2023 FEBRUARY 12 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 FEBRUARY 12 2023 IN OUR 28th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS ( 1937 in a mention we've come across relating to weekly broadcasts of information prepared by VK4 was a plea to restart the weekly news service which was on air in the late 1920's ) THIS WEEK:- WIA IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT VK2GPK GREG WIA's ARMAGAZINE EDITOR IN-CHIEF VK2ZRH ROGER PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA I'M NATIONAL NEWS EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y This is Greg VK2GPK with this weeks comment. Unless you were a hermit living in a cave, you would be aware that the spectrum regulator, the ACMA has canvassed submissions over the last year or so on its proposed elimination of the current Amateur Service licence defined as a non-assigned (meaning not restricted to a fixed location) apparatus licence. In an earlier board comment , based on the ACMAs own description of a class licence, I postulated that the Amateur Service is not an appropriate USE CASE for a class licence. In other words, a class licence has dubious fitness for purpose for the Amateur Service. There are unavoidable collateral impacts in various legal contexts outside of the regulators jurisdiction, with local and international legislation that create exposure for amateur operators. Importantly amateur operators would transition from being clients of the ACMA to being at best tenuous stakeholders as unlicensed spectrum users with no real rights of representation with the regulator. This has potentially ominous long term implications for the future, especially in regard to retention of the GHz spectrum. Well, as was widely anticipated as the only likely outcome, the ACMAs 2022-2027 Five year spectrum outlook (FYSO) and 2022 -2023 work program published only a few weeks ago contains the following sentence.., We (Ed The ACMA) recently reviewed non-assigned amateur and outpost licensing arrangements and concluded that a transition from apparatus to class licensing was suitable. end quote Quote for the 2022 2027 ACMA FYSO We recently reviewed non-assigned amateur and outpost licensing arrangements and concluded that a transition from apparatus to class licensing was suitable. The amateur service is a longstanding and valued user of the radiofrequency spectrum and is designed primarily to facilitate hobby radiocommunications and technical experimentation. Given that there are over 15,000 licensed amateurs in Australia, the transition to class licensing is expected to be a substantial reduction in regulatory burden. End quote Interestingly, in their definition the word hobby has never been part of the official definition of the Australian Amateur Service and it silent in regards that experimentation has contributed to continual technical innovation for the benefit of society over many decades. And the last sentence is quite telling what is the regulatory burden? There is no real business case to support such a statement. Why are they eliminating a perfectly serviceable class licence? A class licence for the Amateur service makes Australia a global outlier. Begin Quote A change to a class licence is non trivial, as the ACMA has stated. Activities planned for 202223 ..The implementation of class-licensing arrangements will be a large and complex body of work, involving administrative and operational changes to how amateur qualifications and certificates are issued and recognised under the Act, how call signs are managed, and consequential changes to Deed arrangements for the delivery of amateur radio services. We do not expect this body of work to cause interruptions to the amateur radio service for licensees. We will focus on communicating the changes and timeframes to the amateur community and making the transition as smooth as possible. We encourage amateur licensees to subscribe to our Amateur update newsletter to ensure that they are kept up-to-date. End Quote Because of time constraints, I have included in the text version of this comment an extract from ACMAs response to submissions 2022. It is worth reading, especially in regard to committees which is almost nonsensical. I hope WIA affiliated clubs discuss the impending class licence particularly the ACMA planned activities for 2022 -2023. in their meetings as it is not quite yet set in concrete. It is worth remembering that the IARU is the ITU sector owner for the Amateur service and the WIA is the sole Australian member and also Region 3 founding member. Until next time, this is Greg VK2GPK. The following was not included in the audio, but is useful background Begin quote from ACMA Response to Submissions 2022 Amateur radio An amateur radio representative body expressed its concerns that the transition to class-licensing arrangements for the amateur service would lead to a reduction in protection from interference, and a reduction of future privileges, updates and support to the service. The submitter recommended that a service level agreement be established under the class licence that would define the responsibilities and expectations of all parties. The submitter was also of the view that the amateur service would benefit from an independent committee made up of amateur community representatives, and that operated on a consensus-based model akin to a self- or co regulatory arrangement. Additionally, it requested that standard amateur operators be allowed to access the 5052 MHz band. Submitters supported further investigations into higher power limits for foundation and standard operators, in addition to advanced amateur operators. Our response (ed The ACMA) We consulted on non-assigned amateur licensing arrangements, including a draft class licence, in Q1 2021. In our response to submissions to that consultation, we addressed concerns raised about interference protection and the perceived dilution of amateur operator privileges under a class licence. Specifically, we explained that the level of interference protection for non-assigned amateur stations will remain the same under a class licence, and regulatory conditions that apply to amateur operations, including operating privileges afforded to operators at each level of qualification, will not be changed. We expect to consult in Q3 2022 on the specific implementation issues for amateur class licensing. We continue to consider the best ways to engage with the amateur community through various channels. It is our view that amateur class-licencing arrangements, which will encompass the class licence and any operational procedures, are adequate for the regulation of the amateur service. We do not consider it is necessary or possible to establish a service-level agreement for the service. It is open to members of the amateur community, including amateur representative bodies, to form one or more amateur radio committees, and to do so without the involvement or endorsement of the ACMA. We have made some updates to the FYSO to clarify the scope of implementation activities we will conduct in the 202223 period. End quote. This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. Amateur Radio magazine is now in newsagents and should be in most members hands via Australia Post by now. If not, a little patience and it soon will be. As I said last week, the theme for Issue 1 is on Antennas and Propagation. Accordingly, our lead item in WIA News covers how Solar Cycle 25 is confounding forecasts of the timing and size of the peak. DXers may be in for a surprise. Another item of note is WestNews, a new column covering happenings in our largest state Western Australia. Our correspondent, Will McGhie VK6 U U, details the operation of Perths International Propagation Beacon VK6 R B P, one of the 18 five-band HF beacons at locations across the world, transmitting on all the bands from 20 metres through 10 metres. The two authors of our Antenna Modelling feature series that ran over last year, complete it by detailing the design of a five-element Yagi for two metres. Meanwhile, Dale Hughes VK1 D S H completes the description of his multi-mode transmitter for the 2200 metre band, and Phil Fitzherbert VK3 F F expands on his journey of conserving a Collins S-line setup, this time covering the 75S-3 communications receiver. To round-out the technical content, Eric VK3 E A C reveals all about a simple controller for bipolar stepper motors. Amateur Radio magazine, Volume 91, Issue Number 1 for 2023. Published continuously for 90 years! Always published to a schedule, never random. Available in print and online. This has been AR magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA National News. EDUCATION Redcliffe and Districts radio club. http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/RedcliffeAndDistrictRadioClub/ Gday to my name is Steve VK4SJH THIS IS A PRINT ONLY STORY:- AUDIO IS ON THIS WEEKS QNEWS from VK4 vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ The Redcliffe Radio Club is commencing and Advanced/Standard course using Microsoft Teams from Sunday 12th Feb 19:30 hrs QLD time. The course will run for several months or until you are ready to have a go at either the Standard or Advanced Theory exam. Course notes and plenty of practice exams will be provided to you electronically. If you would like to be part of that training then send an email to education@redclifferadioclub.org.au and one of the education team will send you details for the advanced/standard training course and cost being run via Microsoft Teams. You will find an extremely friendly bunch of Amateurs who will help you with any theory question you may have. Hope to hear from you 73s Steve VK4SJH AUDIO ON vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, Radioworld.com and the World Wide sources of the WIA. REGION ONE TURKEY and SYRIA A 7.8 Magnitude earthquake hit Trkiye and Syria 6th February leading to well over 20,000 deaths and many many casualties. Aftershocks continued in the area with another large 7.5 magnitude event happening soon after affecting the response. The emergency communications group of TRAC will be involved in the response activities, primarily expected to be on VHF/UHF but they do also use 3.777 and 7.092MHz as needed. Transmissions in Turkish have been heard on the frequency of 28.540 MHz. Radio Amateurs are requested to give way to any emergency traffic around those frequencies. Aziz Sasa TA 1 E President of TRAC has stated in a report on IARU Region One website that Turkey has asked for assistance from the international community and notes that if SAR Groups intend to come for assistance they should contact the Embassies of Turkey in their countries. He also says that SAR groups should be advised to have at least one Ham Radio operator in their team and / or the facilities to program their radios. This is a devastating event for the area but please remember that it is easy for ports and airports to be blocked with unrequested supplies so only materials formally requested by the relief agencies should be dispatched and only to named destinations or they are likely to be blocked from import. SWEDEN In honour of World Radio Day, tomorrow Monday February 13, radio station SAQ in Grimeton, Sweden, and amateur radio station SK 6 SAQ, are scheduled to be on the air to send out a peace message to the world, using the unique 1924 200 kW Alexanderson alternator on 17.2 kHz CW. Test and tuning transmissions will begin approximately at 12:00 UTC and SAQ will be on the air for 20 - 30 minutes. Start-up and tuning of the Alexanderson alternator will begin at 14:30 UTC and transmission of the peace message from SAQ will start at 15:00 UTC. SK6SAQ has picked a set of unique frequencies with a "connection" to SAQ's transmission frequency on 17.2 kHz, and will be QRV between 09:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC on the following frequencies: - 3517.2 kHz CW - 7017.2 kHz CW - 14017.2 kHz CW - 3755 kHz SSB - 7140 kHz SSB QSL cards will be available and there will be live coverage on YouTube. youtube.com/channel/UC-83S-l9JKD1iuhsXx3XQ3g For more information about the World Radio Day event and SAQ Grimeton visit their website alexander.n.se (eHam) GREAT BRITAIN March 10-19 is British Science Week, an annual event celebrating science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It provides a platform to support teachers, STEM professionals and the public in delivering STEM activities and events across the UK. This years theme is Connections, which lends itself perfectly to wireless communication and amateur radio-related activities! The RSGB has put together a set of activities suitable for children in early years, primary and secondary school. The RSGB hopes its resources will inspire all to get involved too. Find out more on the RSGB website at rsgb.org/bsw GERMANY The 46th HAM RADIO exhibition and the 72nd Lake Constance Convention, both organised by DARC, will take place from Friday, June 23rd until Sunday, June 25th, 2023 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Thomas Wrede DF 2 OO from the DARC International Affairs Committee says an informal international meeting for representatives of all IARU member societies will be held on Friday, June 23rd followed by an International Reception on Friday evening - REGION TWO KENTUCKY FCC HELPS UNDERWRITE EXAM COST FOR YOUNG AMATEURS One amateur radio club in Kentucky is making full use of an FCC measure that helps cover costs for amateur radio candidates under the age of 18. Alec VK2APC is following the thread:- The Paducah Amateur Radio Association is encouraging local youngsters between 8 and 13 to join the club's program, which it calls "Pre-teen Talkers." The goal is to help them take the FCC licensing exam and get on the air. Last April, the FCC and the ARRL announced a negotiated agreement permitting Volunteer Examiners at amateur radio clubs to waive the $35 license fee for applicants under the age of 18 and to reduce the $15 ham radio testing fee to $5. Nice touch by the USA Regulator! JASON PICKS UP HERE = BUT the good news doesn't stop there, Ham Club secretary Michael Durr, KN4 TIP, told local TV WPSD that those who pass the entry level Technician Exam will become eligible for a free handheld radio to be given to them by the Paducah Amateur Radio ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2023 -------------- -------------- FEBRUARY 25 - 26 New Zealands Jock White Memorial Field Day This annual ZL contest is named to honour Jock White ZL2GX, NZART Contest and Awards Manager for over 40 years, for the service that he gave to NZART during that time The Jock White is always held the last full weekend in February Saturday 1500-2400 NZDT Sunday 0600-1500 NZDT and on 40 and 80 meters. Overseas stations in the South Pacific area are welcome and a special category exists for "us". (nzart) -------------- MARCH 18 - 19 (the 3rd Weekend) John Moyle Field Day UTC 0100 Saturday to 0059 Sunday. (wia.org.au) -------------- YOTA CONTEST Youngsters On The Air 1st round 22nd April 0800 1959 UTC ham-yota.com/contest/ -------------- EAGLE EYED PETER PARKER MAY SIX Saturday Harry Angel Memorial Sprint 106 mts an annual 80m contest event, first established in 1999, to commemorate the life of Harry Angel VK4HA who at the time of his becoming a Silent Key was the oldest licensed amateur in Australia. (106) The duration of the contest is 106 minutes one minute for each year of Harry's life. The Harry Angel Memorial Sprint has been run annually since 1999 It is usually held on the first Saturday in May each year 10:00 UTC - 11:46 UTC (wia.org.au) -------------- MAY 20-21 Don Edwards Memorial Slow Morse Contest begins the weekend after Mother's Day. 80m section Saturday 20th May 6 to 9pm Sydney time. 40m section afternoon of Sunday 21st of May, 1 to 4 Sydney time. (vk2wi) -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- -------------- BRAZIL Listen and work ZX 89 L until February 15 to celebrate the 89th anniversary of the founding of the Brazilian Amateur Society LABRE. QSL via LoTW. (arrl) ------------------- Peter, G4HSO is active holiday style as S79 / G4HSO from the Seychelles until the 21st of February, concentrating on CW and VarAC. QSL via LoTW, note Peter has asked for NO paper QSLs. Now those not up on the mode VarAC, during Special Interest Group news I'm sure Bruce will have something on it this week -------------- SAMOA. Pista, HA5AO, George, HA5UK and Paul, W7IV are QRV as 5 W 0 DX from Savai'i Island, IOTA OC-097, until February 28 on 80 to 10 mtrs using CW, SSB, RTTY. QSL via operators' instructions. (arrl) -------------- KUWAIT Special event station 9 K 9 NLD is active until February 28 to commemorate Kuwait's National Liberation Day. (vk2wi) ------------------------------------------------------------* MEDIA WATCH The RSGB was delighted to see the feature in The Times on Saturday the 28th of January about amateur radio. It was a great opportunity to highlight both amateur radio and the Society in the mainstream media. Heather Parsons, the RSGB Comms Manager, spent a week liaising with Rhys Blakely, the Science Correspondent, and coordinating the interviewees. She put forward a whole range of ideas and possible interviewees. An external media monitoring agency has confirmed that the potential online audience for this feature was over 42 million. The feature is called Ham radio tunes in to a new generation and you can still read it online. Go to thetimes.co.uk and search for amateur radio. From the UK to Australia:- Hi, Im Bob VK4BOB in Cairns. Three members of the Cairns Amateur Radio Club, Steve VK4SJB, Mark VK4JU and I, operated the clubs contest station VK4HM for the Australia Day Contest. While we were setting up a field station on The Esplanade in Cairns, a promo SMS I sent earlier to the local ABC Radio station was read out by the breakfast announcer. Then we got a surprise visit from the shows producer with his recorder, and the following morning an interview of about 8 minutes was broadcast during the popular breakfast program. This was broadcast by ABC Local Radio all over Cape York and Far North Queensland This is Bob, VK4BOB, signing off for the Cairns Amateur Radio Club. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 LETS GO TO THE MOVIES SuitSat-1 (AMSAT-OSCAR 54) deployed from the ISS 17 years ago February 3rd. It played voice messages in languages recorded by ARISS partners and students from around the globe. It also sent telemetry data. It was lost 15 days later. Suit Sat came back to life in a 2021 short horror film! If you'd like to watch the Sci-Fi Horror short film "Decommissioned" based on the ARISS Suit Sat, it can be found on YouTube at the link we like in the text edition of this newscast best read at wia.org.au youtube.com/watch?v=TNtpdvfbTjA (ARISS) 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/ SOTA EAST MALAYSIA On air on a mountain top is 9 M 8 SOTA from the mountains in Sarawak, 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8. 9M8SOTA's length of stay is unknown. QSL via LoTW. (arrl) SOTA SOUTH AFRICA Be listening February 18, a Saturday for many activations from South Africa as that's the day they will be celebrating their 20th anniversary of SOTA in that country. (sarl) Closer to home, it takes all types to make up a park-fest! Marty VK4KC 'speaks up' While most will be driving from their home QTH to Pilliga in the comfort of their motor vehicle, spare a thought for Stuart VK3UAO who is incorporating the Pilliga Park-fest weekend as part of his long bicycle journey in which he will depart his home QTH at Niddrie, a suburb of Melbourne on around April 8th and ride for 3 weeks to Pilliga and then following Pilliga will ride for another week to Port Macquarie. A total of 1550 KM. Stuart will try and activate one park per day and will report his position via aprs using some custom made equipment and a flowerpot antenna for his bike. His QRZ page will have a map showing his daily progress. For the weekend he is at Pilliga he will pair up with another park activator and be driven between parks in a motor vehicle to give his legs a break. What an adventure! I'm sure the ham radio community joins with me in wishing Stuart all the best as he prepares his gear and his body for this gruelling adventure. All are welcome to attend the Pilliga park fest on the 29th & 30th April. For more information Contact Alan VK1AO or Marty VK4KC whose details are on their QRZ pages. Pilliga Park-Fest, the place to be in 2023! Im Marty VK4KC on behalf of the Pilliga Park-fest organising committee. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF WIA ARDF COORDINATOR VK3WWW Jack vk3www@wia.org.au users.mackay.net.au/~ron/ homingin.com ardf.org.au WHAT'S IN A NAME? USA Radio Orienteering Championships Set for April 19 - 23, 2023. This is the 22nd USA Radio Orienteering Championships and this year will be held at Cooper Lake State Park in Texas, and is hosted by the New Mexico Orienteers nm-orienteers.org The White Rock Lake Amateur Radio Club will provide communications support and the new name Radio Orienteering has been transitioning to this new name but it is actually the same radio navigation sport we know as Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF). The sport involves using special radio receivers to find hidden transmitters in timed events. (arrl) WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DIGITAL vkdmr.info/ brandmeister.network/?page=repeaters VarAC Felix mentioned that DX station in the Seychelles using CW and Varac. Gaining in popularity, some who were FT8 devotees have swung to VarAC. They say you get the best of both worlds, a quick connection for the log using the Ping function where it exchanges signal report and location, or you can have a proper chat by calling or answering a CQ call. If you nip out, someone can leave you a message in your mailbox and likewise, if you see someone on and connect to them, you can leave them a message if they don't answer. And one of the best features it's been suggested is the beacon function where stations will leave their beacon running once every 15 mins, so you can see exactly what the propagation is doing as well as who is online. Its still quite new, so give it a go and be an early(ish) adopter! youtube.com/watch?v=Dw12-MguZd4 varac-hamradio.com (VarAC) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BUT REAL RAGCHEW ChatGPT is the intensely popular chatbot launched late last year by Open AI. It has quite literally become the talk of more than quite a few towns, if not the world. Now, it seems, it is also the talk of amateur radio. Ralph Squillace KK6ITB from ARNewsLine explains. An enterprising ham in Manitoba, Canada, has found a way to use a voice recognition engine and a text-to-speech engine to give ChatGPT its own voice -- via a transmission that occurs over D-STAR. William Franzin, VE4VR, has been a ham since the 1990s, long before the age of today's modern digital modes, but he has almost always tinkered with voice repeater controllers. He told NewsLine that those early projects really didn't take off for him. It was only after Amazon released its Alexa voice assistant that the project gained real traction. Five years ago he successfully integrated voice-assistant products with popular ham radio platforms. His recent addition of ChatGPT simply meant including it as one more platform. An article on the Hackaday website describes the process: A DSTAR digital voice transmission is received and transcoded to regular digital audio. A voice recognition engine delivers the question for ChatGPT's AI. The AIs output then enters a text-to-speech engine which delivers the question's reply over D-STAR. William has registered the VE 4 AVS callsign just for these applications. He stressed that all of this is still in the experimental phase. However, he posed one question that might prove too tough even for ChatGPT itself to tackle: Could the AI answer enough questions to qualify for a license and an upgrade on its own? We're listening for that answer. This is Ralph Squillace KK6ITB. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org AO-95 QRT After a lingering illness of the battery, AO-95 passed away peacefully on December 23rd. While a miraculous return is always possible, it is not expected. AO-95, known prior to launch as Fox-1Cliff to commemorate amateur satellite pioneer Cliff Buttschardt, K7RR, who became a silent key himself in 2007, launched in 2018. Shortly after deployment, it was discovered that the receiver had failed for unknown reasons. Still, the satellite provided an easy to receive beacon and telemetry data for over four years before the NiCad batteries failed. (ans) 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 Now to Allan VK4HIT with news from Ipswich and District Radio Club. Robert VK4KHW highlighted this years WICEN events with the first being the Pinnacles Classic on April 2. This will be followed by the Brisbane Trail Marathon on April 30, Guzzler Ultra Marathon July 22 and 23, Lake Manchester Trail August 20 and Mt Glorious Trail November 12. Ipswich will join with Brisbane WICEN for the Cooyar Horse Ride on March 18 and 19. Additional volunteers are always needed and welcome to help bolster numbers at check points. Contact ipswichwicen@gmail.com if you can help at any of these events throughout the year. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- CW www.morsecodeclassnet.com CWVox Converts "Dah" and "Dit" Speech Into Morse Code with an Arduino. Every project these days that involves detecting speech seems built around complicated algorithms: machine learning, pattern matching, and spectrum analysis to name a few. However, amateur radio operator Kevin Loughin KB 9 RLW created CWVox, a voiced-activated keyer that converts the spoken "dits" and "dahs" into morse code using only an Arduino Nano's ADC! The Nano has a simple eight-bit microcontroller. That board, a couple of transistors, and a few passive components are all you need to convert verbal morse code into electronic tones KB 9 RLW provides a real-time demonstration of CWVox in action in this weeks national news script, wia.org.au youtube.com/watch?v=GpDYJO81-LE (eHam) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2023 Social Scene Clubs are welcome to submit text with audio for this section Details of all WIA affiliated clubs and societies can be found on the WIA website, including email addresses and website links. VK4 - REDCLIFFE - REDFEST APRIL ONE (vk4tfn) VK - WIA AGM May 13 at 10:30am AEST proposed for Canberra (vk8zz) A hybrid event conducted both in person and by video conference and able to be viewed on an internet streaming platform. VK4 - SUNFEST - NOTE THE DATE SEPTEMBER 9 (vk4an) At Mountain Creek State Schools massive air conditioned auditorium, just off the Sunshine Motor Way. 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