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WIANEWS WEEK COMMENCING JANUARY 27 2013. 

This week's broadcast comes from REAST in Hobart.
Frank  VK7FINF 
Angela VK7FPAA 
Allan  VK7KAJ 
Scott  VK7HVK 
Warren VK7FEET 
Graham VK7ZGK 
Justin VK7TW 

THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE
OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING JAN 27 2013. 

Last week the WIA was asked to provide urgent supporting technical
information to its recent submissions to the NSW Planning System Review 
Proposed changes to State-wide Streamlined Approvals Code.

On the wia.org.au site you will find an attached document "Amateur Radio
Antenna Masts - Information for NSW Planning & Infrastructure", written
for the WIA by Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, at very short notice. 

Here now is Roger:-

"Well - it seems that our campaign to have the NSW Planning department
include provisions for amateur radio masts and antennas in the planning 
laws currently being revised has had some effect. 

The NSW Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, the honourable Brad
Hazzard MP, has asked the Planning department to - quote - pay particular
attention to this issue in finalising the State Environmental Planning
Policy amendment - end quote. 

How do I know that ? Well, late in November I wrote to my local member
about my disappointment that exemptions for antenna masts for amateur
radio use will not be considered in the current Planning System Review,
despite many submissions to the Review over the past year. My local
member subsequently acknowledged my letter, saying that he asked the
Planning Minister for advice on the subject. 

On Tuesday last, 22nd January, I received a letter from my local member
enclosing a response to him from the Minister for Planning. After 
acknowledging the valuable work performed by amateurs during natural 
disasters and other emergencies when traditional infrastructure fails,
the Minister's letter went on to explain that the current State
Environmental Planning Policy - Exempt and Complying Development Codes
(or SEPP) - allows antennas and aerials to be erected on most lots in
NSW to a height of 1.8 metres above the highest point of the roof on a
dwelling - ". . . this includes antennas which may be erected at ground
level, such as those used by amateur radio operators. In situations
where there is a two storey dwelling, this allows for the erection of
an antenna that is around 10 metres high." So, I guess we're expected
to live in two storey McMansions . . . All those submissions you sent
in should have made it abundantly clear that that 1.8 metre limit didn't
cut it for amateur radio.

The Minister went on to say that - quote - amateur radio operators raised
concerns regarding the Codes SEPP and the ability to erect radio masts and 
antenna. Each submission is currently being reviewed and I have asked the 
Department to pay particular attention to this issue in finalizing the SEPP 
amendment. 

If you wrote to your local member, you may have received a letter from the
Minister to your local member along the same lines. 

The Institute wrote to the Planning department in November, seeking a
meeting to discuss the issue of amateur radio masts before the new
regulations were set in stone.

The Planning department replied in December, saying that as they were 
reviewing submissions to the draft Codes SEPP, they thought there was
limited value in discussing the issue at this stage.

However, the department's reply to President Phil Wait VK2ASD revealed
that, of the 200 submissions received on the draft Codes SEPP, over 40
were from radio amateurs !! That effort made amateur radio operators the
largest single group of respondents out of those from local councils,
town planners, architects, developers, businesses, community groups,
uncle Tom Cobley and all.

The department's letter to the Institute included the name and number of
an officer to contact to discuss our concerns.

The week before last, President Phil Wait called the contact officer and
had a chat. The officer invited the Institute to provide technical
reasons why radio amateurs wanted masts and antennas of 10 metres or 15
metres and to set out arguments and requirements supporting the case.
And to submit it within days. 

Phil briefed me on his discussion with the planning officer and asked me
to put something together. The submission and a covering letter were
completed and submitted on Monday 21st January. They were posted on
wia.org.au the same day - thank you Robert Broomhead VK3DN. 

If you're unhappy about something; if you want to change things: it pays
to make yourself heard.

Are we there yet ? Well, no. But keep your fingers crossed.

I must congratulate and thank everyone - individual amateurs and radio
clubs alike - who went to the effort of making a submission during all the
phasesof the Planning System Review and also writing to your local members.
I exhorted you to GET CRACKING, and you did.

I would also like to acknowledge the assistance of Jim Linton VK3PC who
provided some valuable background material when I embarked on this saga.

The annual Great Gathering of hams - the Wyong Field Day - is but four
weeks away, where we can compare letters we've received about radio masts
from our local members and the Minister for Planning. Do they all sing
from the same song sheet ?

The Wyong Field Day promoters have exhorted us all to "be there or be
square!"

(submitted by roger vk2zrh)

FreeDV broadcast

Following the successful relay of the VK1WI and the AARNSW morning
broadcast, using the new FreeDV digital voice mode on 40 metres a second
test is now planned.

Tonight's broadcast, Sunday the 27th of January, will be relayed, once
again from the Central Coast by Ed, VK2JI using the FreeDV mode however
this will be on a different frequency. As many of the spots below 7.2MHz
are taken up by nets and general SSB usage, this trial will be sent on
7.240MHz LSB FreeDV plus or minus QRM from the broadcast stations.

Ed hopes to find a small channel between the commercial stations. 

Reports of the transmission are very welcome and should be posted to the 
digitalvoice (all one word) Google group list. 

For those who wish to try to receive the test transmission and have the
audio from their rig connected to a PC for RTTY or PSK etc. all that is
needed is the free software from www.freedv.org 

(SOURCED TO VK2WI NEWS) 

WIA BOARD TALK 

President Phil Wait        VK2ASD vk2asd@wia.org.au
Vice President Chris Platt VK5CP  vk5cp@wia.org.au
Secretary David Williams   VK3RU  vk3ru@wia.org.au
Treasurer John Longayroux  VK3PZ  vk3pz@wia.org.au

Socialise - 27 January 2013 

Have you prepared for the last weekend in May; the 2013 WIA AGM and
Conference?

Meeting and speaking with fellow Amateurs is a rejuvenating experience that
cements friendships and opens the door to interactions beyond a QSO or a
QSL card. With tours of club facilities and tourist attractions throughout
Fremantle you'll have the opportunity to share your wonder with other
visitors to the state and enjoy the hospitality that VK6 has to offer.

The 2013 WIA AGM and Conference, it's all about Engaging, Learning,
Appreciating, Socializing and Discovering.

You'll find all the information online at the VK6 conference site,
conference.vk6.net

HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA.

VK2
web service:- http://www.arnsw.org.au/html/news_vk2wi.htm
VKG Roundup   http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news

ARNSW Anniversary BBQ.

Those who have received their membership badge will have seen included in
the posting an early notification of an Anniversary BBQ which is to be
conducted by ARNSW on Sunday the 10th of March at the Dural site.

Al VK2VEC is collecting names of those who will be attending.

You can email your RSVP to office@arnsw.org.au or telephone 02 9651 1490

Hornsby and Districts Amateur Radio Club is pleased to announce that their
new repeater VK 2 RHT is now on air at Chatswood, operating in both FM 
and P25 mode, also known as APCO-25.

It transmits on 438.350 MHz, and has a minus 5.4 MHz offset, meaning users
must transmit on 432.950 MHz

For FM users the repeater requires a 91.5 Hz tone. It also transmits the
same 91.5 Hz tone while in FM mode. This will prevent FM users hearing
the P25 signals.

For P25 users, the hexadecimal Network Access Code or NAC, is the
default 293. 

Whilst with HADARC, they set up camp in a park in West Pennant Hills over
the weekend, in a battle of the best with other fanatics across Australia.

The Hornsby And District Amateur Radio Club took part in an annual Field
Day Radio Contest, which tests the readiness of ham radio operators to 
provide communications at very short notice and to make as many contacts 
with other radio operators throughout NSW. 

The Hornsby Advocate reporting this story have a great photo of VK2JCC
Colin Christie at Pennant Hills. About 15 members of the 70-strong club
took to the park for about eight hours on Saturday and VK2JCC said that
the group made good contact with areas as far as Wollongong, South
Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. 

ARNSW at its Dural site will be conducting the next Foundation course on
Saturday the 23 March and assessments for all license grades on Sunday 24th.

Prior booking required by email to education@arnsw.org.au or
call 02 9651 1490 and leave contact details.

Candidates need to bring passport photo.

VK3
web service:- http://www.amateurradio.com.au/news/

The Centre Victoria RadioFest

The theme for the biggest Victorian event, held on February the 10th, is
home brewing, with three speakers to touch on the subject, and it includes
a free homebrew competition open to all.

If you are looking for good value, then visit and talk to those in the
dedicated Traders Hall, or the second-hand market place.

A full display of the Elecraft K-line will be on show thanks to Gary
Gregory VK4FD, as well as vintage radio and club displays.

Hot breakfast is available from 8am, access to toilets at 7am, free tea
and coffee all day.

See you at the Centre Victoria RadioFest when the doors open at 10am in
two weeks on Sunday February the 10th.

I'm Barry Robinson VK3PV and you are listening to VK1WIA.

Homebrew and Constructors Group meeting

The next gathering of this group will be at 2pm this Saturday, February
the 2nd. The venue is Amateur Radio Victoria, 40g Victory Boulevard,
Ashburton. It will include a ?show and tell? display of homebrewed gear.
Guest speaker is Peter Cossins VK3BFG. He will present on the evolvement
in Melbourne of slow scan television. All are welcome to attend.

(Jim Linton VK3PC)

EDUCATION YOUTH AND ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR RADIO
www.hamcollege.com.au

SILENT KEY
#1 MIXED DXCC JOHN DACK, W7KH (SK)
Monday, January 7, John Dack, W7KH, of Seattle, Washington, passed away.

He was 91.]

An ARRL Life Member, Dack sat at the very TOP of the DXCC mixed standings
with 398 entities, including all 340 current entities and 58 deleted
entities.

He worked every DXCC entity except Damau Diu (CR8), French Indochina (FI8)
and Manchuria (C9). South Sudan (ST0) was the last new DX entity in Dack's
log; he worked ST0R in August 2011.

JOHN DACK, W7KH SILENT KEY

INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club,
ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART, ARVictoria and the WW sources of
the WIA.

LITTLE NIPPER 

HMV was founded in 1921 with its first store on London's Oxford Street, its 
trademark dog and gramophone image is taken from a 1898 oil painting, His
Master's Voice, which features Nipper the dog listening to an early
gramophone recording.

HMV was at the forefront of music/record sales for years, thru the 2nd
world war singles, microgroove, tape, cassettes, 8 track cartridges CD's
mp3's and it would appear the later, digital downloading of mp3 songs
has seen its final demise!

HMV's 239 stores are administration and a 25%-off sale is in full swing 
certainly through the UK. 

LED LIGHTS JAM CITY BUSES 

The Swedish national amateur radio society the S-S-A reports on a case of
LED lights in a shop jamming the VHF radio used by buses. The lighting in
shop windows at a business called Punkt House jammed the city bus system
which uses 167.0375 MHz for communications and dispatch.

The lights causing the problem were LED spotlight lamps. It was found they
did not conform to the regulations on Electromagnetic Compatibility and
they are now being replaced. The full story in Google English is on-line
at tinyurl.com/LED-VHF-Interference

(Southgate via arnewsline.org) 

OPERATIONAL NEWS - DATELINE 2013 

VK ROSS HULL MEMORIAL VHF-UHF WRAPPING UP IN A DAY OR SO AFTER RUNNING
ALL JANUARY

ZL Jock White Memorial Field Day Contest Sat and Sun Feb 23 and 24.
WW International Museums Weekends June 15/16 and 22/23 

SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS, DX and BEACON AND NET ADVICE 

With the coming of more sunspots comes more DX. And when more amateurs
work DX, the ARRL's Membership and Volunteer Programs Department --
especially the DXCC Desk and the ARRL Incoming and Outgoing QSL Bureaus
-- goes into high gear.

"In 2012, we saw an increase in the number of cards received from ARRL
members that were sent to foreign QSL bureaus, as well as the number
of cards we sent out to the bureaus," said Membership and Volunteer
Programs Administrative Manager Sharon Taratula.

"In addition, the number of DXCC applications -- including those for
initial awards and endorsements -- also increased."

(arrl letter)

Members of the 'Buddies in the Caribbean' suitcase mini-DXpedition group
are 'going to Barbados' and will be active now till February 6th.

All members use Buddipole portable antennas at 100 watts or less.
Several teams will be battery-only, field portable either from Barbados
beaches or from scenic mountain tops and will sign their own call stroke P.

QSL via Logbook of the world or direct to each operator with an SASE.

BROADCAST MONITORING SWL AND SCANNER NEWS

Nautel Ltd., one of the world's leading broadcast transmitter
manufacturers, has received orders for 21 additional medium wave AM
transmitters and associated equipment from India.

The orders for 100 kW and 200 kW transmitters join an earlier-announced
order of six 300 kW DRM transmitters from All India Radio as the world's
largest digital radio deployment to date.

All transmitters in the system will be configured for DRM30 transmission
and will be used in 27 locations throughout India.

The transition to digital broadcasting will allow AIR to use alternate
platforms such as podcasting, SMS, webcasting and mobile services, and
offer a 24-hour news channel along with other programming.

Additional services such as Interactive Text Transmission and disaster
warning are also planned.

(virtual-strategy.com)

THE QNEWS WORK BENCH - the nuts and volts report - Measure Twice cut Once.

DIY electronic kit founder Entrepreneur of the Year

ICQpodcast.com say that Limor Fried started selling her DIY electronic
kits at university and created a multi-million dollar business, "Adafruit." 

Her success resulted in Limor being named 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year by
Entrepreneur magazine.

Limor started her company in her MIT dorm room by selling electronics kits
to her friends, making about $10 on each kit.

Soon she moved to New York and in October moved from a 2,000 square foot
office to a sprawling 12,000 square foot loft in Soho.

Entrepreneur says with $10,000 her parents had allocated for her tuition,
Fried bought a bulk quantity of parts and began assembling and selling her
kits, making about $10 on each unit.

As orders increased, she hired friends; before she knew it, she was
designing a new project every week around newfangled components like
gyrometric sensors, solar panels and thermal printers.

Entrepreneur of 2012: Limor Fried

www.entrepreneur.com/article/225213

http://www.adafruit.com/

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER

PACK YOUR HAM GEAR AND MOVE TO MARS

You might want to call this the ultimate one-way DXpedition.

While not specifically directed to the ham radio community, the Netherlands 
based non-profit organization "Mars One", has released its basic astronaut
requirements setting the stage for a televised global selection process
that will begin later this year. 

Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, told us that Mars One hopes
to put the first settlers on the red planet by 2023.

The organization is not looking for scientists or former jet jockeys as
colonists. Rather anyone who is at least 18 years old can apply to become
a Mars pioneer.

Officials at Mars One say that the most important criteria are
intelligence, good mental and physical health and dedication to the
project. Those selected as its astronauts will undergo eight years of
training before launch.

Norbert Kraft is Mars One's chief medical director and a former NASA
researcher. He is quoted as saying that gone are the days when bravery
and the number of hours flying a supersonic jet were the top criteria.
Kraft says that now a days space exploration planners are more concerned
with how well each astronaut works and lives with the others, in the long
journey from Earth to Mars and for a lifetime of challenges that would
lie ahead.

Mars One plans to launch a series of robotic cargo missions between 2016
and 2021. These would be used to build a habitable outpost ahead of the
arrival of the first four colonists in 2023. More settlers would then
arrive every two years thereafter. And less we forget to mention, this
will be a one way trip as there are no plans to return the pioneers to
Earth.

If you think you have the right stuff to help colonize Mars you can
learn more about the selection process at www.thenextgiantleap.com

(Mars One, space.com, others via arnewsline.org) 

RUSSIA TO LAUNCH MOON PROBE IN 2025 

Russia appears to be getting back into the space-race. According to
published news reports, that nation will resume its long dormant program
to explore the moon by sending an unmanned probe there in 2015.

The spacecraft will be called Luna-Glob which translates to Moon-Globe
in English. According to the Interfax news agency, Roskosmos director
Vladimir Popovkin said says the exploration payload will be carried by
the first rocket to blast off from a new facility that Russia is building
in its far eastern Amur region.

Popovkin is the head of Russia's space agency. He and other Russian space
officials have said Luna-Glob would consist of an orbital module and a
probe that would land on the moon. Once there it will radio back
information about samples it takes from the Lunar surface.

The last successful Russian launch of an unmanned probe to the moon was
in the 1970s. Unfortunately that nation has suffered setbacks in its
space program in recent years, including unsuccessful satellite launches
and the failure of a Mars probe in 2011.

SA AMSAT ACCELERATING CUBESAT PROJECT

South Africa AMSAT has decided to accelerate its CubeSat project and
expects to have the first prototype version of transponder and control
system on the table for testing by end February.

As part of South Africa's contribution to the African Resource and
Environmental Management Constellation of satellites, the South African
National Space Agency or SANSA, in collaboration with local industry and
academic experts, have been in discussions on the specifications for the
new satellite called Zed A-ARMC1. Specifically in regard to its benefits
for South Africa and the continent.

South Africa AMSAT is making a presentation to SANSA to have an amateur
payload included in the project.

Deon Coetzee, ZR1DE, last year demonstrated a locally designed space
frame. He is currently working on the second prototype.

WARP DRiVE SCOTTY

The SSTL Space Blog reports on WARP DRiVE (Water Alcohol Resistojet
Propulsion) a novel new propulsion system that will help the STRaND-1
CubeSat to perform manoeuvres. 

STRaND-1 is the first CubeSat to have two types of propulsion system.

As well as the WARP DRiVE, it will be equipped with a pulsed plasma
thruster system which will provide full-axis control with low power,
mass and volume requirements.

WARP DRiVE works by pushing water alcohol out of a tiny hole to produce
thrust. 

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ILLW

ILLW heading toward a record

The International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend continued to grow from
its first event held in August 1998 that attracted 158 stations in 40
countries.

Many of the amateur stations in the original activations at the historic
maritime structures have been with the fun event since, and joined over
the years by many hundreds more.

The sponsors, the Ayr Amateur Radio Group Scotland, thanks all entrants
for their loyalty, and looks for another record year as we move towards
the magic 500 registrations.

The event is always held on the 3rd full weekend in August, aiming to
promote public awareness of the former navigation structures and give
amateur radio some good publicity.

To register or find out more about the next event on August the 18th and
19th visit the website www.illw.net

(vk3pc)

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO IARU REGION 3
Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies
3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz

Tasmanian Bush Fires operations

WICEN in Tasmania was finally stood down after 20 continuous days of
operation at the Incident Management Centre at Cambridge, near Hobart
airport. Operations have now been wound back.

WICEN was posted by the Tasmania Fire Services to mainly control the busy
80MHz radio traffic during massive fires.

Although those the major fires, which started on the 3rd January on the
Tasman Peninsula and in the Derwent Valley, are still active, one being
classified as contained and the other controlled.

The days serviced by WICEN and other southern Tasmanian radio amateurs
varied between 12 and 24 hours.

WICEN Tasmania (South) Operations Coordinator Rod Finlayson VK7TRF reports
that 24 radio amateurs contributed to the effort, totalling 666 hours at
the radio desk, plus time in logistical support keeping up the supply of
operators to the task.

Seven operators did in excess of 45 hours each, including three more than
60 hours and one working a total of almost 80 hours.

WICEN Tasmania (South) Secretary, Roger Nichols VK7ARN, said initially,
there were two operators on each of the two networks, but this was wound
back to one on each after ten days.

Roger VK7ARN said workloads gradually declined and, over the last few
days, consisted mainly of aircraft tracking, ensuring each aircraft's
position and situation was known at least half hourly.

This effort was enabled by having a core group of trained and experienced
operators who were able to guide others until sufficiently familiar with
the task.

A key learning issue was knowledge of the working of, and roles within,
an Incident Management Team made up of Fire, Parks and Forestry personnel.

Roger VK7ARN said, "This was particularly complex in this case because two
incidents were being managed within the one centre.

"All reports to date are of a high level of satisfaction by the 'powers
that be' for a job very well done.

"Though this particular campaign has ended, it's still a long way to go to
the end of the bushfire season in an even drier environment."

WICEN has at least now a larger pool of experience to draw on if the need
arises.

(Jim Linton VK3PC, Chairman, IARU Region 3,
Disaster Communications Committee)

REWIND

The Kansas City Star are reporting on an almost 76 year old transmitter
'brought back from the grave'.

Larry Woodworth pulled a lever to begin transmitting and watched as his
radio roared to life this month.

First came a loud buzz as 2,300 volts rushed through its system.

Then he watched the mercury vapour in the vacuum tubes burn bright violet.

"This is W-9-bravo-sierra-papa," he said, giving the amateur radio's call
letters. "W9BSP. Olathe, Kansas, Ensor Museum."

For the first time in years, the radio that Marshall Ensor had built was
transmitting again.

Ensor, a long time Olathe dairy farmer, high school teacher & radio
operator, built the amateur radio in 1936 and 1937. He is remembered by
some as a pioneer for teaching others about amateur radio, and his old
house, now the Ensor Farmsite and Museum, is listed as a National
Historic Site and on the Register of Kansas Places for his contributions.

But the radio he transmitted on to teach others hadn't been used since
1972, two years after his death. Since then Ensor's old radio equipment
had fallen into disrepair.

Work on repairing Ensor's old equipment began after Harry Krout, one of
Ensor's former students, visited the museum.

"He made an observation that the old equipment was a sorry mess to look at
because he remembered it from when it was all in new condition."

It took almost 150 hours over three years to get the radio in working
condition. They had to replace almost 90 per cent of its wiring and
rebuild many of its components. Plus, the radio had to have certain
safety modifications made, because "the level of safety concern in 1937
was quite a bit different than it is today."

And now that Ensor's old radio is back in commission, Woodworth plans on
transmitting from it periodically during the months when the museum is
open.

(theolathenews.com)

SOCIAL SCENE 2013

JAN 26 VK4 TARC Australia Day Long Weekend Family Radio Camp 26th to 28th
at Girl Guides Campsite Bluewater.

JAN 27 VK3 MEET THE YLs OF AMATEUR RADIO Bundoora Park Rotunda #6

FEB  2 VK3 HOMEBREW & CONSTRUCTORS MEET 2PM 40G VICTORY BVD, ASHBURTON.

FEB 10 VK3 CENTRE VICTORIA RADIOFEST AT KYNETON.

FEB 23 VK Wyong Mini Contest University Wyong racecourse.

FEB 24 VK WYONG FIELD DAY Wyong Racecourse

Hello Everyone, Welcome from the members of the Central Coast Amateur
Radio Club I'm Rod, VK2LAX.

Well its just 4 weeks til the opening of the largest amateur radio event
in the Southern Hemisphere Wyong Field Day Sunday 24th February 2013

Gates open 6.30am - Traders & Exhibitors open 9am

This year there will be a free shuttle bus from Wyong station Lucky gate
prizes, Raffle, Lectures, Flea Market and so much more! Entry $15 - under
17 admitted free

Wyong Field Day - Amateur Radio's big day out!
For more information - please got to the website 

www.fieldday.org.au 

MAR 24    VK7 "Meet the Voice" barbecue at Ross.
MAY  3- 5 VK4 Clairview AR Weekend details 04 296 32815
MAY 24-26 VK6 WIA AGM AND CONFERENCE IN PERTH 
JUL 20    VK3 Gippsland Gate Radio & Electronics Club HamFest
AUG
OCT  3- 7 VK4 North Queensland Amateur Radio Convention Charters Towers
NOV  2    VK4 Gold Coast ARS HamFest at Albert Waterways Hall.
NOV  3    VK5 HamFest Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society Goodwood.
NOV 15-17 VK3 Victorian National Parks Weekend
Nov 24 VK3 Southern Peninsula Amateur Radio Club: Rosebud RadioFest 

Compiled by VK4BB on behalf of the National WIA.




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