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Hello all. Nice to see some discussion to keep the grey matter stimulated
:-)
G0FTD Wrote:-
>If this is the case, then surely that would mean EVERYBODY who runs Xrouter
>will be actively participating in the infrastructure of the packet network
>regardless of the capabilities of each station ?
>
>That sounds like a good idea to me, which would mean that the use of Xrouter
>as a "front end" to individual packet users is preferable to systems
>such as BPQ ?
>
>Comments ?
1) I can't see Xrouter catching on as an end-user program. It was intended
as a piece of infrastructure to be used by experts, and thus requires a
fair bit of expertise to configure properly.
2) The average end-user wants plug and play software, running on Windows
ME, XP, whatever. i.e. AGW Paket engine. Ok, Xrouter offers a lot more than
AGW in some respects, but the average user doesn't need that sort of power.
3) I'm not sure it's desirable for every user to be a router, at least not
in a network which relies on routing information broadcasts, because you
quickly reach a point where the network can't cope with the volume of routing
information. People turning things on and off generates a lot of re-configuration
traffic.
However, although I said Xrouter wasn't an end-user program, I have for
the last 6 months been using a TCP/IP-only TSR version (XSOCK) to provide
the TCP/IP stack for my DOS Echolink clien VK4 CALLING
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R:031212/0324Z @:SP7MGD.#RA.POL.EU #:38758 [SR7BBS-FWD] $:QNEWS1214B
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VK4EHT WIAQ ALTERNATE FEDERAL COUNCILLOR BRUCE JONES
2004 WIAQ GRANTS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Wireless Institute of Australia , Queensland Division (WIAQ) has
instituted a scheme of grants to promote a number of its objectives in
support of Amateur Radio in Queensland.
2004 WIAQ Grants will be awarded in each of 3 objective areas:
Lifting the profile of Amateur Radio in Queensland.
Community Support by Queensland Amateur Radio Groups and Individuals
Support the growth of the Wireless Institute Civil Emergency Network
(WICEN) in Queensland
Applications from Members, Clubs and Groups of the WIAQ are called for to
be received no later than Thursday 25 March 2004.
to 2004 WIAQ Grants Application
PO Box 199
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Assessment will be by an independent group outside of the WIAQ Council
per se . Applications will be forwarded unopened to the Assessment group
immediately after the closing date with the intention of recommendations
being made to the WIAQ Council at its April 2004.
CLUB ACTIVITY WITH BRIAN COLEMAN VK4LH IN MACKAY
BARC
and May 8 Summerland club tell us is when the BARCFEST at Holland Park
in Brisbane will be held.
SUMMERLAND AR CLUB (VK2)
About 30 enjoyed a CHRISSY BBQ/Party last Sunday.
Santa arrived and distributed gifts to the harmonics, followed by the BBQ
and eats with much ragchewing.
Put August 8 in your diary if your around Northern NSW, SARCFEST,
will be held that Sunday at Richmond Hill.
TOWNSVILLE
TARC action packed Christmas activities!!
Activity 1
Xmas party happens today Sunday December 14th
Monster Kilometer of Treasure auction starts 2pm
BBQ starts 4-30pm to 5pm
Xmas Pressie Auction starts around 6pm
Activity 2
Friday December 19th - the TARC Monster Xmas Lights Tour !!
Meet at Garbutt Shopping Centre Carpark from 6pm, bring your
own dinner, chairs, tables and candalabra ! Group heads off once
the sun has set and everyone has viewed the Gorden Street displays.
Keep in touc3305
briscal@optusnet.com.au
BRISBANE WEST - LOCKYER REGION
The Lockyer Valley is located between Ipswich and Toowoomba and
examination services are available with 2 weeks notice required.
Arrangements for any examination can be made by contacting
Alan VK4SN alz@austarnet.com.au 04 1137 3679 VK4SN @ VK4WIL
Warren VK4FJ vk4fj@uq.net.au 04 2120 9536 VK4FJ @ VK4WIL
DARLING DOWNS
Toowoomba area, contact Mathew VK4HWM on 4698 7775 or email him on
matthew@t130.aone.net.au
GOLD COAST
The club holds any exams at anytime for students who wish to do so!
Just contact Kath VK4KU on 5539 3530
MACKAY AREA
Examinations conducted on request to the Mackay Club
Also instruction on a 1 to 1 basis contact
Contact George VK4AJL
vk4ajl@wia.org.au
ROCKHAMPTON
For all information exams etc: contact Clive VK4ACC
4928 1173 or e-mail
vk4acc@wia.org.au
TOWNSVILLE
Exam sessions are held several times during the year and
can also be held on demand provided adequate notice is given.
Exams information and application pack in PDF format from
theTARCinc web site
http://www.vk4tub.org/tarc/
SOUTH OF THE BORDER... DOWN SUMMERLAND WAY
SUMMERLAND AR CLUB in VK2
http://www.sarc.org.au/sarc1/sarc.htm
EXAM DETAILS RING Dave VK2CB 6625 1281, Mob 04 2991 0982.
vk2cb@nnsw.quik.com.au
VK4 AMATEURS WHO ARE JP's
BAMAGA
Amanda Winchester, VK4HIP is registered as a Justice of the Peace
(Qualified) and is on mobile: 04 2936 8907
GLADSTONE
Rick WRIGHT, VK4HWN Justice of the peace QUALIFIED 4972 7147
HERVEY BAY
Geoff Stephenson, VK4OT 4124 4764
Albert Woodward, VK4IK 4124 4863
SUNSHINE COAST
Geoff Sanders, VK4KEL is registered as a Justice of the Peace
(Qualified) and is on telephone 5445 0280
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Chris VK4AA reads each weeks EVENT time table for 2003-4
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Date Contest
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2003
Dec
13 - 14 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
26 ROSS HULL VHF CONTEST...until Jan 18
27 - 28 ORIGINAL QRP CONTEST (CW)
27 - 28 STEW PERRY 160 MTR DISTANCE CHALLENGE (CW)
2004
Jan
3 - 4 ARRL RTTY ROUNDUP
10 - 11 HUNTING LIONS ON THE AIR
17 - 18 VHF + SUMMER FIELD DAY
18 END OF ROSS HULL CONTEST
24 - 25 CQ 160 METER CONTEST (CW)
Feb
28 - 29 NZART's Jock White Memorial Field Day Contest
Mar 19 - 21 John Moyle Field Day
Apr 25 Harry Angel Memorial Sprint.
(Honours WW1 Veteran VK4HA who until becoming SK
WAS WORLD OLDEST AMATEUR AT AGE 106!)
Aug 21-22 Lighthouse Activation Weekend.
Check the OFFICIAL VK Contest Site, www.vkham.com/contests/index.html
Hi once again Trevor, and a warm G'Day to all.
Every so often we start this segment with the old caveat which explains how
QNEWS is anxious to avoid confusion and misinformation. As a result we
generally only list those contests whose details have been supplied by the
contest managers themselves. Either that or by reporting news supplied
direct from representative bodies such as the WIA, NZART or whatever, and
really it's just for commonsense reasons.
While we're at it, we should also point out that an item's inclusion in this
segment - or any other segment for that matter - does not necessarily imply
any endorsement or support on the part of the organisation or the news crew,
nor can we absolutely vouch for the accuracy of the information provided.
But sometimes, no matter how careful the vetting or how rigorous the
checking, even unimpeachable information might turn out to be plain wrong.
On this occasion, it wasn't until we nominated the number of days in the
Ross Hull that someone counted on their fingers, twigged, and asked if I'd
lost my marbles. What, again? Oh yes indeed, it seems the Ross Hull goes for
a full week after the date we'd nominated, so let's fix that one then get
into it.
Australia's last major contest for year 2003 is the Ross Hull VHF Contest,
which commences on Boxing Day, December 26, 2003, and will this time
continue unabated until January 18, 2004, not January 11 as we'd previously
advised. Sorry about any confusion. John Martin, VK3KWA suggests you enter
the correct date with the rules in your copy of AR magazine, which shows
an incorrect date.
The correct rules and a sample scoring sheet can be downloaded from the WIA
Victoria web site.
http://www.wiavic.org.au/download/rhc04.pdf
Now, don't forget this weekend's contest activity. On the air December 13
and 14 is the ARRL 10 Metre Contest, which is the last item on the
international calendar for the year.
The contester's 2004 gets under way slowly, with only the Ross Hull on VHF
to keep the contesters amused. January 17 and 18 bring the VHF/UHF Summer
Field Day as well as the end of the Ross Hull Contest on the 18th.
Note March 19 to 21 in your diary for the John Moyle Field Day, then
April 25 for the Harry Angel Memorial Sprint, which honours WW1 veteran
VK4HA who, at the time of becoming a silent key, was the world's oldest
amateur at age 106!
Additional to that report, we now bring you the sad news that
Ms Lillian Allsopp, daughter of Harry Angel, has also passed away.
WIA officials contacted Lillian's daughter Faye earlier this week, and
passed on condolences from the WIA.
Last week I made a rather grumpy mention of the `no show' by the crew of the
ISS for their commemoration of K6DUE's contributions to ARISS. Thanks to our
good friends at ARNewsLine, and Norm Seeley in particular, we may have the
reason.
ARNewsLine recording here.
"Frank Bauer says that ARISS has discussed the situation with NASA.
He says that there are two events that could have kept the crew from
getting on the air. The first revolves around a broken exercise treadmill
that KB5UAC reportedly spent a lot of his own time fixing this past weekend.
The other is the widely reported crushing noise heard by the crew that last
week.
It was in the aft end of the Service Module and its possible that the crew
might have gotten instructions from the Russian team to determine the cause."
Either way, Bauer reminds everyone that the first weekend was only the
kickoff. The event commemorating K6DUE's contributions to manned ham radio
space operations continues through the end of the month.
He also says that ARISS will alert the amateur community of potential
opportunities for contacts as they become available. And I can tell you that
NA1SS was heard operational over the USA on December 6. So I, for one, will
keep listening on 145.8 MHz with a 190kHz positive tx offset. In fact, I'll
be listening very clearly indeed. I hope you can pick up this fragment of
Mike Foale NA1SS the other day...
NA1SS Audio in here:-
...and I don't know about you, but I'm quite sure I heard him saying they'll
be making a big effort to put the station on the air over the coming weekend,
which is this weekend. By the way, Mike hails from the UK, which may explain
his accent.
In an interesting project, WIA Federal Awards Manager Mal, VK6LC, has
released a new smart CD covering our Federal Awards.
It contains a three minute Microsoft PowerPoint SlideShow along with eight
awards documents. The educational audio-visual PowerPoint synchronised slide
show displays all the Australian awards offered by the WIA, so it'd be a
good thing to set up for a hamfest or a club evenings.
And now you don't have any excuse whatever to avoid getting hold of the
presentation for your club, as WIA federal president Ernest Hocking, VK1LK,
has announced the CDs will be issued free of charge to all WIA divisions and
WIA-affiliated Clubs.
Best path is for the secretary of clubs that would like the CD to contact
the Federal Awards Manager.
vk6lc@iinet.net.au
It's that time once again, so we'll just sneak in a special event station
or two before we get booted unceremoniously out of here.
Special event station ZS-100-FLY is on the air, celebrating 100 years of
powered flight. The station will be operational from various airports,
historic monuments, air shows and aviation sites throughout 2004. A special
collectors item QSL card will be issued, and the station will operate on all
HF bands plus two metres.
Another? Okay, and it's on a very similar theme. Special event station W-4-B
is also on air as we speak, to commemorate the centenary of the flight by
the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, whose aircraft the Kittyhawk, flew
a distance of 120 feet in Dayton, Ohio, on December 17, 1903. Orville's
entire flight lasted just 12 seconds, and covered less distance than the
wingspan of a Boeing 747.
The station has been on the air all this week, and is scheduled to remain on
the air until next Wednesday the 17th.
And thanks to Peter, VK3KG, for some of the detail there.
Back to Graham. See you again soon. 73 from Chris, VK4AA/VK3CE
THE QNEWS WORK BENCH - the nuts and volts report
(Measure twice - Cut once!)
VK5ATQ and VK4TGB have both forwarded great info for our soon to be HF'ers.
VK4TGB transmits QNEWS on CB in the Maryborough area and a couple
of his listeners, 261 Ray, VK4HSE Sam directs you to AR Magazine
December of 1991 and the Caltenna designed by the late Clive Cooke, VK4CC.
Trevor 5ATQ supplied us with his "Quick HF Antennae Guide".
The most important thing for anyone able to operate on HF to have some
form of Antenna. Grab the latest ARRL Antenna hand book and spend a year
or two getting across the correct methods.
Well we only have a couple of weeks, and in that time we have the silly
season, so lets do something to get onto the air in a few hours.
What was your first antenna on VHF? A quarter wave maybe.
Try one on 80 metres.
Got a spare 20 metre pole handy. Well you may be able to find a tree, and
don't worry about a few bends.
Hold it.
Let us sit back for a moment and determine what we really want.
HF around Australia at night?
Or HF around VK2 and 3 in the day time?
Or are you interested in overseas DX work?
For the moment forget 160 metres. A great band, but not for now.
If you wish to chat around the Australian East coast at night, as well
as some local stations chose 80 metres. The simplest aa like the StationMaster.
Great for 15 and 10 metres.
An end fed half wave on 15 or 10 can work the world. Or move the tap to
the top of the coil. This makes a quarter wave vertical for 20 metres.
For now let's just get on the air. Where do I find the wire? Any old
240 volt wire, solid or 7 strand. Just remove the tough sheath, and join
the wire with some twist joints and solder. It won't break, well not for
many years, and we are experimenting.
You will need some plastic insulator in the centre where the coax connects.
The antenna tie offs at the ends can simply be plastic cord, preferably
black, and remember these will be high voltage points, so no little fingers
anywhere near the ends when you transmit.
Coax is the most popular feed method. Ordinary RG58 is quite suitable for
HF operations. If you have RG59 70 Ohm coax you can try it.
Often works very well. Remember the half wave dipole is about 70 ohms,
depending on height above ground.
Don't forget the open wire feed. It is not only the cheapest, it also
provides the least loss, and will allow you to use a real antenna tuner
to give you multi band operation.
We do need an earth if we are using a quarter wave radiator, or we can use
a quarter wave radial or two. The dipole is balanced, so the earth is for
safety only. Lots of exciting things for the future.
So for now, chose a band or maybe two, just get on the air and have fun.
That ultimate all band, high gain antenna, is somewhere down the track.
When you are tuning the antenna remember that as you raise the
antenna the resonant frequency will go lower. The higher the lower.
An SWR of less than 1.2 to 1 is nice, but try for that across the whole
band. If you're under 1.5 to 1 your radio will work quite well, and at
2 to 1 your inbuilt antenna tuner will hide the problem.
At least you are on the air.
That is the whole aim of the excersise.
Have fun and work every one with a proud feeling of mateship and respect.
Welcome to HF. Catch you on HF the 1st of January 2004.
Trevor Quick VK5ATQ
MEDIA WATCH and PR OPPORTUNITIES
WIA's Amateur Radio Magazine Editor VK5UE
AR's Publishing Committee VK3's ABP, ANI, AUI, AZL, BR, DBB, OM.
QNEWS EDITOR VK4BB
CALLING OCCUPANTS OF VK4RAI
IRLP node 6782 with callsign of vk4rai is reporting in playing QNEWS however
guys...your obviously using old downloads! So if your a VK4RAI listener,
the Ipswich Radio Club, please give us an email to qnews@wia.org.au
we'll steer you in the right direction!
NEW PAN-EUROPEAN TV SHOW ON ITS WAY
Ham radio in Europe will soon have a TV show of its own.
Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, is in Nottingham, the UK, with the rest of the story:
The Swedish-based 'Club-TV' wishes to establish a monthly amateur radio
magazine program to be transmitted via digital satellite TV to most of
Europe.
Club-TV wants to cover all aspects of amateur radio and thinks there is a
number of amateurs around Europe who can handle a video camera and edit the
result.
During the past year Club-TV has carried out a number of tests and
broadcast a couple of programs. The transmission is via the Sirius 2
satellite at 5 degrees East with a Symbol Rate of 6667 and FEC 1/2
(Jeremy boot, G4NJH via ARNewsLine)
We'd appreciate it if repeater managers would send the call sign, frequency,
location, and sponsoring club/organisation of the repeater as well as the
time and day QNEWS is aired to Graham VK4BB, qnews@wia.org.au each week.
Or by packet to qnews @ VK4WIE.#BNE.QLD.AUS.OC
WIRELESS WEATHER (the vk 4day 4cast)
PROPAGATION TECHNOLOGY: NEW SOLAR FLARE THEORY
The recent series of solar storms to hit Earth may be caused by the
sun's iron-rich interior. So says one solar researcher who theorises
that the sun's core is made of iron rather than hydrogen.
Dr. Oliver Manuel is a professor of nuclear chemistry. He believes
that iron, not hydrogen, is the sun's most abundant element. And,
in a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Fusion Energy,
Manuel asserts that the standard solar model which assumes that the
sun's core is made of hydrogen has led to misunderstandings of how
such solar flares occur.
As ever ham knows, these flares can play havoc with high frequency
communications while turning some VHF frequencies into world-wide D-X
bands.
Meanwhile Geophysicists in Finland and Germany have calculated that the
Sun is more 'magnetically' active now than it has been for over a 1000 years.
Observations of sunspots began in 1610 - soon after the telescope was
invented - and no other directly obtained data exists from before this time.
Now, these scientists have used the concentration of beryllium-10 in
polar ice as a proxy for historic levels of solar activity. Beryllium-10 is
produced when cosmic rays interact with particles in the Earth's atmosphere.
Using modelling techniques, the Finnish team was able to extend data on
solar activity back to 850 AD.
(Belle Dumé at PhysicsWeb via vk2wi and ANS and Space Daily via ARNewsLine)
DX EDGE, with BEACON and NET ADVICE
* new on calender
*THAILAND, HS.
Mirek, VK6DXI is in Thailand until December 23 operating as HS0/VK3DXI.
Activity is on 80 to 10 meters.
QSL via DL4DBR.
IWO JIMA till December 31st.
JM6DZB/JD1 Iwo Jima in the Ogasawara Islands until the end of 2003.
80, 40 and 15 metres SSB.
3XY till December 31st.
3XY-1L Conakry, Guinea, operating during 2003.
He will be active with a battery-powered rig mostly on 20 and 15 metres,
after 1800 UTC and at weekends.
MARCH 15, 2004
Fraser Island.
Call sign VK4FRI operated by Lockyer Valley Radio & Electronic Club
website www.lvrclub.org
Further information from President John VK4MJC.
MARCH - APRIL 2004 DXpedition
The Five Star DXers Association, or FSDXA, has announced plans for a very
large-scale DXpedition to Rodrigues Island in March and April next year.
The callsign will be 3B9C.
An international team of nearly 30 will operate no fewer than 15 separate
stations on virtually every band and mode possible.
FSDXA is the group which organised the very successful 9M0C DXpedition to
the Spratly Islands in 1998 and the subsequent record breaking D68C
DXpedition to the Comoros in February 2001.
(IRTS)
*JW5RIA Bear Island until June
JW5RIA will operate on 160 to 6 metres CW, SSB and digital modes.
Q-S-L as directed on the air.
(RSGB via ARNewsLine)
* new on calender
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF
WIA ARDF COORDINATOR VK3WWW Jack vk3www@alphalink.com.au
http://users.mackay.net.au/~ron/
http://www.homingin.com
http://www.ardf.org.au
By reading the North-East Radio Groups monthly news sheet it seems
by all accounts IARU Region 3 ARDF Championships were a resounding success.
Countries represented were Australia, China, Japan, Korea,
Kazakhstan and USA.
Fortunately two Ukrainians have been staying Australia for some
time and world champion Liliya Gluschenko was allowed to compete
in the Australian team with the blessing of the IARU committee.
The team from Kazakhstan blitzed the field when it came to fastest
times in all categories they entered. The Australians representing
WIA did extremely well against the other region 3 countries.
Sole USA competitor Bob Cooley won both the Super Vets events.
Help from the Victorian Orienteering Association, Ballarat Amateur
Radio Club, WICEN, and the many Victorian amateurs that pitched
in was greatly appreciated.
Full details of winners can be found at
http://www.ardf.org.au
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FIFTY AND OVER
NEW ZS RECORD ON THE 3 cm / 10 GHz BAND
On Monday 1 December at 16:15 Central African Time ZS6AXT and ZS6JON/p,
made a QSO on the 10 GHz band between KG-33-VV and KG-46-SC, over the
distance of 298.6 km, thus improving the 10 year old record of 268 km.
Reports were 519 both ways.
Equipment used was the same on both sides, 1 W transmitters and
60 cm dishes. This path is not direct line of sight and the time was
selected at random, without waiting for good propagation conditions.
An earlier test over the distance of 400 km was negative, but a
QSO over this distance is possible in good conditions.
(sarl)
From the IRTS News we learn Microwave operator Brian Justin, WA1ZMS,
has reported what he believes is the first QSO above 400 GHz in the US.
On the 11th of November he worked Peter Lascell, W4WWQ, on a frequency of
403 GHz over a distance of 1,709 feet in Virginia.
Denis Johnstone tells QNEWS it is approximately 6 months to go to the
famous 'GippsTech' conference to be held over the first weekend in July 2004
at Monash University in Churchill, Gippsland, Victoria.
This conference has been running annually since 1998 and each year the
number in attendance at the conference and the overall quality of the
presentations has continued to improve.
The conference each year is directed towards the VHF, UHF, Microwave end of
the spectrum and many papers are presented over a two-day period. Attendees
gather usually on the Friday evening for an informal get together over
dinner.
On Saturday the formal part of the conference commences with registration
and then presentation of papers commences. There are regular breaks for
coffee and chat so that the formal sessions tend to be interrupted just soon
enough before they can cause a few nodding heads. Question sessions at the
end of each paper allow details to be clarified at the time. Further
discussion and more detailed examination of problems occur over the frequent
coffee and meal breaks.
Lunch is provided on each day as part of the registration and the conference
dinner while being an additional cost is a very enjoyable affair.
On Sunday the formal presentation sessions continue and generally wrap after
lunch. Discussions continue for some time after each conference and the
final presentation of the written proceedings is usually accomplished by the
following year. The hardest part is to get the wonderful presentation from
the conference written into a form that reflects the sprit and details of a
topic. Each year back copies of past proceedings are eagerly sought after
and they are no longer available for the earlier conferences. We intend to
overcome this problem by offering those proceedings on CD.
In 2003 the highlight of the conference was the presentation by Joe Taylor
W1JT the developer of the latest digital phenomena JT44 and his planned
development of other modes.
His presentation gave an insight to the past development of his JT44, which
can be used to allow normal power levels and single Yagi antennas to be used
for EME contacts.
Those who are weak signal exponents on VHF and UHF regularly employ this
mode. A great many long distance contacts have been made using, EME, meteor
scatter and plain old troppo scatter have afforded grid squares to many that
would never be achieved on SSB or even CW.
The mode he was developing at the time JT65.
JT65 mode has shown a significant improvement of more than 6 dB over JT44
and is now even better.
So what wonderful papers will be presented at the 2004 conference? We do
not actually know, as the call for papers is still a few months away.
So if you have got a wonderful new development, discovery or observation
that you have made, or if you have found how you can reliably win the Ross
Hull every year, manage to get equipment for a DX expedition on all VHF and
UHF bands into 16kg, or get huge scores in the Spring and Summer Field, then
start now. Prepare a paper and presentation and come to the GIPPSTECH
conference and tell us all about it and receive the accolades that are due
to you.
So start right away with the hint dropping process to your 'significant
other' about the need to travel to the important international amateur
conference in July next year. See you here next year and do not forget to
contact us here if you require any further details or assistance with
bookings for accommodation. You can also look on the internet at
www.qsl.net/vk3bez
(Denis Johnstone (VK3ZUX))
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER
VK5AGR is the AMSAT National Coordinator, vk5agr@amsat.org
VK5ZAI is the Australian Co-ordinator for ARISS.
AMSAT-VK HF Net.
2nd Sunday each month.
April through October 1000 UTC 3.685 MHz
November through March 0900 UTC 7.068 MHz
A discovery made with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern
Australia may have brought forward the day when astronomers will
directly detect cosmic gravity waves for the first time.
Neutron star pairs may merge and give off a burst of gravity waves
about six times more often than previously thought, says a team of
scientists from Italy, Australia, the UK and the USA. Their report is
published in the December issue of the journal Nature .
Read more at:
http://www.csiro.au/page.asp?type=mediaRelease&id=Prnature2
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- INTERNET --- THE HAMS DOMAIN
ZDNet has come out with a very interesting article based on a press release
of Sophos.
The news is shocking but not so surprising.
Nearly one-third of all spam circulating the Web is relayed through PCs
that have been compromised by malicious programs known as Remote Access
Trojans. These take control of your PC without you being aware, uses it as
a relay for sending spam to thousands and thousands of other people. It's
believed that 30 percent of all spam is being sent from compromised
computers.
(Chris vk2uw)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- Internet Linking of Repeaters
LISTEN ONLY to IRLP reflector 2
http://www.kwarc.org/listen
REPEATER UPDATE and LINKING IN SUMMERLAND )LISMORE( AREA OF VK2.
Graeme VK2JUB has outlined his plans for the repeater development.
VK2RSC/70 will be linked to VK2RBB with IRLP callable.
A rework of the tails, links and timeouts are being done to be compatible.
Next link will probably be to link VK2RBR, Pretty Gully.
Later links to Grafton, Coffs Harbour and Tenterfield will be considered.
YI-1-SRA Laith is in Baghdad using EchoLink from an internet cafe as
full internet access has yet to be widely available in the city
With fellow members of the Baghdad radio club he is hoping to install
a 2m repeater in the city linked up to EchoLink network via the
internet, allowing on demand 24 x 7 contact with the city
His email is
laithtariq@yahoo.com
(From g3zhi direct, also forwarded by Colwyn Low)
Tony VK7AX says EchoLink has now been added to IRLP Node 6700 and is known
as EchoIRLP.
EchoIRLP utilises the basic hardware and system used by an IRLP machine.
Most importantly, it DOES NOT ALLOW any form of cross linking between
IRLP and EchoLink.
What it does offer however, is the ability for IRLP nodes to also have
full connectivity to the EchoLink network.
Tasmania (VK7) IRLP Node 6700 is now equipped with this facility, and
runs as EchoLink node 100478
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