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    NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 19 2021
    IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

    ( 1937 in a mention we've come across relating to weekly
    broadcasts of information prepared by VK4 was a plea to
    restart the weekly news service which was on air in the
    late 1920's )
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    ALLRIGHTY WHO'S WHO IN THE NEWS ROOM THIS WEEK

    WIA's Publications Committee spokesman Simon VK2VSR. -

    WIA Director Phil VK2CPR. -

    WIA's Editor in Chief of AR Magazine Roger VK2ZRH. -

    and of course Felix VK4FUQ operational news
    Jason VK2LAW International and Col VK3GTV special interest
    group news. -

    John Knox VK4FJRK will rewind VK4LA beacons from
    South Eastern VK4. -

    Martin VK7GN on behalf of the Oceania DX Contest committee.

    AND

    Trent VK4TS on the Ross Hull
    ALL THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
    WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA

    PROGRAM RECORDED IN BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2032.

    Your Magazine Your View - Simon Rumble VK2VSR

    The new Publications Committee is delighted to bring each
    edition of Amateur Radio magazine to life. We would love to
    hear about your ideas and opinions about the magazine to
    help shape its future. Therefore, we ask that you complete
    this survey covering the content, advertising and, most
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    The survey is open to all magazine readers to have a single
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    to contact the WIA National Office.

    The survey closes on 22 October 2021.

    If you have questions, please email
    David@wia.org.au

    Hi Im WIA Director Phil VK2CPR.

    The board has been concentrating on alignment of various
    committees. Committees are vital to the correct functioning
    of the WIA. The boards job is to have a helicopter view
    of functions.

    Peter VK4EA advises that Ted Thrift is in the process of
    handing over the Club Coordination role to Angelo, VK2NWT.
    The WIA Board are very grateful for the massive contribution
    put in by Ted for many years.

    The INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO UNION (IARU) REGION 3
    EIGHTEENTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE is to be held 20 23
    September 2021. It is similar to an annual general meeting
    where office bearers are elected and member societies
    ratified. The WIA represents Australias amateur radio
    fraternity at region 3 IARU. The WIA may delegate others to
    participate and we would suggest that this should be a
    minimum of three delegates to cover all the proposed working
    groups.

    The WIA has the option of submitting papers to the conference

    these may include information papers on activities,
    technical matters;

    suggested changes to the Region 3 constitution,
    changes to the Region 3 Band plans, Awards, organisational
    structure, youth development or other matters relevant
    to the IARU within Region 3.

    The WIA may nominate persons to act as coordinators for its
    various activities; (this is a good way forward for a person
    to assist the IARU and gain a profile to seek further
    office in the future).

    Cheers and 73 this is Phil VK2CPR

    WIA AR MAGAZINE

    This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine,
    Roger Harrison VK2ZRH.

    Have you got Issue 5, yet?

    Well, if not, then the latest edition is still making its
    way through the Australia Post distribution system to land
    in members mailboxes. For those of you who take the
    electronic edition only, check your email inbox for
    notification of your download.

    In last weeks broadcast news, I gave a rundown of the major
    features in Issue 5 for this year the special feature on
    Antarctica, plus Newcomers Notebook and the review of the
    G90 HF portable transceiver from Xiegu.

    If youre following The VK3AQZ HF antenna tuner project Im
    afraid youll have to wait for Issue 6 for the next
    instalment of this major project out in late November.
    Given the number of pages the instalment needs, it had to be
    held over.

    However, for the avid DXers among readers of Amateur Radio
    magazine, DX Talk in Issue 5 has an article from Johannes
    5-T-5-P-A about his recent exploits activating Arguin Island
    off the coast of northwest Africa. And further to that, we
    have an update on the various DXpeditions to Bouvet Island.
    in the South Atlantic.

    For all the VHFers out there, Dr Kevin Johnston, VK4UH
    returns with his Meteor Scatter Report covering upcoming
    events and showers, plus meteor scatter activity schedules.

    Look for it Issue 5.

    And when you get it turn to Page 7 for details on our
    reader survey taht Simon told us about at the top of this
    weeks news. There you will find a QR code. Scan that with
    your smartphone and off you go! Or, just put the web address
    into your browser.

    We would love to hear about your ideas and opinions about
    the magazine to help shape its future. Completing the survey
    only takes about 12 minutes.

    Your magazine. Your views. Please.

    This has been AR magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Harrison
    VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.
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    INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC,
    Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE
    & the World Wide sources of the WIA.
    REGION ONE

    IARU Region 1 has announced the recipients of the Region 1
    Medals. They are six people who have each made a very
    significant contribution to the IARU Region 1s work over
    the years.

    Hilary Claytonsmith, G4JKS, is an EMC Committee member and
    until recently, its Secretary for nearly 25 years. She has
    been an IARU representative in the European Telecommunications
    Standardisation Institute during discussions on power line
    technology. The EMC Committee is a forum for progressing the
    Regions work on EMC matters and much of its success is due
    to Hilarys early work. Hilary is also a past President of
    the RSGB.

    Dave Court, EI3IO led the Spectrum and Regulatory Liaison
    Committee through the period of WRC-19 that resulted in the
    region1-wide allocation to the amateur service of a 2MHz
    segment at 50MHz.

    Other medal recipients were Peter, HB9CET, Tore, LA9QL,
    Jacques, ON4AVJ and Hans, ON6WQ.
    It had been planned for Switzerland to shut down all FM
    broadcasters in 2022/3 but it has now been decided to delay
    until 2024

    The Swiss radio broadcasters have decided to complete the
    shutdown as originally planned on 31 December 2024. At this
    time, the VHF radio licences will also expire. From this
    date, therefore, no programs can be broadcast via FM.
    With the return to the original shutdown date, consumers
    will also have more time to change technology.

    In 2014, Swiss radios agreed to switch off FM broadcasting
    of their programmes by 2024 at the latest. Since at the end
    of last year almost three quarters of radio usage was digital,
    the radio industry came to the conclusion that under these
    conditions an early and staggered shutdown of FM stations in
    August 2022 (SRG) and in January 2023 (private radios) would
    be responsible. This was agreed by 42 out of 44 radio
    broadcasters and SRG.

    Switzerland, with three languages, sees German-speaking
    Switzerland and Italian-speaking Switzerland, the vast
    majority of radio broadcasters are still in favour of the
    premature shutdown of FM. In French-speaking Switzerland,
    however, it was not possible to find a sufficient majority
    in the concrete implementation. Since a nationwide solution
    is needed, the radios have therefore returned to their
    original plan to switch off the FM stations 31 December 2024.

    In addition, the latest market figures indicate that
    listeners need more time for the changeover. With this shift,
    consumers, especially those who drive a car, have more time
    to change technology. In Switzerland, the proportion of new
    vehicles suitable for DAB+ has been almost 100 percent since
    2020. There is a need for retrofitting, especially in older
    cars that have no reception via DAB+ or other digital
    channels.

    Since 2019, new cars from the EU must also have a reception
    option via DAB+ as standard in Switzerland.

    The radio industry is aware that FM has no future after 2024.

    REGION TWO

    Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) founder
    Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF an assistant professor in
    The University of Scrantons Physics and Engineering Department
    has been awarded an over $653,000 Australian Dollar grant
    through the NASA Space Weather Applications Operations
    Phase II Research Program. W2NAF will serve as principal
    investigator for a research project entitled, Enabling Space
    Weather Research with Global Scale Amateur Radio Datasets.

    Hell collaborate with Philip Erickson, W1PJE, of the
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory
    and Bill Engelke, AB4EJ, at the University of Alabama.

    This grant includes significant funding for participation
    of Scranton undergraduate students in this research, as well
    as support for new computation resources, Nathaniel Frissell
    W2NAF said.

    REGION THREE

    UP ANCHOR FROM NEW ZEALAND - BRAVEHEART ON THE MOVE.

    Paul, N6PSE, has announced this month, September, on the
    Intrepid DX Group's FaceBook page: "We were happy to receive
    some news from our old friend Nigel Jolly. He has sold the
    Braveheart to a new owner who will still make her available
    for amateur radio DXpeditions.

    Her new home port will be Ushuaia Argentina, on the
    Tierra del Fuego archipelago, the southernmost tip of
    South America. Well it will be once Braveheart can be
    moved/sailed from New Zealand.

    ( www.facebook.com/The-Intrepid-DX-Group-180857615282553/ )

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    HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT

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    OCEANA CONTEST

    VOICE from 0800 UTC Saturday 2 October to
    0800 UTC Sunday October 3

    CW from 0800 UTC Saturday 9 October to
    0800 UTC Sunday October 10

    Hi, this is Martin VK7GN on behalf of the Oceania DX Contest
    committee.

    We are approaching the month of October and the 76th running
    of the contest. Thanks to VK5GR and the AREG crew we have a
    fantastic new website. Put it up in your browser, it is well
    worth a look oceaniadxcontest (all one word).com.
    There are links to the full rules as well as an introductory
    video, that is useful for new and old operators.

    Now is the time to get set with a logging programme.

    There are some very good ones available free on the web
    including VKCL and N1MM. See the Oceania contest web page
    for a full list. A logging programme is important as entries
    now have to be in by the end of October and hand written logs
    are limited to 50 contacts. That is because the committee
    has to enter them into the computer to facilitate the log
    checking.

    We have decided to continue with the new start finish times
    of 0600 UTC - it seemed to work out okay for everyone.

    The contest dates in 2021 are

    PHONE 0600 UTC Saturday 2nd Oct. to 0600 Sunday 3rd October.
    CW 0600 UTC Saturday 8th October to 0600 Sunday 10th Oct.

    Just exchange signal reports with a number starting at
    001 (like 57001)

    Multipliers are prefixes which can be counted on each band
    so you can work VK7GN on each band for a multiplier, 160 to
    10 is six multipliers!

    There are trophies for continent winners and certificates
    for many categories. This year there are two new YL trophies
    available commemorating two very significant YL radio amateurs
    in the history of VK.

    The Florence McKenzie (Mrs Mac) Award

    The Austine Henry (VK3YL) Award

    When using computer logging make sure the time and date are
    correct and the log knows whether the computer is set to
    local time or UTC!

    Getting trophies to winners while under various Covid
    restrictions has been difficult but we will persist!

    There have been some encouraging news on sunspots in recent
    days lets hope the sun keeps active until early October!

    Good luck and see you on the bands in October

    73 VK7GN

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    SPRING VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS November 27-28

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    December 4-5 160 Meter WW

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    DECEMBER 11 - 12 10 Mtr World Wide

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    2022
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    January, the entire month every year is the
    WIA ROSS HULL VJF - UHF MARATHON CONTEST
    00:00 UTC 1 January to 23:59 UTC 31 January

    The Ross Hull Contest is open to all amateurs worldwide and
    is a VHF and UP contest with a distance-based scoring
    methodology.

    Ross Hull was an Australian amateur who moved to the USA and
    was appointed Editor of QST shortly before his untimely death
    in 1938.

    This year there have been a couple of minor changes to the
    rules, and they are :

    The inclusion of CW as a mode,
    the inclusion of an overall championship category and
    the inclusion of Multi Operator stations.

    The Ross Hull could be won from anywhere however a quick look
    over the past winners shows all mainland VK states have had
    a winner as well as ZL3 but surprisingly no VK7s.

    Crank up the gear and strap yourself in for the VHF DX Fun
    during January, we hope to hear as many calls as possible.

    VK4TS Trent is now the manager of the Ross Hull Marathon

    Rob Heyer VK2XIC has volunteered to take over as contest
    manager.

    www.wia.org.au/members/contests/rosshull/

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    WIA VHF - UHF FIELD DAYS

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

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    John Moyle Memorial Field Day

    March 2022

    (No date has been published as yet)

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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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    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

    August 2022

    (No date has been published as yet)

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    DX WINDOW
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    ITALY

    Members of ARI Sezione Di Brescia are active as II 2 GP
    from Brescia until September 26th celebrating the 100th
    anniversary of the first Italian Grand Prix which took
    place in September 1921.

    A special "First Italian Car Grand Prix Centenary Award"
    is available:

    tinyurl.com/5x4nsyh8

    (opdx)

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    MEXICO.

    Special event station 6I 1 M is QRV until September 27 to
    celebrate 200 years of Mexican independence, this on
    80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, FT8 and FT4.

    QSL direct to XE 1 SPM.

    ( info from Paty Mohedano XE1SPM via ALARA )

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    RWANDA, 9X.

    QRV is 9 X 2 AW from Kigali in Rwanda until 28 September with
    activity on the HF bands CW, SSB, RTTY, and FT8.

    QSL via M 0 OXO.

    (arrl)

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    VI 50 SG is QRV until December 31 commemorating 50 years
    of the St. George Amateur Radio Society in New South Wales.
    QSL via bureau.

    (SouthGate)

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    VK 20 HOME

    Dont forget that the WIA special event callsign VK 20 HOME
    is still available for members use until December 31st 2021.
    Check the WIA website and Special Event pages to book your
    time slot for use.

    (VK3GK)

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    BEACONS

    28.205.8

    I Would like to Let everyone know of a New Ten Meter Band
    Beacon that has been operating for the Last 6 months or so,
    about 27 Kilometre's N/W of Brisbane City at the my Home
    QTH, I'm Robert VK4LA.

    The Beacon is Located In Northlakes and is homebrew .
    It operates using callsign VK4LA and is on 28.205.8 cw.

    The Beacon consists of a 5 watt Transmitter with a 1/2 wave
    vertical antenna 35ft off the ground.

    I would Appreciate some Signal Reports from all who can hear
    it.

    If you wish to send a signal report VIA EMAIL, my email
    address is huntingqld@bigpond.com and I also have some
    photos of beacon in use to view on my page on qrz.com

    Looking forward to getting some signal reports from all.

    for WIA National news this is Robert VK4LA ------------------------------------------------------------*
    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER
    AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org

    Cosmonauts found "superficial fissures" in the aging Zarya
    module of the International Space Station, and worry that
    they will expand over time.

    Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian space program chief engineer,
    also pointed out that "at least 80 percent of in-flight
    systems on the Russian segment of the ISS have passed their
    use by or expiration date."

    [ANS]
    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- IOTA
    iota-world.org

    HERE TODAY - GONE TOMORROW

    IOTA EU-042, known as Hallig Hooge, is worth chasing because
    it is not there all of the time!

    Located of the northwest coast of Germany on a large tidal
    plain, it occasionally submerges during spring tides and
    storms.

    DA 0 DFF will be on air from tomorrow the 20th until the
    26th of September on HF and QO100. QSL via the DARC QSL
    Bureau.

    (irts)
    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- MEDICAL
    IHS = IHSOFMN.org
    PHARMACISTS = malpensa.it/iphg
    Medical Amateur Radio Council marco-ltd.org/

    Havana syndrome and the mystery of the microwaves

    Doctors, scientists, intelligence agents and government
    officials have all been trying to find out what causes
    "Havana syndrome" - a mysterious illness that has struck
    American diplomats and spies.

    We've brought you this story over quite a few years but the
    headaches not only continue but appear to be worsening.

    Some call it an act of war, others wonder if it is some new
    and secret form of surveillance - and some people believe it
    could just even be all in the mind.

    So who or what is responsible?

    It often started with a sound, one that people struggled to
    describe. "Buzzing", "grinding metal", "piercing squeals",
    was the best they could manage.

    One woman described a low hum and intense pressure in her
    skull; another felt a pulse of pain. Those who did not hear
    a sound, felt heat or pressure. But for those who heard the
    sound, covering their ears made no difference.

    Havana syndrome first emergedin Cubain 2016. The first
    cases were CIA officers, which meant they were kept secret.
    Five years on, reports now number in the hundreds and, the
    BBC has been told, span every continent, leaving a real
    impact on the US's ability to operate overseas.

    Uncovering the truth has now become a top US national
    security priority - one that an official has described as
    the most difficult intelligence challenge they have
    ever faced.

    ( www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58396698 )
    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- QRP and WEAK SIGNAL COMMUNICATION

    QRP NZ up and running...

    QRP NZ has reformed after a short recess.

    If you would like a copy of the group's September Newsletter
    ("The 5-Watter") or information about the group, you can
    email the group's contact person Philip ZL1PSH at
    the link in this weeks text edition of WIA National News.

    qrpnzl2021@gmail.com

    (nzart)

    WIRELESS WEATHER

    Another Carrington Event Likely

    Ralph Squillace KK6ITB reports for Amateur Radio NewsLine
    that Professor Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, a computer scientist
    as the University of California, Irvine, believes that major
    solar storms are capable of compromising the internet's
    global infrastructure, and probably will.

    It's not that a coronal mass ejection can disable the fibre
    optic cables that form the foundation of the internet. Those
    cables remain unaffected and local internet service would
    remain intact. But, the researcher said, the global network
    of undersea power supply cables that boost the internet's
    international signals, the equivalent of repeaters, would
    suffer directly from electromagnetic fluctuations brought on
    by severe solar eruptions. In a recently released research
    paper, the professor speculated that this could knock nations
    off the internet, isolating them for as long as several weeks.

    The professor presented her findings at a conference held
    virtually by the Association for Computer Machinery. She
    noted that astrophysicists say there is a likelihood of
    between 1.6 percent and 12 percent that a strong enough
    storm of this sort will occur within the next decade.

    For many, her findings describe a future version of the
    Carrington Event, a geomagnetic storm in September of 1859
    that damaged the earth's ozone layer and disrupted telegraph
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    I'M JOHN KNOX VK4FJRK AND THIS IS REWIND

    RADIO has revolutionised the way we live - allowing us to
    listen to the music we like in the car, around the house, or
    even on our phones. But where did radio come from - and who
    put together the very first one?

    Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi are the two main
    competitors for the accolade of inventing the radio.

    Inventor Tesla may have got there first as he demonstrated a
    wireless radio in St Louis, Missouri, in 1893 but Marconi got
    the very first wireless telegraphy patent in England in 1896.

    Tesla filed for patents for his basic radio in the USA a year
    later, and finally got his patent in 1900.

    The US Supreme Court made a decision to give the title of
    first patent to Tesla instead of Marconi in 1943.

    Marconi was the first person to transmit signals across the
    Atlantic, on December 1, 1901.

    As we've heard in 1893 Tesla demonstrated the first working
    radio, but Marconi actually sent and received his first
    radio signal in Italy in 1895. However, before this,
    Mahlon Loomis demonstrated that wireless telegraphy was
    possible in 1886. Prior even to that, in 1866,
    Heinrich Rudolph Hertz demonstrated the first radio waves,
    and even further back, in the early 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell
    predicted the existence of radio waves.

    RADIO - THAT MAGIC SPARK AND IT'S STILL GOING STRONG

    My time is up

    With REWIND I'm John Knox, VK4FJRK

    ( www.the-sun.com/news/3634618/who-invented-radio/ ) ------------------------------------------------------------*
    2021 Social Scene

    Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events'
    direct for up-to-date status information and even without
    Covid dates have an uncanny knack of being changed at last
    moment.

    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/

    VK4 - Cardwell Gathering October1 to 4 at
    Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park. (BackScatter)

    VK4 - SunFest Field Day Monday October 4,
    Nambour Showgrounds, Queensland. ( mark@qslcomms.com )

    VK6 - PerthTech October 23 (vk6pop)

    VK3 - ROSEBUD RadioFest by SPARC 9:30am Nov 14 (vk3pdg)
    VK5 - Australian Fox Hunting Championship and SERG Convention
    Mount Gambier SA Queens Birthday weekend June 2022
    (vk5dj)

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