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WIANEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEP 12 2010From: vk1wia-news@lists.wia.org.au Weekly news from the WIA: MP3 edition of news available at: Text edition: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK Oh... and to contact us with your news because If It Matters To You It Matters To Us! email nationalnews@wia.org.au (click news in member area) Submit your audio news Please.. If you are only submitting text and not audio, write your story as you would expect to hear it being read back and NEVER send just links & url's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIANEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEP 12 2010. special callsign logs 15000th contact VK100WIA PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE fair go! this Pictures of People">guy is not a bad apple operator! MISSING ARIZONA HAM FOUND DEAD IN TRAILER amateur radio assessments VUVUZELA MORSE CODE nz aftershock forces radio station's evacuation MOON BOUNCE FROM SOUTH CHINA SEA ALL UP AND COMING IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 12 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special callsign logs its 15,000th contact It does not seem all that long ago that VK100WIA reached its 10,000th QSO milestone. It was back in mid-August when the callsign was rostered to the Southern Peninsula Amateur Radio Club in Victoria. Now we bring you news of its 15,000th contact that occurred on the 3rd of September with the Port Stephens Amateur Radio Club on New South Wales central coast making contact with Martin Luther VK7GN in Richmond Tasmania, on the 80m band. Martin, an avid contester and member of the WIA Awards Committee said, 'I'm delighted to be number 15,000. The large log being created by VK100WIA shows that amateur radio is alive and well, even after a century. 'It's especially pleasing that the WIA has not only survived for 100years, but is now even stronger and more effective than ever. The centenary celebrations have been a great advert for amateur radio. Congratulations to all involved.' He explained how he noticed a few weeks ago that he'd logged VK100WIA a few times, and then set a personal goal to score ten contacts as qualification for the WIA Centenary Award. Martin VK7GN said he now has the special callsign on Phone and CW as well as three bands, and hopes before it closes at the end of October to get contacts the 160m band too. VK100WIA PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE The venue of the Maritime Museum in Devonport Tasmania proved to be ideal to put the special callsign VK100WIA on air with plenty of public exposure for amateur radio and club members achieved some 700 plus contacts. When the museum closed at 4pm each day, the activity switched to member's home QTH's to keep the callsign on air. On next week's broadcast we will have more details, including a listen to Club President David Spicer VK7EX being interviewed on ABC local radio. G'day this is Dale VK4DMC for the Tablelands Radio and Electronics Club, TREC, in Far North Queensland. As this news goes to air TREC members are on air from Lake Tinaroo on the Atherton Tablelands with the VK100WIA special event call-sign. We are set up on the shores of the lake and are making many contacts both in VK and internationally. Listen out for VK100WIA in the Far North and drop in and say G'day. We are operating on the HF bands as well as 2 metres FM and SSB. We are updating the WIA online log on a regular basis. Check out the online log as a guide to the frequencies in use by the club at Barrabadeen, Lake Tinaroo in the Atherton Tablelands of Queensland. On Tuesday the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club begins its three-day slot ? operating from the Combined Club Rooms, Turner Road Highett, the home of the Moorabbin & District Radio Club radio museum. Representatives of the Kingston City Council and the local newspapers have been invited to attend ? and the station will be open to the public. To round off the week, Melbourne's Eastern and Mountain District Radio Club will operate VK100WIA from its club rooms at 13A McCubbin Street, Burwood. There's also a display of amateur radio at the Whitehorse Civic Centre, and the EMDRC President Jack Braham VK3WWW is scheduled for an interview on 3WBC, the community broadcasting station. The tail-end of September includes the Harvey Bay Radio Club in Queensland, and the wonderful Super Springtime in Perth, a collaborative effort of seven groups putting VK100WIA on air for nine days. World attention is being focused on Perth as seven local groups celebrate the centenary of organised amateur radio in Australia that began with what is now the world's oldest continuing national radio society. Organiser of an activity known as ?Super Springtime?, Heath Walder said, the celebration will include the demonstration of working amateur radio stations and displays at the Perth Royal Show and the historical site of Wireless Hill. The WA Repeater Group (WARG), WA VHF Group (WAVHFG), Wireless Institute Civil Emergency Network (WICEN), Hills Amateur Radio Group (HARG), Peel Amateur Radio Group (PARG) , Scout Communications and Technology Team, and Ham College. Mr Walder said, ?So important is the centenary of our national society, the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA), that virtually all radio clubs and groups in the Perth area are eager to be involved in what has been dubbed the ?Super Springtime?.. The displays and operating amateur radio station with its unique callsign VK100WIA talking to the world, provide an excellent opportunity for the community to learn about amateur radio and how they can be involved. While it is a very interesting and personally rewarding recreational pursuit, radio amateurs or ?hams? have provided emergency communications on many occasions in time of disasters.? He said the displays will show early radio pioneering, evolution of radio technology, antenna designs and construction, sending pictures over the radio, personal global position system tracking via radios, amateur radio satellite and much more. There will also be active displays to involve members of the public so they can experience the wondrous world of radio and electronics. This will be held over ?Show Week? 25 September to 2 October at the Perth Royal Show co-located with the Scout stand, as well as the Wireless Hill historical site. The displays at both locations will inform the public about the many facets of amateur radio and providing advice to anyone interesting in learning more or becoming a radio amateur. Mr Walder said, ?While the hobby is for all ages and abilities, there is no better recreational and self-learning activity than amateur radio for anyone wishing to get into a technical of scientific career.? The national radio society, the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) was founded in Sydney in 1910 making it the world's oldest continuing organisation of its kind. WIA President, Michael Owen said, ?The historical milestone we are now celebrating starts at a time of early wireless experimentation, when it was a new science being explored by ordinary people who are today called radio amateurs. Just think about it, there were amateur experimenters Storage Building">building equipment to send and receive wireless messages in the late 19th century, more than two decades before radio broadcasting began in Australia. Mr Owen said the start of organised amateur radio in Australia was a response to the somewhat harsh and unfair treatment of experimenters by authorities. They were being asked to pay three guineas ($6.30) for the use of the airwaves. To fight that impost and gain better recognition of experimenters, the Institute of Wireless Telegraphy of Australia (now WIA) was established at a meeting in Sydney on 11 March 1910, he said. Wireless was also being explored at the time by Marconi and others as a means of communicating across oceans and with ships. The wireless operator on the SS Titanic put out the distress SOS call in 1912 and in doing so saved many lives.? Mr Owen said during World War I those who had gained experience as amateur wireless experimenters used, and further developed the technology. The same thing occurred to a much greater level throughout WWII. He said ?Many of the developments in radio communications have been pioneered by radio amateurs. The activity of amateur radio is enjoyed by individuals in more than 100 countries and has undergone a revival in Australia over the past five years through the introduction of a new entry level Foundation Licence. Recognised by the United Nations agency the International Telecommunications Union, it is a recreation, a means of self-education and radio amateurs can provide emergency communications. Mr Owen said, ?In Australia the first known time radio amateurs provided emergency communications was at a severe tropical cyclone which struck north of Cairns Queensland on 9 February 1927. There have been numerous occasions in Australia since then, including the Black Friday bushfire disaster January 1939, after Tropical Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the Newcastle Earthquake 1989, after floods, and the Black Saturday disaster of 2009.? Many WIA affiliated clubs and their members are engaged in various aspects of the multi-faceted recreation. He said part of the centenary celebration the club members are ?talking to the world? using a commemorative radio callsign VK100WIA. More detail on that activity and other centenary activities are available on the WIA website .au Media Inquiries: Heath Walder, Event Organiser, WARG President, VHF Group Vice President, WICEN Technical Officer .au .au VK100WIA is set for DXCC status Thanks to the excellent efforts of WIA affiliated clubs rostered to activate VK100WIA, the special callsign has recently worked its 100th DX entity. The WIA Centenary Committee's hopes that VK100WIA would itself qualify for the DX Centenary Club Award, will now be realised. While so far radio amateurs in 15 DX countries have provided their QSL cards are confirmation of the contact, more will be received over time. The enthusiasm being shown by clubs in putting VK100WIA on air and working, where possible, DX stations is sure to see even more new countries being recorded in the online logbook. Contact with the WIA Centenary callsign is eagerly sought by overseas radio amateurs, and as reported earlier it has caused pile-ups on occasion. WIA National Field Day Tune Into the World - Amateur Radio Gets People Talking The first two clubs have registered for this major inaugural public relations outreach initiative that will happens across the nation on Saturday the 23rd of October. The Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society will be setting up at the Eden Hills Primary School, while the Victoria's Scout Radio and Electronics Service Unit has chosen the Kangaroo Ground Memorial Tower in Melbourne's north-east. Both clubs have registered online via the WIA website in the WIA Centenary section. We know that others clubs are groups are also planning their participation in this great public relations event to help promote amateur radio to the public and have fun. The event rules can be found on the WIA website and in the September edition of Amateur Radio magazine. Registrations are now open for all radio clubs, or three or more radio amateurs, who intend to operate an amateur radio club in a public place on Saturday 23 October. Meantime the final touches are being put on the artwork for both a vertical banner of A-frame display, plus a range of clothing - all bearing the distinctive 'Tune Into the World - Amateur Radio Gets People Talking' logo. HOME OF THE GOOD GUYS Fair go! This guy is not a bad apple operator! An unusual situation is occurring where a good radio amateur is being harassed and shunned, simply because he has the same surname of a known former serial pest on the amateur bands. The good guy is not related to and has never associated with the bad apple. It's just downright unfair that the law abiding, and by all accounts good very active radio amateur, is now experiencing QRM and verbal threats. All despite him doing nothing wrong. He's put up with it long enough and just does not deserve this ill-treatment. This is not what amateur radio is about! Here's a message to those involved. Give him a break, let him get on and enjoy amateur radio, instead of jumping to conclusions. (Jim Linton VK3PC) EDUCATION YOUTH AND ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR RADIO .au "It was a dark and stormy Saturday in Melbourne with the weather man forecasting heavy rain , just the ideal day for a Foundation Course. So Ark's Academy's team of Lino VK3EI , Lionel VK3NM and John VK3DQ set to work. The Result a 100% pass rate so please welcome Matt , Brad and Miki to the amateur radio fraternity. They all decided to have the next available callsign issued to them as they are all keen to try to upgrade in the next course in October " (John Fisher VK3DQ / VK3ARK) Amateur Radio Assessments Persons in the N/West Area of VK7 interested in Training and Assessments for all classes of Amateur Radio are advised that the N.W.T.A.T.V.Group can provide all these requirements and in addition provision of Facilitators via the Radio and Electronics School if candidates so desire. Potential candidates and interested persons should note that these facilities can be conducted at a central location within the North West. For more information regarding these facilities, please contact the Club's Learning Organizer Tony VK7AX. Contact details can be found on the Club Web Site or the WIA site under VK7 Clubs., (Tony VK7AX, News Officer - NWTATVG) INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to RSGB, Southgate AR Club, the ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA. New Zealand radio amateurs were at the ready to respond when a massive earthquake hit the Christchurch area on Saturday the 4th of September. Taking up the story is Jim Linton VK3PC. (Audio text) The earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Ritcher scale caused widespread damage, and New Zealand's Amateur Radio Emergency Communications AREC volunteers were ready to give their support. This is a story of mother-nature and lady-luck working in hand in hand. The quake hit at 4.36am while most were asleep in their homes. A few were injured, none seriously, and no-one was trapped in building rubble. If would have been a dramatically different situation if it occurred in daylight with people in the streets certain to have been killed as shopfronts collapsed in Christchurch's central business district. Similar strength earthquakes in other countries have resulted in a huge loss of life, and their affected areas struggled for a long time to recover due to the nature of their infrastructure and government funding. In the case of Christchurch, the damage bill is some $4Billion. The ?quake is New Zealand's most damaging since the one which hit Napier (Hawke's Bay) in February 1931, that saw radio amateurs extensively provide emergency communications. However this time they have not been required so far, mainly because Christchurch was well prepared including rapid response by the power authorities and telephone companies to quickly restore their services. (Jim Linton VK3PC, Chairman, IARU Region 3, Disaster Communications Committee). NZ aftershock forces radio station's evacuation Monday afternoon's 4.5 magnitude aftershock has pushed a number of damaged buildings over the edge in Christchurch, New Zealand. The 12-story Radio Network-Newstalk ZB building in Worcester Street is one that officials have ordered be evacuated after the tremor. It had sustained some damage during last Saturday's initial quake, and the aftershock has made some of the cracks worse. Radio Network stations will continue to broadcast from back up facilities 50th Dutch Ham Radio Convention On November 6, 2010, the 50th Ham Radio Convention will take place in The Netherlands organised by VERON, the Dutch radio society. There will be a homebrew exhibition and of course the Amateur radio equipment sales, the VERON Components market (flea market) and stands of various commissions and working groups will be present. ZNS 1540 signal restoration likely to take 30 days The Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB) has announced that the initial assessment of damage caused by thieves to their 1540 AM's transmission facilities suggests restoration of the signal is expected to take around 30 days. Police are actively investigating the theft of copper from the Broadcasting Corporation's South Beach transmitter site that disrupted the national radio station 1540 AM transmission shortly after 10am on Thursday. The broad daylight robbery occurred when two men in a truck reportedly pulled up and advised the security officer on duty that they were there to check the transformer. Immediately upon the departure of the vehicle, the station went off air. It was discovered that copper bands around the tuning huts had been removed. The stolen copper links the tuning huts to the transmission tower. The police were immediately contacted and are investigating. ============================================================================= NEWS FROM ARNEWSLINE MISSING ARIZONA HAM FOUND DEAD IN TRAILER A sad end to the search for a Glendale, Arizona, ham who went missing in mid August. Amateur Radio Newsline Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, has the details on what appears to be another! vicious crime: Authorities in Maricopa County, Arizona are confirming the body of 30-year-old David Wile, KE7SWL, of Glendale, was found August 24t, hidden inside a box trailer being pulled by a truck in the Sun City area. The truck driver, 48-year-old David Edison, has been charged with concealing a body. He is being held on $20,000 bond. An autopsy on August 27^th by the Maricopa County medical examiner confirmed the body was indeed Wile's. A cause and manner of death was still being investigated. The sheriff's homicide unit is also now actively pursuing the case. They say more charges could be pending against Edison. Investigators say they got a call from a couple following the truck and trailer on August 24^th and they reported what they described as a foul smell coming from the vehicle. They gave deputies the description and license number of the vehicle and it was stopped a short time later between Peoria and Sun City, authorities say. Investigators say when deputies opened the trailer, they made the grim discovery of a decaying body tucked inside a garment. Edison was interviewed, but is reported to have invoked his right to counsel and he was charged and committed to the jail. On a blog posting, a woman identifying herself as David Wile's aunt claimed the suspect is a roommate and former business partner of her nephew. Wile was reportedly last seen at his Glendale home on August 14^th . He was reported missing by his family on August 17^th after he failed to show up for a ballroom dance competition at a Tempe, Arizona dance studio. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V. More on this story as investigators make information available. WIRELESS WEATHER HERE COMES THE SUN Some good news on the propagation front. Better days may be on their way. Researchers at Boston University's Centre for Space Physics have announced they have what they term as sub-visual evidence that a new cycle of solar wind activity around Earth is finally starting. This based on observations of recent appearances of aurora near the North Pole accompanied by dimmer glows well south of that. What has fascinated space scientists in recent years is the delayed onset of such effects this time around. Typically, the Sun has an activity cycle of about 11 years, with flares, C-M-E's and ejection of electrically charged particles called the Solar Wind. These cause changes in the Earth's magnetic field or magnetosphere that produce luminous auroral emissions in the northern most latitudes high in the Earth's atmosphere. Such effects are subdued during so-called solar minimum years such as the case in 1996 to 1997. They are also very prominent in solar maximum years as they were in 2001 to 2002. According to this cycle, called Cycle 24, a new wave of solar activity had been expected to start last year but the Sun remained dormant. This had some solar observers predicting that we might be headed for a historic solar minimum. Now the Boston group says there are finally signs of the new cycle 24 appearing. more about it at tinyurl.com/34bk2pp (World Science Net) OPERATIONAL NEWS - SPECIAL EVENTS AND ON AIR CONTEST COLUMN - D A T E L I N E 2010 Oct 23 WIA WIA National Field Day nfd@wia.org.au Oct 2- 3 WIA Oceania DX Contest Phone Tony Burt vk3tz@wia.org.au Oct 9-10 WIA Oceania DX Contest CW Tony Burt vk3tz@wia.org.au NOV 20-21 WIA Spring VHF-UHF Field Day John Martin VK3KM tac@wia.org.au Aug 21-22 International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. did you register on website illw.net ? Hello Listener's , I'm Peter Harding RD Contest Manager. Well this year's RD Contest is over all we have now is for all the logs to arrive, so I can process them. We are about 20% down in logs compared to last year, with only a bit over a week until the closing love shack">date for everyone to get their logs to me either by vk4od@wia.org.au or Snail Mail. Any logs received after the closing date will be returned unopened, as I need the time to prepare the final results for the December/January AR Magazine. Where possible I have sent emails to those that I have email addresses for, confirming the receipt and confirmation for the points in their logs.. Until next we meet This is Peter vk4od. SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS, REPEATER BEACON DX AND NET ADVICE hf nets ON the net, www.timroberts-vk4yeh.id.au/ Heard Island DXpedition plans announced This an uninhabited sub-Antarctic island is being targeted for a DXpedition in February 2013. Heard Island, an Australian territory, is in the top ten of the world's most wanted DX entities. DXpedition team leader Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY, and co-leader Steve Chamberlain advise that the planning phase is underway for a total of 13 operators to activate the island for two weeks. Chris VK3FY has already had discussions with the office of the relevant Australian Government Minister and submitted an application for Ministerial approval. An appropriate ship for this journey has been sourced and negotiations have begun with its owners. (Jim Linton VK3PC, Publicist for the Heard Island 2013 DXpedition) NET FOUNDER - SILENT KEY. Robert, VK2BMY ( ex DJ1MI, AX2BMI,VK2BMI, VK4BMI ) has past away. Robert was, in the sixties, founder of the daily VK-DL net on 14.307 MHz. Moon bounce from the South China Sea DXpedition Team Leader, Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY & DU8/VK3FY has announced that Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) contacts are planned as part of the DX0DX activation of The Spratlys. The DXpedition that will involve some 30 radio amateurs in three teams on Thitu Island, 6-24 January 2011. In the latest news, experienced EME contester and DXpeditioner, Colin Brown GM0RLZ will be active on both 6m and 2m. He has filled a vacancy on DXpedition Team 2 (6-15 January) and has the role of coordinating any requests for moon-rise and moon-set contact attempts. Chris VK3FY said all other plans for the DXpedition are continuing satisfactorily and with 120 days to go there's a lot of work yet to be done. Support for DX0DX is growing steadily and thank you to those who have already given financially or in other ways towards this major undertaking. Jim Linton VK3PC, Public Affairs DX0DX. www.dx0dx.net.au Ham radio station operating from a Boeing 737 SWL Denis F-11217 and radio ham F1USC report QSO made with an amateur radio operator signing 'Aeronautical Mobile'. PH9HB/AM regularly flies to northern Europe and is often active on 17 meter band and regularly contacts radio amateurs from his Boeing 737. The airborne equipment consists of a Collins HFS900D which works on USB and AM, it can use 400 watts PEP. The antenna is of the shunt-fed slotted type, situated in the vertical end of the tail section. Chris, VK3QB, reports that the four members of the YJ0VK team (Chris VK3QB, Allan VK2CA, Luke VK3HJ and Brenton VK3CBV) returned from Vanuatu September 2, after 6 days of operation. A quick summary of operation shows almost 4,000 QSO's, 69 DXCC entities along with approximately 500 digital QSOs (RTTY and PSK31) Overall the team had a lot of fun and regard the expedition as a success. MEDIA WATCH /admin/uploads/weeklytally.rtf /WorldRadio.html Amateur Radio magazine - a very good read On last week's broadcast we highlighted some of the interesting material in the September edition of the WIA journal. Now we have a further look at its content. Continuing the Centenary year historical theme there's an article about Bill Hart VK2XT who has been a radio amateur and member of the WIA since 1930. Amateur Radio New South Wales is in need of photographs of its former properties - Amateur Radio House 1959 to 1982 at St Leonards, and then at Harris Park 1982 to 2006. There's a well illustrated story on the National Radio and Phono Fest to be held in Canberra on the 18th and 19th of September. Technical articles this month include: * 'A generic PC interface for the amateur experimenter' written by Paul McMahon VK3DIP * The latest in the Foundation Corner series is entitled 'The good, the bad and the ugly: the G5RV antenna' by Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and Ross Pittard VK3CE * And Gary Gibson VK8BN explores the question 'Is reflected power lost power?' Amateur Radio magazine, a WIA membership service and also available at selected newsagents. I'm Barry Robinson VKPV and you're listening to VK1WIA. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DIGITAL Australian Coordinator for TCPIP domains is Indy vk2xb@wia.org.au The ARRL Lab has installed a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) repeater in the Lab at the ARRL Headquarters building. The purpose of the repeater is to better educate the Lab staff on D-STAR technology," explained ARRL Test Engineer Bob Allison, WB1GCM. "In turn, we will have the ability to handle some of our members' questions on the matter. We also intend to use this new technology when emergencies occur where D-STAR technology is deployed." WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK UNOFFICIAL HF Net. 2nd Sunday each month. April through October 1000 UTC 3.685 MHz November through March 0900 UTC 7.068 MHz HABEX 2010 SECOND TEST LAUNCH On 24 July 2010, Sci Bono in co-operation with radio amateurs unsuccessfully tested the High Altitude Balloon Experiment Payload, also known as HABEX. The payload was lost through electronic failure and we had to return to the workbench to fix all the problems. The new attempt will take place in South Africa 07:00-13:00 C.A.T. 25 September. Denmark's private venture rocket launch planned for Sunday, September 5 was postponed following the discovery of a faulty valve. Copenhagen Suborbitals, which is entirely dependent on sponsors and volunteers, plan to eventually launch a human into space. The current launch is a initial test flight which aims to get to a height of 30km. Copenhagen Suborbitals is using a military test area near Bornholm island in the Baltic Sea. They have use of the facility until September 17. / WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING CALLING FREQUENCIES Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication. Australian voice calling frequencies: 3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160 World CW calling frequencies: 3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160 World voice calling frequencies: 3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160 Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV): 3.630, 7.033, 14.227 Calling Frequencies for PSK31 14.070 Vuvuzela Morse Code The Soccer World Cup may be over, but it seems we haven't yet heard the last of the dreaded vuvuzela. Just when you thought it was safe to remove your earplugs... From the National JOTA Organizer in (of course) South-Africa comes thesuggestion to have a game with Morse Code on the vuvuzela. Dave Gemmell suggests: a) send each character correctly in morse. b) how many scouts can receive message correctly? c) determine the maximum distance that can be achieved. d) record the distance and tell us about it. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO EMERGENCY FREQUENCIES IARU REGION 3 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz December 11, VK1 WICEN will be supporting the Brindabella Motor Sports Club's "Rallye des Femme". Other coming events include: Trek for Timor on the 18th & 19th of September. Brookvale Endurance Ride in the ACT on the 19th of September. Barrington Tops SAREX on the 16th & 17th of October. The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic on the 23rd & 24th of October. SUMERLAND - WICEN antenna / transmit test exercise. Bring your antenna design ideas, show and test them to see how (if) they work. On site construction will start no earlier than 1030 and finish by 1100. Use of trees and building is permitted but NO USE of the existing towers. Mobile whips attached to cars, beams, portable towers etc are all ok. You just have to be able to bring it on site at 1030 and be ready to transmit by 1100. As the news goes to air today some Radio Amateurs in the Townsville area are playing with radios in the field to the sound of trotting hooves providing communications support for the TERAHA Horse Endurance Ride in the Bluewater and Toolakea areas. The operators provided support yesterday for the introductory 5 kilometre ride as well as the 20 kilometre ride, then played with HF a bit and tried to contact the TREC VK100WIA station. The operators also tried out the new VK4ZZ-3 portable internet gateway and then they were early to bed and up at 2am this morning providing competitor tracking for the 80 kilometre and 40 kilometre rides and should be finished and heading home by 2pm this afternoon. Communications have mainly been on VHF, although some stations have also seized the opportunity to put up a wire or two at the checkpoint and play a little HF during the ride. SOCIAL SCENE Oct 9 VK4 Wide Bay Mini Hamfest 9.00a.m. Scout Hall, Ariadne Street, Maryborough. Oct 23 WIA WIA National Field Day nfd@wia.org.au NOV 7 VK5 Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society Hamfest Rosa St Goodwood 2012 15TH IARU REGION 3 CONFERENCE hosted by V.A.R.C. in woman-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam. JAN 23-FEB 17 YEAR 2012 World Radio Conference WRC-11 Geneva 23rd January TO 17th February 2012 MAY 4-7 2012 VK5 YL International 2012 Australia (vk5tmc@bigpond.com) Please think of the environment before printing this email ============================================================================= WIANews - we've reported...YOU decide. Societies and Club News Letter Editors can EXCHANGE a feed prior to the actual broadcast date, e-mail nationalnews@wia.org.au 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 to our dedicated band of broadcast volunteers who utilize their time and equipment in bringing you this weekly broadcast. 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