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2021 DECEMBER 26 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ------------------------------------------------------------*

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NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING DECEMBER 26 2021
IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL
Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures,
contacts and answers to your questions.
www.health.gov.au/
LET'S HOPE EVERY ONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A MUCH BETTER 2022.
NOW NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.
PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032.
LET'S HOPE EVERY ONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A MUCH BETTER 2022.

So let's countdown again this year with the New Years Eve on-air Countdown courtesy of the Townsville Amateur Radio Club.

theTARCinc will be counting down the minutes and seconds until 2022
utilising the original Talking Clock and beaming out on the Townsville VHF Repeater and the VK4PQ AllStarLink and EchoLink Nodes at Kelso North Queensland.

To cater with the multiple time zones on the main or Australian eastern seaboard there will be two countdowns -

one starting at 2345 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (1245UTC)

the other at 2345 Australian Eastern Standard Time (1345UTC)

NSW emergency operations centre opened

Criticalcomms.com.au has reported on A new telecommunications operations centre which will support critical communications during bushfires or floods and has been opened by the New South Wales Minister for Digital and Customer Service Victor Dominello.

The Sydney-based centre gives the NSW Telco Authoritys Telecommunications Emergency Management Unit (TEMU) real-time information on potential impacts to telecommunications infrastructure for emergency services organisations. By tracking the likes of
severe weather in real time with the telco authority, the centre will be able to update first responders and telecommunication carriers with accurate information on the location of critical infrastructure that might need protecting.

The operations centre provides critical support during an emergency as well as offering facilitation capabilities for long-term operations requiring significant coordination between multiple agencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WIA PRESIDENT SCOTT

Many thank Graham and good morning to what will be the last broadcast for 2021.

This is WIA President Scott Williams VK3KJ, and I just wanted to extend a warm Christmas message to all WIA members and listeners of the broadcast.

It has been another challenging year for all of us as we have done our best to manage the terrible impacts of the COVID pandemic and of course the tremendous impacts it has had on our families, friends, colleagues and to all individuals in our immediate
community and afar. The economic impacts are immeasurable, and we all hope 2022 will see us in a far improved position.

I want to personally thank all members for your continued support of the WIA. The WIA continues to work hard in the background to support our members and the Amateur Radio community in as many ways as we can. There is so much more to achieve but the
contribution of all volunteers to the WIA is outstanding and your in-kind participation, however so small is greatly appreciated.

There continues to be criticism of the WIA by some of the things we do, or should I say what we dont do. The WIA is not perfect, it does not have endless resources and unlimited funds, but what it does have is a sense of purpose enriched by over 110
years of deep history.
This purpose is driven by volunteers that care, that want to advance the Institute and are proud of the contribution they make.
There is no room in our hobby for any conduct that does not advance the tremendous enjoyment that amateur radio provides to so many. It doesnt matter what mode, what band, if your make your own equipment and antennas or your purchase them commercially,
the enjoyment of amateur radio is so diverse and unique to one and all.
We must all strive to work together, different clubs, different membership bodies, the AMC or the ACMA, it is irrelevant who you pledge your alliance towards as long the net combined outcome is something that is beneficial to this great interest of
amateur radio.

On a personal note, I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and safe and prosperous new year. Please also raise a glass and have a drink to all those silent keys that left us this year. Our thoughts are with those families and friends.

To the Board of Directors, thank you for your ongoing work, to our volunteers we are deeply indebted and to you Graham, thank you for delivering an outstanding broadcast.

Merry Christmas and best wishes for the new year.
Scott VK3KJ
This is Oscar VK3TX.

December, Youngsters on the Air month.

Again, in December of 2021, several young operators are active around the world with YOTA as suffix in the callsign. The idea for this is to show the amateur radio hobby to youth and to encourage youngsters to be active on the ham radio waves.

Feel free to make a QSO with the youngsters, they are happy to get some attention and exchange information. Licensed and unlicensed youth will be making QSOs, be aware this could be their first radio contact ever and give them a chance to experience a
possible new hobby.

For WIA national news, this is Oscar, VK3TX.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS With Jason VK2LAW

REGION ONE

UK Foreign Office proposal for amateur radio bands in BAT

The British Antarctic Territory or B.A.T. is administered from London by the Polar Regions Department of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. They recently announced plans to administer an amateur radio licence for the Territory (no licence
has been available for the past 2 years)

A surprising feature about the proposal are the bands they plan to allocate.

It would have been expected they'd copy the amateur frequency schedule issued by the Falkland Islands Communications Regulator, who administered amateur licensing in the British Antarctic Territory prior to 2019, but instead the Foreign Office have
excluded many of the Amateur and Amateur Satellite Service allocations.

Inexplicably the Foreign Office proposal excludes a part of the
24 GHz band, 24.050-24.150 GHz, and also the entire Amateur and Amateur Satellite Service allocations at 2.4, 5, 10, 47, 76 GHz etc.

Germany permits the use of these bands at their Neumayer III Antarctic research station, for example the 2.4 and 10 GHz bands are used by amateurs there for contacts via the QO-100 amateur satellite transponders.
Amateur Radio as a Vehicle for Technology Literacy

Chris ZS6EZ and Hans ZS6AKV have produced a paper 'Amateur Radio as a Vehicle for Technology Literacy' which looks at the situation in Africa

Africa faces a shortage of technologically-proficient people who can develop and maintain our ICT infrastructure and drive innovation to facilitate manufacturing and services.

Amateur Radio offers a vehicle for technology training that has reaped great rewards for many countries. The barriers to entry are continuously dropping.

The article explains the potential of Amateur Radio for technology development, looks at the current state of Amateur Radio in Africa and suggests avenues that might be explored to allow wider access on the continent.

Download the PDF of the paper from
ur.booksc.eu/dl/68281938/e2535a
ComReg to introduce a novice/entry-level EI licence

ire currently only has a single class of amateur licence but in a Consultation Response document released December 17 the regulator ComReg says it will introduce a lower level

The response document makes use of the terms "entry-level" and "novice-level" as though they are interchangeable but as far as CEPT is concerned they mean completely different things and it is unclear what ComReg are meaning when they use the word "
novice".

CEPT Entry-Level refers to a basic licence requiring about 8-10 hours tuition CEPT Novice-Level is a much higher level licence that is equivalent to USA General or UK Intermediate.

Download the PDF of the ComReg response document on www.comreg.ie/media/2021/12/ComReg-21136a.pdf
REGION TWO

Radio club donates $10,000 to Centre of Hope in Ravenna

Portage County Amateur Radio Services has donated $10,471.76 to the Centre of Hope, a program of Family and Community Services in the USA

The group has been raising funds for the Centre of Hope for 16 years, but this year's donation is the group's largest donation to date.

The donations are collected from club members as well as the community, and have made a significant impact on Portage County over the past years.

In their December newsletter, PCARS President Nick Wagner said, Im proud to say that over the past 16 years that PCARS has existed, our total contribution to support our community in this way is over $67,000. Each year, the Centre of Hope helps hundreds
of families in Portage County Ohio by providing hot meals five days a week, as well as emergency groceries. Services are free of charge and dependent on an individuals income.
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REGION THREE

New Zealand's national society NZART has posted the following information: Conference Forums

We are now calling for those attending Conference in 2022 to make contact if they can run a Forum. By using the Contact Us link, send an email to register your interest. Contact Us

Location: James Cook Grand Chancellor Date: 11-12 June 2022

Next years conference will be run a week after Queens Birthday Weekend. It will be a two day event with the ability to Fly In and Fly Out with only a single nights accommodation (for the Saturday) if this suits people to do so. There will be no Sunday
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WEIRD AND WONDERFUL - I'M JOHN VK4JJW

Twenty years from now we might get a call from an alien.

In 2017, a powerful radio transmission was aimed at exoplanet
GJ 273b, thought to be able to support life. Its message, sent by the alien-hunting group Messaging Extra-terrestrial Intelligence International, contained instructions on how to understand Earthling math, music and time. If it lands on intelligent alien
ears once it arrives in about a decade, E.T. now has our number.

Space transmissions hoping to attract an alien response have been going out since 1962, when Soviet scientists sent a message in Morse code to the planet Venus in the first attempt at intergalactic communication.

Even if our calls generate no response, it seems increasingly likely humanity will stumble upon life somewhere in the universe one of these days.

Concerns over decades of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) known more commonly as unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in our atmosphere, many sighted by military personnel, have recently prompted politicians on both sides of the aisle to push for an
official agency to handle UAP investigations.

But are we prepared for an encounter of the Third Kind?

The prospect of meeting another civilization raises questions both captivating and concerning. How do we even communicate with an alien species, especially one that may not use language in a form we can recognize and decipher? Will a meeting prompt mass
hysteria? And what about strange alien diseases? And how might it affect our views about religion?

Once contact was established, the next challenge would lie in making good conversation. Jones has a few suggestions for how to begin.

Human and be would be the first words suggested in learning how to express, then in turn, we could try to learn how they refer to themselves and how they express that they exist how would they convey the equivalent of the English sentence: I am human.

Ideally, if extra-terrestrials are able to travel to us, we would do some sort of exchange program where they could observe us and we could observe them in their daily life. On the basis of this mutual observation, we might be able to construct a number
of ideas about what type of words to teach and learn.

One issue will be whether we even want to communicate and give away our location without first ascertaining their culture.

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HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT

NOW CONTEST WISE:-

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2022
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January, the entire month is the WIA ROSS HULL VHF - UHF MARATHON CONTEST

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WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAY

Summer 2022 - 0100 UTC Saturday 15 January through
0059 UTC Sunday 16 January but differs in VK6.

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John Moyle Memorial Field Day

The JMMFD contest Starts 0100 GMT on the 19th of March and concludes
0059 GMT on the 20th of March.
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Harry Angel Memorial 80m Sprint

Saturday May 7th 2022
10:00 UTC - 11:46 UTC
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VK SHIRES CONTEST 11th JUNE 2022

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WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS

Winter 2022 - 0200 UTC Saturday 25 June through 0159 UTC Sunday
26 June (differs in VK6).

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IARU HF World Championship
NEXT contest is July 9 and 10.
(ref)

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WIA Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest

16 JUL 2022

The Trans-Tasman contest, held on the 3rd weekend in July
aims to encourage Low Band activity between VK and ZL

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WIA RD or Remembrance Day Contest

Weekend closest to the 15th August each year.

2022 its Sat Sun August 13 and 14

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WIA - NZART OCEANIA CONTEST

PHONE - First full weekend in October
0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday

CW - Second full weekend in October
0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday

Log deadline for ALL logs - 31 October.

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WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS

SPRING 2022 is in NOVEMBER

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VI 3 JAM

December 29 until January 7 is the Victoria-Only Jamboree, VicJam
Including the amateur radio station with the special callsign of VI3JAM and one of their participants, and one of our News Team is on site and will report in a moment during Special Interest Group News. Yes it's Col VK3GTV.
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The Comoros Islands DXpedition that was to take place sometime between mid-to-end January in 2022 has been postponed.

The COVID-19 situation makes it unsafe for the team to travel now, but, it should be able to take place later in 2022.
(sourced to rsgb)
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Danish special event

Danish Radio Amateurs will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of HM Margrethe II, the Queen of Denmark's, accession to the throne by activating the special event station OZ50Q during the whole month of January 2022.

Special award is available see QRZ.com

QSL via OZ1ACB, eQSL or LoTW.

All QSOs will be confirmed via LoTW and eQSL.
(OPDX)

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HUNGARY, HA.

Special call HA21XMAS is QRV on all bands and modes until December 26, that of course is today and you QSL via operator's instructions.
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Members of the Saudi Association of Radio Amateurs (SARA) are on the
air until December 28th as HZ 19 SAT to celebrate the launch of a Saudi satellite. The significance of the callsign with 19 is that it been 19 years since the Saudis launched their first CubeSat.
QSL to HZ1SAR.
(ARNewsLine)

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ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, V4.

Victor, WB0AA has been QRV as V4/WB0AA from St. Kitts, IOTA NA-104, from December 22 to 29. Activity has been heard on 160 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call, WB 0 AA.
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THAILAND

Brad, VK2BY will be active as HS0ZNR in north-eastern Thailand until the 21st of January and as well as QSLing direct to VK2BY you can also QSL via Logbook of The World.
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INDONESIA.

7B2C, 7B2E, 7B2T, 7B2H and 7B2O are QRV until the end of October 2022 to celebrate the Javanese-Hindu Ceto Temple that was built in 1475.
Activity is on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters using SSB and FT8. QSL via operators' instructions.
(arrl)

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The new year is going to be a good one for members of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society. Hams will be using the special callsign EI 90I RTS to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Ireland's national society. Listen for the EI90IRTS callsign throughout 2022. QSL via EI6AL.
(ARNewsLine)
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INTRUDER WATCH - ENFORCEMENT ZONE

Region III IARUMS Coordinator Peter Young VK3MV

VK IARUMS reflector email to subscribe intruders@wia.org.au

SUBMITTING a report? go to http://www.wia.org.au/members/protecting/intruderreport/

INTRUDER NETS
Friday 0730 UTC 7.065.5 with VK4CEU David.
Amateur exclusive frequencies where any non-amateur signal
is definitely an intruder.

Amateur HF Spectrum world wide
7.050 to 7.100
14.000 to 14.250
14.250 to 14.350 No broadcasters
21.000 to 21.450
24.890 to 24.990
28.000 to 29.700

Norways national amateur radio society, the NRRL, report they are working with communications regulator Nkom to stop intruders operating in the 144 MHz band

A translation of the NRRL post reads:

By listening, logging and bearing, we make it possible to identify the users and find the exact area in which they operate. This makes it easier for the authorities to devote resources to keeping our ties free of unwanted intruders.

NRRL has been told that the 2 Mtr frequencies are used by users in Eastern Norway who do not have a license:
We hope that radio amateurs and listener amateurs have the opportunity to listen on these frequencies and log any intruders.
The logs will be sent to the NRL's office, which will summarize this and work with Nkom to stop the intruders.

tinyurl.com/IARU-Norway
(SouthGate)
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WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS
SUMMITS ON THE AIR, WORLD WIDE FLORA, FAUNA PROGRAM, PARKS ON THE AIR and other ADVENTURE GROUPS.

parksontheair.com/
www.sota.org.uk
sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/
www.wwffaustralia.com/
minesontheair.com/about-mota

The Netherlands special event

Lars, PH0NO, announced that he will be active with the special callsign PG44FF to promote the World-Wide Flora and Fauna award program (wwff.co) as well as the Dutch program 'PAFF' (www.pa-ff.nl) beginning late 2021 through early 2022.

QSL via ClubLog's OQRS.

See QRZ.com for more details
(SouthGate)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - ASTRONOMICAL

The American space agency NASA says a spacecraft has entered the sun's outermost atmosphere for the first time.

The Parker Solar Probe travelled through the solar atmosphere's outer edge -- known as the corona -- back in April, scientists announced this week but they said it took them some months to examine data from the spacecraft and to confirm the 'brilliant'
result.
(eHam.com)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ATV (Every pixel tells a story) -

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ISS SSTV abuzz now

The ARISS team will be supporting Slow Scan TV (SSTV) operations from the International Space Station during the period of Dec 26-31

The images will be related to lunar exploration. The transmissions should be available worldwide on 145.800 MHz FM. The planned SSTV mode is PD 120.

Planned start and stop times are currently listed as:
Start - Dec 26 about 18:25 GMT
Stop - Dec 31 about 17:05 GMT

The signal should be receivable even on a handheld with a 1/4 wave whip. If your rig has selectable FM filters try the wider filter for 25 kHz channel spacing.

Check the ARISS SSTV blog for the latest information http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/

ARISS SSTV Award https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/

The signal from the ISS should be receivable outdoors on a handheld with a 1/4 wave whip although tracking the ISS with a small handheld beam will give better results. If your rig has selectable FM filters try the wider filter for 25 kHz channel spacing.

You can get predictions for the ISS pass times at https://www.amsat.org/track/

Useful SSTV info and links https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/
(SouthGate)
WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ---DEFENCE

Townsville AR Club does Defence Welcome and Information Expo

theTARCinc will be involved with the 2022 Defence Welcome and Information Expo run by the Townsville office of Defence Community Organisation North Queensland Saturday 12th February at Murray Stadium from 10am.

TARCadians will be drawing on expertise gained from participation in other Expos at the complex to show Defence members and their families currently residing or new to the region some of the aspects of the wonderful world of Amateur Radio. The club is
hoping to demonstrate the hobby through a mixture of static, dynamic and interactive displays, with members experienced in many facets of the hobby able
to provide meaningful answers and guidance for those attending the Expo.
(tarc)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTAiota-world.org

OC-209. Agus, YB1TDL, is now active as YB1TDL/8 from Karakelong Island in theTalaud Islands, Indonesia and will be on the air until
this coming Wednesday December 29th. Activity will be on various HF
bands using SSB and FT8. QSL via HA3JB, direct, LoTW or Club-Log's OQRS. NO Bureau QSLs.
It is not science fiction, but radio fact, that the Manic Monkeys team of radio operators made a 600 kilometre journey this month from Bangalore, India to Sao Jorge Island, designated AS-177 by IOTA, activating the remote island for the first time.

With a story he filed for Amateur Radio NewsLine just this week, here is WIA News Editor Graham VK4BB.

"They had gone in search of the fictional Lincoln Island that appears in Jules Verne's classic novels but the adventuresome hams with the callsign AT7SJ were also in search of QSOs.

Between December 3rd and December 6th, they logged 1,600 such contacts on SSB, CW and FT-8, while camped in difficult terrain, according to team leader Madhu Prasad, VU3NPI.

Madhu told NewsLine of other discoveries: [quote] "The island had mysterious propagation conditions: the signals would go up and down like the tide and mysteriously close abruptly on all bands with S9 noise." [endquote]

Madhu said that the team had been landlocked in India for two years by the pandemic and were still grieving the loss of the team's Elmer, Dev VU2DEV, to cardiac arrest. Now they can proudly add this uninhabited, thickly forested, island to their earlier
activations of St. Mary's Island AS-096 and Danushkodi Island AS-173.

Madhu told NewsLine that the team unfortunately did not find mysterious Lincoln Island, nor did they locate the Aqua phone, the fictional wireless device used by Jules Verne's protagonist, Capt. Nemo."
Thanks Graham, it would seem they are leaving that quest -
and Lincoln Island - for 2022.
(vk4bb)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTINGscouts.com.au
scout.org/jota
international.scouts.com.au jotajoti.info/

Literally as you're listening to this, the Scout Radio and Electronics Service Unit of Victoria is busy setting up their amateur station at VicJam.

Due to Covid restrictions during the planning stages of the event over the past two years, the Australian National Scout Jamboree (AJ2022) was cancelled, however, around 5,000 scouts and leaders from all over Victoria will converge on Elmore in Central
Victoria from December 29 until January 7 for the Victoria-Only Jamboree, VicJam to participate in numerous onsite and offsite activities, including the amateur radio station with the special callsign of VI3JAM. The station will operate from 0900 to
around 1900 daily on 80 through to 10 metres plus 2 metres and 70cm repeaters, EchoLink and DMR with a full list of frequencies available here following:-

A highlight will be an amateur radio contact with the
International Space Station when some lucky scouts will be able to chat with the astronauts on-board.
HF Frequencies

We will often listen out on these frequencies, but will QSY up and down as needed.

Australian Scout HF Calling Frequencies
Band SSB (phone)
80 m 3.650 MHz
40 m 7.090 MHz
20 m 14.190 MHz
15 m 21.190 MHz
10 m 28.590 MHz

VHF / UHF Frequencies

There are repeaters on site:

VK3RSR (local) VK3RSS (wider access) VK3ROO (DMR)

146.975 MHz 439.975 MHz 438.7250 MHz -7MHz offset

EchoLink VK3RSS-R Colour code 2

"Scouts VicJam Elmore, Vic" Talk Group TG30 - VK JOTA

linked -> "*SCOUT-VK*" conference server QSY to 8303 - Victorian Chat
EchoLink access

EchoLink connection is possible by either;

1. Connecting to *SCOUT-VK* conference via the EchoLink application software

2. Connecting to *SCOUT-VK* by dialling #516518 via RF on an IRLP connectedrepeater

as long as that node permits connections to conference servers.
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA
(Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaAtwitter.com/hamyota
14-year-old Mily YS1YXI will be on-the-air during school holidays
Radio amateurs in El Salvador received clearance from the telecom regulator to operate using the YS1YOTA callsign for the rest of the month

Mily, YS1YXI, 14, the country's youngest amateur, plans to be as active as possible from the radio shack of Club de Radio Aficionados de El Salvador (CRAS), taking advantage that she's currently in the school holiday season. She also plans to invite
other youths to observe the operation, to get them interested in amateur radio.

Source IARU Region 2 https://iaru-r2.org/
(text edition only)
Spain, Norway Seek Ways to Attract a Younger Generation of Hams

Spain's national amateur radio society, Union of Spanish Radio Amateurs (URE), is attempting to entice youth and youngsters to become interested in amateur radio. URE is offering free membership in the organization and a free amateur radio license manual.
The organization has framed amateur radio as "the technological and experimental hobby that will hook you forever."

Prospective young radio amateurs must be between 14 and 18 years old to qualify for a free URE membership and a license manual to prepare for the exam and obtain an operator license. URE says the manual explains the basics of electricity, electronics,
and telecommunications, as well as the regulatory structure.

Those aged under 25 can qualify for a half-price membership once they've obtained their radio amateur license and become full URE members.

Meanwhile, Norway, as we've reported previously here on WIA National News is looking to introduce a new 10 W entry-level license that will enable 12- and 13-year-olds to get started building simple transmitters and receivers. The Research Council of
Norway has granted 1 million kroner to support the Radio Communications Technology for Young People project, aimed at recruiting young radio amateurs.
(arrl)

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2021 Social Scene

It's the inaugural Warrnambool HamFest Monday 27th December.
Open to traders at 8am, with entry to public at 10am.

VK7 - REAST Open Day Sunday January 30th 11am to 3pm (vk7wi)

VK3 - SPARC Rosebud RadioFest Feb 13 9:30AM (VK3PDG)

VK4 - REDFEST Saturday the 9th April. (vk4ftn)

VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention
Mt Gambier Queens Birthday weekend June (vk5dj)

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