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ANZAC at the Western Front in 1916:

Posted: 02 Jul 2016 05:45 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37096


The Geelong Amateur Radio Club in Victoria will in July commemorate
Australia's engagement in battle as the ANZACs fought at Fromelles and
Poziéres in France on the Western Front in WWI. With support from the
Wireless Institute of Australia, the Geelong Amateur Radio Club will
activate the VK100ANZAC callsign. A special QSL card has been designed and
offered to all in the log. The club joins a wreath laying service at the
Shrine of Remembrance precinct in Melbourne on July 19, with others
commemorating the centenary of the Western Front. Those battles for freedom
have resulted in a close relationship between France and Australia. The
club has been eagerly supported by Don Breguet aged 81, who lives at Lara
near Geelong, and related to one of the fallen. He recently was told that
his DNA matched one of the last four unidentified soldiers from the mass
grave at Pheasant Woods, Fromelles. The previously unnamed grave is that of
Geelong digger Justin Breguet, who died during Australia's bloodiest 24
hours at war. Fromelles was Australia's greatest military catastrophe, with
5,500 killed and wounded in 12 hours. WIA President Phil Wait VK2ASD has
outlined the VK100ANZAC event and formally invited Reseau des Emetteurs
Francais (REF) to be part of the commemoration. Among other overseas
interest has come from the Radio Club du Nord de la France F8KKH, near
Roubaix, and the Mayor of Roubaix, a city close to the battlefields.


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IARU HF World Championship Contest:

Posted: 02 Jul 2016 05:45 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37095


This annual contest is on July 9-10 with the rules having categories for
single and multi-operator stations. The objective is to contact as many
others as possible, especially IARU member society HQ stations, on the
160m, 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m bands. Multipliers are the total number of
International Telecommunications Commission zones worked, plus IARU member
society HQ stations and nominated officials. The WIA will have VK5WIA on
air.