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Weekly news from the WIA:
MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2013-06-02.mp3
WIANEWS - JUNE 2 - VK NATIONAL NEWS
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WIANEWS WEEK COMMENCING JUNE 2 2013.
PIRATE OPERATOR STUNG BY ACMA IN VK4
WIA AGM NEWSWEST REPORTS ON BEHIND SCENES ACTIVITY
WIA CONTEST HARRAY ANGEL MEMORIAL SPRINT RESULTS
THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE
OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING JUNE 02 2013.
ANALOGUE TV SHUT DOWN
South East Queensland became a little quieter last Tuesday as the Analogue
TV Channels were closed down.
Eagle eyed Peter Harding was watching BTQ-7 News on the Sunday Night and in
their Flashback segment did a quick history of the station and spoke with
original Business Manager and Engineer Ken Dickson VK4IW.
With thanks to Channel 7 Program Manager Tony Stower let's eavesdrop to a
cut from that broadcast..
A "Pirate" has infiltrated the police radio network and masqueraded as a
police response unit on the Sunshine Coast.
The result was a delay in time to situation.
Sunshine Coast police became aware a member of the public began accepting
calls. They mounted an investigation with the Australian Communications and
Media Authority, and a fortnight ago issued a Mooloolah man with a notice to
appear in court June Eleven for unlawfully possessing radio communication
devices.
(Radio and Press stories)
Rotary International (RI), the world’s first Volunteer Service Organisation,
is holding its annual convention this year in Lisbon, Portugal
June 22nd - 26th.
About 30,000 participants are expected.
Rotarians Of Amateur Radio (ROAR), a fellowship of Rotarians, is
activating a special event station CR 6 RI during the Convention's
exhibition hours from 0900utc to 1800utc.
Frequencies to be used will be 14.293 MHz, 14.287 MHz and possibly
21.293 MHz. More information will be made available on qrz.com
Next year Australia has the privilege of hosting this Convention in
Sydney and ROAR will be activating a special event station to celebrate
Rotary in Australia.
(VK4ZD President Rotarians Of Amateur Radio 2012-2015)
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
Last week VK6 amateur clubs hosted many events as part of the Annual WIA AGM
and Conference.
The social calendar kicked off with the Wireless Hill Welcome, hosted by the
WA VHF Group, thanks to Terry VK6ZLT and his team for a well-received outing
to the century old Wireless Hill. For many Amateurs it was their first look at
some of the long history of radio in VK6. The WA Repeater Group kept the whole
thing lubricated, thanks to Anthony VK6AXB and the gang.
During the day on Saturday, Darby VK6FONC and Ian VK6TWJ hosted the mystery
tour and by all accounts they had a hoot. It was reported that some alcohol
was consumed and the decibel level rose accordingly, we don’t have any
evidence of this, save the smiles of those participants and Darby’s hoarseness.
Also on the social front, the conference dinner with surprise visitor, the
Chief Scientist of Western Australia, Professor Lyn Beazley
We were awed by
her presentation and in return managed to repay the favour by presenting Lyn
with her very own call sign. She activated vi6prof for two hours after dinner.
Unfortunately, solar flares wiped out any chance of a contact, but lots of fun
was had by all. Thanks to Steve VK6IR for bringing out his shack.
The Sunday festivities included the Peel Amateur Radio Group who managed to
escape a visit to Fremantle Prison, setting up their mobile shack out the
front of the Shipwreck Gallery Museum, thanks to Michelle VK6MLW and her team.
Many VI103WIA contacts were made before and after lunch at the local
fish & chips joint.
Dinner at the NCRG was organised at the Neil Penfold State Amateur Radio Centre.
Some drool was seen when Amateurs noticed the 80m Four Square Antenna being
erected in a nearby paddock. Thanks to Wayne VK6EH and the crew for making it
go off with a bang.
Many other Amateurs made the social activities possible and they’ll get
acknowledged personally in the coming weeks.
The WIA Annual Conference Technical Symposium on Saturday afternoon provided
a wide range of topics to choose from, ranging from the technical to
“how we do thisö sessions.
The Symposium began with a plenary session, where we heard an engaging
presentation by Phil VK6APH on Software Defined Radio. Phil delivered an
instructional and entertaining talk that was easy to understand, and no doubt
he will have encouraged several people to take a look at SDR in the near
future.
The symposium then broke into four sessions of three presentations, with
topics ranging from producing the news through contesting, experimenting,
repeater networks, the travellers net, education in Amateur Radio, Summits On
The Air, Antenna myths and catering for Foundation Licensees
Most sessions were well supported, and were designed to deliver a maximum of
15 minutes talk followed by discussion and questions. Well done all
contributors for interesting and well-presented topics.
As the News West team we create the news every week. We produce our segments,
glue them together and combine them into a bulletin. Making the National News
during the conference was an altogether different animal.
Normally we’re pretty much scripted, we have a good idea of who does what when
and how long the whole affair lasts. The conference weekend didn’t quite work
out that way.
When you listened to the news last week, if you were paying close attention,
you might have noticed that our voices changed a little toward the end, that’s
only part of what went on.
We recorded the news to hard-disk in front of an audience. About 20 Amateurs
were sitting not three meters from us as we did our thing. We had a sort of
script, which was marked “Name 1ö, “Name 2ö, etc. Running out of time
prevented the planned search and replace to insert our names.
We had planned guests, but had forgotten to have someone on standby to
actually get them into the room, so we had a few false starts. Then there
were the unintentional jokes, the flubs where a guest might say
“Good Eveningö, when really you want the news to sound like it’s now.
We did several takes and had to keep in mind that while all this was going on,
time was ticking over and we still had to make sure that we had 30 minutes of
actual content.
At 1:30 am Bob and I were still editing the thing together and found out we
were 9 minutes short, so we had to become inventive and insert vox-pops. Then
we needed another 5 minutes of content, so at 2:15 am, we interviewed each
other about the proceedings. Made it 29:56 seconds, added 4 seconds of silence
and uploaded it at 2:30 am. Just in time for the local download scripts to get
their copy to send the news out normally.
I confess that we did make a great mistake. We lost all the recordings that
the audience made, so if you’re waiting for your callsign to make it to the
news, sorry, we Foxtrot Uniformed.
The success of this year’s conference was due to the ability of many clubs to
come together to organise different aspects of the event. All of this was done
by volunteers, so we had to be mindful of the level of effort required by each
one.
When Onno and I stood up in Mildura, we had a vague idea of what our
conference might look like. Basically, we knew it was going to be in Fremantle
and was going to be on the last weekend in May, though the latter was up for
debate at the time.
When we got home, still high from our adventures in VK3, we sat down to figure
out what kind of events might make up a successful conference. We knew we
needed social events, some technical outcomes and we had to accommodate the
formal AGM activities.
Looking for interesting places to hold gatherings, Wireless Hill and the
Neil Penfold State Amateur Radio Centre were easy choices, the clubs
associated with those venues were obvious. Finding a place for operating a
HF station was harder, but some abortive attempts made it serendipitous to
contact the WA Museum who welcomed us with open arms.
Closing in the gaps gave us an outline which we then set about filling. Clubs
were invited to provide a proposal to cover their selected event. This worked
in most cases, though some adjustments were inevitable. Additional support was
sought and found and preparations went well.
We did notice that Amateurs registering made it particularly hard by
registering very late. We had budgeted for 150 people, but two months out, we
only had 40. We got to 98 in the end, but perhaps some earlier decision making
by visitors would help the next conference team.
We are immensely proud that our clubs banded together to achieve this event
and we salute you.
HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA.
VK2
e information or write to the club at
PO Box 712 Port Macquarie NSW 2444.
(VK2ZHE President, Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Inc.(ORARC))
Heritage Park to show Morse code
The Timbertown Heritage Park at Wauchope on the mid-north coast of New South
Wales has a telegraph office fitted with Morse code, and is looking for
volunteers to operate the machine during school holidays.
Writing in the June edition of the FIST Downunder magazine, Judy Lockwood
of Timbertown is keen to talon transmission between London and Hartsdale, New York.
The same year, BTDS also demonstrated the first TV transmission to a ship in
mid-Atlantic.
On July 3, 1928 John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first colour
transmission, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends
with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different
primary colour; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a
commutator to alternate their illumination. On August 10, here were over 110 stations
operating on 80m on the night of the contest. Scores claimed ranged from
4 to 92 points
I am delighted to announce the certificate winners, in the three sections,
for the 2013 Harry Angel Sprint:-
CW 1st VK7CW Steve Salviaa 50
2nd VK2KJJ Knud Olsen-Jensen 46
3rd VK2IG Mike Dower 40 QRP 5 watts
Mixed 1st VK4SN Alan Shannon 92
2nd VK2DAG Matt Heatherington 84
3rd VK4WR Alan Meek h is able to recharge a
(dead) cell phone battery in less than 30 seconds.
Now this is fast.
But I'm sure once it has been successfully adopted, it won't be long before
we will be asking for a 5-second-recharge!
And 'ever ready' with battery news, here in Australia researchers have
developed a Germanium-based battery with 5x energy density of Li-ion
University of Wollongong Nano-engineer, Professor Zaiping Guo, is working on
improving lithium-ion batteries for use in electric vehtional anthem.
The Ecuadorean government contributed $700,000 to its launch on board an
unmanned rocket.
Ecuador is planning to launch a second satellite, named Kryasor, from Russia
in August.
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IARU REGION 3
Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies
3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz
Communications Support Events where your help is needed by VK4ZZ
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