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VK7 REGIONAL NEWS BROADCAST

FOR SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST 2009

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Contest News

Remembrance Day Contest Logs

GET YOUR LOGS IN TO THE CONTEST MANAGER

Did you operate during the RD weekend contest and get 10 or more contacts?

Well then you need to support VK7 and submit your logs to the contest manager Peter Harding VK4OD.

Logs can be submitted by electronic mail or postal mail.

By mail, send logs and summary sheets to: RD Contest Manager.

Endorse the front of the envelope " Remembrance Day Contest ".

Peter Harding VK4OD 40 Centaurus Cres Regents Park, QLD 4118.

E-mail, electronic logs in CSV format to rdlogs(AT)wia.org.au.

In all cases, logs must be received by last mail on Monday 15th September, 2009.

Late entries will not be eligible.

If you are sending your logs by electronic means, Peter recommends that you set the flag to request "confirmation of receipt" and "when the file is read". This way you will receive two confirmation messages. If you do not receive either return message please send me an inquiry mail,

Take a look at the WIA website contest page for more details about this year's RD Contest.

http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/rdcontest/

(Peter Harding VK4OD, RD Contest Manager)

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VK7 EVENTS CALENDAR

A summary of the events across VK7 over the coming months:

REAST – September 2nd – World Moon Bounce Day Presentation Queen's Domain Clubrooms from 8:00pm

http://reast.asn.au/events.php#WMBD

REAST -  September 9, 16, 23, 30 – ATV experimenter's nights – Queen's Domain Clubrooms – around 7:30pm.

http://reast.asn.au/events.php#ATVnights

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NORTH WEST News

North West Tasmania Amateur Television Group

http://www2.vk7ax.id.au/atvgroup

Replays of  WIA National News & VK7 Regional News

Interested amateurs in the Central Coast Area of Tassie are advised that replays of the WIA National News and VK7 Regional news are now replayed on Sunday Nights at 19.30 Hrs. or 7.30PM Local.

The VK7 Regional news is recorded on Sunday mornings (when it is not supplied as an mp3 file) and replayed on Sunday Evenings at 7.30 PM automatically on IRLP Nodes 6616 and 6124 via VK7RTV 6Metres and 147.425 Simplex.

Automatic callbacks are taken at the conclusion of the broadcasts, so it would be appreciated if you listen to these broadcasts, that you take the time to check in at the conclusion of the broadcasts.    This info is forwarded to the originators of both  broadcasts.

A reminder for all interested persons that ALL broadcasts produced by the Club, that relevant information is available from the Web Site http://www2.vk7ax.id.au/spectrum/ and is available via Audio Stream and download of individual files. 

73's until next time.

(Tony VK7AX, News Officer NWT-ATV Group)

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Cradle Coast Amateur Radio Club (CCARC)

CCARC News

http://www.my-x15.net/ccarc

The committee of the club would like to congratulate two of our members that were issued with their licence and call signs on Thursday 27/08/2009.

Steven Lloyd VK7FXXX  and James [Hamish] Carnegie VK7FHAM are two new "F" calls that you will no doubt be hearing soon on our local North West repeaters and on the HF bands if ever this rain stops to enable them to get some wire and aluminium in the air.

So, if you hear these gents come up on air soon, give them a shout and welcome them to our hobby.

Cheers from

(David, VK7EX, President CCARC)

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Southern News

Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania

World Moon Bounce Day Presentation

REAST's September Presentation will be about the World Moon Bounce Day activities.

On 27 June 2009 a group of Southern VK7 amateurs were involved in the first of the Echoes of Apollo celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the first moon walk with World Moon Bounce Day.

This day saw many amateurs around the world bouncing both side band and digital mode signals off the moon.

The University of Tasmania through Dr Jim Lovell agreed for a group of radio amateurs to use their 26m Radio Telescope at Mt Pleasant for the World Moon Bounce activity.

Keen digital EME'er Rex VK7MO lead the day assisted by Justin VK7TW and Radio Telescope Technician Eric VK7BB who made an invaluable contribution to making the day a success.

Many contacts were made throughout the day and these were recorded on video and have been cut into two presentations - a humorous look at talking to the moon by Paul VK7FPAH and the second is a record of all the key events throughout the day by Justin VK7TW.

Both these presentation will be shown on the big screen and take a total of just over an hour.

See you at the Queen's Domain clubrooms and it starts at 8pm.

http://reast.asn.au/events.php#WMBD

(73, Justin, VK7TW and Rex VK7MO)

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REAST ATV Experimenters Night

Last Wednesday night saw another great roll-up with some great video presentations.

We started with some show and tell from Justin VK7TW on microwave resources and specifically the microwave antenna manual from W1GHZ. This manual is freely available and covers many microwave antennas with both theory and practice. There is also freely available software that allows you to design and experiment with dish and feed designs. Justin took the ATV audience through the design of a 10GHz horn for a standard WR90 wave guide.

Then we presented a great video from Warren VK7FEET which was titled Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Aiming for Zero Emission from Belgium. The video takes the audience through some of the history of bases on Antarctica with a focus on the Belgium base and then the recent rebuilding of zero emission base. The video is from the International Polar Foundation.

The second presentation was from our friends at Honeysuckle Creek Tracking station alumni and was the progress made on the restoration of the Apollo 11 video of the EVAs and there is an appreciable increase in definition and contrast. This DVD is a work in progress and the restoration work will be completed by the end of September 2009 so, Justin hopes to get a copy of the fully restored videos for a future ATV night.

Next week is a REAST presentation night so the ATV nights will get back underway in a fortnight – see you then.

http://reast.asn.au/events.php#ATVnights

(73, Justin, VK7TW)

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Deep South Satellite DX

Antarctica - KC4USV McMurdo Station

Bill Erhardt lets us know via the AMSAT-VK mailing list that he will be making his second summer season to McMurdo Station Antarctica in Nov 2009 - Feb 2010 and he will be taking an Arrow II antenna and his TH-7(g) Kenwood for FM satellites.

Another ham is bringing a 2m and 70 cm all mode for SSB/CW birds. Bill expects to be active on a couple birds when he is not busy working.

Sunday is my normal day off so he will try to work as many birds on that day.

Hope to hear some VK and ZL calls on the birds from Antarctica.

Cheers from Montana and Bill Erhardt KC4USV

Soon to be on McMurdo Station Antarctica.

(Judy VK2TJU via the AMSAT-VK Mailing List)

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Satellite News

SuitSat-2 Gets A New Name

The SuitSat-2 project now has a new name to go with its new shape, ARISSat-1.

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, the ARISS Chairman announced the new name for the satellite and project this week. The project team is moving ahead using the same hardware that was to fly in the Russian Orlan suit. The team is re-configuring some of the modules to fit into the new structure being designed by Bob Davis, KF4KSS and his team.

Wallops Suborbital Launch With APRS

There will be a launch to 300+ km of an APRS payload on a sounding rocket out of Wallops Island VA - USA, this fall. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, says, "I don't want to steal anyone's thunder, but they said I could give this heads up".

More details will be posted when available.

It is only 300 milliiwatts and will be on the National APRS frequency 144.39 to make sure everyone can track it.  The total mission duration is on the order of 10 minutes from launch to re-entry.

AMSAT stations with beams in the mid-Atlantic states will be valuable.

APRS stations with Igates with beams will be even better so the student builders half way across the country can get their packets live via the APRS-IS (internet)...

OMNI antennas in quiet locations should be able to hear the packets direct, so nearby Igates with omni's probably need no enhancement.

(Bob, WB4APR, via the AMSAT News Service)

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Pubic Lectures

International Year of Astronomy Celebrations

The Australian Institute of Physics – Tasmanian Branch runs a public lecture series throughout the year the following may interested some Radio Amateurs. The theme is the International Year of Astronomy:

On Monday 7 September at 8.00 pm in the UTAS Sandy Bay Campus - Physics Theatre 1 - Prof Penny Sackett who is Australian Government Chief Scientist will be giving a lecture entitled - Contributions of Astronomy to all of Science.

On Thursday 17 September at 8.00 pm again at the UTAS Sandy Bay Campus - Physics Theatre 1 - Prof Ray Norris from the CSIRO will give a public lecture entitled The Astronomy of Aboriginal Australians.

http://www.phys.utas.edu.au/physics/AIP_TasBranch/Program/Prog2009_Details/2009d%20Norris.htm

On Thursday 8 October at 8.00 pm in the Physics Theatre 1 - Prof David Jamieson from University of Melbourne will be giving a public lecture on Galileo's invention of the astronomical telescope and his remarkable discoveries: moons, stars and a new planet.

http://www.phys.utas.edu.au/physics/AIP_TasBranch/Program/Prog2009_Details/2009e%20Jamieson.htm

And if that's not enough on Tuesday 20 October at 8.00 pm in Physics Theatre 1 - Dr Charley Lineweaver from the Australian National University will be giving a public lecture entitled Is There More Than One Universe?.

http://www.phys.utas.edu.au/physics/AIP_TasBranch/Program/Prog2009_Details/2009f%20Lineweaver.htm

IYA - http://www.astronomy2009.org.au/

http://www.phys.utas.edu.au/physics/AIP_TasBranch/Program/Program.htm

(Sourced from the AST Mailing List)

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History News

The AIR WOP's Job - 1944 - 101 Squadron

The following story was written by John G0LYY and is sourced from the FIST UK Magazine for June 2009 and give a fascinating insight into the day-to-day life of air crew during WWII.

The first duty of the day was to collect a small fully charged accumulator from the Acc Section. You took this out to your "kite" for the DI (Daily Inspection). It could be a good mile, but most of us had bikes.

First job was to change the intercom batteries,. Then you checked the crew's helmets for intercom. Then you checked all the intercom points. There were a lot of these, not only at crew positions.

Then you checked your own equipment, the dear old 1154/1155. I must say I liked using this. My first experience of air operating was with the old 1082/1083. This was rather crude in comparison. The receiver was TRF, with reaction, and was tuned by reference to calibrations.

To change bands on the TX, you juggled around with a collection of bulky plug in coils.

Checking the 1154 included making a brief call to the Base station. For security reasons we did not use the squadron call sign, which was changed every trip. As our regular kite was E Easy I would call on the key "T8Q v E". It always amused me to send and receive that lonely dot. Towards the end we used de instead of v, in line with the Americans.

We also used their phonetic alphabet. In the early war years we were still using the same phonetics as in WW1 - Ack, Beer, Charlie, Don, etc. This included Monkey, Nuts, Orange, Pip, and of course F Freddie, made famous by the film "Target for Tonight". We were not allowed to forget the American phonetics. Except on mornings after night ops we were woken by the Tannoy announcing in stentorian tones, "The phonetic alphabet at present in use is as follows: - A Able, B Baker, C Charlie, etc." Now we have a different one again, and the odd thing is that I remember those old ones better than the current one.!

Going back to those brief calls, they were made every day, so that there was no sudden_ outburst of calls to inform the enemy that a raid was on. From this point radio silence was the order of the day. In the early war film "Target for Tonight" there was no end of chat between Base and all the aircraft taking part, which was a complete give away that something was on. We were very naïve in those early days. In 1944 messages from the control tower were sent by Aldis lamp If it was anything, it was usually "Scrubbed!" though even that was usually indicated by firing off a rocket. Once it was, "Take off put back one hour"!

By the time we had finished our DIs we usually knew whether there was anything on, or "Stand down". If the latter, that was our work for the day. Some said we had an easy war. So it was - if we got back!

http://www.fists.co.uk/

(Written by John GOLYY in the FISTS UK – Keynote Magazine June 2009)

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CW Contest News

Up and coming VK ZL Contests

2009 OCEANIA CONTEST – All band CW Contest from 08:00Z on 10 October 2009 to 08:00Z on 11 October 2009

Updated Contest Rules and other operating information is available from the contest website that can be found on the email and internet editions of this broadcast.

http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com

2009 NZART STRAIGHT KEY NIGHT which takes place on 1 November 2009 from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC on 80m CW

For details about this event, refer to the NZART contests website and the link can also be found on the printed and internet editions.

http://www.nzart.org.nz/contests

http://www.fistsdownunder.org/

(Sourced from the FIST Downunder Newsletter)

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Web & Email Edition Extra Bits!!

Alternative Tour of Tasmania

http://www.blue-rocket.com.au/explore.html

Video of 'DA', also known as Denice Stoops, the first female telegrapher who worked at KPH until the end of commercial morse operations and closure of the station in 1998.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4scmlC7tI

Bug Telegraph Key W5PEH Buzza 100 Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf4gKYE8KUo&feature=related

ARVideoNews – New DVDs released

http://www.arvideonews.com/

SIGCOMM 2009

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/

Radio Comms Conference 2009 – Melb

http://www.radiocomms.com.au/connect/2009/

This is why we have security around TX sites!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTv7bTZusyo&feature=related

Funcube Satellites

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1D4a803d8814a11352.cde

Microsoft UnderFire

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351691,00.asp

New Invisible Ink

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/23316/?a=f

Ever wondered what an occupational hygienist does?

http://www.abc.net.au/acedayjobs/cooljobs/profiles/s2599607.htm

Go portable with your Nuclear Power Plant…HIHI

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23247/

Courtesy of Roger VK2ZRH via the VK-VHF Mailing list: For all Aircraft Enhancement enthusiasts and the plainly curious pick one of these links and take a Captain Cook at 24 hours of global air traffic compressed into a video 1min 12 secs long. YOU WILL BE AMAZED [Links courtesy of Dave VK3HZ]

The YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4g930pm8Ms&fmt=18

A WMV file to download: http://www.2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/s ... p?t=195052

http://www.vklogger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=8673

Inspired Bike Riding

http://www.dannymacaskill.co.uk/index.php

Someone is V.upset about Broadband in Hobart!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMSHG3ngT8&feature=related

The following links are courtesy of the AMSAT News Service:

Software enhancement allows you to fly through the 10,000 galaxies of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image at: http://tinyurl.com/n3fhjg Try the full screen option in the bottom toolbar for the best experience.

Roland PY4ZBZ has posted an audio recording from his AO-7 SSB QSO with Andre, ZS2BK covering a of distance of 6890 km. The recording is at: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/satelite/ZS2BK_AO7.wav  Photos of his 2 element Yagi on VHF and 6 el on UHF are on-line at: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/satelite.htm#owa6

Do you have some interesting amateur related sites you have some across in the last week – send them in to justingc(AT)ozemail.com.au

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VK7 Virtual BPL Tours Update

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdcY0Eetvsw - Mt Nelson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gsxpya3CnQ - North Hobart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DfdxjRkpU - RU ready for BPL?

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If you are interested in becoming an amateur radio operator or upgrading your licence then we suggest you contact your local club for details and/or take a look at what the Radio and Electronics School has to offer. They have a range of courses that can be delivered through a variety of methods.

They can be found at: www.radioelectronicschool.com

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Finally today, a reminder to those people rostered for next week's broadcasts:

Newsreader: VK7FB

160m: VK7DM

80m: VK7EM

40m: VK7JGD

20m: VK7AR

10m: VK7ZGK

UHF CB: VK7HGO

HF CB: VK7TED

Thanks to all people and organisations who assisted with this broadcast.

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THAT CONCLUDES OUR VK7 REGIONAL NEWS BROADCAST FOR THIS WEEK.

YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO OR JUST MISSED VK7WI. NEXT WEEK THE NATIONAL WIA NEWS CAN BE HEARD AT 0900 FOLLOWED BY THE VK7 REGIONAL NEWS AT 0930 HOURS.

DETAILS TO SEND NEWS FOR THIS BROADCAST CAN BE FOUND AT REAST.ASN.AU AND THE DEADLINE FOR ITEMS IS 21:00 ON FRIDAY PRIOR TO THE SUNDAY OF THE BROADCAST.



VK7 Regional Broadcast & News Coordinator
Justin Giles-Clark, VK7TW



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