. tinyurl.com/yjw6bvs2 ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2022 -------------- -------------- I am Shirley, VK5YL Reporting on a special YL Contest. This contest takes place on 18th and 19th November between the times of 1900 UTC and 2100 UTC on the 18th and 0800 UTC and 1000 UTC on the 19th. Frequencies 80 meters 3.520MHz 3.560MHz 40 meters - 7.010MHz and 7.030MHz Logs are to be returned to f5rpb@orange.fr Please check the web page at YL-UFT Competition French Union of Telegraphists for further information:- uft.net/activites-et-concours/concours-yl-uft/ I am Shirley, VK5YL Reporting on a special YL Contest. -------------- WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAY 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 -------------- -------------- Much of our DX news over the years has come from the Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster and KB 8 NW, Tedd Mirgliotta. This week Editor Tedd was sad to report: " This will be my last OPDX Bulletin. After just under 32 years of writing the OPDX Bulletin , I have decided to retire. Actually I have been providing DX information for the last 42 years starting on a local RTTY BBS, Packet Radio BBS and an online dial-up BBS (which received global phone calls before adding the InterNet to it). The last 42 years has been fun, but it is time to retire due to my age (I turned 70 this year). " From all of us here at WIA operational news Ted, all the very best in your retirement and THANK YOU! -------------- MALAWI 7 Q 6M is on air until November 29 on 160 to 6 meters. Also in this weekends CQ World Wide DX SSB contest. QSL to home call K 6 ZO (eHam) -------------- Frans, PC2F will be active as PF01MAX until the 20th of November, over the 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) -------------- Listen for Jaap PA7DA, operating from Aruba with the call sign P 4 DA from November 13th through to the 27th. QSL via the Dutch QSL Bureau to his home call sign, again thats PA 7 DA. ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS THE FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org ISS Partners Weigh Options for Using Commercial Space Stations Partner agencies on the International Space Station program say they are in discussions about how they will use, and pay for, commercial space stations that will replace it. Representatives of several countries currently involved in the ISS said during a panel at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ASCEND conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on Oct. 25 that they are looking at options for how to continue work they currently do on the ISS on the commercial space stations in low Earth orbit NASA is helping develop to replace it at the end of the decade. The ISS today relies extensively on barter arrangements among participating agencies, providing services to cover their share of operations of the station. Such arrangements are unlikely to work for commercial stations however. [ANS] 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 month, time for the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia's November bulletin to go to air. VK6 Members and Friends are reminded that the November lunchtime meeting will be at the Woodbridge Hotel in Guildford tomorrow, Tuesday 8th. This month as well as the latest Club news: * Ill be talking about The Man behind the Butterworth filter, * This is followed by the Memoirs of Ray Norton - VK3ATN - by Bill, VK3BR, * Lastly, Andrew VK3CAH talks about a now-defunct Australian broadcaster, Radio VNG, the standard time and frequency service 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 transmission times and modes can be found on the RAOTC website:- 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 club website. Once again, tune in tomorrow for the November RAOTC bulletin, enjoy the program and please join in the call-backs. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING VKJOTAJOTI.COM 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. SCOUTING 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 Bundaberg District Scouts and Guides have had an active month, nine local scouts, guides and leaders gave up a week of school holidays to attend a special camp in Brisbane called Agoonoree. The focus was not so much on participants just enjoying themselves, but on ensuring that themselves and a guest with a disability formed bonds and shared experiences that are like nothing else. Agoonoree is a scouting term for a camp for young people with special needs, the Queensland Agoonoree is a camp that gives special needs children from outside of Scouting and Guiding the chance to experience the fun and excitement of these two long running movements. Emma Stack from Bundaberg Girl Guides has now completed two Agoonorees and said it was a little different to a normal scout or guide camp. It is more focusing on helping them (the guests) do stuff, she said. Bundaberg Now: https://bit.ly/3Nkj60V WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO IARU REGION 3 Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz Region 1 3760 7110 14300 18160 21360 kHz Region 2 3750 3985 7060 7240 7275 14300 18160 21360kHz Students from the University of Puerto Ricoz participated in a communications practice session as part of the yearly "Great Puerto Rico ShakeOut." This drill, October 20, is part of International ShakeOut Day and is said to draw millions of people worldwide to participate in earthquake drills at work, school, or home. ARRL Puerto Rico Section Assistant Section Manager Leyda Rios, WP 4 RBK, presented a conference entitled, "Radio Services and the Great ShakeOut," which provided advice and hands-on activities about how to use different personal radio services in the event of an earthquake. Staff members and students learned about the Amateur Radio Service with hands on '2nd operators' actually picking up the mic. ( sourced to arrl ) 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) NEXT MONTH IS YOTA MONTH IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group reports during the month of December, several youngsters will become active with YOTA suffixes in their callsigns The idea behind this is to show the amateur radio hobby to youth and to encourage we youngsters to be active on the ham radio waves. The last time YOTA callsigns hit the air waves was from the 10th annual YOTA Summer Camp in early August. Nearly 100 youngsters were activating various bands and modes. This shall be continued in this years 10th edition of the December YOTA Month activity. Every ham radio operator can support us worldwide By making a QSO with us, we can improve our skills on air and learn more about geography and ham radio abbreviations, among others. Licensed and unlicensed youth will be making QSOs, be aware this could be their first radio contact ever and give them a chance to experience a possible new hobby. As every year, there is again an award program available. Work as many YOTA stations on as many bands and modes as possible and be eligible for your Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum award for free. Furthermore, there will be plaques for the best achieving radio hams worldwide available once again. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- STAMP COLLECTING AMATEURS NEW POSTAL SERVICE MESSAGE NEEDS NO DECODING Sending messages the old fashioned way - by postal service - just got even more traditional for letter-writers and bill-payers in the United States. A new postage stamp has been issued honouring women of the US military who handled messages in a much-less straightforward way: They were the cryptologists of World War II, the backbone of an operation that contributed in a big way to the Allied victory. The stamp was formally released October 18th at a ceremony in Maryland. The stamp is a tribute to the more than 11,000 women who worked tirelessly with the traffic of intercepted enemy message that were sent encoded. Like so many others in the military at that time, they were sworn to secrecy about their roles. The stamp's design features a recruitment poster seeking the participation of these women, who were known as WAVES, an acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. In announcing the new stamps, the US Postal Service called the women "STEM pioneers" adding that they [quote] "opened the door for women in the military and have helped shape information security efforts for future generations." [endquote] (ARNewsLine) -------------------------------------------------------------- MEDIA WATCH SILENT KEY: SOUTHGATE AMATEUR NEWS' RICHARD BRUNTON G4TUT If you follow amateur radio current events you are probably aware of the Southgate Amateur Radio News website. We are sad to report that the colleague of ours in England, who ran that important website, has become a Silent Key. Richard died at age 77 as the result of a fall on the 21st of October. Like now Silent Key Bill Pasternak who started Amateur Radio NewsLine we at the WIA National news came to rely on what Bill and I likened to the old 'wire services' we accessed at our Radio and TV station news rooms. One VERY sad aspect of Richard G4TUT's passing is that NO tribute, let alone even a brief mention, appeared on his clubs web page, in fact that page has now disappeared into 404 heaven! When WIA news started using the service, it took a LOT of arm twisting to now and again get Richard to voice material, a very private and unassuming Ham Radio News Editor indeedy! As long time WIA news correspondent Jeremy Boot said in a filing for ARNewsLine:- "Richard himself was an intensely private man who had no close family, but he reached thousands of friends daily through his website. Amateur radio has lost a statesman and a stalwart whose dedication to amateur radio was valued and enjoyed by so many." This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH. (RSGB, ARNEWSLINE, IRTS and VK4BB) ------------------------------------------------------------* I'M JOHN KNOX VK4FJRK AND THIS IS REWIND 84 years ago, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre of the Air, destroyed the world (and CBS radio) before our very ears with the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds." And radio has never been the same since... If you have an hour, a link to the original broadcast is given in the text edition of the Australian Ham News you can trust. Sit back, close your eyes, and listen to the power of radio. youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g And what, you might ask, does this have to do with Amateur Radio. I want to say that it's at about 28 minutes into the broadcast and you'll hear an Amateur Radio call or two. MY TIME IS UP - I'M JOHN KNOX VK4FJRK AND THIS HAS BEEN REWIND (arrl and ARNewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2022 Social Scene VK7 - ON NOW November 5-6 Tassie Ham Radio Conference and Expo. Hobart reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference-and-expo/ VK4 - ON NOW Nov 5 Tannum Sands Gathering with Gladstone ARC (vk4zz) VK4 - GOLD COAST HAMFEST Nov 13. @ Country Paradise Parklands VK3 - Rosebud RadioFest November 20 9.3Oam. (vk3pdg) This is Andrew, VK3CAH, from the Southern Peninsula Amateur Radio Club reminding listeners that the Rosebud RadioFest will be held once again this year on Sunday, the 20 th November. As usual, the event will be held at the Eastbourne Primary School at Allambi Avenue, Rosebud, with outdoor displays open from 8 am and the main sale area open from 9.30 am, continuing through till 1.30 pm. If you have pre-loved equipment to sell, tables are still available at $10 and can be booked on-line at:- rosebudradiofest.com But be quick as only a few tables remain. Three (3) great Technical forums will also be part of the Rosebud RadioFest and the event has full catering, plenty of off street parking, and great door prizes. Entry fee is only $6 with under 12s free. 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