2023 FEBRUARY 26 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 26 2023 IN OUR 28th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS THIS WEEK:- WIA's formal representation under the umbrella of Standards Australia. - WIA seeks operators to host VK7WIA and VK8WIA. - WIA seeks a new Ross Hull Contest manager. - WIA Education Working Group reconvened. - WIA calls on YOU to nominate fellow amateurs for the annual awards. PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y This is WIA Vice President Lee Moyle VK3GK The WIA has formal representation in RC006 and RC004 committees to develop standards for the Australian Wireless industry which where possible reference or adopt existing international standards. These radio communication standards are managed under the umbrella of Standards Australia. Historically ACMA takes up these standards within the RadCom Act. The working groups make recommendations for any changes required to existing standards. Noel Higgins VK3NH is retiring as the WIA representative on the RC004 Standards Committee and will now continue as chair of the RC006 Committee. Peter Porkony VK2EMR has now been appointed as new WIA representative on the RC004 committee. Peter previously worked for AMSA and has a wealth of experience that he can bring to the RC004 committee which he once chaired as the AMSA representative. The WIA board thanks Noel Higgins VK3NH for his time as the WIA representative on RC004. The BERU, short for British Empire Radio Union, CW Contest is also known as the Commonwealth Contest and in 2023 is in its 86th year. This year the WIA has again approved the use of the WIA suffix callsigns for use in the contest. The following Australian HQ Stations will be operating in the 2023 RSGB Commonwealth Contest. VK1WIA by Andrew VK1DA VK2WIA by David VK2WQ VK3WIA by Lee VK3GK VK4WIA by Keith VK4TT VK5WIA by Grant VK5GR VK6WIA by Peter VK6RZ We are still looking for operators for VK7WIA and VK8WIA. Please contact Alan VK2GR if interested. Felix will, later in the bulletin. give the dates and times for the contest operation. The Ross Hull contest has been and gone. The cut off time for log entries for the Ross Hull contest has closed and all received logs will be scored shortly. The callsigns of entrants will soon be posted on the WIA website and listed in AR Magazine. The WIA is still looking for a new Ross Hull Contest manager. Interested? Please contact the WIA office. The WIA AGM will soon be upon us and its where awards are given to deserving recipients that have gone above and beyond for Amateur Radio. If you consider someone as worthy, then please nominate them for a WIA award highlighting their contribution to amateur radio in a short brief and submit to secretary@wia.org.au Nominations must be received no later than March 31st 2023 to be considered. Recently the WIA Education Working Group reconvened and has highlighted several areas that need consideration for the benefit of new and existing Amateurs studying for their respective licences including review of existing study and examination preparation materials, along with WIA information and advertising brochures. Thats all for this week, for now, 73 From Lee VK3GK BOLOGNA The worlds very first Ham Radio operator was born here. Who was that I hear you say. Well, Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian country gentleman and Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in the County Wexford, Ireland. Now putting BOLOGNA back on the map, a major world radio event, postponed from last year, suddenly got more real with the start of hotel bookings. John Williams VK4JJW tells us and ARNewsLine about it. Competitors and referees received the earliest access to hotel bookings for the World Radiosport Team Championship which is to be held this July in Bologna, Italy. The online booking system opened on February 1st. The next round of reservations began on February 7th for visitors and others. According to details on the WRTC Reflector message list hotels throughout the surrounding area will be providing support for competitors, referees, judges, sponsors and the contest committee. Organizers said on their website that the Emilia Romagna region of Italy has worked closely with the ham radio community to ensure that the logistics of the event run smoothly and that all technical requirements are met. They credited regional authorities' commitment to providing a welcoming environment for WRTC participants in this well-known region, which is the home of Ferrari, Lamborghini and Ducati factories. To see details about the WRTC and who its competitors are, visit wrtc2022.it The World Radiosport Team Championship is held every four years in a different host country. This year's event is a postponement from last year when health concerns during the pandemic caused it to be called off. Two-member teams whose members have qualified for the event will arrive from every continent to compete in this 24-hour nonstop competition, which is often referred to as the Olympics of amateur radio. This is John Williams VK4JJW. (arnline) ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, eHam, Radioworld.com and the World Wide sources of the WIA. The International Amateur Radio Union announces that Human Security for All, HS4A, will be the theme of World Amateur Radio Day on 18 April 2023. For the first time, the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security and the World Academy of Art and Science are partnering with IARU in a campaign to highlight the role that amateur radio plays in addressing the worlds most pressing needs. REGION ONE RSGB Board Chair and Company Secretary Richard Horton, G4AOJ has tendered his resignation as an RSGB Board Director and Board Chair, and Stan Lee, G4XXI has tendered his resignation as RSGB Company Secretary. Only last week we reported here that as of The RSGB AGM, John McCullagh MBE, GI 4 BWM will commence a two year term after being successful in their RSGB Presidential Election The 2 new resignations are independent of each other and for personal reasons. Stewart Bryant, G3YSX RSGB President Chair the Board until the AGM and, in view of the important role of the Company Secretary in the AGM which is just a few weeks away, the Board will agree the appointment of a temporary Company Secretary pending advertisement of the position and selection through the normal process. In a news release from the RSGB. "The workload of the Board and the number of remaining members is such that we thought it prudent to ask Ian Shepherd, G4EVK to re-join the Board as a co-opted Director until the AGM. After the AGM and the elections the Board will look at its membership and will likely make further co-options. Company Secretary fulfils an important role in the AGM proceedings and it was decided to ask Stephen Purser, GW4SHF to return to this role until the AGM, whilst we appoint a new Company Secretary though the usual process." BACK TO BOUVET Well back in time anyhow after the 3Y0J DXpedition left. The team concluded operations at 3:00 UTC on February 14, 2023, with around 19,000 contacts logged. Bouvet Island always well up the charts as a DXCC entity has been a rare entity since November 15 1945, Norwegian territory. The first amateur radio activity dates back to a telephony QSO on 14.395 MHz between GM2DBX and LN7B operating from Bouvet in July 1951. Well worth a read, and we'll give you the URL to download "Bouvet Isl. compilation by F5JYD" in the text edition on wia.org.au Bouvet Island is one of the Subantarctic Islands, an uninhabited ice-clad place 2600 km south-southwest of Cape Town. It has good claim to be the world's most remote island as ANYWHERE within 2000 km is similarly desolate, such as mainland Antarctica. In 1927, Bouvet became a Norwegian island, in fact, until '27 no one had stayed there yet but that year a Norwegian crew lived there for a month. They were Norwegian whalers. In 1971, Norway declared Bouvet Island and the surrounding waters a nature reserve. and in 1977, the country installed an automated weather station there. The next Ham Radio operation reported was claimed by LH4C Gus Browning also his 2nd call was W4BPD this in November 1962, a controversial operation nowadays as it's said Gus would have transmitted from the South African icebreaker which would have taken him to the area, making some 5000 QSOs in 4 days. As I said well worth a read and details links etc. are in this weeks text edition of the news you can trust - WIA NATIONAL NEWS. dx-world.net/bouvet-island-and-ham-radio/ REGION TWO Anatel, The Brazilian Telecommunications Agency, recently published the Resolution 759/2023 with their new PDFF (Plan for Allocation, Distribution and Destination of Radio Frequencies) carrying positive outputs to Amateur Radio Service. The final portion of the 4 mm band, 8181.5 MHz was recognized to Amateur Radio according ITU Radio Regulations Footnote 5.561A, while the 70 cm band was elevated to primary service according the RR Footnote 5.278. The improvement was possible due to changes promoted during the World Radio Conference of 2019 for Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. This work was supported by IARU and member-societies like LABRE, the Brazilian Amateur Radio Society, in cooperation with their respective national administrations and delegations. Members of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) will be making radio contacts during the 2023 and 2024 North American eclipses, probing the Earths ionosphere. It will be a fun, friendly event with a competitive element. Both amateur and professional broadcasters have been sending and receiving radio signals around the Earth for over a century. Such communication is possible due to interactions between our Sun and the ionosphere, the ionized region of the Earths atmosphere located roughly 80 to 1000 km overhead. The upcoming eclipses (October 14, 2023, and April 8, 2024) provide unique opportunities to study these interactions. Hams and other HamSCI members transmit, receive, and record signals across the radio spectrum during the eclipse gathering valuable data to test computer models of the ionosphere. For more information, go to hamsci.org/festivals-eclipse-ionospheric-science Speaking of HamSCI, their 6th Annual Amateur Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Workshop will be held March 17 - 18, in person at The University of Scranton and virtually via Zoom. The workshop is open to students and citizen scientists, and all amateur radio operators are invited to attend. The theme of the 2023 HamSCI workshop is "Forging Amateur-Professional Bonds." The primary objective is to bring together the amateur radio community and professional scientists. This year, the workshop will feature a working special event amateur radio station using the call sign W 3 USR. Virtual participation is free of charge. For more registration information visit HamSCI hamsci.org/hamsci2023 HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- -------------- 2023 -------------- -------------- FEBRUARY 25 - 26 New Zealands Jock White Memorial Field Day is on NOW 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) ------------ The Commonwealth Contest BERU HAPPENS 11-12 March - CW only. (NZART BREAKIN) -------------- 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/ -------------- MAY SIX Saturday Harry Angel Memorial Sprint 106 mts an annual 80m contest event, duration is 106 minutes one minute for each year of Harry's life. It is held the first Saturday in May 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 -------------- -------------- AUSTRIA Members of the 4U1A Radio Club are QRV as 4UNR until the end of February to commemorate World Radio Day. QSL via UA3DX. (arrl) -------------- TOGO. QRV is 5 V 23 LE until today only. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands. QSL to home call F 5 LCX (arrl) ---------------------------------------- Throughout 2023, one of Sweden's oldest and largest radio clubs celebrates 80 years. To mark the occasion, Vasteras Radio Klubb (in Sweden known as VRK) will use a unique callsign and a never before assigned prefix - 8 S 80 AA (nzart) -------------- The Isle of Man Amateur Radio Society will be operating the club callsign GT 3 FLH from the Isle of Man Sea Terminal building in Douglas this weekend. The callsign will be active to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Douglas being the first radar-controlled harbour in the world. FT8, CW and SSB modes will be used on the HF bands from 40m and upwards. iomars.im (rsgb) ----------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS 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/ facebook.com/SotaAustralia/ wwffaustralia.com/ SOTA Goats Congratulations to Declan Craig EI 6 FR who became a SOTA Mountain Goat February 11th after activating Scarr, in County Wicklow with Summit EI/IE-012 for his 1000th point. Declan is one of only three amateurs in all of Ireland to achieve Mountain Goat status, it involved 163 SOTA activations over 5 years. He was accompanied on the activation by John Holland EI 3 ISB who clocked up his 500th point on Scarr where they shared a bottle of champagne. Well done to John on his "half Goat". 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 48 years ago, on the 1st of March 1975, Australia officially launched colour television with the slogan March first into colour. Move on and to celebrate, St George Amateur Radio Society in VK2 are having their next gathering Wednesday the 1st of March, at Kyle Bay. This gathering will feature a presentation by the Sydney ATV Group, tracing the development of amateur television from the early days of low definition black and white, to high-definition digital. Truly a presentation not to be missed if you are in the Sydney region. (vk2wi news) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- BALLOONING AMATEUR BALLOON'S FATE A MYSTERY Balloon Experimenters Worry About Reactions Balloon hobbyists are also worried that the small balloons they launch into the sky could be shot down or that the focus on balloons could lead to tight restrictions on their little-known hobby. Speculation has grown about whether one of the unidentified objects taken down by a U.S. F-22 on Feb. 11 over Canadas Yukon Territory was a small party-style balloon launched by a hobby group whose name is a whimsical reference to the childrens film Up. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade recently said one of its balloons went missing in action on Feb. 11, near an island off the coast of Alaska. This amateur radio carrying balloon had callsign K9YO-15 and was launched last October. A 32-inch sphere carried a 10-gram payload with a solar panel package and a tracker in the middle, transmitted APRS telemetry on HF at very low power. People launch balloons for radio experiments, or as part of projects to learn more about technology, balloons, and the sky as well as for fun, according to Dave Akerman, a member of the U.K. High Altitude Society who has launched nearly 100 larger latex balloons and has just been interviewed by the Washington Post Newspaper. Now enthusiasts are concerned there will be a knee-jerk reaction to whats happened, he said during the interview. He said he hoped that authorities and hobbyists could coordinate on reasonable guidelines or rules if needed. Its also in the interests of authorities not to be shooting down party balloons with missiles. [ANS] Here in Australia today, Sunday is a special day in VK5 for ballooning. AREG's High-Altitude Ballooning sub-group, Project Horus, is planning their next launch for today the 26th with a planned launch time of 10 AM ACDT. This launch will most likely be performed from the Auburn Community Oval, with the launch team arriving on site from around 9:15 AM. Spectators are welcome! There is a possibility this launch will be moved to the Mt Barker High School Oval, if weather conditions and flight paths are better from that location.. Safe Flight HORUS 59 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota ham-yota.com Local students have had their hands full at Los Angeles Schofield Middle School during the past few days, taking part in a competition run by American Radio Relay League. Activities were after school and the idea was to "work" (make certified contact with) radio operators in as many countries as possible. The Schofield Amateur Radio and Technology Club, founded by Kent Hufford and Mike Newland, has a reputation of being among the top such clubs in the USA, by way of its success in reaching around the world via the airwaves. The competition is open to students from elementary school through college. The past week's connections were to more than a dozen countries, including South Africa, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Costa Rica and Switzerland. Teams also get credit for reaching other states in the USA and the final contact count was above 550. Hufford KQ 4KK and Newland NC 8 N had plenty in common before they pooled their resources to establish the Schofield group. Both Army veterans flew helicopters in Vietnam Army Signal Corps aviators. Another volunteer, David Kjellquist WB 5 NHL, is also a vet with a Signal Corps background. The Schofield club meets once a week and focuses on a variety of topics. "They learn about the electronic components, but then they also work on communication and the history of communication. They've been doing it here for nine years now," Mr Matson said. "They learn something about technology, and it expands their horizons," Hufford added. "Every year, the students pick up knowledge about the ionosphere and satellites and electronics and soldering and communication. They figure out what's inside a cell phone, so instead of just playing with a mobile, they get an understanding of ... what's inside of it, how it works and why it works." schofieldms.com/ news.yahoo.com/schofield-club-excels-international-radio-005300387.html WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org VK5QI Wins FS3 Award The Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) has announced a special Award for the last formal reported signals from FalconSat3. (AMSAT Leader board/Satnogs) An MO-112 postal first day cover was to be sent to the winner with the certificate. Mark Jessop, VK5QI, was declared to be the winner for the MARS FS3 Award. The certificate and MO-112 first day cover were sent last week in an envelope with MO-112 stamps. Congratulations! FS3 was a great adventure for many thanks again to Mark N 8 MH for his dedication to keep the bird alive for so many years. [ANS] SpaceX Dragon Will Carry More Hams to the ISS and NASA will again provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agencys SpaceX Crew-6 mission with astronauts to the Space Station. Launch is targeted for 07:07 UTC, Sunday, Feb. 26, from Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to dock to the space-facing port of the stations Harmony module at 07:54 UTC, Monday, Feb. 27. The Crew-6 launch will carry two NASA astronauts, Mission Commander Stephen Bowen, KI5BKB, and Pilot Warren Woody Hoburg, KB3HTZ, along with United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, KI5VTV and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who will serve as mission specialists to the space station for a science expedition mission. This Dragon is named Endeavour. NASA TV launch coverage can be accessed here in VK via YouTube and on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 03:30 UTC. [ANS] 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. VK3 - Melbournes Wyndham Amateur Radio Club HamFest the 5th of March. (vk2zrh) This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. Melbournes Wyndham Amateur Radio Club has organised a humungous HamFest for Sunday the 5th of March. John Forrest VK3J N F says the event is styled as the ONLY one in the western suburbs, but the W A R C 2023 HamFest will welcome happy hams from all over the place. Head over to the Italian Sports Club of Werribee at 601 Heaths Road, Werribee. Thats the same location as previous events. Happily, its a huge under-cover indoor venue with heaps of free parking. Entry is just $7. Doors are open from 10am until 1pm with tickets on sale from 9am. Major and minor door prize draws are included free with each ticket, and extra tickets can be purchased. Well-known sponsors are offering attractive door prizes. Naturally, a sausage sizzle can be bought from 10am, and therell be free coffee and tea. Yes folks, the W A R C 2023 humungous HamFest will all be on for young and old on the 5th of March at the Italian Sports Club of Werribee at 601 Heaths Road, Werribee. If you have two metres mobile, call in on VK3RGL on 147 MHz with 91.5 CTCSS tone. Be there, buy a ticket and dont miss out. Youll find WARC on Facebook as well as on the web, at www.warc.asn.au/ This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. VK4 - REDCLIFFE - REDFEST APRIL ONE (vk4tfn) VK3 - Antennapalooza at Drouin West April 15 & 16 (vk3kj) The weekend after Easter Some visitors come to set up late on the Friday beforehand. The theme for 2023 will be Station Efficiency. It will include talks and demos on different ways that Amateurs can improve the way they operate. antennapalooza.net.au/ Set in a 6 acre field, 50km due East of Dandenong, visitors can bring their tent or caravan for the weekend, or just stay for the day. Set up an antenna and have a play on-air, or take in the demonstrations. Entry is Free. Bookings are not essential, but please email a registration with your name and callsign to plan logistics. 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. VK5 - CONVENTION and FOX HUNTING CHAMPIONSHIPS June 10 - 11 (vk5dj) This is John VK5DJ for the South East Radio Group. Great news, the Australian Fox Hunting Championships are on for 2023 in Mt Gambier. The fox hunting will be over the usual two days 10th and 11th of June on the Kings Birthday weekend in SA. The Hall convention will be one day only on the 11th with tables filled with goodies, home brew and the traditional dinner etc. Now would be a good time to book accommodation. See you there, John VK5DJ. 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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