2023 DECEMBER 10 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 DEC 10 2023 IN OUR 28th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS THIS WEEK:- WIA Vice President Lee Moyle VK3GK and Assessments. - WIA AGM and CONFERENCE 2024 with David VK4DN, Secretary, Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club. - NOTE -- We have not produced a 32k audio version for some time and as of January we no longer will send a file called wianews_32 out so if you have an automated system please change the file you download to wianews_64 or wianews_128 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 ACMA continues to be working hard at getting a streamlined transition to Class Licencing come Feburary 2024. This includes a comprehensive and volunteer supported exam service using existing approved AMC assessors. Last week the ACMA emailed registered assessors announcing that on Friday, 15 December 2023 they will be holding an online information session for current AMC assessors. Following the positive feedback from ACMAs previous sessions, ACMA have decided to run the session between 12:00pm 1:00pm AEDT. This time is lunchtime for many and will better accommodate the time difference with all the VK6 assessors in Western Australia. If you are an AMC assessor and didnt receive the email, please contact ACMA to confirm you are on the AMC list. The session will provide another overview of the next key steps in transitioning to become an ACMA Accredited Assessor. Also provided will be an opportunity to ask questions about the accreditation process. An AMC representative will be in attendance to provide an overview of cut-off timeframes for AMC examinations. The ACMA information session will be held on Microsoft Teams and there are options to either join through videoconferencing or telephone dial-in. For those assessors unable to attend the session, ACMA will send an email afterwards with an overview of the key points discussed and a copy of the PowerPoint slides from the session. Prior to the session, ACMA will send details of the next steps in the accreditation process and transition to the ACMA via email. Following these instructions carefully will ensure a smooth and timely transition to the ACMA. The ACMA will commence delivering qualification services itself from February 2024, at the same time the class licence for amateur radio commences. As you may have seen in their most recent ACMA update to amateur radio subscribers, ACMA are still on track to provide an update in mid-December on the exact date in February that these changes will take place. If youre not already subscribed to the updates, you can subscribe here. acma.gov.au/node/296 The ACMA will accept new applications for accreditation as a General Accredited Assessor or Specialist Accredited Assessor with the ACMA from the date the class licence commences. Requirements to become an accredited assessor will be detailed in the Radiocommunications Accreditation (Amateur Radio Examinations) Rules 2023 and Assessor Guidelines, which we anticipate will be released mid this month. Information on exactly how to apply will be provided in February 2024. If you have previously been a WIA Assessor and wish to renew your Amateur Radio Assessing, i would encourage you to consider to apply to ACMA come February 2024 and become an ACMA accredited assessor. The WIA along with its committees and working groups continue to support ACMA though out the transition to class licencing and establishing the new Amateur radio exam service. Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY and myself, both being WIA board members are also accredited AMC assessors and will be transitioning to the ACMA assessor program as we continue to support growing Amateur Radio in Australia. For now, 73 From Lee VK3GK Hi all! - David Here! - VK4DN from the Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club. Just a reminder that if you are planning to attend the WIA Convention here in Bundaberg on May 4th/5th next year, you will need to think about booking your accommodation very soon. Vacancies are being booked out quickly due to the fact that its also the Labour Day long weekend. Head over to bundabergregion.org website to make your booking. Also if you are planning to travel to the weekend event with your caravan or mobile home, there are many options available in and around Bundy. Contact us if you need any assistance with finding accommodation or where to setup your camp. Cheers - from David VK4DN - Secretary - Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club. Automatic Dependent SurveillanceBroadcast Hi, Im Richard VK2SKY, Publicity Officer for the Manly-Warringah Radio Society in Sydney. Recently, our radio club was approached by a Danish company that provides ADS-B services to industry. tinyurl.com/4c5dn3f9 Many of you will be familiar with ADS-B, from aviation web sites like Flight Radar 24, ADSB Exchange, etc. Rather than display aircraft locations (already well done by others) this particular company is using ADS-B data to improve flight planning and safety, weather forecasting, and statistical analysis; the collected data can even be used to reduce CO2 emissions from aviation. The company is looking to improve its coverage in Australia, independently of other data providers. They asked our club if we were interested in hosting one of their ADS-B receivers and feeding the flight data to their servers in Denmark. We said yes. During our discussions with the company's Head of Technical Support, he mentioned that they are interested in engaging with other Amateur Radio clubs in Australia. I thought Id pass on this information to other technically-minded clubs, who might be interested in having an ADS-B receiving system at their clubhouses. Anywhere, in any state, though they are particularly interested in locations near airports. The company supplies all the equipment, of course, and your club would need to have a reliable internet connection to pass on the received flight data. If this sounds like something that would interest your club, then you can contact the company directly: Joining the ADSB Support network: adsbsupport.com/join-our-adsb-network/ ] For WIA National News, Im Richard VK2SKY in Sydney. ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, eHam, Radioworld.com Hackaday and the World Wide sources of the WIA. World radio conference update The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 continues. After numerous meetings, the 23cm topic has made progress at the sub-working group level, and the outcome is expected to progress up the WRC committee structure for adoption. Meanwhile, attention is also being paid to a wide variety of other current and future agenda proposals where amateur frequency allocations are in scope, from HF and VHF upwards into the microwave bands. During the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 taking place in Dubai until next Friday, December 15, members of the Emirates Amateur Radio Society are QRV with special call sign A 60 WRC. Individual operators may append a serial number from /0 to /20 to this special call sign (A60WRC) during the event. QSL A60WRC via EA7FTR and all others via operators' instructions. REGION ONE Investigations carried out by Ofcoms spectrum experts in the UK have helped to secure the conviction of a man who was deliberately causing harmful interference to amateur radio users in and around Hull. Ofcom had received complaints from radio amateurs in the area, who told of being subjected to deliberate interference of their transmissions, as well as receiving abusive messages. The culprit had been using radio bands illegally to do this, as he didnt have a licence to transmit. Ofcom were required to intervene in this case because the illegal activity was significant and targeted, and it was suspected that the culprit was somebody who had previously been convicted of similar activity. The investigation involved using automatic monitoring equipment as well as Ofcom engineers working on the ground, monitoring live transmissions. This provided a picture of the impact of the illegal transmissions on the local radio community. All of this work took place in close collaboration with local police. The address of the suspect was confirmed which enabled execution of a search warrant at the address. Radio equipment was seized that had been used to receive and transmit on the frequencies that were targeted with the harmful interference. The case went to court, where earlier this month the defendant was found guilty of unlicensed use of radio equipment, illegal possession of radio apparatus, and causing deliberate interference to wireless telegraphy all of which are offences under the Wireless Telegraphy Act. In a later sentencing hearing, he was sentenced to 26 weeks imprisonment, Engineers Ireland Guest Lecture by IRTS President Enda Broderick EI2II. The Electronic and Computing division of Engineers Ireland was delighted to welcome IRTS President and engineer Enda Broderick EI2II who delivered a lecture titled "From Signals to Solutions: Amateur Radio's impact on the Future of Engineering & Science, Technology Engineering, Art, and Maths (referred to as STEAM)". Enda explored how the modern version of amateur radio can impact the interest of future generations to look at engineering differently. The hobby has all the elements associated with STEAM and can be used to develop a creative and fun environment to develop within. SARL and AMSAT SA join forces at Science Forum South Africa Under the banner Science in Amateur Radio, the SARL focused on the Radio frequency Monitoring system and the Next Generation beacon for tropospheric research while AMSAT SA showcased AfriCUBE, a one-unit CubeSat. Over 2 500 delegates participated in sessions about the future of society, innovation shaping the industry of tomorrow, and STI enabling inclusive and sustainable development, among other themes. The scope of Amateur Radio is often misunderstood, and Science Forum South Africa offered a unique opportunity to focus on the science aspect of Amateur Radio and bring it to the attention of science institutions and various structures in Government and civil society. REGION TWO. ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines to Communicate RF Safety. Radio amateurs now have a new tool from ARRL to help answer questions about their stations. The ARRL RF Safety Committee, with their international counterparts at the Radio Society of Great Britain, the Irish Radio Transmitters Society and the Swedish Society of Radio Amateurs, has developed a new set of guidelines to help amateurs interact with and talk to their neighbours about RF exposure. Chairman of the ARRL RF Safety Committee Greg Lapin, N9GL, said the new informational PDF found on the ARRL RF Exposure page, Helping Amateurs Interact with Neighbours Asking About Radio Transmissions was developed after a year of discussions about RF safety. In New York, a raging fire swept through the last remaining laboratory of Nikola Tesla, where a massive redevelopment began three years ago to create a science centre and a hub of amateur radio activity and education. Marc Alessi, the non-profit centres executive director, said at a press conference that authorities have ruled out arson and are still investigating the cause. The historically significant laboratory building itself, set on a 15-acre site on Long Island, sustained damages of at least $3-million US dollars from the fire. A worldwide fundraising effort on indiegogo has begun for the lab, which the Serbian-born scientist used in the early 1900s. This fundraising is separate from the already $20-million raised for the renovation - an effort that is still $6-million short of its goal. Amateur radio club N2TSC, housed in the visitors centre is a different building from the devastated lab.. Plans continue to go forward for the sites overall redevelopment as an educational and community resource but it is not clear how far back the original opening date of late 2025 will be delayed. REGION THREE HAMS HELP TRACK DOWN LIFESAVING MEDICINE FOR ILL CHILD IN INDIA Hams in India raced the clock to help locate and deliver medicine in short supply to a critically ill little girl. The medicine was in her doctor's hands within 48 hours of being found. The girl's parents had been told by doctors at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital that they were in short supply of the anti-viral drug that was successfully treating their daughter and that no stock of the drug could be found elsewhere in the country at present. The girl's father told The Times of India that he promptly launched a search by contacting Rahat Khan, S21DI, an amateur radio operator in Bangladesh. Rahat put out a call to his network of ham contacts in neighbouring countries, all to no avail. In India, hams in the West Bengal Radio Club found an alternative of the brand in the state of Kerala but it was not clear whether the girl would respond to that drug. The necessary brand was at last located in New Delhi by one of the newest members of the club, Naendraath Jana, a student in the Indian Academy of Communication and Disaster Management. According to the club's secretary, the hams then tracked down someone ate New Delhi airport who was preparing to return home to Bangladesh - and who agreed to transport the medicine. -------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD. VP9 QSL Bureau Discontinued The Radio Society of Bermuda will be discontinuing its QSL bureau service for VP9 stations beginning December 31st, 2024. Activity will be phased out over the next 12 months or so. (VP9NA) -------------- In the World of DX, fans of the world's longest-running science fiction TV show "Doctor Who" will be listening for special callsigns starting with GB WHO through GB 9 WHO until the 20th of December. The cult series marked its 60th anniversary on the 23rd of November. The show's original 694 episodes ran steadily until 1989 but it was revived - much to fans' delight - in 2005. See QRZ.com for QSL details -------------- MALAWI. Don, 7Q6M is QRV until May 13, 2024 and has also been active on 160 meters. QSL via LoTW. -------------- BAHRAIN. Members of the Bahrain Amateur Radio Society are QRV as A 91 ND until next Saturday December 16 to celebrate the Kingdom of Bahrain's National Day. QSL via EC6DX. -------------- THE VAAL DAM CELEBRATES ITS 85TH BIRTHDAY The Sasolburg ARC will be operating ZS 85 VDAM now to 1 April 2024 to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the opening of the Vaal Dam. There is a special QSL Card available - send your QSL card to the Sasolburg ARC to receive the ZS 85 VDAM QSL Card. -------------- -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2024 -------------- -------------- Ross Hull Memorial Contest. Running on VHF and above for the month of January. You nominate the best 7 day or 2 day period per category. For more information visit the contest page at wia.org.au/members/contests/rosshull/ (VK2TBC) ----------------------------------- JANUARY 2024 VHF-UHF Summer Field Day. 13 - 14 January. 0100 UTC Saturday to 0059 UTC Sunday BUT to make it a little fairer in VK6, they add 3 hours onto start and end times. (wia.org.au) ----------------- AUSTRALIA DAY CONTEST This contest is to encourage Amateur Radio promotional Activity around the world and is designed to encourage friendly participation and help improve the operating skills of participants. It is held on the Australia Day Public Holiday, 26th of January. Amateurs here in in VK will endeavour to contact other amateurs around the world. Some VK operators will be using the AX prefix to celebrate Australia day, as its wanted by many amateurs. Scoring is distance based and calculated using 4-character grid squares. (wia.org.au) ----------- NEW ZEALANDS Jock White Memorial Field Day WILL BE 24/25 Feb 2024. The rules have been tweaked slightly and are now up on the nzart website. Overseas contacts now score the same points as ZL contacts. The definition of acceptable overseas contacts has changed to "Oceania" as defined by the DXCC list. These changes have been made to better align the rules with the contest objective, simplify scoring and to use a defined geographical boundary. (nzart info line 482) ---------------------------------------------------- Trans-Tasman Low Band Contest July 21st 2024 The Trans-Tasman contest, always held on the 3rd weekend in July, aims to encourage Low Band activity between VK and ZL Only contest bands 160 80 and 40M are allowed with SSB, CW and Digital (i.e. RTTY OR PSK) This contest is another official WIA Contest and will count towards the Peter Brown Contest Champion Awards. (wia.org.au) ------------------- AUGUST 17 - 18 2024 Remembrance Day Contest. This contest commemorates the Australian Amateurs who died during World War II and is designed to encourage friendly participation and help improve the operating skills of participants. It is held on the weekend closest to the 15th August, the date on which hostilities ceased in the southwest Pacific area. A perpetual trophy is awarded annually to the Australian state or territory with the best performance. The name of the winning State or Territory is inscribed on the trophy, and that State or Territory then holds the trophy for 12 months. The winning State or Territory is also given a certificate, as are leading entrants. Amateurs will endeavour to contact amateurs in VK call areas, ZL and P29 on all bands except WARC bands. Modes allowed are PHONE, CW and RTTY as per the era remembered Again the 2024 contest is 17th & 18th August. (wia.org.au) 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/ https://bunkersontheair.wixsite.com/october23 Summits on the Air is offering a 10-meter Challenge in 2024. The challenge will run from 0000 UTC on January 1, 2024, to 2359 UTC on December 31, 2024. SOTA held a 12-meter Challenge in 2013, and since then, more than 90 associations have been added to the SOTA program, including many in South America, the Caribbean, and Asia. There is excellent potential for DX SOTA activity, and activators are encouraged to consider 28 MHz for their summit operations in 2024. Scoring will be done automatically by the database software. Activations and chases should be entered as normal. The software will note 10-meter QSOs and score them according to the rules. Usual SOTA rules will apply. Multi-band activations can also be entered as normal, and all results will be updated. Qualifying 10-meter QSOs will be scored separately from other SOTA activity. There will be a special 10-meter Challenge results page, and electronic certificates will be issued for all participants with their name, call sign, association, and score. For more information, including the rules for the challenge, visit the Summits on the Air website. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org An innovative experiment flying aboard NASAs Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could one day help NASA missions probe deeper into space and uncover more discoveries about the origin of the universe. The experiment beamed a laser encoded with data from far beyond the moon for the first time. The test data was sent from nearly 16 million kilometres away and reached the Hale Telescope at the California Institute of Technologys Palomar Observatory in Pasadena, California. tinyurl.com/ANS-337-Laser [ANS] A fascinating article in Aviation Week Network describes the development of the CubeSat standard by AMSAT member Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD, and co-inventor Jordi Puig-Suari, an aerospace engineering professor at California Polytechnic State University. Searching for a way to simplify the projectsand cut out build time Twiggs thought, What if we made [the satellite] a cube and put solar cells on all sides so no matter which way it rotated, it was going to get charged? With some spare solar cells from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he went down to a local shop and found a 4 X 4 X 4-inch transparent box. It was also around that time, 1999, that an infamous error caught Twiggs attention. That year a mix-up between Imperial and metric units by a Lockheed Martin engineering team caused NASAs Mars Climate Orbiter to burn up in the red planets atmosphere, ending the mission early. I said, Its about time students learn metric, he says. I wonder what this [4-in. box] is in metric? Well, it turned out to be just almost 10 cm. tinyurl.com/ANS-337-Twiggs [ANS] AMSAT Canada Officially Incorporated Amateur Radio Satellites and Systems - Canada (AMSAT-CA) has officially been incorporated to support amateur radio in space. Over the next few months, AMSAT-CA will establish processes around its online presence as well as membership opportunities. The first major effort from AMSAT-CA will be to develop a paper in support of the European Space Agency's proposal for a European and Canadian geosynchronous amateur radio satellite project. (AMSAT-CA) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA EASTER ISLAND Jorge, CE 0 YHF is QRV until today, Sunday December 10 while working at a hospital on Pascua Island, IOTA SA-001. Activity is on 30 to 6 meters using some CW and SSB, but mostly FT8. -------------- Oliver, W6NV will again be active from St Helena island as ZD7W during mid-February including participation in the ARRL DX CW Contest (Feb 17-18). This will be Olivers third visit to St Helena (previously 2015 & 2019). --------------- MOROCCO. Yannick, F6FYD is QRV as CN 2 YD until March 15, 2024. He will also be active as CN2YD/p from Agadir Island, IOTA AF-065 during this time. Activity is on the HF bands. QSL to home call. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS LOW DOWN HISTORIC TRANSMITTER IN SWEDEN TO TRANSMIT TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Christmas time is a time of tradition and for radio enthusiasts in Sweden, there are few traditions more loved and anticipated than hearing a Christmas message sent via a transmitter that is fast approaching its 100th year. Jeremy Boot G4NJH explains. The pride of the pioneering Swedish engineer Ernst Alexanderson - his 200kW high-frequency alternator built in 1924 - has a Christmas message to deliver to the world this year, as in previous years. On Christmas Eve morning, Sunday 24 December, the radio station in Grimeton with the callsign SAQ, will deliver the words in the holiday spirit in CW at 0800 UTC at 17.2 kHz. Those of us who cannot be present can still watch the historic transmitter and hear its message being sent during a livestream on the SAQ Grimeton YouTube channel. The transmitter's start-up will also be livestreamed, starting half an hour before the message. There are also many ways to listen but because there are few radios capable of directly receiving the transmitter's frequency, there are internet receivers and other options available. This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH. alexander.n.se/en/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton/lyssna-pa-saq/ (ARNEWSLINE) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - MARITIME INCLUDING ILLW NEWS - ILLW 17th August 2024 to 18th August 2024 Australian lights planned and advised to WIA :- AU 0102 Point Charles NT - Darwin AR Club WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS - YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) facebook.com/yotaregion2 facebook.com/groups/YOTAOC/ youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota ham-yota.com YOTA Month Special Event Youth-operated stations around the world are part of a special event celebrating youth in amateur radio during the month of December Amateur radio operators ages 25 and younger are on the air as special event stations. In the United States this year, the callsigns will once again be K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A. Argentina will be active as LR1YOTA. Canada as VE3YOUTH, VE2YOTA, and VA7YOTA. El Salvador is YS1YOTA. All Amateur Radio operators are encouraged to listen for and contact these stations as well as all callsigns ending in the letters YOTA across the globe. Last year, we young hams worldwide surpassed our goal of 100,000 QSOs in the month of December with a final tally of 107,845. Overlapping with YOTA month is round 3 of the YOTA Contest, which is on December 30 from 1200 to 2359 UTC. 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 WICEN Tasmania news. WICEN ensured Scouts were kept safe during their 2023 Clark Trophy Competition. WICEN members, Gary, VK7JGD & Anthony, VK7AG attended the event, providing safety communications along with scoring traffic at Oatlands. With over 50 participants for the 24 hr event, both operators were kept extremely busy operating three, YES that's correct, 3 radio channels which also made for a huge amount of paperwork that had to be completed on the go too. Their operating location was on a hilltop in the middle of the farm property used for the hike camp competition. The Scouts were on one CB channel to provide HQ with their overnight camp locations as well as any safety or medical requests. Another channel was used by the leaders at various locations to forward scoring information from the activities they were judging. A 2 metre channel was used by the WICEN crew to then relay this info down to the HQ location at the property homestead. The hilltop relay station was needed as much of the activity area was screened from HQ by the same hill. They also needed to keep a listening watch on the radios overnight in case of emergency. (Peter Dodd VK7KPC Project Commissioner Radio and Electronics Scouts Tasmania via VK7WI news) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- VIDEO. ATV SSTV and other forms such as YouTube. Peter VK3BFG is your WIA ATV representative. pcossins@bigpond.com tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN The latest RSGB 2023 Convention video to be released is three presentations in one, on the topic of the 23cm band. Barry Lewis, G4SJH talks about amateur and RNSS coexistence in the 23cm band, then John Worsnop, G4BAO considers how the possible RNSS changes will affect narrow band DX and Earth Moon Earth operation. Finally, Dave Crump, G8GKQ looks at the future of ATV on the 23cm band. These presentations were given before the WRC23 conference, and final arrangements will depend on the WRC23 outcome. 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