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MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2021-05-23.mp3 Text edition: 2021 MAY 23 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ------------------------------------------------------------* THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos ------------------------------------------------------------* NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING MAY 23 2021 IN OUR 26th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS 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/ WIA Satellite Policy - hear from WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA The 2nd Meeting of the APT Conference Preparatory Group for the World Radio Conference 2023 (APG23-2) was held virtually / online from 19 to 23 April. The meeting was organized by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT). More than 700 people were registered from 26 APT Members, Associate Members, Affiliate Members, and International Organizations including IARU Region 3. In the Opening and Plenary session around 500 people were on the Zoom screen. The Chairman of IARU Region 3 Directors. Wisnu Widjaja and the Secretary of IARU Region 3 Shizuo Endo attended the meeting as representatives of IARU Region 3. Region 3 Directors Ken Yamamoto and Don Wallace along with Dale Hughes of the Wireless Institute of Australia attended as members of their administrations delegations. It was advisedat VU2UR Manohar Arasu, former Monitoring Manager for R3 became silent key on April 28 due to Covid. He was a Life member of Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI) and was the Frequency Monitor for several years filing intrusion reports with the IARU-R3 representing ARSI. He was well known in Amateur circles and had won more than 1200 certificates and plaques and received recognition from organizations across the globe. The IARU region 3 newsletter has bid farewell to Editor Peter, VK3MV who, for health reasons, has had to retire from his IARU roles. Thanks for a job well done . Don Wallace, ZL2TLL, Director IARU Region 3 is the new Editor. A manufacturer here in Brisbane, Australia, is claiming to have created an aluminum-ion battery with a charging speed as much as 60 times faster than that of top-quality lithium-ion cells. The company, Graphene Manufacturing Group, also says the newly developed aluminum-ion coin cell is capable of holding three times the energy of other aluminum-based cells. The batteries are said to last three times longer than the lithium-ion variety. This development relies on nanotechnology developed at the University of Queensland, according to a recent article in Forbes magazine. The battery was created by inserting aluminum atoms into perforations made in graphene planes. The company claims that because the batteries lack an upper Ampere limit that would otherwise cause spontaneous overheating, the batteries are also safer. The stable base materials also facilitate their recycing later. The company hopes to bring these cells to market by the end of 2021 or early 2022. (ARNewsLine) Also in Brisbane Grith University researchers, working alongside a US team of scientists, have developed an antiviral treatment that cut the COVID-19 viral load in infected mice by 99.9 per cent. The breakthrough nanoparticle treatment could be available as early as 2023, depending on the next phase of clinical trials. Again, like the incredible battery researh and Covid vaccine trials conducted by UQ, this team of scientists from the Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Brisbanes Griffith University are leading the way throughtout the world. Back in the USA, US chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci has pointed out that, while we now have coronavirus vaccines, there is a lack of targeted treatments for the virus. This is really one of the first cabs off the rank in terms of a direct therapeutic, so we are really excited, Professor McMillan said. The breakthrough also raises hopes that future pandemics will be less devastating as the treatment is designed to work on all betacoronaviruses. tinyurl.com/daer68zs (THENEWDAILY.COM.AU) WIA NATIONAL NEWS AND YOUR 3 W's. WASH YOUR HANDS WEAR YOUR MASK WATCH YOUR DISTANCE (1.5 metres) www.health.gov.au/ WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y WIA BOARD MINUTES www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/minutes/ WIA BOARD NEWSLETTERS (older) Giving members to have a better awareness of Board activities. www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/newsletters/ WIA Satellite Policy At its most recent meeting the Board of the WIA adopted a policy on support for Amateur Satellite Applications. The draft policy document had been published on the WIA web site for several weeks and the board took into consideration submissions received. The purpose of this policy document is to provide some guidance to the WIA Executive on making decisions when approached by organisations seeking WIA support or endorsement for their satellite mission and agreement for the use of amateur service frequency allocations for operation of satellites and associated ground control stations. As listeners are well aware the Wireless Institute of Australia is the National Society of Radio Amateurs in Australia. The WIA is recognised by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), an international confederation of national amateur radio organisations, as the sole Australian Amateur Radio peak body. The IARU requires the endorsement of the national body for any satellite project seeking to utilise service frequency allocations The WIA has already provided support for the Binar-1 satellite program initiated by the Space Science and Technology Centre of Curtin University. Binar-1 is due to be launched this August Tentative approval has been given to the CSIROs satellite program It was agreed that when considering an application for an Amateur Satellite service request that it was important to follow certain guidelines before approval would be given. If the mission is seen to meet these requirements and is in the general interests of the amateur service and the WIA, support and endorsement of the proposed mission may be given, otherwise it should be withheld. The Board of the WIA wish thank contributors in drafting this policy document especially the contributions of Dale VK1DSH. Read a summary of the policy document on the WIA news page and follow a link to the full satellite policy document. This has been WIA Secretary Peter VK8ZZ (direct link:- tinyurl.com/wbneabxu ) ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of the WIA. A Spy in Every Embassy 'The intelligence coup of the century'. The extraordinary story of the longest running and most successful secret intelligence operation of the 20th Century. For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company, Swiss-based Crypto AG, to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was owned for over 20 Cold War years by the CIA in partnership with the BND, the German Intelligence Service. Crypto AGs own secret was only cracked last year in a combined investigation by German ZDF television, Swiss SRF and the Washington Post A Spy in Every Embassy is the story of the story, presented by German intelligence journalist Peter F Muller, who produced last years television programme for ZDF, and British journalist David Ridd. An audio programme considers the collateral damage of deception on a grand scale and is available in the BBC archives. Just google BBC RADIO 4 A SPY IN EVERY EMBASSY or click the link we like in this weeks WIA National News Script. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w499 REGION ONE Netherlands amateur radio society VERON has released a summary of the results of its 2021 member survey. a survey with a confidence level of the results being 99% with a margin of error of just 3%. 52% of members indicate that they are regularly or often engaging in self-construction. Sadly, and one might suspect we in VK are in the same boat, the 2021 interest survey asked whether members participate in youth activities. An overwhelming majority, almost 72%, say they never organize or participate in youth activities. In the Netherlands, as elsewhere in the world, Ham Radio is still unknown to the general public and is often associated with on air piracy, 'unknown makes unloved.' VERON have asked members to make sure that our hobby is positively in the news. With some 8 production units in Finland, Estonia and Russia WISA plywood is quite well known to our Region One friends. NOW WISA is about to be known globally, thanks to the WISA Woodsat project, a satellite about to be sent into orbit by years end. Although we've mentioned this unique PR project from WISA previously on WIA National News more information is being revealed including its ability to extend a 'selfie stick' to capture photographs of the wooden box as it hurtles through space at 40,000 kilometres per hour. This will allow the mission leaders to monitor the impact of the environment on the plywood. The satellite would downlink its telemetry and images from two cameras using amateur radio frequencies. Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and their colleagues from the University of Graz and the Kanzelhohe Observatory (Austria) along with the European Space Operations Centre have developed a method and software ( called RESONANCE ) to predict the solar radio flux activity for 1-24 months ahead. RESONANCE will serve to improve the specification of satellite orbits, re-entry services, modelling of space debris evolution, and collision avoidance manoeuvres. The research results were published in the high-profile Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. tinyurl.com/jnzvchkr REGION THREE Well this story although originating from Region 3 actually takes us on an intergalactic ride. The United States now has company on MARS. A Chinese spacecraft descended through the thin Martian atmosphere and landed safely on a large plain on, May 14 accomplishing a feat that only two other nations had before. The Tianwen-1 mission launched from Region 3 here on Mother Earth last July, consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover. JAPAN ANNOUNCES AWARD The Japan International DX Meeting (JIDXM) has designated the 2020 VP2VB Danny Weil Memorial DXpedition as the recipient of the 2020 DXpedition of the Year Award. The DXpedition was organized to bring the story of amateur radio DXpedition pioneer Danny Weil, VP 2 VB, to todays amateur radio community. The VP2VB Yasme Memorial Expedition Team, during its 2020 DXpedition focused on low bands to Japan and Europe, and skilfully utilized CW, FT4, and FT8, achieving more than 5,000 contacts on 160 and 80 meters. The JIDXM DXpedition of the Year Award is conferred on teams and individuals making an outstanding contribution to the DX community. ------------------------------------------------------------* HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT -------------- CQ World Wide CW WPX Contest NEXT Weekend May 29-30 -------------- VK SHIRES June 12-13 -------------- NZ STRAIGHT KEY NIGHT. Yes it's time to warm up your straight key as the winter solstice approaches. One of the nice things about the winter edition, is that it is an hour earlier than the summer event, so you get better propagation - and you do not have to stay up late! NZ Straight Key Night is a casual CW contest, running for just one hour (8-9pm) on Sunday 13 June. If you have questions, please contact ZL1NZ SKN is supported by maritimeradio.org celebrating New Zealands radio communication history. (NZART and MARITIME RADIO) -------------- WINTER VHF-UHF Field Days - June 26 - 27 -------------- IARU HF World Championship July 10-11 -------------- TRANS TASMAN LOWBAND CONTEST Next contest - JUL 17 - and has the aim of encouraging Low Band activity between VK and ZL on 160 80 and 40M using SSB, CW and RTTY OR PSK -------------- RD or Remembrance Day Contest will be August 14-15. -------------- ALARA CONTEST A Combined phone and CW run over 24 hours starting on Saturday 28th August at 0600 hours UTC finishing Sunday 29th August at 0559 hours UTC -------------- -------------- DX WINDOW -------------- THE RAAF is flying high to celebrate it's 100 years which took place back on March 31.. The Royal Australian Airforce call signs are VI 100 AF Ending May 29 VK 100 AF Ends August 31 (vk8nsb) -------------- 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) -------------- AX 4 WIT Early news of this station for its "just about" 'once a year day.' JANUARY 26, which is Australia Day and a Wednesday next year Townsville Club will activate from their annual camp out Bluewater way. Bluewater for the uninitiated is about 30 klicks from Townsville CBD. -------------- USS Squalus, sank in the Gulf of Maine on 23rd May 1939. Twenty-six of its crew were lost, but, miraculously, 33 others were saved. The Maine Ham Radio Society have been honouring the Squalus and her crew with a special Remember the Squalus event on the 82nd anniversary of the tragic accident, TODAY Sunday May 23, using call sign W 1 S. mainehamradiosociety.com -------------- SPAIN QRV is as AN 5 ITU until NEXT Sunday, May 23 celebrating the 76th anniversary of the ITU. Activity is on the HF and V/UHF bands, and Satellite QO-100, using CW, SSB, RTTY and other digital modes. QSL direct to EB5R. (SouthGate) -------------- Antarctica operation Alexei is active as RI 01 ANT from Antarctica until months end (May 30) from Russian Progress and Vostok Base stations on 40 meters and higher using CW and FT8. QSL via RX6A. -------------- PERU. OC 200 P has been QRV during May celebrating the Bicentennial of independence of Republic of Peru. Activity on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and FT8. QSL via LoTW. (SouthGate) -------------- Spanish Special Event AM 5 IP will be on air between today May 28th and June 6th. A special QSL commemorating this, the 170 th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Peral, Spanish scientist, sailor and military man, lieutenant in the Navy and inventor of the first torpedo submarine known as the Peral submarine. Operations will be on all bands and modes including DMR, D-STAR and C4FM to give non-HF operators the opportunity to get the special QSL. QSL via station EA5CP direct BUT QSLs will be sent automatically via the Bureau. (SouthGate) ------- BEACONS Hello, this is Chris VK3QB from Fists Down Under, the VK and ZL chapter of the International Morse Preservation Society. FDU still has approved funding for one more reverse beacon network project. Wed really like to see something in VK2, VK5 or VK7. So, if you think your club might be interested, please send us an email and well reach out to them. You can read more about the reverse beacon network on our website. www.fdu.org.au/reverse-beacon-network/ For more information, send an email to ------------------------------------------------------------* BROADCAST MONITORING SWL AND SCANNER NEWS websdr.org websdr.mwrs.org.au:8901/ http://farnham-sdr.com/ Listen from UK to satellites RCI English section: goodbye Canadas international broadcast service from the English language team of Radio Canada International has come to an end. RCI, (originally the International Service, CBC-IS) was initially created towards the end of the Second World War. The purpose was to broadcast news and information from home via shortwave to Canadian military personnel fighting in Europe. It also began providing reliable news and information to recently liberated countries and to Germans still in the war. That reliable news and information was considered of great value during the subsequent Cold War years, as several more languages were added to the service. With 14 language sections in 1990, and some 200 staff, the full English and French newsroom provided news of interest and importance for each language section and specifically targeted to each of the various broadcast regions around the world. In December 2020, the domestic public broadcaster CBC / Radio-Canada announced that the English and French sections of RCI would close for good in May. That date has come, and RCI has closed. tinyurl.com/zk9y675m (SouthGate) ------------------------------------------------------------* WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS ARDF WIA ARDF COORDINATOR VK3WWW Jack users.mackay.net.au/~ron/ homingin.com ardf.org.au Snows RadioActive Observation Trial Townsville Amateur Radio Club are holding a "kind of" ARDF event August. President Snow, VK4ME, is currently planning the 2021 RadioActive Observation Trial, happening in the Townsville area from 11am Sunday 1st August. The starting point is definitely the Club Rooms Carpark at West End, and the finish? Well a fun for all the family Sausage Sizzle is planned for wherever the finishing point of the Trial might be. (theTARCinc) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - The SpaceX SN-15 flew, landed, and failed to explode, unlike its predecessors. Starship SN15 ascended through low lying cloud cover, performed a nominal climb to 10 km, then belly-flopped, and finally completed a successful two-Raptor soft landing. A small methane fire at the base of the vehicle was again visible after landing, possibly due to a thermal protection blanket coming loose and catching fire. But, unlike previous tests, the fire did not appear to be caused by structural damage. In further news from SpaceX, they have revealed the flight plan for the first orbital test launch of the companys huge stainless steel Starship rocket, a 90-minute, around-the-world mission that will originate from South Texas and culminate with a controlled re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. When fully assembled, this gigantic reusable rocket will stand nearly 120 meters tall, making the Starship stack the largest launcher ever built. The company expects the un-crewed demonstration mission to occur sometime this year, 2021 after June 20th. (ANS) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP --- MILITARY Portuguese special event Look for special event station CR 65 PQ from Portugal, which has been on air all week , concluding today the 23rd. It's in celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Portuguese Paratroopers. The Portuguese Paratroopers are an elite infantry assault force representing the bulk of the airborne forces of Portugal. They were created in 1956 as part of the Portuguese Air Force, being transferred to the Portuguese Army in 1993. QSL CR 65 PQ via station CT 1 EHX. www.paraquedistas.com.pt (SouthGate) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA twitter.com/hamyota YOTA Contest The first round of the Youngsters on the Air contest is on the wireless right now, weekend of 22nd of May, from 0800 to 1959 UTC, on bands 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m, CW and SSB. When you hear the youth, shout out and give them some points. The scoring of the contest is based on age, with younger operators being worth more points. The full details can be found on www.ham-yota.com/contest/. (IRTS) ------------------------------------------------------------* 2021 Social Scene KEEP ONE WAVELENGTH AWAY AT 144 Megacycles #2MetersMatters 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/ VK2 - MayHam (Wyong Race Course) May 30 (vk2ji) OK, we've got Hammy back in his sty - he's so excited as it's only ONE WEEK to go now, until MAYHAM at Wyong racecourse - with Foxham on Saturday the 29th and the big event itself on Sunday the 30th! And it's not just Hammy that's excited, we've all had to wait for the big Wyong show and I've heard lots of you will be coming with old "treasures" to sell in the undercover car boot sale area and don't mention to the wife that you could be bringing some newer stuff back with you from Wyong! Some lucky buggas are going to win the raffle and with an Anytone 878, an Anytone D578UV Pro and an ICOM IC-705 as the three main prizes. Lots of people will be buying several of the $5 raffle tickets I think! If you don't win the raffle, there's 25 trader tables with new gear in air-conditioned comfort, at the best prices to whet your appetite. With so many car boot sales spots you'll need to go around a few times to make sure you don't miss that bargain. As always Wyong will be well catered and is the absolute best place to meet up with mates old and new. It's time to put the depressing last year behind you and come and celebrate all that is good in our hobby at Wyong! All the details you might need are on the web at ccar.org.au /MAYHAM "May the Ham be with you" in a weeks time at Wyong racecourse and the CCARC MayHam! For the CCARC MayHam, this was Ed VK2JI. VK2 - Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Field Day (vk2zhe) at Wauchope Showground 12 and 13 of June. VK5 - SERG convention Mt. Gambier June 12 / 13 (vk5bj) VK - WIA AGM Saturday 26th June 11.00 am (vk8zz) VK6 - PerthTech October 23 (vk6pop) VK3 - ROSEBUD RadioFest by SPARC 9:30am Nov 14 (vk3pdg) Reception Reports WIA News rebroadcasters often give Short Wave Listeners a welcome to the broadcast as they commence call-backs straight after the Local News. Local news follows National news in all states. It would be great if those SWL's would email their reception reports and location to Submitting news items If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to and don't JUST send url's links or posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution. To submit audio, email and send BOTH the audio and the text We would appreciate items certainly no longer than 1.5 mts in length as we only have a half hour. Remember the sooner you submit material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition of WIA National News. Each item will only be broadcast once, if you want a couple of mentions, please submit different slants to keep your event 'fresh' and always if the news room is to read your item --- write it in the 3rd person. (First if YOU are reading your own item) A reminder when supplying HamFest info we obviously can't plug DEALS from commercial traders "on air", but we at the WIA will put your supporters 'goods' in this text edition "no worries." We cannot give blatant 'plugs' to raffles. ------------------------------------------------------------* Oh... and to contact us with your news because If It Matters To You It Matters To Us! Click the links below to download the most recent edition of National News, BUT this is ONLY the backup site! WIANEWS backup thanks to Brendan VK4BLP can be found on wiaq.org.au BACKUPS OF THE BACKUP!! thanks to Tony VK7AX www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/ (This is the link to the original text version and original audio on wia site) ------------------------------------------------------------* WIANews - we've reported...YOU decide. TWITTER twitter.com/VK1WIA Societies and Club News Letter Editors can EXCHANGE a feed prior to the actual broadcast date, e-mail Call-backs follow the RF editions, but also for text readers you may lodge a quick reply to let us know you read it, who knows, you might even get a "cheerio call". Thanks to our dedicated band of broadcast volunteers who utilize their time and equipment in bringing you this weekly broadcast. Who and where are they? wia.org.au/members/broadcast/where/ The purpose of "WIANews" is to rapidly provide news of interest to WIA affiliated clubs and active amateurs residing in Australia and the globe. We strongly encourage membership in the Wireless Institute of Australia and participation in the activities of local clubs. Opinions expressed in "WIANews" are those of the writers who submit material and do not necessarily reflect those of the rebroadcasters, nor the National WIA, but IF broadcast, are done so in the spirit in which they were submitted." Material may be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form, a credit to WIANews wouldn't go astray... If you would like to see the call-backs reported each broadcast, OR have call-backs to contribute to the National News call back tally then please send through your call-backs to How do I join this National News List? (subscribe for an automatic weekly feed.) Email to from the email account that you wish the emails to go to. How do I leave this National News List? (unsubscribe your weekly feed) Open mail program which sends mail from the address you want to unsubscribe from. Send unsubscribe to the list unsubscribe address You will be sent a confirmation mail and must follow the instructions given in that mail to complete the unsubscription. 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