-------------------------------------------------------------------69 2024 JANUARY 7 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 ------------------------------------------------------------* And so it's welcome, welcome, welcome How do you do hellow We'll give you all the pertinent facts in this The first edition for 2024 of NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING JANUARY 7 IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS THIS WEEK:- WIA Director and President Scott Williams VK3KJ. - WIA Returning Officer John Marshall. - WIA Director Giles Kirby VK5GK. - WIA's manager of VHF-UHF Field Days Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. 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 Hi there, this is WIA Director and President Scott Williams VK3KJ and welcome to the WIA broadcast for the first time in 2024. I hope all WIA members and broadcast listeners had a very enjoyable Christmas and celebrated the commencement of the New Year. Our thoughts certainly go out to all of those that have been impacted by these adverse weather events leading up to Christmas and in the past week. I know Queensland has been hit very hard with of course cyclone Jasper causing significant damage and flooding in the region around Cairns. And then just to top things off, Christmas day brought significant damage to the Gold Coast region with monsoon type rain fall and severe damaging winds. I know the Tamborine mountains and slightly inland from the Gold Coast was most impacted with many houses lost and many tens of thousands of people without power for many many days. In fact, I have a friend on the Gold Coast in the Hinterland who is still running on generator power whist they try and rebuild the electricity supply network in his area. Let hope these extreme weather events end soon and we can all enjoy this holiday and festive season a little more. I want to share some very sad news that we have received at the WIA in the past days. Patrick Emery (Manager, Licensing Allocation Section) of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), experienced a medical event on Christmas Eve and was subsequently diagnosed with an advanced brain tumour. He was rushed to Austin Hospital in Melbourne however, Patrick passed away peacefully surrounded by his beloved family. Our thoughts and condolences are with Patricks wife, two daughters, family, friends and colleagues at this tragic and very sad time. Patrick was 52 years of age, a qualified Lawyer and someone that at the WIA we respected tremendously. He has been instrumental in leading the recent consultations in class licensing and someone that we at the WIA considered very engaging, professionally competent and fair. Patrick was also a well-known music writer and published articles in The Australian, The Age and a range of other print media. I know the music industry are in shock with Patricks passing and of course at the WIA we will miss him immensely. Thats it for me this week and I will keep it short and sharp. I am still on annual leave and enjoying some time around the property and of course making that odd contact on air. The new DXCC and awards year has kicked off for 2024 and already I see some VKs have worked over 100 countries within 24 hours. There is plenty of activity on the bands so hopefully between thunderstorms, bolts of lightning and heavy rain, you will find a moment to enjoy this great hobby. I hope everyone has a prosperous and safe 2024. Thats it for me this week and this has been Scott Williams, WIA President for this weeks WIA National News. DECLARATION of ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Clause 14 of the Constitution of the WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA (WIA) specifies the way in which Directors of the WIA are to be elected to that position. Three (3) directors will retire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting which will be held in May 2024, namely Lee Moyle VK3GK, Steven Green VK2TSG and Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY. Each retiring director was eligible for re-nomination. A call for nominations for the position of Directors of the WIA was made in the WIA National News Broadcast and in Amateur Radio Magazine in accordance with the Election Regulations. I advise that I have received Three (3) valid nominations from WIA members for the position as director of the WIA by the advertised closing date for nominations, as follows:- Steven Green VK2TSG Lee Moyle VK3GK Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY As advised in the Call for Nominations there will be three (3) vacancies at the conclusion of the AGM to be held in May 2024 and therefore no election will be necessary. I therefore formally declare these Three (3) nominees as having been elected to the position of Director of the Wireless Institute of Australia. These Directors elect will take up their role at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting in May 2024. They will remain in that role for a period of two (2) years. The existing four (4) continuing Directors are:- Scott Williams VK3KJ Peter Schrader VK4EA Peter Clee VK8ZZ Giles Kirby VK5GK These continuing four (4) directors will retire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting in 2025. I, John Marshall, the duly appointed returning Officer of the Wireless Institute of Australia confirm that these results are valid and in accordance with the Constitution of the Wireless Institute of Australia and the Election Regulations. The Constitution and Election Regulations of the WIA provide that it is mandatory for the announcement of the incoming directors be made at the Annual General Meeting. However, is has been the norm to announce the results prior to the AGM once they have been finalised by the Returning Officer. I wish the incoming directors well in there forthcoming 2-year term. This is John Marshall, WIA Returning Officer This is WIA Director Giles Kirby VK5GK. Happy 2024 to everyone. Just a short one from me today. Wed like to remind members that nominations for the WIA Merit Awards to be presented at this years AGM in Bundaberg should be submitted to the WIA secretary ( secretary@wia.org.au ). Nominations for this award will close on March 1st 2024. Details are available on the WIA web pages. wia.org.au/members/wiaawards/about/ I look forward to meeting many of you in Bundaberg this May 4th. It will also be interesting to see what solar cycle 25 holds for us this year. Will it be larger than predicted or just sooner. Hopefully the New Years Eve solar flare was a good omen. Best wishes everyone. This was Director Giles Kirby (VK5GK). 73s. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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. WIRELESS WEATHER AFFECTING THE PACIFIC OCEON AREA. Mere hours after emerging over the sun's eastern limb on Dec. 31st, big sunspot AR3536 erupted, producing a major X5-class solar flare. This is the strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25 (so far) and the most powerful eruption the sun has produced since the great storms of Sept. 2017. Radiation from the flare caused a deep shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. spaceweather.com/images2023/31dec23/blackoutmap.jpg Ham radio operators noticed loss of signal at all frequencies below 30 MHz for more than 60 minutes after the flare's peak. It was too soon to know for sure, but this explosion probably launched a coronal mass ejection into space. Because the blast site is located near the extreme eastern edge of the sun, the CME was unlikely to have a significant Earth-directed component. Update: This explosion caused a solar tsunami. You can see the shock wave in this animation from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. spaceweather.com/images2023/31dec23/tsunami_red_strip.gif Last week on the news we, whilst doing an item on CQ Magazine mentioned how CQ-DATV ceased its free online publication in 2021. Although that IS still to be read on the net, clarification re 'Status of CQ-DATV is in error. Terry Mowles VK5TM, as the PDF editor for the magazine, made contact to advise that CQ-DATV is an independent publication out of the UK and has no association at all with CQ Communications, Inc. The free magazine is still produced every month by Ian Pawson G8IQU, Trevor Brown G8CJS, Terry Mowles VK5TM and Jim Andrews KH6HTV. Now even further... Mark WC3W from dxmarathon.com says the annual DX Marathon Program will remain viable with or without CQ Magazine. The program does not receive any financial support from CQ nor do they draw any resources to operate the DX Marathon program from them. They do publish the rules in usually the November issue (still to be printed) for the following year, and the program results in the June issue. Bottom linedo not be concerned with regard to the DX Marathons viability, Mark WC3W says, "We will do just fine with or without CQ Magazine." In this weeks operational news from the WIA National News Service, Felix VK4FUQ will have more on this current years DXMARATHON... Stay Tuned. dxmarathon.com/ Hams Help Community Radio Station Get Back on Air ICQPODCAST have reported that because of amateur radio, community radio station KNYO, is going to start this new year very differently from the way it did last year. Eleven months ago, the low-power FM station in Fort Bragg, California lost its antenna after the collapse of the 70-foot pine tree which was being used as its tower. The FCC authorised a temporary fix that authorised the antenna to be installed on a mast, but, only one-third that height, but it did get the all-volunteer station back on the air. Then an October thunderstorm struck and the signal went silent again. That's when hams from the Mendocino County Amateur Radio Communication Service, NC 6 MC, stepped in. After station volunteers could not determine what had gone wrong, the club's president Derek, KE6EBZ, sent a team over to help investigate. These hams discovered that lightning had struck the antenna during the storm. The lightning arrestor was damaged and several connectors had been knocked out. Repairs quickly got underway. Hopefully, 2024 will begin with smoother operation - and better weather - for station KNYO. If not, amateur radio is standing by. WEIRD AND WONDERFULL The Lost Cosmonauts of the USSR: dramatic transmissions picked up from outer space. Have you heard about the secret space programs of the USSR? Lost Cosmonauts in Space? It is almost a plot out of a science fiction movie. There are hundreds of books and publications around the world which have talked about the space race and the numerous incidents that occurred. The Story about 'Lost Cosmonauts' begins with two Italian Brothers, Giovanni and Achille Judica-Cordiglia who were amateur radio operators with an incredible passion for picking up transmission from space: specifically transmission between Russian cosmonauts and Soviet Ground control. Utilizing a very limited set up, the two Italian brothers allegedly intercepted signals which were sent by the Sputnik Satellite and even eavesdrop on Laika, the canine explorer aboard Sputnik II. Some believe that somewhere in the vast darkness of space, currently over 9,000 million kilometres away from the Sun, the first human being is reaching the limits of our Solar System. The Cosmonauts body, perfectly preserved, is frozen at 270 degrees below zero, and the tiny spaceship drifted for over 50 years away from Earth at a speed of almost 30,000 km per hour. This would mean that this is the first cosmonaut lost in space, forgotten in the secret history of mankinds attempt to conquer space. According to many conspiracy theories, early missions of the Soviet Space Program experienced terrible accidents in their attempt to conquer space. These failures resulted in loss of life: many Cosmonauts made it to space but never actually made it back home. A mysterious signal picked up May 1961, is a dramatic transmission where the voice of a woman can be heard the transmission features the last minutes of a Russian female cosmonaut as her capsule burned up during re-entry into Earths atmosphere. During a period of four years, the Cordiglia brothers released a total of nine recordings but THAT ONE is the most interesting of all. Links to the story and to the recordings are in this weeks Text Edition. tinyurl.com/4jkvdd7y -------------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2024 -------------- -------------- The 2024 CQ DX Marathon The CQ DX Marathon is designed to promote DXing activity throughout the year. Credit is given for contacts on all amateur bands (160 to 6 metres) including those not normally used for contesting (60, 30, 17 and 12 metres). Contesting QSOs can be used as long as they are made from the same station operation. The CQ DX Marathon is a yearlong activity, it began at Zero Hours UTC Monday last, the first of January and ends at 23:59 UTC Tuesday 31 December 2024. Contacts through repeaters or satellites are not allowed for credit, nor are contacts with maritime or aeronautical mobile stations. All contacts must be made entirely over amateur radio frequencies. EchoLink-type, DMR, All-Star, etc., contacts do NOT count. Modes for which the operator is licensed may be used. Examples of the modes to be used in the DX Marathon programme are CW (utilises the International Morse Code) Phone (USB, LSB, DSB, FM (voice), AM) Digital: PSK, RTTY, FT8, FT4 (SARL) VKCC The VK Contest Club have just held their annual luncheon, VK4TS Trent Sampson joins us:- Hello everyone! Despite Mother Natures fury hitting the Gold Coast with tornadoes and heavy flooding, a resilient group defied the odds to gather at Mango Hill Tavern for our annual meet-up on Saturday, December 30th, 2023. In the face of adversity, these intrepid souls embraced the day: VK4CT, John, accompanied by his partner in crime, XYL Liz; VK4CZ, Scott; VK4DX, Mike; VK4TS, along with his better half, XYL Lorraine; VK4XU, Sonny; VK4UH, Kevin, and VK4UV, Colin formed the core of our indomitable group. Not forgetting VK4DI, Di, and VK4ZD, Bill, who added their vibrant personalities to the mix. The weather might have tried to dampen our spirits, but it couldnt deter this bunch of enthusiasts passionate about all things radio. We might have been fewer in number, but the camaraderie and enthusiasm were undiminished. Stories were shared, knowledge exchanged, and the day was a testament to the resilience and determination of our community. While some couldnt join due to the adverse conditions, the spirit of togetherness and passion for our hobby burned bright in Mango Hill Tavern. Here's to the unbreakable spirit of the amateur radio community, weathering storms both literal and metaphorical, always coming together stronger. Until next time, keep those radios buzzing and spirits high! (Trent VK4TS) -------------- 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. This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, manager of the VHF-UHF Field Days. The Summer 2024 event will proceed as planned. In the meantime, renewed efforts to catch up preparing results for past contest are under way thanks to a small team of volunteers. Keep an eye on the Field Days web page. So, get your gear together for the Summer VHF-UHF Field Day and enjoy it! This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. ----------------- 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) -------------- DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD. -------------- FRENCH AMATEUR'S SPECIAL EVENT HONOURS POLISH MARTYR Several special event stations go on the air from around the world each year in August, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe. He was born, however, in January and an event is on marking the 130th anniversary of that day. He was a Polish priest, Maximilian Maria Kolbe, martyred in Auschwitz during World War II. Hams often hold special event stations in August to mark the date of his death. One ham in France -- Jeff, F 4 IIQ chose to mark his birth on January 8th. He is on air with callsign TM 130 SMK to the 9th of January, Tuesday this week. The Franciscan priest, who was canonized in 1982, is considered the patron saint of amateur radio for having founded a monastery in Poland dedicated to communications. The monastery housed a short-wave radio station with the callsign SP 3 RN. When the monastery was shut by the Nazis in 1941, Maximilian Maria Kolbe was arrested and sent to Auschwitz where he volunteered to take the place of another man who was marked to die. The priest was executed by lethal injection after having been placed in a starvation bunker. Father Kolbe is also the inspiration for the Saint Maximilian Kolbe Net, which was founded by two amateurs in the US in 1998. It meets on 80 and 20 metres Sundays. (ARNewsLine) -------------- EAST KIRIBATI. Members of the Rebel DX Group are QRV as T 32 TT from Christmas Island, IOTA OC-024, until January 12 on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, FT8, and FT4. QSL via OQRS. (eHam and vk4bb) -------------- MOROCCO. Yannick, F6FYD is QRV as CN 2 YD until March 15. -------------- THE VAAL DAM CELEBRATES ITS 85TH BIRTHDAY The Sasolburg ARC will be operating ZS 85 VDAM now to 1 April 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. -------------- NAMIBIA. QRV is V 51 WH from Omaruru until the end of April Activity is on 160 to 10 meters, including 60 meters for those in the world able to use that band. V51WH. QSL to Gunter, home call is DK2WH (eHam) -------------- MALAWI. Don, 7Q6M is QRV until May 13, 2024 and has also been active on 160 meters. QSL via LoTW. ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 Midway through last month, December, we brought you news of SOTA's 2024 10 Metre SOTA Challenge. Yes Summits on the Air are holding a year-long challenge taking place on the 10 metre band from 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024. SOTA is encouraging the use of 10 meters as solar cycle 25 is projected to peak. NOW AN UPDATE. This in from SOTA. There will be a special 10m Challenge results page but note, lots of you said you DON'T WANT SOTA contests and we listened. There will NOT be an overall winner or association winners. BUT Have fun climbing and working... the mountain tops if not the winning ladder. (sourced to icqpodacst) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS LOW DOWN A TREASURED TRANSMITTER'S ENDURING MESSAGE As we step across the threshold of a new year, it's a comfort to know that some things endure. They were built to last - and in fact, they DO last. One example is the tradition of a message of Christmas peace, transmitted from a historic transmitter in Sweden. On Christmas Eve morning, the World Heritage Grimeton Radio station carried a message to the world, older than the 100-year-old transmitter herself. It was a message of peace sent via Morse Code. Hams and non-hams alike from around the world tuned in via SDR or other means to hear the code being sent via the Alexanderson Alternator SAQ signal on 17.2 kHz long wave. Others simply witnessed the event on YouTube, where spectators from Poland, Belgium, Colombia, Brazil and Australia left words of support and appreciation. The history behind this transmitter is as cherished as the message it carries several times each year: With every transmission it underscores the progress we have made over the years in wireless communication -- while affirming the progress the world still needs to make in so many other areas. (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 SO If YOUR VK ZL club has plans for this years ILLW let us now PRONTO so we can help promote to the world, SURELY (Shirley) they is more than just Darwin already to pop on air lighting up the bands August 17. Maritime Radio Historical Society old KPH Over the Air Cryptographic Challenge. January 20, KPH will transmit a coded message consisting of 5-digit groups. The message will be encrypted using typical Cold War numbers station cryptographic procedures. All KPH listeners are invited to try their hand at receiving and decrypting the message. Certificates will be awarded to those who successful decode the message. Additionally, a special certificate will be awarded to the first person to decode it. Broadcast frequencies for the January 20 event, starting 2100 UTC are:- CW: 425.0, 6477.5, 8642.0, 12808.5, 17016.8, and 22477.5 RTTY: Following the CW transmission: 6324.5, 8427.0 and 12585.5 Additional details and rules can be found on the Maritime Radio Historical Society website. radiomarine.org/mrhs-events (ard) 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 Just as Youth on the Air month ended on the last day of December, Ham Radio Kids Day was just getting warmed up. The annual ARRL event took place yesterday, Saturday the 6th of January as a way of showing youngsters the kind of fun they can have on the air - and to interest them in science and technology. One group, The New Providence Amateur Radio Club in New Jersey operated the event with the youngsters at the Salt Brook School. During the event, youngsters were on the air under the supervision of licensed hams. Kids called "CQ Kids Day" and the kid-friendly exchange was name, age, location and favourite colour. (sourced to ARNewsLine) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2024 IT'S A DATE Clubs are welcome to email 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. 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