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This is WIANEWS for week commencing December 16 2007 Audio runs 18:30
NATIONAL NEWS
The WIA have received an invitation to be passed on to the VK ham population
from Pietro iv3ehh@tin.it of the Associazione Radioamatori Italiani
It is to do with the hst2008 hst@hst2008.org
A.R.I. as the hosting Society of the 6th Region 1 European HST Championship
around Anzac Day weekend 2008.
If you or your club are interested, contact iv3ehh@tin.it
The Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club participated in the RALLY De FEMMES
and say this would have to have been one of the easiest rally's to assist with
communications wise.
Only three stages, all run three times making a total of nine stages.
So you stayed put for all of the rally, this gave plenty of time to
set up positions and make changes during the running of the rally to
improve creature comforts or make adjustments to antenna locations etc.
With only 16 competitors the stages went fairly quickly and being a
lady drivers event no incidents to speak of, unlike their male counterparts.
A job well done to Jeff VK1FJPP who did his first stop control.
Darren VK1HFC and Peter VK1NFI handled the travellers net between them.
This all would not happen with out the sterling efforts of Phil VK1ZPL
as chief organiser.
AMATEUR RADIO - HOME OF THE GOOD GUYS
HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA.
VK2
web service:- http://www.arnsw.org.au/html/news_vk2wi.htm
Big welcome to all Amateur Radio enthusiasts in Australia.
Please remember to book for the Saturday 16th February 2008 Dinner at the
Wyong Field Day. Bookings are essential, entry by ticket only.
Info ph.02 43 25 21 82.
Cost is $ 35:00 p/p with a top speaker present. Hurry and Book for the
evening. A Bar will be open for your pleasure.
This 2008 Field Day is looking good, many Traders and Exhibitors will be there
and we have had a big response from the "Flea Market" section.
Remember that for this year Trading will not start until 0930 hours on the
Sunday, you can have another hour in bed before the big spend-up.
The "Flea Market" will start as soon as the stall holders are set-up.
(Ray VK2 HAY. ph. (02) 4325 2182 for info)
VK4
web service local news:- www.wiaq.com/qnews/upload/qnewsbcast.htm
local news email qnews-vk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com subscribe in subject field.
Redcliffe and District Radio Club
As you heard in last week's news the Redcliffe Amateur Radio Club decided to
provide the chance of winning one of two Foundation scholarships to scouts
and cubs who visited the club station during the JOTA weekend.
The Committee decided that the winners are Lauren and Shaun Kelley both of
Kallangur Scout group.
President of the Club, David VK4FDRC, presented the scholarships at Monday's
club meeting and said how proud he was to offer two fine young people the
chance to enter the world of amateur radio.
The children's parents Anita and Gary Kelley were also present and were
excited about their children's' awards.
Gary said that the thing that really got his son hooked on amateur radio was
one of the crystal sets that the club made available during the JOTA weekend.
It now appears that Dad and maybe even Mum, will join the children to undertake
their Foundation licence course in early February next year.
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NEWS FROM ARNEWSLINE
GERMANY: HAM RADIO KICKED OFF OLYMPIC TOWER SITE
Using to much electric power may have cost a popular group of
repeaters serving Munich, Germany it's site. This, as one group of
hams who control access by other radio amateurs to Munich's Olympic
Tower radio site have essentially kicked the brother radio amateurs out.
The group in question is the V-F-D-B. The V-F-D-B is described as a
parallel amateur radio organization to the German national society the
D-A-R-C. It represents hams that work for, or used to work for, the
German telecommunications authority. They have their own local clubs
that "compete" with the D-A-R-C local clubs, although in most ways
they cooperate and sort of claim to be part of one family. Since the
V-F-D-B has a direct connection with the authorities or past
authorities, they arranged to be the national renter of repeater site
properties at subsidized prices.
And now the V-F-D-B is claiming that the hams who operate repeaters at
the Olympic Tower are using far to much resources such as electric
power and had ordered Rainer Englert, D-F-2-N-U, and his repeaters out
of the site. This, even though they are the most popular systems
serving the Munich area and includes the 5th highest traffic EchoLink
repeater used worldwide, as well as a new D-Star repeater.
According to one source, some dialog was opened between the V-F-D-B
and D-F-2-N-U. Then a closed meeting without Englert was held on
December 4th to determine the fate of the repeaters on the Olympic
Tower. The outcome was a decision to shut everything down. There was
no discussion, no reasons given.
The user group that supports the repeaters say the move was purely
political. They say that their next step will be to consult with their
lawyers and at the same time to look for a repeater site that is not
under V-F-D-B's control.
(Source: ARNEWSLINE)
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RSGB NEWS G4NJH
A new beacon, GB3SSS, is operating on 3597kHz from Poldhu in Cornwall during
the winter months. The purpose is to investigate propagation between Poldhu
and St Johns, Newfoundland, during a sunspot minimum. This will help determine
how Marconi's signals were able to cross the Atlantic on that famous afternoon
in 1901.
The transmission format is the same as the 5MHz beacons and last year's
1.96MHz GB3SSS beacon. Transmissions last one minute and start at zero,
15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour. A callsign is followed by two sets of 6dB
power steps, then a PSK31 message starting at the 30 second boundary.
Software used for the 5MHz beacons can be used for decoding and this is
available for download from www.rsgb-spectrumforum.org.uk.
Power is 15dBW to an 80m dipole. Reports should be sent to gb3sss@yahoo.co.uk,
and further details are on the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club web site at
www.gb2gm.org.
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OPERATIONAL NEWS -
CONTEST COLUMN - D A T E L I N E
2008
January 12-13 (Weekend) Summer VHF/UHF Test
February 15-16 ARRL - CW Contest - 0000 UTC 15 til 0000UTC 16.
February 23-24 NZART JOCK WHITE MEMORIAL FIELD DAY
March 1- 2 ARRL SSB Contest - 0000UTC 1 until 0000UTC 2
March 8- 9 RSGB HF COMMONWEALTH CONTEST - ALL BANDS
8 March 1000 UTC til 9 March 1000 UTC
March 15-16 (Weekend) John Moyle Field Day
August 16-17 (Weekend) Remembrance Day Contest
August 16-17 (Weekend) International Lighthouse Weekend
November 15-16 (Weekend) Spring VHF/UHF Field Day
STRAIGHT KEY NIGHT ON OSCAR - JAN 1
The next Straight Key Night on OSCAR is a Morse only satellite
happening slated for January 1st of 2008. The event is sponsored
by AMSAT for all radio amateurs throughout the world.
Participating in Straight Key Night on OSCAR is fun and simple. No
scoring and no need to send in a log. Just operate CW through any
OSCAR, using a straight hand key, at any time between 0000 and 2400
UTC on January 1, 2008.
In keeping with the friendly nature of this event, all participants
are encouraged to nominate someone they worked for Best Fist. Please
send your nomination to W2RS at w2rs@amsat.org. Those selected will be
recognized in an AMSAT News Service bulletin, and in The AMSAT Journal.
This 2008 Straight Key Night on OSCAR will be held in memory of Harry
Yoneda, the ex-JA1ANG. Harry was a past AMSAT Director and co-founder
of Japan AMSAT.
(ARNEWSLINE ANS)
THE QNEWS WORK BENCH - the nuts and volts report -
(Measure twice - Cut once!)
F.D.M.D.V. - A NEW DIGITAL VOICE MODE FOR HF
A new Digital Voice mode called Frequency Division Multiplex Digital
Voice or FDMDV has been announced on the N1SU.com website. The new
mode claims to need a bandwidth of only 1100 Hertz of bandwidth to
provide high quality digital voice under poor band conditions.
According to its creators, FDMDV is the latest digital voice mode on
the High Frequency bands and is free to try. More information and a
link to both the download Site and user forum is on-line at
http://n1su.com/fdmdv
(ARNewsLine and M5AKA)
WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DIGITAL
Are you interested in learning more about DStar and what this exciting new
digital radio mode has to offer then visit the website
www.dtsar.org.au
And there is also a well established Australian DStar news group, you can join
the group from the link provided on the DStar website or by going directly to
http://lists.wia.org.au/mailman/listinfo/dstar
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING
http://www.scouts.com.au
http://www.scout.org/jota
http://www.wiaq.com/nationalnews/jotahead.htm
SCOUT JOTA HF Voice Calling Frequencies
3590 primary, 3.650 secondary, 7090, 14190, 21190, 28590 kHz
14290, 18140, 21360, 24960, 28390 kHz (DX)
Scouting and Guiding in NZ: Canterbury Jamboree or 'CJAM'
The Canterbury Jamboree or 'CJAM' is on at the end of the year over the
Christmas break CJAM is happening 28 Dec to 5 Jan for campers. Set up 27
December and take down 6 January 2008.
It will be a *international* scouting event. Over 4000 scouts and 1000
visitors are expected. This will be Amateur Radio in Canterbury's last chance
for the next 20 years to demonstrate amateur radio to a large range of
people.
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO
EMERGENCY FREQUENCIES REGION ONE
21.360 - 18.160 - 14.300 - 7.060 - 3.760 MHz.
YV0, AVES ISLAND DEVISTATED
Don't look for any DX operations from Aves Island anytime in the near
future. That's because it was all but washed off the face of the
Earth by Hurricane Dean on back on August 17th.
Only now is the extent of the devastation to the island coming to
light. If you want to see what's left, take your web browser to
www.yx0a.info and click on Pictures Shot After Hurricane Dean.
(ARNewsLine)
THE LOWDOWN COLUMN INCLUDING PRECISION BEACON TRANSMISSIONS
Join the Down Under LF Group's Mailing List:
http://www.egroups.com/list/lofexp/
lowexp@egroups
BEACONS www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/micro/Precision
IRELAND: FIRST 500 KHZ TRANSATLABTIC QSO COMPLETED
The first transatlantic contact on 500 kHz between amateur
experimental stations has taken place. The evening of November 13 saw
U-S experimental station WE2XGR and GI4DPE in Northern Ireland
communicate for about 15 minutes using standard-speed CW.
On that same night, US experimental stations WD2XSH 12 in Colorado and
WD2XSH 20 in Oregon made the first contact in the western half of the
United States.
WD2XSH is the ARRL 500 kHz experimental license. It was issued in
September 2006 and has 19 active stations. WE2GXR is licensed to
Warren Ziegler, K2ORS, of Wayland, Massachusetts. Fritz Raab, W1FR,
in Vermont, serves as experimental project manager for The 500 KC
Experimental Group for Amateur Radio. Its website is on line at
www.500kc.com
And less we forget, if Warren Ziegler's callsign, K2ORS, sounds
familiar, its first holder was the late American humorist Jean
Shepherd. The same Jean Shepherd that gave us all the holiday classic
motion picture "A Christmas Story." According to his listing on
QRZ.com, Ziegler was a big fan of the original K2ORS.
(ARNEWSLINE ARRL, Southgate, others)
SOCIAL SCENE
JANUARY 20 2008
The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group invite all amateurs to attend the
2008 Mid North Coast Radio Expo to be held in Coffs Harbour on Sunday 20th
January.
The Expo is held at the St Johns Church Hall, Mc Lean Street, Coffs Harbour.
Gary VK2ZKT is the Radio Expo Coordinator on 02 66 55 2 990 or visit the
Groups comprehensive web site at www.mncarg.org
FEBRUARY 9 2008
The Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club is turning 50 in January 2008.
To commemorate this milestone in the club's history, a dinner will be held
on Saturday the 9th of February 2008 at the Emu Plains Sporting and
Recreation Club, Leonay (pro: Lee-O-Nay) Parade, Emu Plains, commencing
at 7:30 PM. The cost is $40.00 per head (excluding drinks) and is
non-refundable. All current and former members and their partners are
invited to attend. This is a great opportunity to catch up on old times
with old friends. Bookings are essential and can be made by contacting
Daniel VK2DC via email to bmarc50@bmarc.org or snail mail to PO Box 54,
Springwood NSW 2777. Full payment must be received by the 25th of January
2008 to confirm your booking.
For more information on this and other BMARC activities, point your browser
to www.bmarc.org
(John VK2QN Publicity Officer Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club Inc)
FEBRUARY 10
Announcing Centre Victoria RadioFest No. 2.
Second-hand traders, club corner, short-talk lectures, displays and the
popular dipole factory will all return, plus some new exciting activities to
be announced later.
All major commercial traders have already made commitments to be there again
in 2008.
For second hand table bookings that cost only $12.50 please contact Nick
Angelo VK3UCK 0488 653 201, or check out the website
radiofest.amateurradio.com.au
FEBRUARY 17
CENTRAL COAST AMATEUR RADIO FIELD DAY
On Sunday 17th February 2008 the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club Field Day
will again be held at the Wyong Race Course. This is the most popular field
day in Australia, generally drawing about two thousand interested amateurs
and electronic hobbyists each year.
Major Australian radio and electronic equipment suppliers will be in
attendance with displays of the latest radio and electronic equipment for
sale.
Displays will also be provided by several amateur radio clubs and special
interest groups and throughout the day an interesting lecture program will be
provided.
The Newcastle Embroiders Guild will also be providing craft activities
throughout the day which should be of great interest to the XYL's.
The extensive car boot sale area will again be very active, providing a wide
choice of goods for sale. As usual the free tea, coffee and chat area will
operate but this time in a new bigger location. The various food outlets
providing hot and cold sit down or take away food will also operate as usual.
As a new feature this year to promote further socialisation by those
attending the field day, an Official Dinner will be held at the venue on the
evening of Saturday 16th February 2008. This will be a buffet style meal
with a guest speaker who will talk on an interesting radio relevant subject.
This Field Day provides the greatest opportunity for the amateur operator or
electronic enthusiast to see and purchase all the latest gear in one location
and meet up with a very wide range of like minded enthusiasts - a great
opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new friends.
More details will soon appear on the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club's web
site www.ccarc.org.au.
How about you put it in your calendar as a must do event!
Sept 13 Alarameet 2008 will be held in Ulverstone Tasmania on Saturday
13th and Sunday 14th September 2008. Susan VK7LUV for details.
2009
International Telecommunication Union's Telecom World 2009.
14th IARU R3 Conference Christchurch 12 - 16 October, 2009.
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