2024 JUNE 23 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 JUNE 23 2024 IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS THIS WEEK:- WIA Director Lee Moyle VK3GK. - CAN YOU HELP WITH TABULATING SOME LOGS? VK4TS Trent Sampson asks for help. BUT WAIT - THERE'S 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 Director Lee Moyle VK3GK Last month, I along with a number of WIA members attended Dayton Hamvention held in Xenia Ohio USA. Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY, Peter Young VK3MV, Chris Platt VK5CP, Phil Waite VK2ASD are all either current or past WIA board members who all had a great time catching up with many of the international peak body representatives for discussions on topics such as youth, membership retention and new international projects. Chris and I also met with ARRL President Rick Roderick K5UR and IARU Region 3 Secretary Yosuke (Yuki) Uchiyama, JH1NBN. Numbers were up again this year which set another attendance record this year of 35,877 attendees over the weekends event. Dayton Hamvention 2025 is scheduled for May 16th-18th. Put the date in your diary, the event needs to be experienced. For those on social media, there are a couple of FaceBook groups with dedicated discussions and hints and tips for Hamvention trip planning. Search for VKs Going to Dayton and VKs going to Tokyo Hamfair. International Hamventions are a great meeting place for many hams. Next up is Friedrichshafen in Germany on June 28th to 30th then its Tokyo hamfair at a new venue the Ariake GYM-EX on August 24th and 25th. Several VK hams have already booked for Tokyo, attending hamfair and have applied for a Japanese callsign using reciprocal agreements in place between Australia and Japan. The IARU World Championship Contest is on again on the weekend of July 13th-14th. Contest Period: Begins 1200 UTC Saturday and runs through 1159 UTC Sunday. Both Single and Multioperator stations may operate the entire 24-hour period. The WIA will have a Headquarters Station operating in the contest. Callsign to be used will be VK3WIA but others may be added depending on operators available. The VHF/UHF contest results are being processed and Trent Sampson VK4TS has asked for any persons wishing to volunteer a few hours to help process the current logs to contact him. Work is being done in the background to streamline log checking. Alan Shannon VK4SN is developing plugins for N1MM logging software for the VHF/UHF Contest. Not surprisingly, WIA membership is back on the increase with many previous WIA members renewing their memberships along with new first timers joining. Timing is coincidental to the ACMA introducing the class licence. The WIA board are planning to update the Vendor Discount Program with some new additions. This is another tangible benefit of WIA membership along with AR magazine. WIA and ACMA continue to meet regularly and ACMA continue to improve the exam process. ACMA Assessors will be pleased that the new exam papers have been made editable and now candidates can fill out the exam answer sheets directly on the PC screen for their results to be uploaded to the ACMA portal for processing. Once a callsign has been applied for and processed their issue seem to be very timely and often within just a few days. Thats all for now and I hope to work you in the IARU contest. 73 from Lee VK3GK VHF UHF FIELD DAY LOG VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: For a couple of years the WIA has not been able to process the VHF UHF Field Day results owing to the Log Checker not being available. It has gone beyond the time to hold out for a solution and we need people to give us a hand. It is not Herculean task but it is close. Because of the complexity of cross checking, it is proposed that we do not do that and rather accept in good faith, all logs as they are presented and tabulate. The proposal is simply to share the logs amongst a group and enter the details to a shared spreadsheet. The completed spreadsheet would be forwarded to Roger VK2ZRH for the report. We expect each contest with 5 volunteers to take no longer than 4 hours (per contest with 6 in the back log) - any logs not containing correct information would be excluded. PLEASE EMAIL vk4ts@outlook.com if you are willing and able to help. (Trent Sampson VK4TS) AUSTRALIANA The Federal Court has published a judgment ruling that Phaze Broadcasting Pty Ltd had contravened the Radiocommunications Act 1992. The ruling followed an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that Phaze was breaching its low power open narrowcasting (LPON) licence by operating transmitters from an unlicensed address in Ballarat, Victoria. Phaze has a number of LPON licences in the Ballarat area but was not operating at the locations specified on its licences. In his judgment, Justice OCallaghan found that a failure to comply with the licensing regime is harmful to the community of licensees who rely on the proper regulation of the spectrum for commercial purposes, as well as for defence, national security and other non-commercial purposes; and to the Australian community who rely on, and enjoy the benefits of, a well-managed spectrum. Phaze was required to forfeit three radiocommunications transmitters and was issued an injunction preventing it from carrying out further contraventions. It was also issued a fine of $8000. (criticalcoms) ALARA EDUCATION. DISCUSSION POINT ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to ARRL, DX-WORLD, eHam, Hackaday, IARU, ICQPodcast, IRTS, NEWSLINE, NZART, RAC, Radioworld.com, RSGB, SARL and the World Wide sources of the WIA. GERMANY June 24th will see the much-anticipated changes for some hams, revisions to the Amateur Radio Ordinance take effect, granting simplified remote-operating privileges to holders of a Class A license The ability to operate remotely has been a sought-after opportunity for many hams who want to stay active on the air but are not permitted to install antennas at their residence or suffer from a significant amount of electromagnetic interference there. A project being undertaken by the DARC, Germany's national amateur radio organization, is bringing remote operation 'home', so to speak, by building a network of remote stations around the country that will be accessible to Class A hams in these situations. The development of the stations was funded from DARC and membership funds. International Amateur Radio Exhibition will be held on 28 to 30 June in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Lake Constance. This years theme is 60 years of Islands on the Air: technology meets adventure! The 47th edition of this amateur radio exhibition will bring together radio amateurs from all over the world. HAM RADIO is Europes largest trade fair for radio enthusiasts, with over 300 commercial exhibitors and associations showcasing their extensive range of products and training courses on various radio technology topics take place. New this year is The Innovation Hub of the International Amateur Radio Union and the extension to two Career Days. Returning this year is Ham Camp, where young radio enthusiasts and youth organizations spend the night in the exhibition hall, connecting with like-minded individuals of the same age who share their passion for radio. The May Edition of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Newsletter has has been published. In this most recent newsletter, they report that many intruder and inferring transmissions on the HF amateur radio bands have continued despite the significant solar disruption during this time period. Strange and unusual transmissions have been observed. On the 20-meter amateur radio band, the transmission of several types of wideband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ( or OFDM ) typically used for digital communication were noted, supposedly of Russian origin according to the report. You can read more about the observed signals and watch short video examples of them yourself by downloading the newsletter from the monitoring system page at iaru-r1.org Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. has officially declared the week of June 23/29 as Amateur Radio Week in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In a celebration of community service and innovation, Gov. Bryan acknowledged the invaluable contributions of the 150 ham radio operators in the Virgin Islands. These dedicated individuals have partnered with federal and local emergency service organizations to ensure effective communication during severe weather, natural disasters and power outages. ------------------------------------------------------------------- OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION -------------- -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2024 -------------- -------------- THIS WEEKEND WIA WINTER UHF VHF FIELD DAY 0100 UTC Saturday 22 June through 0059 UTC Sunday 23 June (in VK6 it's 0300 / 0359 in VK6). wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/ (wia) ---------------------------------------------------- IARU HF World Championship July 13-14. Starts: Zero hours UTC Saturday Ends: 2359 UTC Sunday There is no operating time restriction for stations in any category. The aim of the contest is to support amateur self-training in radiocommunications, including improving amateur operating skills, conducting technical investigations, and intercommunicating with other amateurs around the world, especially IARU Member Society Headquarters Stations. (SARL) ---------------------------------------------------- ZL Autumn and Winter Sprints Start marking those calendars, as the greatest ZL Sprint series held at 0800z on a Tuesday night is back for the month of July. Just to change things up and in a blatant attempt to try and attract "the cool kids", 30min of FT4 has been added to the series. As before, this contest from New Zealand starts with 30min of CW followed by 30min of SSB and then 30min of FT4 all on 80m. The CW/SSB exchange is RST and your outside temperature. The FT4 exchange is your 4 digit Maidenhead grid-locator. The object is to work as many stations as you can in one or more of the 3 sessions. It is a relaxed introduction to contesting and a chance to try out a new mode or equipment (nzart) ------------- Trans-Tasman Low Band Contest July 21st 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) ------------------- YOTA Contest 2024 The next session of this year's YOTA Contest will be from 10:00 to 21:59 UTC 21 July on the five classic bands using CW and SSB. Everyone can work everyone. The complete rules can be found on ham-yota.com/contest. ----------------- RSGB IOTA Contest July 27. ----------------- AUGUST 17 - 18 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) ----------------------------- 44th A.L.A.R.A. CONTEST AND this ALARA contest is ALWAYS held on the last FULL weekend of August. ELIGIBILITY? All licensed operators throughout the world are invited to participate. Scout and Girl Guide groups are encouraged to take part using their Club's equipment and callsign. YLs work everyone; OMs work YLs only. CONTEST: Combined phone and CW run over 24 hours: STARTS: Saturday 25th August 2024 at 0600 hours UTC ENDS: Sunday 26th August 2024 at 0559 hours UTC SUGGESTED FREQUENCIES: All HF Bands except 160m & WARC Bands. Contacts made on ECHOLINK will also be accepted. (alara web page) ------------- Oceania DX Contest This years contest will be held on October 5th and 12th respectively. oceaniadxcontest.com ------------------- YOTA CONTEST Youth on the air test 3 of 3 will be from 10:00 to 21:59 UTC on 29 December on the five classic bands CW and SSB. (yota) ----------------------------------------------------------------- DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD. -------------- -------------- FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Special event stations DL 2024 E, DL 2024 U, DL 2024 R, and DL 2024 O are QRV until July 14 during EURO 2024, the 17th edition of the UEFA European Football Championship. QSL via bureau. (eHam) -------------- NEW ZEALAND NZART has a special event call sign for the upcoming America's Cup to be held in Spain later this year. ZL 6 AMCUP has been allocated to celebrate this event with Phil Garside ZL2RO as the trustee of the callsign. November 30 is when ZLCAMCUP goes off air. (NZART) -------------- In the World of DX, be listening for members of the Zurich City Police Radio Amateur Club throughout the year, operating as HB 2 SP the club is marking its 20th anniversary. Unfortunately no Bureau QSL's but you can use Logbook Of The World, and HB20SP runs until December 31. (sourced to arnl 2410) -------------- Listen throughout the year for the special callsign 9 A 1 RKZ marking the 100th anniversary of the Radioklub Zagreb which was founded the 24th of March 1924 in Croatia QSL via 9A1ADE. (ARNewsLine 2410) -------------- Germany. The Berlin Airlift was an operation that carried supplies by plane to the Allied sectors of West Berlin over a Russian blockade. For more than a year, hundreds of American, British and French cargo planes ferried provisions to West Berlin's Tempelhof, Gatow and Tegel airfields. Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift, three special event stations are active between now and 24 June: DL0GWW for Gatow DL0TXL for Tegel DL0THF for Tempelhof. QSL via LoTW, QRZ Logbook, and the DARC Community Logbook; paper cards will not be provided, but an award will be available: ham-awards.de/index.php/75luft/. (sarl) -------------- Special callsign HF 25 NATO is active until the 31st of August, marking the 25th anniversary of Poland joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Certificates and limited-edition QSL cards are available. Visit QRZ.com for details. (ARNewsLine 2428) -------------- The 13 Colonies Special Event returns for 2024 and takes place July 1-7. 13 special callsigns will be on the air, each one representing one of the original 13 British colonies that were first established in 1607. Three additional bonus callsigns will be on the air representing Great Britain, France, and Philadelphia. K2A through to K2M are the 13 BONUS stations are TM13COL GB13COL and W3PEN. Certificates will be available whether you work one or all colonies. The bonus stations are not required to earn a clean sweep. More information is available on the 13 Colonies Special Event website. 13colonies.us/ ((ARD)) -------------- WAR on TOWNSVILLE: In the early morning hours of the 29th. July 1942 a Japanese aircraft dropped eight x 250 lbs. bombs. Now, on July 29 this year from the heritage listed Oonoonba bomb site Ray Schinkel calling vk4oil and his team will be activating a station ( as I said vk4oil) in remembrance of the attack. Ray has details "Our transmission on the Anniversary of the Bombing, 29th. July 2024 from the Oonoonba bomb site (Heritage listed) will be - Transmission Start: 2.00 pm EST Transmission Finish: 4.00 pm EST Freq. 7.100 + or - LSB. Net Control VK4ZZ - Gavin from TARC H'quarters." -------------- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Radio Belgrade, the Belgrade Amateur Radio Club is active as YT 100 RB and YU 1924 RB until November 30. For details of a certificate that is available, see yu1ano.org (rsgb) -------------- Members of Ari Colli Albani are on the air as II LOR until the 30th of June marking the 80th anniversary of Rome's liberation during the Second World War. QSL via I KNQ and certificates will be available. (newsline 2431) -------------- Niger. Elvira is active calling 5 U 5 K now until June 20 using SSB, RTTY, other digital modes and sometimes some CW all bands 160 to 6 metres. Francesco, IK 0 XBX is her pilot station. QSL 5U5K direct to IK 2 DUW. (sarl) ------------- AUSTRIA OE 100 RADIO until the 31st of December celebrates the 100th anniversary of regular radio transmissions in Austria in 1924. The station has heard recently on the 40m band using CW. QSL via the Bureau. (gb2rs) ---------- In the World of DX, the Rushyhill Radio Society will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, which took place June 6th, 1944 by using the callsign GB 8 DDY now until the 28th of June. See QRZ.com for details. -------------- Active is TR 8 CR from Gabon until at least the end of June, the operator? F8EN Roland. He will operate CW only and will celebrate his 96th birthday while there. QSL for TR8CR is via F6AJA directly or the Bureau. Roland can usually be found on the 30 to 10m bands. ( rsgb ) -------------- NEW ZEALAND - Wireless and Wool ZM 100 DX Celebrating Historic 100 Year Trans World Radio Contact This contact was by Morse and was the first ever, trans-world two-way radio communication of any type. It was from Shag Valley Station, Otago and the contact was with Cecil Goyder G2SZ at Mill Hill School, London. ZM100DX as well as ZL4AA will be on air on site in Shag Valley Sheep Station. The main planned contact is between Shag Valley sheep Station and Mill Hill School 18th October and other celebration events are planned for the following day or two. NZART Branch 30 sincerely invites all amateurs to take part in this celebration and join in marking the 100th year since the original qso. zl4aa.org.nz/zl4aa/history/z4aa-transworld-contact (sourced to NZART Infoline) ------------------------------------------------------------* 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 Special callsign OE 20 SOTA is active until the 31st of October to mark the 20th anniversary of Austria joining the Summits on the Air programme. Operators have been heard recently on the 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands using SSB. For details of a certificate that is available, for making 20 or more contacts with the station, see QRZ.com (rsgb) The Russian Flora and Fauna organization has severed ties with World Wide Flora and Fauna. RN 3 ANT, wrote that the decision was made with regret because of recent actions by the WWFF Committee, including the elimination in April of Crimean RRF park references. He has said that award applications that have already been approved will be completed but new RFF-H applications through WWFF will not. He also said that Russia's own Flora and Fauna programme will continue to operate and issue awards. (newsline 2433) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org Russian cosmonaut and ISS commander Oleg Konenko has become the first person to reach 1,000 cumulative days in space, as of June 4. The milestone comes amid his fifth flight to space and during his third stint as the commander of the ISS. His most recent trip to the orbiting laboratory began with a launch aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15, 2023, alongside cosmonaut Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral OHara, KI5TOM. Hes scheduled to return with Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson in September 2024. [ANS] WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA iota-world.org/ RSGB IOTA Contest is July 27. LORD HOWE ISLAND, VK9LA. Yuris, YL2GM is QRV as, wait for it, VK9LA until June 24. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL to VK9LA via Yiuris's home call which again is YL 2 GM. (eHam) BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, VP2V IOTA NA-023 Dave, W9DR is QRV as VP2V/W9DR from Anegada, IOTA NA-023 until June 25 BUTs on 6 meters only from Grid Square FK78tr using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL direct to home call. (eHam) EAST MALAYSIA, Sarawak IOTA OC-088 9 M 1 Z is radiating from Sarawak until months end, and remember this IS a shorter month. Activity is on 80 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL 9M1Z via LoTW. (sourced to arrl) IOTA AN-002 Bouvet Island 3Y0K. The sailboat contract has been cancelled and there will be no January 2025 operation. The organisers are negotiating a contract for a large expedition vessel and helicopter operation to take place in January 2026. (SARL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS LOW DOWN As WIA National News reported last week, the Alexander association in Sweden is celebrating Alexanderson Day on June 30 with CW transmissions on 17.2 kHz utilizing the SAQ radio transmitter first used in 1924. At that time the transmitter was used to transmit across the Atlantic ocean to Long Island, NY, USA. Messages are scheduled to be transmitted at 09:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC on June 30th. If you can't hear the transmissions over the air, the event can be viewed live on YouTube. youtube.com/channel/UC-83S-l9JKD1iuhsXx3XQ3g Test transmissions may take place on June 28th. QSL reports will be accepted and an amateur radio station, SK 6 SAQ, will also be on the air to mark the event. More information can be found on the Alexanderson Day webpage. alexander.n.se/en/alexanderson-day-2024/ (ard) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO HAMS RESPOND TO INDIAN REGION'S MAJOR CYCLONE A deadly tropical cyclone has left parts of coastal India and Bangladesh devastated. In the middle of it all, hams were there, relaying messages nonstop, as we hear our own John Williams VK4JJW as he reported for NewsLine. "As tropical cyclone Remal battered India and Bangladesh, a team of 27 amateur radio operators from West Bengal worked around the clock to keep the lines of communications open in a region overtaken by lost power and flooding. The West Bengal Radio Club responded to requests by local authorities to set up at various strategic locations in and around the Sagar Islands in Sunderbans. Operators used two mobile vans and eight control rooms, communicating on VHF and UHF frequencies. According to updates the amateurs posted on their Facebook page, the van patrolled the coastal areas reporting back with updates to the control centres. The deadly storm was estimated to have affected millions in the coastal region of the two nations and the death toll estimates varied - but continued to climb. Authorities rushed to have people evacuated as their homes collapsed around them. At its peak, the storm achieved maximum speeds of between 110 and 120 km/h, with gusts of as much as 135 km/h. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - QRP QRP DAY ALWAYS JUNE 17 As you'd have been aware International QRP day, an IARU region 3 initiative was held June 11 and although no VK activity one country, South Africa came up with a catchy name and contest. The Wacky 1W Challenge. South African operators tested their QRP skills during this weekend, tested knowledge of effective antennas and operating procedures by limiting power levels to just one watt, one wacky watt, and used distance to calculate scores instead of the number of contacts made. tinyurl.com/wacky1w (sarl) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. If you would like to gain your amateur radio foundation license or you know someone who does FAMPARC is there to help The Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Amateur Radio Club is set to hold another Foundation License Course on the Saturday the 29th June, and the exam on the Sunday 30th. Its anticipated Saturdays session will run from 9.30am to 4.00am however times may vary depending on the size of the class For more details visit the FAMPARC web site vk3frc.org.au and click on the foundation license link Those dates again.Saturday and Sunday June 29th & 30th VK4 - Caboolture Radio Club HamFest is to be held on Saturday 13th July. The venue, a new one, the Caboolture Uniting Church Hall, 257 King street. That's the corner of King and Smiths Road. Breakfast will be served from 8 am, with the HamFest opening at 9 am. Admission is $5. For further information see the Club's Facebook page facebook.com/vk4qd (Alan VK4TG Secretary, Caboolture Radio Club Inc.) VK3 - Bendigo AR & Electronics Club RadioFest August 18 (vk3gtv) VK6 - PerthTech 2024 Sept 21 for 2 days at Gidgegannup (vk6pop) VK4 - GOLD COAST HAMFEST OCTOBER 13 at Nerang Country Paradise Parklands 231 Beaudesert-Nerang Road Nerang. 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