2024 NOVEMBER 17 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA
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 NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING NOVEMBER 17 2024
 IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

 THIS WEEK:-

 WIA DIRECTOR LEE MOYLE VK3GK . -

 WIA Affiliated Clubs Coordinator Angelo VK2NWT . -

 WIA Education Committee Chair Amanda VK1AH . -

 WIA LIFE MEMBER Bruce Bathols VK3UV falls Silent Key.

 BUT WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
 WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.
 
 I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB
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This is WIA Director Lee Moyle VK3GK

The WIA has received some very sad news earlier this week that Bruce Bathols VK3UV passed away peacefully last Sunday . He will be sadly missed. 
Bruce was an Honorary Life Member of the WIA, an honour that was well earned by Bruce.
 
He had a time as a Member of the WIA Board of Management, including as President, Vice President and at one stage even the treasurer. He was even the editor of AR magazine for many years. Bruce also contributed to the institute in so many ways. He was very involved in WICEN and the RAOTC as well.
Bruce was also a Marriage celebrant.
 
Bruce was an active member of FAMPARC and previously a member of MDRC. He was always up for a chat and I had personally known him since the early 1980s when I was first licenced and both members of MDRC in Moorabbin. He always enjoyed catching up with other hams .
I was aware that his health had been deteriorating in recent times.
Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Bruce's funeral details are: 11.30 am on Wednesday, 20th November 2024 at the Mentone Life Saving Club, Beach Road, Mentone, opposite Kitchener
street.

Vale Bruce Bathols VK3UV SK


Now for a report on the activities of the R.E.A.S.T. Convention held in Hobart on the first weekend of November.
This event is quite a unique gathering of hams. Many of the same faces were seen from the previous event held in 2022 and many new faces as well. It was great to see so many WIA members, past WIA Directors and Presidents amongst the attendees.
REAST did a spectacular job of organizing some excellent speakers, some on line and some in person. I was quite impressed at the online presenters and their specialist topics on POTA and Space Weather. In person presenters were excellent too. A great range of interesting topics both days to suit all attendees. 
Hayden VK7HH and Justin VK7TW did an amazing job of hosting and keeping the schedule running to precision time. Hayden did a great job with the online quizzes and I am happy to say I managed a first place in the general knowledge ham quiz. A shiny new 200mW WSPR TX should soon be on air.

Hobart put on a spectacular weekend of near perfect weather and Friday was the private visit to the Grote Reber Museum, a close up viewing of the 24.5m parabolic dish, followed up with a BBQ at the REAST clubrooms.
A special announcement by Kevin Johnston VK4UH suggested that in late 2025 the conference will be held in VK4. Put it in your diary.

Phil Waite VK2ASD and Justin VK7TW announced that the RSGB EMR calculator will be available on the WIA website along with documentation produced by the WIA Education committee for all amateurs to use to calculate EMR compliance of their stations. A requirement by ACMA. 
Jump online check your station compliance for 10W, 100W, 400W and even 1 or 2kW. 
More information can be found on the WIA website or go to
www.wia-education.com.au/

For the Contesters, the Oceania DX Contest committee has the raw scores nearly ready to go public.
Keep a look out on the Oceania DX Contest website for the raw scores.

Next week we should have a full report on the IARU meeting in Thailand attended by Peter Young VK3MV and IARU Region 3 Director Oscar Reyes VK3TX.

For now, 73 from Lee VK3GK.   





This is Angelo VK2NWT WIA Affiliated Clubs Coordinator.

I want to remind all Affiliated Clubs of the need to continually ensure that your clubs contact details that appear on the WIA Website are up 
to date. Any changes to the committee and their contact details must be reflected on your clubs WIA page as soon as they occur. 
The only contact details the WIA uses to get in touch with your club is solely based on the information drawn from your Club pages on the WIA Website. There are no other lists. 

The WIA corresponds directly with Clubs via email on a range of matters such as major news topics, providing advance notice and invitations to your club for upcoming WIA online forums or webinar, seeking feedback or to direct inquires that we may receive from the public wanting more information about your club. 

Its amazing just how many club contact details are incorrect right now, leading to missed opportunities and confusion.

A perfect example of what can go wrong is the recent email sent out by the WIA to the Presidents and Secretaries of all Affiliated clubs. The email, regarding the excellent initiative by the WIA Education Committee provided details of their work as well as requesting club input for consideration as they progress. Incredibly, over two dozen emails were bounced back as undeliverable. I will be reaching out to those clubs over the next few days to request the correct information, but this is really something every club needs to get right not only for WIA correspondence but for anybody wishing to contact your club. Bounced emails and incorrect phone numbers will never create a great first impression. 

So, Im reaching out not just to Club Presidents and Secretaries but to all members of WIA Affiliated Clubs and ask that you take a fresh look at your Clubs contact details on the WIA website and advise the nominated person in your club to make any corrections as soon as possible. 

As always, if you need any assistance with Affiliated Club matters, please don't hesitate to contact me via email at vk2nwt@wia.org.au

This has been Angelo VK2NWT for VK1WIA News.





 EDUCATION.

 This is Amanda VK1AH Chair of the WIA Education Committee.

 I would like to thank all of you who took that have taken trouble to
 respond to our education survey, which is still open.

 We are in the process of collating and analysing the responses received
 so far.

 In due course we will contact those who have made comments and provided
 contact details.

 Initial results suggest that the Amateur community would welcome
 standardized training materials and information to better inform 
 current operators and newcomers.

 You may have heard on last weeks broadcast the announcement about the
 release of a package to enable self-assessment of your station for its
 EMR compliance as required by the class licence regulations. This
 package is an initiative by the committee that has been in the works
 for some months along with other information that we believe will
 assist the amateur community with training and general information.

 If you have not yet made a submission to the survey it is still open.

 73 Amanda VK1AH on behalf of the WIA Education Committee

 surveymonkey.com/r/EducatioCommittee2024





 AUSTRALIANA

 Maser and its partner MatSing, a leading innovator in high-capacity
 lens antenna technology, have assisted in the enhancement of cellular
 connectivity at one of Sydneys iconic stadiums with the integration
 of advanced lens antennas into a new distributed antenna system (DAS) 
 providing high-speed mobile connectivity for spectators attending
 sporting, music and other festivals at Sydneys largest entertainment
 venue.

 To meet the communication needs of the stadium, which has a capacity of
 83,500 people, a state-of-the-art indoor network has been deployed.

 This network incorporates 14 MatSing lens antennas strategically placed
 to cover the field and lower seating areas.

 These multi-beam, tri-band antennas utilise a patented spherical lens
 design with four isolated F-band (3.34.2 GHz) cross-polarised beams,
 four isolated mid-band (16952690 MHz) cross-polarised beams and
 two isolated low-band (698960 MHz) beams.

 There is a need for increased connectivity in todays world of sports 
 and entertainment, and these lens antennas are proven to deliver
 industry-leading, high-capacity connectivity, said Bo Larsson,
 CEO of MatSing.

 (sourced to critical comms)





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 INTERNATIONAL NEWS is with thanks to ARRL, DX-WORLD, eHam, Hackaday,
 IARU, ICQPodcast, IRTS, NEWSLINE and the World Wide sources of the WIA. 

 As parts of Spain were overtaken by historic flooding, two groups
 provided emergency radio communications through VHF/UHF repeaters in
 the hard-hit region. 

 Much of the response came from R.E.M.E.R., the government's Civil
 Protection Radio Network, which draws membership from the amateur
 community. Other hams were deployed from Emcom-Espana, the emergency
 communications group of the URE, the Spanish national amateur radio
 society, whose messages proved vital as flash floods pounded eastern
 Spain, trapping and killing people in the unrelenting weather
 conditions.

 Meanwhile, as officials assessed the flood damage, search parties were
 dispatched to seek out those reported missing.





 A draft report about the 2020 collapse that led to the dismantling of
 the Arecibo Observatory's 305-metre telescope has pinpointed what is
 believed to be the root cause.

 Investigators found "unprecedented and accelerated long-term zinc creep
 induced failure."

 In other words, the failure occurred in the radio telescope's cable
 sockets designed to support the 900-ton platform that was above the
 dish.

 The telescope was constructed in the early '60's.

 Investigators believe that the sequence of events leading to the
 collapse may have begun with Hurricane Maria, which hit the telescope
 in 2017. Inspections before the storm found the zinc leading edge to be
 intact - but in late 2018 and early 2019 cable slippage was detected.





 With Hamvention 2025 set for the weekend of May 16th, the organizers
 are asking prospective attendees to ponder the question of what
 "radio independence" means to them.

 That is, in fact, the theme for the convention in Xenia, Ohio.

 In announcing the theme, the Hamvention team says "In the course of
 history radio has been heavily regulated and, in some instances, banned
 altogether. We are fortunate to enjoy these freedoms, and for us at
 Hamvention we are proud of our Radio Independence. What does Radio 
 Independence mean to you?" 

 No doubt there will be many answers found in the workshops, seminars
 and eyeball QSOs at the Greene County Fairgrounds USA.





 For those who like "collecting wallpaper" how about a card/certificate
 from the Oval Office?

 A group to keep an ear out for you was very active the past weekend 
 from the White House Communications Agency Amateur Radio Club,
 established by former members of the White House Communications Agency.
 The White House Communications team is made up of military personnel
 who play essential roles in overseeing communication strategies and
 activities for the White House.

 Last week end saw them active for about 4 days prior to Remembrance, 
 or as the USA call it Veterans Day. Usually on air for very special 
 events keep listening for W 0 H.

 twiar.net/?p=25483





 Its been about a decade since Amazon in the USA began to fly its 
 delivery drones, aiming to revolutionize the online shopping experience
 with rapid delivery of certain items.

 Most recently Amazon got permission from the FAA to not only start
 flying from its new Arizona-based location, but also to fly beyond
 line of sight (BLOS) missions with the new MK30 drone.

 This new drone has twice the range as the old MK27 drone that it
 replaces and is said to be significantly quieter as well.

 The BLOS permission means that the delivery drones can service areas
 which are not directly visible from the warehouse with an attached
 drone delivery facility. As for the type of parcels you can have
 delivered with this service, it is limited to 2.27 kg, which is plenty
 for medication and a range of other items where rapid delivery would be
 desirable.

 twiar.net/?p=25351

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 OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION
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 NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2024
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 INTERNATIONAL EARTH - MOON - EARTH CONTESTS

 50 to 1296 MHz THIS WEEKEND, November 16-17.

 Work as many amateur stations as possible via the earth-moon-earth
 path on any authorized amateur frequency in the bands for the specific 
 weekends.

 EME Logs due back to the ARRL December 17.

 (arrl)


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 VHF UHF Field Day

 Spring 2024 - 0100 UTC Saturday 23 November through 0059 UTC Sunday 
               24 November (0400 / 0359 in VK6).

 wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/

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 CQ WW CW CONTEST
 November 23 - 24

 Starts: Zero hundred hours UTC Saturday ending the Sunday at 2359hrs.

 (cq)

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 Ham Spirit Contest

 Inspired by the Amateur's Code written by Paul M. Segal (W9EEA) in
 1928, the 2024 edition of the HAM Spirit Contest will be held in a 
 single round from 08:00 UTC on Saturday 30 November to 07:59 UTC on
 Sunday 1 December.

 Based out of Russia, the Ham Spirit Contest comes from a team at
 The Spirit of Amateur Radio Without Borders and its objective is for
 amateurs around the world to contact as many other amateurs in as many
 Maidenhead Grid Fields and ITU Zones as possible using CW and SSB on
 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres.

 hs.andys.ru/eng/ham-spirit-contestrules/. 

 (sarl)


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 ARRL 160 METER CW

 December 6-8 is the date this year but it is ALWAYS the first full 
 weekend of December.

 Begins 2200 UTC Friday, ending 1559 UTC Sunday.

 This is a forty-two hour period with no time limitation.

 Logs MUST be returned within seven days

 (arrl)

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 10 METER ARRL CONTEST

 For Amateurs worldwide to exchange QSO information with as many 
 stations as possible on the 10 meter band.

 Second full weekend of December. Starts 0000 UTC Saturday; runs
 through 2359 UTC Sunday (December 14-15)
 
 Again as in most ARRL Tests logs are to be completed and returned 
 within 7 days.

 (arrl)


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 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)

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 DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD.
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 Listen throughout the rest of 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)


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 AUSTRIA

 OE100RADIO is active until the 31st of December celebrating the
 100th anniversary of the beginning of regular radio transmissions
 in Austria in 1924.

 The station has heard recently on the 40m band using CW.

 QSL via the Bureau.

 (gb2rs)

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 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.

 E 7 100 RADIO is the special call sign for the Bosnia and Herzegovina
 IARU member society to celebrate 100 years of amateur radio 
 innovation, community, and advocacy.

 QSL via operators' instructions.

 (eHam)

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 Y
 Special callsign PH 80 LIB will be in use from various locations
 until the 10th of November to commemorate the 80th anniversary
 of the liberation of southern Netherlands in the autumn of 1944.

 PH80LIB will be on the 80 to 10m bands using SSB, CW and digital
 modes. QSL special station PH80LIB via the Bureau.

 (rsgb)

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 Y
 Maurizio, IK2GZU is active as 5H3MB from Tanzania until 11 November
 while doing volunteer work at a local school.

 In his spare time, he is operating SSB, CW and digital modes on the
 80 to 10m bands. QSL via Club Logs OQRS, Logbook of the World, eQSL,
 or direct via IK2GZU.

 (rsgb)

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 Y
 OL 80 C.A.R.B.O.N. is active until the 30th of November to mark the
 80th anniversary of Operation Carbon during World War Two. This
 operation involved the dropping of paratroopers in the Protectorate of
 Bohemia and Moravia.

 The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexed
 territory of Nazi Germany that was established in 1939 after the
 German occupation of the Czech lands

 A team of operators is active using call OL 80 CARBON on CW, SSB and
 digital modes on the HF bands.

 More information is available on QRZ.com

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 Y
 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)


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 Y
 NEW ZEALAND

 NZART has a special event call sign for the America's Cup.
 ZL 6 AMCUP 
 November 30 is when ZLCAMCUP goes off air.
 
 (NZART)

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 Y
 Special callsign HB 50 VC is active until 31 December celebrating the
 50th anniversary of the Swissair Amateur Radio Club, HB 9 VC.

 A growing trend these days is that QSL cards will not be provided
 but QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World.

 You can also download a certificate for working this special event
 station from the link we like in the text editions of
 WIA National News

 tinyurl.com/HB50VC-24.

 (rsgb)

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 Y
 In the World of DX, be listening for members of the Zurich City Police
 Radio Amateur Club who, throughout the year, have been operating as
 HB 2 SP as the club marks its 20th anniversary. Unfortunately no
 Bureau QSL's but you can use Logbook Of The World, and HB20SP runs
 until the end of next month, i.e., December 31.

 (sourced to ARNewsLine 2410)


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 MEDIA WATCH

 Amateur radio found its way recently into an episode of a popular TV
 crime drama in Germany. While that's good news for ham radio -- it
 didn't have the best outcome for one of the fictional TV hams.

 Very early on in Season 16, Episode 2 of the ZDF German crime drama,
 "SOKO Stuttgart," Hartmut, DH4NO, becomes a Silent Key rather quickly,
 rather violently and quite mysteriously. It happens in the middle of a
 2-metre QSO he is having with a friend. The friend, Schrotti, callsign
 DR5TI, hears the contact go dead - quite literally.

 He summons police and that sets the SOKO team - the team of the series  
 title - into action. SOKO is the acronym in German for the regional 
 special police task force.

 As the crime squad focuses its probe on the amateur radio club the men 
 belonged to, any hams viewing the show can immediately recognise the 
 rigs, which were supplied by the DARC Stuttgart radio club. There are
 also familiar lessons in propagation and, of course, that important
 call, "CQ." 

 For those who want to practice their German, the show can be seen in
 the ZDF video store at the address given in the text version of this
 your WIA NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

 zdf.de/serien/soko-stuttgart/schrotti-funkt-100.html   ]

 (newsline2452)

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 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF

 Searching through bushes, between rocks, under benches and near trees,
 15 high school students and 10 undergraduates combed Cornells campus  
 in search of hidden transmitters as part of a digital fox hunt.
 Cornell is a private, Ivy League university in New York state. 

 Wondering how he could encourage students to consider microchip design
 as a career, Mohamed I. Ibrahim, assistant professor in electrical and
 computer engineering, decided to try a fox hunt competition, in which
 teams of students working together tried to find 10 hidden transmitters
 using handheld spectrum analysers.

 The competition was planned by Ibrahim and a group that included 
 members of Cornell Custom Silicon Systems (C2S2)  a student project
 team dedicated to semiconductor design and building.

 tinyurl.com/yc3n9rss

 (eHam)





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER 
 AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org

 For Voyager 1, there was another disturbing incidence of radio silence
 all over again.

 A shutdown in October of the X-band radio transmitter left the space
 probe unable to communicate with the Deep Space Network. The mission
 team linked the problem to a command that had been sent to turn on one
 of Voyager's heaters. The team believes the command somehow activated
 the spacecraft's fault-protection system which conserves its power that
 lowered the rate of data transmission and shut off the X-band
 transmitter, instead engaging the S-band transmitter.

 This S-band transmission, which has a fainter signal than X-band and
 consumes less power, had not been used by the space team since 1981.
 The flight team was not certain the S-band could be detected at Earth
 due to the spacecrafts distance, but engineers with the Deep Space
 Network were able to find it. The old S-band transmitter has turned in
 a reliable performance since October 24th, even from the distance of
 more than 24 billion kilometres, from Earth, and will remain in use
 while the team continues its troubleshooting.

 (newsline 2454)




 NASA has launched LignoSat, a wooden satellite built by Japanese
 researchers.

 It was successfully sent to the International Space Station and is a
 a partnership between Kyoto University and Japanese home-building
 company, Sumitomo Forestry. It is expected to be released into orbit
 about 400 km, above the Earth and is named ignoSat, an experiment using
 space-grade wood to build environmentally friendly satellites.

 Meanwhile, New Zealand has been busy with its WISA Woodsat, a
 1-kilogram amateur radio satellite built in Finland. When launched by
 rocket, it is expected to reach an orbit about 550 km above Earth.


 (sourced to newsline 2454)





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA
 iota-world.org/


 AF-017 RODRIGUES ISLAND

 M 0 CFW will be active as 3B9/M0CFW from Rodrigues Island
 17-27 November. He will participate in the CQ WW DX CW  Contest
 as 3B9KW.

 QSLs via LoTW and Club Log's OQRS. 

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 AF-049 Mauritius.

 3B8M will again be active M/M in CQWWCW 2024.

 The CQ WW CW CONTEST is NEXT weekend as Felix mentioned earlier today.
 (Zero hundred hours UTC Saturday ending the Sunday at 2359hrs.)

 This will be a field-day style operation.

 All antennas and stations have to be erected and assembled and then
 taken down in a few days around the contest weekend. Antennas at 3B8M
 are all vertical wires on Spiderbeam poles and next to the Indian Ocean
 with an unobstructed take-off in most directions

 On 160 a top loaded vertical (umbrella) is used, on 80 an inverted-L
 and on 40 a vertical dipole. The 40m antenna is out in the lagoon on a
 rock. For 20, 15 and 10 VDAs are used and also omni vertical dipoles.
 Their VDAs are typically 2-element vertical dipole arrays
 (vertical yagis).

 (dx world)

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 SA-004 HD8CW & HC5CW/8 Galapagos ( San Cristobal Island )
 19th- 28th November on HF Bands, CW, SSB, FT8.
 Qsl via M0OXO OQRS

 (dx world)





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS LOW DOWN

On December 1st, 1924, the VLF transmitter, with call sign "SAQ" at Grimeton Radio Station, was put into commercial operation, with transmissions across the Atlantic ocean, to the receiving station at Riverhead and the replying transmitter station at Rocky Point, both on Long Island, NY, USA.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of its original transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, Grimeton Radio Station will activate its original call sign (SAQ) and transmit a CW message on December 1st. The CW message will transmit on 17.2 kHz at 10:00 UTC using an alternating current generator.

09:20 UTC Live YouTube broadcast begins.
09:30 UTC Start-up of the Alternator.
10:00 UTC Transmission of a message
Test transmissions are scheduled for November 29th.

An amateur radio station will also be commemorating the event with call sign SK6SAQ on the following frequencies:

3 517.2 kHz CW
7 017.2 kHz CW
14 017.2 KHz CW
3 755 kHz SSB
7 140 kHz SSB

(ard) 





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS - YOTA
 (Youngsters On The Air)
 WIA committee:- Steve VK6SJ, Alec VK2MV and Pete VK2LP.
 ham-yota.com/category/yota-region-3/
 facebook.com/groups/YOTAOC/
 youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA


 JOINING US IS VK2COD ALAN

 Thank you Bruce

 A new IARU Award for YOTAs!

During the August 2023 IARU Region 3 Directors meeting held in Tokyo, it was suggested and supported that a new Award for YOTAs be created. 

The Award should be given in recognition for an outstanding contribution to Amateur Radio to an individual who is under 25 years old.

This Award wants to encourage excellence from all YOTA programs and individuals from around the world, to help recognise the importance of young people and their contributions to the Amateur Radio Service. 

It is at the sole discretion of the IARU Administrative Council on what approach they use to select the recipient of the award.

Most importantly, this Award was created in recognition of our very own WIA member, Peter Young VK3MV! 

It is known as the PETER YOUNG, VK3MV, IARU YOUTH EXCELLENCE AWARD

Peter worked for 59 years of his professional career in the radiocommunications field. 

He was elected to the Board of the Wireless Institute of Australia in 2006 and held a board position until he stepped down in 2012.

He did continue as the WIA Regulatory Counsel.
 
Peter was recently awarded honorary life membership of the WIA, which was very much well deserved. 

I wish I could give Peters resume the full justice it deserves, so please read about more of Peters impressive achievements on the WIA page ink in our text edition of this weeks news. 

Well done Peter and a big congratulations from myself, the WIA News Team, the WIA Board, and all the WIA members! 

For VK1WIA National News, I am Alan, VK2COD in Sydney, now back to you Bruce.

 wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2024/20241106-3/index.php


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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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 TODAY

 VK3 - SPARC Rosebud RadioFest November 17 at Eastbourne Primary
       School, Allambi Ave. Rosebud.                        (vk3pdg)



2025

 VK  - Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association 50th anniversary
       Glen Waverly July 26 president@alara.org              (vk2ayl)

 VK4 - GOLD COAST AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY  2025 HAMFEST NOV 9  (vk4dmh)
       Country Paradise Parklands 231 Beaudesert Nerang Road.






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