2026 NOVEMBER 15 WIA 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 ------------------------------------------------------------* IN WIA NATIONAL NEWS THIS WEEK:- Angelo Giuffre VK2NWT with Affiliated Club News. Peter Clee VK8ZZ Retiring WIA Director and Secretary Why call V-G-R, in Morse code, November 17? all revealed in the final final and Col VK3GTV tells how an Amateur Radio Operator Told a Satellite to Play 'Doom.' and It Listened: BUT WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA AND IT'S FOR WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 2026 I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y On behalf of the WIA Board of Directors, this is WIA Director and Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ. Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the HAM-E-CON held at the UTAS in Hobart Tasmania. It was a fantastic weekend when we heard about numerous aspects of Amateur Radio and Club related subjects. These includes discussions on Satellite and CubeSat projects, Licensing, Education and Mentouring, Diversity and Neuro Diversity, How Gamifying Amateur Radio can encourage new entry into the service, Pluto SDR Transceivers, How Aircraft Scatter works, Ideas for revitalisation of clubs, and finished up with an informative Panel Discussion. A weekend event well worth attending. It was also a great networking opportunity to catch up with old friends and past aquantances that we don't always manage to catch up with on air. The event kicked off on Friday with a MYSTERY BUS TOUR followed by a networking Bar-B-Que at the Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania club rooms at the Queens Domain in Hobart. Sunday afternoon saw two outside events. Firstly a SOTA activation at Mt Wellington, and a concurrent event at the Club Rooms with demonstrations of equipment on 23cm and above. It was a great weekend and so nice to interact with so many WIA members that were in attendance. My congratulations to the team at REAST team for putting on such a fantastic event. As a director of the WIA it is always great to get out and about and meet current and encourage new WIA members. Four WIA Directors attended the Tassie Ham-E-Con Amateur Radio Conference. Following careful consideration, the WIA Board has made the difficult decision to discontinue the WIA Email redirection service. This long-standing member service is being terminated in 5 months and the President emailed all members this week outlining these changes. The Board recognises that many members have valued their WIA email redirection addresses over the years and appreciates the inconvenience this change may cause. The service will continue until 31 March 2027 when it will be terminated. Just a reminder that nominations for the upcoming election of directors is now open and I commend members to consider nominating for this important role. The 2027 AGM will mark my 10 years as a WIA Director. I do not intend to re-nominate for the upcoming election. I consider that 10 years as director to be an adequate contribution to the WIA. But my contribution to the WIA as a volunteer will not end at that time. I look forward to talking to you on air soon. This has been WIA Director Peter Clee VK8ZZ Hi everyone, this is Angelo Giuffre VK2NWT with Affiliated Club News. The WIA recently implemented professionally developed training sessions covering Club Governance for all WIA Affiliated Clubs. This WIA funded initiative, facilitated by Associations Forum, was well presented, informative and very well received by all those that attended. There were two training sessions delivered via the Zoom platform with the first webinar session focused on those clubs that are already incorporated covering rules, regulations and other important legal information. The second webinar was designed to provide training to those clubs are not currently incorporated but wish to learn more about the importance of becoming incorporated and the necessary steps to do so. Both of these informative webinar sessions, including presentation slides and important links are now available to those clubs that did not attend. I would ask that any WIA Affiliated Club that wish to view either of these two webinars to please send their request to the Clubs Coordinator via email on: clubs@nationaloffice.org.au Onto another matter, a reminder that the final WIA Presidents Webinar for 2026 will take place on Sunday the 6th of December at 4:00 PM AEDT. As always, the webinar which is an opportunity for clubs to learn of the progress of some of the current projects the WIA is working on and is presented by various Board members and hosted by WIA President Scott Williams. Its a great way for Clubs to engage with the Board and other Presidents to exchange views and ideas and I encourage all Club Presidents particularly those that have perhaps not attended one of these sessions to do so for the first time. Please let me know if you have any items that you wish to have possibly included in the Webinar. I will be contacting all club Presidents in the coming weeks with further reminders, the meeting agenda and meeting links. This has been Angelo VK2NWT for WIA National News ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS is with thanks to Amateur Radio Daily, ARRL, Critalcomms, eHam, IARU, IRTS, NEWSLINE, NZART, RAC, Radioworld.com, RSGB, SARL and the World Wide sources of WIA. The World Radio-TV Handbook will be published only as a web app, beginning with the 2027 edition. The go-to source for shortwave listeners has been published in book form for the past 80 years, but the publisher announced in late October that the 2026 edition would be the final one in print. The web app will include a Now on air feature, enhanced search capabilities, links, and updates throughout the year. CANADA Fresh off its 90th anniversary November 2, CBC/Radio-Canada will receive a $300 million investment over the next two years under the Canadian federal budget. Marie-Philippe Bouchard, the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, called the funding a vote of confidence in Canadian creators, including the journalists, actors, producers, podcasters, and radio, TV and film crews, whose work is supported by Canadas public broadcaster. CBC/Radio-Canada receives an annual parliamentary appropriation that represents approximately 70% of its funding. Earlier this year, CBC News announced plans to establish 11 additional local news operations across the country plus plans to expand its international presence by opening or reopening permanent bureaus in Beijing, Jerusalem, Mexico City, Los Angeles and an additional European capital. The broadcaster also intends to open a bureau in Africa during a later phase of the project. USA The FCC has cited an amateur in California for unauthorized transmissions on GMRS frequencies and a CB radio operator in Georgia for using excessive power. The Californian ham, who is also trustee for club station KG 6 OPA, was issued a Notice of Unauthorized Operation and a Notification of Harmful Interference for allegedly transmitting an approximately 6 second siren on the inputs of two General Mobile Radio Service repeaters in southern California. In the Georgia case, CBer was cited for allegedly making one-way transmissions on CB channel 6 at a power level of 280 watts. He was warned that operating with excessive power could void his authorization to operate on CB and could subject him to further penalties. Both individuals have been given 10 days to respond to the allegations. The FCC is preparing to vote on a measure to give state and federal prisons in the US the right to jam signals from cell phones that are smuggled into prisoners. The proposed rules are aimed at curbing inmates' use of contraband mobile phones. The FCC reports that prison authorities recovered more than 25,000 cell phones from inmates across the country in 2024, with more than 6,000 devices reportedly seized at just two facilities. Here in Australia, trials of 'jamming' commenced some 13 years ago and today, 2026, under strict exemptions granted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, targeted signal jamming continues to be deployed at maximum-security sites like the Goulburn Correctional Complex (including the High Risk Management Unit, Supermax and the Lithgow Correctional Centre. The jamming technology used in Australia in 2026 is highly selective. Modern systems target specific mobile carrier frequencies strictly within the prison perimeters to avoid bleeding over into the public community or blocking nearby emergency Triple Zero (000) calls. After 34 years of being on the air from Shelby County, Alabama, the EWTN Global Catholic Network has said it is taking WEWN off the air, saying listenership had diminished and the costs were too high to keep the station going with its aging equipment. The Radio World website carried news of the announcement made on the 31st of October. The station has been heard on 12.050 MHz and 15.610 MHz but has reduced its operating hours recently. It provided programs in English for listeners mainly in the Middle East and Africa and programs in Spanish to Latin America. UNITED KINGDOM Ofcom, the UK regulator, has agreed to an RSGB request to extend the 146-147MHz Notice of Variation (NoV) for a further year. It is available on a non-interference basis and the NoV is subject to a 30-day notice period of change or withdrawal. Ofcoms objective in making this spectrum available is to encourage radio amateurs to experiment and test new communications schemes and systems. EUROPE EU cites first harmonized standard for the AI Act. A now adopted European Commission implementing decision on AI quality management systems is the first harmonized standard under the EU AI Act. Use of the standard is voluntary. So Why does it matter? Manufacturers selling AI-enabled products in the EU now have a first standards reference to track. AI an evolving world set to involve YOU. (eu-law) French officials blame Iran for refrigerator hacks French officials accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of responsibility for the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France last month, saying there would be consequences. The effects of the October 11 hacks were dramatic. Some refrigerators had the temperature turned up so high they caught fire. In the hours following the incident, supermarket employees carted boxes full of perished meat and melted ice cream into giant trash containers. The attack's total costs could add up to tens of millions of euros nationwide, one French supermarket owner estimated. The French hacks have since been followed, this month, by a second wave of hacking that hit more than 100 establishments across Europe and even affected refrigerators used by French blood banks, prompting employees there to have to move some of the blood to different cold storage units. Why is time important? It seems like a simple question, but behind it lies an interconnected world that helps bind modern society together. MSF has been broadcasting time from the UK since the 1940s, predating the advent of modern atomic timekeeping and it remains relevant to millions of people today. MSF had its origins as a radio time signal and its role today is that of one of the UKs most widely accessible sources of precise time, time used by millions of radio-controlled clocks, computers, industrial systems and other equipment across the UK and beyond. Its influence extends further than the clocks on our walls, forming part of the wider ecosystem of precision timing that supports modern infrastructure. The Time from MSF is the United Kingdom's national radio time and frequency signal, broadcast continuously on 60 kHz from the Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria by Babcock International under contract to the National Physical Laboratory 24 hours a day across the entire UK and parts of northern and western Europe. WEIRD AND WONDERFUL YouTuber "Colsto" has made a name for himself by finding novel ways to track down hidden locations: those of album cover shots, Primitive Technology, and, um, Andrew Tate. ( Happily, we can all do the last one now at the link youtube.com/watch?v=PJQWjZffJnA ) In his latest video, though, Colsto has outdone himself. The video describes a technique that can reveal where an otherwise unidentifiable recording was made by analysing its audio for the faint sounds of passing aircraft. The technique is both fascinating and frightening. It works by looking at Doppler curves, which plot the way a planes sound changes as it passes overhead because of the Doppler effect. This is the same familiar Doppler effect that causes the frequency of a siren to rise as it approaches and then fall as it passes by and moves away. More generally, its the phenomenon whereby the frequency of a wave perceived by an observer changes when the observer and the source of the wave are moving in relation to one another. Yes as George Orwell predicted in his book :1984". Big Brother IS watching. Read more on Gizmodo: bit.ly/4zyqfCj ------------------------------------------------------------------- OPERATIONAL NEWS - -------------- -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2026 WIA contest page :- wia.org.au/members/contests/about/ ----------------- NEXT OF NOTE NOVEMBER the 28-29 is the CQ World Wide CW CONTEST AND ARRL EME Contest ------------- DECEMBER 1-31 VK YOTA contest. yota.fgarc.org.au/pages/about.php ------------- DECEMBER 4-6 ARRL 160 METER CONTEST. ------------- DECEMBER 12-13 ARRL 10 METER CONTEST --------------- DECEMBER 28 The 2026 Youth of the Air Contest. (and yes its a Monday) The objective of these contests, this one on the 28th is leg 3) is to increase youngsters activity on the air, strengthening the reputation of the YOTA programme and demonstration of support for youngsters across the world. The IARU Region 1 Youth Committee co-operating with the Hungarian Amateur Radio Society are the organisers. This third and final leg of the 2026 contest will run from 10:00 to 22:00 UTC on Monday 28 December with CW and SSB activity on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 m. The exchange for a single operator is a RS or RST report AND the operators age on 1 January 2026, while for a multi-operator it is a RS or RST and the AVERAGE age of the operators on 1 January 2026. yotacontest.mrasz.org/rules-2026/english for the full set of rules. (SARL) ----------------------------------------------------------------- NOW LET'S OPEN THE DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD - ONE OPERATOR TWO CALLS:- Anders will be on the air from Uganda with callsign 5X7W now till December 29 operating QRP on 80-10 metres. Anders will be using CW and FT8/FT4. BUT WAIT:- He will also be using the callsign 5X1Q when he is operating a vintage Atlas 350-XL transceiver. (newsline2558) ---------------- Antonio, who is in Uganda doing humanitarian work, will be active in his spare time as 5 X 3 M through to the end of December of 2027. Antonio, 5X3M is operating on SSB and can be heard on various HF bands. (newsline2549) -------------- To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Belgian National Railway Company, special callsign OT 26 B is active until the 31st of December. The line between Brussels and Mechelen opened in 1835 and was the first steam-powered public railway in continental Europe. QSL via OR4K. (RSGB) ---------- Jeff, TZ4AM will be back on the air from Mali from 22 October to 2nd December on CW and SSB via 80-6 metres. QSL via Logbook Of The World direct to KX4R. This looks like it might be Jeff's final run from Mali. As the security situation continues to decline, he says, the primary challenge remains the local economy. With rent and utilities running over 14,000 Aussie dollars a year, maintaining the operation is no longer viable, and he is considering closing it down completely. [425dxnews) ------------------------------ THE QNEWS WORKBENCH Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesnt mean its without enthusiasts or theres no more life in the idea. [M7TJF] has a project which takes teletext and puts it on amateur radio through the magic of AX.25. Its called CEEFAX Station, in honour of the BBCs teletext offering from back in the day. What you get is a Linux package or a Windows executable, which you run and presumably hook the computer up to a radio. It can either be a transmitting node or a receiving one for browsing pages, and theres an online map to track whos doing either and on what frequencies. This is all brand new so theres not much on there at the moment, but we expect that as people try this mode, this will change. Sadly its a little unclear on how the protocol works and how the pages are encoded, but its early days. Meanwhile if you hanker for the real thing, its still about in some places. (ARRL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ASTRONOMY (and Wireless Weather) HamSCI Geminids Meteor Scatter QSO Party: 1315 December 2026 10 metres: 28.145 MHz 6 metres: 50.260 MHz From 13 to 15 December, HamSCI (Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation) invites radio amateurs and short-wave listeners worldwide to join its Geminids Meteor Scatter QSO Party. HamSCI say participants will transmit, receive and record radio signals scattered by the ionised trails of meteors. All details on hamsci.org/msqp (DAVE G3LRC) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org An Amateur Radio Operator Told a Satellite to Play 'Doom.' and It Listened: The experiment marks the first known time a satellite has received and acted on a voice command from the ground. Satellite operators usually send commands as digital packets over radio, but one group of amateur radio operators tried something a little more conversational: They spoke the command into a microphone. Specifically, they verbally instructed an Earth-orbiting satellite to launch Doom, marking what appears to be the first time a spoken instruction has been successfully sent to and executed by a satellite. While the experiment was a fun demonstration, it could also point toward more practical applications for satellite communications. The ability to recognize and respond to spoken commands could eventually help pave the way for more responsive satellites capable of listening for distress calls or emergency signals and reacting accordingly. (eHam) A Robotic Builder in Space A robotic truss builder developed, designed and assembled by researchers at the California Institute of Technology has successfully constructed a structure in spacefor the first time, WITHOUT the help of astronauts. The 'builder' consists of an autonomous manipulator that retrieves struts and joints from nearby dispensers and repeatedly assembles identical sections, or bays, of a perimeter truss. phys.org The robotic builder has spent the past six months in space, working to assemble a reflector antenna measuring 1.4 metres in diameter from fibre-composite tubes, aluminium joints and a Kapton reflective surface. Although the team faced time constraints and could build only the initial portion of the antenna, the demonstration established the feasibility of the proposed assembly concept, which could be scaled up to very large perimeter trusses supporting giant reflective surfaces. (universemagazine.com) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA iota-world.org/ --------- VK9XY - OC002 IOTA CREDIT Although some 40 youngsters are activating VK9XY from around the world using RIB's (Rigs In A Box) ONLY QSOs made with members of the VK9XY on-island team will be eligible for IOTA credit. (7Q6UJ, HA1TMP, JJ1AHS, KN2P, KN4DLY, LY7J, N4ML, NT1S, VK4OTZ, W0GJ, W4IPC, and W6IZT) Please visit the VK9XY Live Band Activity page where QSOs with on-island team members are clearly flagged to make verification easy. The VK9XY website also provides a broad range of DXpedition information including operational statistics and live activity metrics. VK9XY is be active from Christmas Island (OC-002) from 16 November through 4 December. vk9xy2026.com/live/live-band-activity (425dxnews) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS - YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) ham-yota.com/category/yota-region-3/ facebook.com/groups/YOTAOC/ youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA With overnight rain causing record-breaking flooding and more than 80 rescues across north Georgia communities a 17-Year-Old Ham Radio Operator wakes up before dawn to help families check on loved ones after the flood. Only 17, the boy, named Benji Martin, from DeKalb County, woke up very early on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 5, following torrential downpours that swept through Georgia the previous night, causing extreme flooding, according to NBC affiliate WXIA-TV. Benji, who was previously given a commendation for his work during Hurricane Helene is a trained emergency radio operator who always jumps into action whenever theres a local severe weather emergency. We all have times when we need help and are at our lowest, and being able to help someone there, theres something about it that just feels right, Benji told WXIA-TV last year. I am making a difference. tinyurl.com/4wc74j5m (eHam0 YOTA Ireland Contest Success YOTA Ireland has shared news of its recent success in the CQ World Wide WPX SSB contest. YOTA contestant Jules, F4IEY, won the worldwide youth overlay category with a 20-metre single-band entry, while Megan, EI5LA, came in a close second with a 40-metre single-band entry. Special thanks were extended to the East Cork Radio Group, EI7M, for providing station support and helping facilitate youth participation in the competition. Here in VK make sure YOU are all set up ready to roll in December for our VK-YOTA CONREST yota.fgarc.org.au/pages/about.php (IRTS) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SOFTWARE FOR HAMS Find a node, listen in free, and key up from your phone, your wrist or your dashboard. Pocket Shack, is a native AllStarLink client for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and CarPlay. Listening is free Connect to any node that allows app connections and listen. Pocket Shack shows which nodes are on the air right now. It searches the full node directory by number, callsign or place, even offline, and puts every node on a map or lists the ones nearest you. Node details show what a node is linked to, its frequency, location and activity. Pocket Shack is a free download on the App Store, and listening is free. Pocket Shack Pro has a monthly, yearly and a one off overall payment. pocketshack.cygnusstrategy.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------* FINALY TODAY WE - REWIND. TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS. For our UK viewers Saturday 28th November is a BIG day at Bletchley Park. The day will feature family-friendly activities, interactive exhibits, children's workshops, historical displays , To bring the 1950s to life, the museum foyer will be transformed into a Lyons Tea Shop complete with tea, cakes and costumed Nippy waitresses, with two dance performances by the East Anglia Swing Troupe. Why? Well the Centre for Computing History at Bletchley will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the world's first business computer, LEO. LEO was a commercial development of Cambridge Universitys EDSAC that was produced at the behest of J. Lyons and Company, one of the UKs largest mid-20th-century food producers. Lyons shops were full of Lyons cakes, biscuits, and tea, and a feature of many towns would have been a Lyons Tea Shop, a budget restaurant. The logistics of such a complex business made a computer of great interest to the company, and after some of its executives learned about the ENIAC (computer) on a trip to the USA they sought out a machine closer to home. They found the EDSAC, a research computer, and commercialised it as Lyons Electronic Office, or LEO. This spawned a series of machines that lasted into the 1970s, the last one being used by the British Post Office. twiar.net/2026/11/09/via-hackaday-the-first-business-computer-hits-75/ (twiar) ------------------------------------------------------------* IT'S A DATE Clubs are welcome to email text with audio for this section, nationalnews@wia.org.au Details of all WIA affiliated clubs and societies can be found on the WIA website, including email addresses and website links. --------------------- SOCIAL SCENE 2026 ------------------ VK3 - Southern Peninsula Amateur Radio Club Giant Car Boot Sale November 15 Dromana 3 Drive-In Theatre Nepean Hwy 10am (wiacal) VK5 - Adelaide Amateur Radio & Electronics Car Boot Sale Dogs SA Showground, Cromwell Road, Kil burn 10.00am. November 21. (wiacal) VK - WIA Affiliated Clubs Presidents' Webinar 6 December (vk7tw) VK - LOWER TOWERS FOR SANTAS ARRIVAL EVENING OF DECEMBER 24 (npoleradio) THE FINAL FINAL _ VGR science.nasa.gov/specials/apps/voyager-one-light-day/ NASA is inviting people around the world to participate in "Shine Bright for Voyager's Light-Day" to celebrate Voyager 1 becoming the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth. While Venus is currently shining brightly in the early morning sky, the evening light event is dedicated to saluting the veteran interstellar probe. Step outside anytime after sunset in your local time zone on Tuesday, November 17. Use a phone screen, flashlight, lantern, or any other light source pointed toward the night sky. Flash the spacecraft's three-letter call sign, V-G-R, in Morse code. So you are an SWL tuned in here? then use the official automatic browser flasher on the NASA Shine Bright Portal to blink the pattern from your device's screen. science.nasa.gov/specials/apps/voyager-one-light-day/ Easy Peasy. Oh in pop culture, Star TrekThe Motion Picture (1979), a fictional Voyager probe named Voyager loses several letters on its nameplate due to space debris damage, leaving only V'GER visible. While NASA's VGR call sign predates the film as standard engineering shorthand, the three letters are also a fun overlap with one of sci-fi's most famous tributes to the real mission. Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to nationalnews@wia.org.au and don't JUST send url's links or posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution. 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