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Gates open at 6am for car boot and trader setup.
General admission is from 8am. Exit from the venue is by 2pm
Food vans will be available from 8am, and there will be undercover seating in that food van area.
The HamFest will be run in conjunction with a general market, so there is
plenty for XYLs and others to do.
The HamFest and general markets will be in separate areas, a short walk
apart.
To book a site Call Steve from the Picton Show Society on 0421 109 694
Now for the best bit, general entry is FREE
Oh, and the event is leashed Dog friendly.
73 VK2TS TONY
VK8 - Darwin Amateur Radio Club Xmas Party 6:30pm Dec 3 (wiacal)
VK - Dec 7 WIA Affiliated Clubs briefing webinar (wiacal)
WIA
JOIN THE WIA
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This is WIA Director, Lee Moyle VK3GK
Thanks to Kevin Johnston VK4UH who keeps a very diligent eye on the VHF and UHF records for the WIA as he reports from VK4 that the microwave lads in late May were breaking national records on 3.4 and 5.7 GHZ.
Volunteers keep your WIA running and there are several vacancies available from VK3 inwards QSL sorting to Technical advisors for Dstar and satellites. Interested? Then email WIA HQ asking for further information.
The Board of the WIA have published details of requirements to be followed by WIA National News rebroadcast stations.
Stations wishing to rebroadcast the weekly WIA National News need to comply with the provisions of a common license which has been introduced and shall commence on 31st July 2025.
There is no significant change to re-broadcast arrangements for most rebroadcae WIA.
Ownership of the content is retained by the WIA.
The content of the broadcast shall not be modified, edited, or used to create derivative works without prior written consent from the Secretary of the WIA.
Notification of the cband antenna coupler for 136 and 475 kHz that feeds a 22-and-a-half metre live mast.
Both Doc and Peter expound on the importance of earthing. Also, on that very subject, Dale Hughes VK1DSH gets down in the dirt getting to know his earons, 984 correct answers and 2,952 distractors (incorrect
answers) in the Question Bank.
This is the first major update to the Question Bank since 2013.
Still with exams and in New Zealand their new question bank will take
effect from the 1st of January 2026, so as not to disadvantage anyone
who is studying for the exam now. Exam supervisors will be notified in
December to update their exams and destroy any old, printed exams.
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OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION
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NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2025
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LABRE DX CONTEST ALL WEEKEND
From Brazil with participation worldwide using just CW and SSB
on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m
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Trans-Tasman Low Band Contest AND YOTA Contests Saturday 19.
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"RUSSIAN EME CONTEST".
July 26-27 on 1296 MHz, 2.3 and 10 GHz.
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RSGB IOTA CONTEST
July 26 to July 27
Mode: CW, SSB
Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m
Work once per band per mode.
(wa7bnm contest calendar)
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Remembrance Day Contest
16th & 17th August 2025
wia.org.au/members/contests/rdcontest/
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SHINE A LITTLE LIGHT - REGISTER NOW!
This year, International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend will run from
0001UTC on the 16 August to 2400UTC on the 17 August. The event usually
attracts more than 500 lighthouse entries located in over 40 countries.
illw.net/
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NOW THE DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD.
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Michal, OM2DX informs that he will be active from Tonga (as A32DX) and
Fiji (as 3D2XD) at the end of July.
3D2XD Fiji July 22-25th.
A32DX Tonga July 25 30th.
Activity will be holiday-style covering 60-6m.
Before and after his Pacific adventure, Michal will also QRV from
different VK & ZL areas.
(dx-world)
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In the World of DX, Nicolas, F5TGR will be on the air from Iceland as TF/F5TGR from July 26th through to August 9th on 40, 30, 20, 15, 12 and 10m. Nicolas will be using CW, SSB and FT8. See QRZ.com for QSL details.
(newsline)
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DON'T EXPECT CARBOARD QSL CARDS FROM THIS ONE.
Andre will be active holiday style CN 2 NE from Morocco now until
22nd of July on 40 to 6 metres from grid locator IM 63 DM.
QSL via eQSL and QRZ Logbook;
REMEMBER he does not plan to have paper cards.
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Bo, is active as OX 3 LX from Greenland, IOTA NA - 018 until July 29
HF Bands and QO-100 Satellite.
QSL via OZ0J.
His DIRECT route address in in our text edition
Joergen Roemming, Brandelev Stationsvej 9, DK-4700, Naestved, Denmark.
(dxnews.com)
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REMINDERS
VU2DGR is active as AT44I [ALPHA-TANGO-FOUR-FOUR-INDIA] from Bharati
[BAH-RUH-TEE] Research Station. He is a member of the 44th Indian
Scientific Expedition to Antarctica. The station was spotted recently on
the 20m band using SSB. QSL AT44I via home call which again is VU2DGR
(rsgb)
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Celebrating the Deutsche Amateur-Radio-Club's 75th anniversary,
four special callsigns have been activated by DARC till 31 October:
DC7, D5D, DD7, DK7 and DR75DARC.
See darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/sonderdiplome/
for the "75 Jahre DARC" certificate.
QSLs via the bureau, or direct to DL2VFR.
(425 DX NEWS)
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8K3EXPO is on the air until October 13, 1.8 MHz 10 GHz.
This event marks the first time a callsign has been established with
the 8K prefix and draws attention to the Osaka World Expo.
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Well you may not WORK them BUT you MAY hear them.
Once again Italian radio amateurs have been authorized to use the
40 MHz band until the end of the year.
They are allowed to operate from 40.660 MHz to 40.700 MHz with a
maximum power of 10 watts.
The Italian regulator has given permission until 31 December also
for 70.1, 70.2, and 70.3 MHz.
(425dx news)
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Switzerland.
4 U 0 ITU is the call sign for the International Amateur Radio Club
at ITU HQ in Geneva to use from 16 May to the end of the year in
celebration of the 160th anniversary of the International
Telecommunication Union.
QSL via LoTW, Club Logs OQRS, or direct to
IARC, PO Box 6, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland.
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WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - BALLOONS
Thirty two campers travelled from all over the world to Thornton, Colorado in June to attend the annual Americas wide camp for amateur radio operators aged 15 to 25 called Youth On The Air. Jack McElroy, KM4ZIA, has been the leader of the YOTA balloon launch team since he was 14 years old at the camp's first in person event in the Americas.
In 2022, we here at the news desk shared Jack's story of one of his personal balloons becoming the closest any amateur radio balloon has been to the South Pole. At this year's YOTA camp, the youth team in cooperation with Edge of Space Sciences launched a high altitude balloon, tracked it by APRS, and brought back video from near space after reaching a height of 96,600 feet. But, thunderstorms prevented the launch of the two pico balloons scheduled for that afternoon.
Instead, the balloons were transported to NIST radio station WWV in Fort Collins the next day, where the campers were taking a tour of the facility and operated portable stations. The wide open spaces and clear sky at WWV proved to be a great launch site for these balloons as they started the longest journey of any YOTA Americas balloons yet. At the time of recording this edition of Newsline, one balloon is flying over Hawaii and is closing in on an entire orbit around the Earth, while the other balloon made it to western Iran before returning to the ground.
You can follow the trek of these balloons on WSPRNET.ORG under KM4ZIA and on APRS.FI under WY-1 and WY-11.
(newsline2489)
WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS
SUMMITS ON THE AIR, WORLD WIDE FLORA, FAUNA PROGRAM,
PARKS ON THE AIR and other ADVENTURE GROUPS.
hema.org.uk/index.jsp
minesontheair.com/about-mota
parksontheair.com/
sota.org.uk
sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/
facebook.com/SotaAustralia/
wwffaustralia.com/
Commencing on Friday 24th October and concluding on Monday 27th October,
2025, the VKFF Team are hosting the 3rd annual VKFF National Get
Together. This year the Get Together is being held in Canberra.
The VKFF National Get Together is an event for those interested in the
World Wide Flora Fauna park program, no matter if you are a beginner or
an experienced park activator or hunter.
Previous Get Togethers have been held in Renmark South Australia and
Bendigo Victoria and these proved to be very popular. This years event
in Canberra will kick off with an evening meal on Friday night at The
Lighthouse Pub in Belconnen.
On Saturday, a series of presentations will be delivered during the day
on various topics relating to the WWFF program and operating portable.
This will be held at the Eastlake Football Club. A raffle will be held
on Saturday with some excellent prizes including transceivers. On
Saturday evening, a dinner function will be held at the Eastlake Football
Club. This includes a guest speaker.
On Sunday, a BBQ breakfast will be held at black Mountain Peninsula BBQ
area. This will be followed by a linked dipole construction session.
Sunday afternoon will see a large number of amateurs heading out into the
field to activate VKFF parks. Four experienced VKFF park activators have
volunteered to take less experienced park activators out to some of the
ACTs parks to show them some of the tips in successfully activating a
VKFF park. On Sunday evening, a dinner will be held at the Gunghalin
Lakes Golf Club.
The Get Together will conclude on Monday, with some visits to the
Royal Australian Mint and the Australian War Memorial.
You must register to attend this event. Walk ups will not be accepted.
You can attend whatever part of the Get Together you choose, but you
must register.
More information on the 2025 VKFF National Get Together can be found on
the WWFF Australia website at:
wwffaustralia.com
Many thanks for listening.
73,
Paul VK5PAS
The VKFF National Co-Ordinator.
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - DIGITAL.
MMDVM, a popular software and hardware project that powers many amateur radio hotspots, has announced the intention to drop the M17 digital voice and data protocol as a supported mode. First communicated to the OpenDV Groups.io list on July 12th, the project's maintainer cited a number of grievances and rumours behind the decision.
Inclusion of M17 among the supported modes of the MMDVM project has been a major benefit to the current rate of adoption of M17. The first commercial radios supporting M17 shipped in the second half of 2024.
The M17 Project is an open source digital voice and data protocol that is positioned as an alternative to digital modes that require use of proprietary encoders.
MMDVM is an open source project that enables amateur radio hotspots to support multiple digital voice modes including D-STAR, DMR, YSF, P25, NXDN, and POCSAG.
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WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER
AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary(at)amsat-vk.org
SpaceX currently has one active Starship launch tower at Starbase, TEXAS
with a second, at Starbase Pad B, nearing completion.
Meanwhile, at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX is actively building a launch tower
at their LC39A site, which could see a launch next year after finishing
touches to its launch mount, flame trench, chopsticks, ground support
equipment, and plumbing. The company is exploring adding a second,
catch-only tower to LC-39A.
$10 BILLION more for NASA.
The Republican-controlled US House and Senate passed a budget
reconciliation bill on July 3rd that added $10B BACK into the national
budget for NASA programs.
This reconciliation bill, H.R.1, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful
Bill, includes roughly $10B in additions that were slated to be cut in
the Whitehouses budget request. These include operational funding for
the ISS through 2030;
$4.1B for Artemis IV and V SLS rockets;
full funding of current Lunar Gateway plans;
$1B in unspecified improvements to NASA centres around the country;
$700M for the (revived after 20 years) Mars Telecommunications Orbiter,
a close fit to the orbiter in Rocket Labs MSR proposal; an additional
$325M for launching the SpaceX ISS deorbit vehicle; and, oddly, the
relocation of a space vehicle assumed to be the Space Shuttle Discovery
from DC to Johnson Space Centre in Houston (to the tune of $85M)
(ORBITAL INDEX)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA
iota-world.org/
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Announced participants in the IOTA Contest (26-27 July)
from Italian islands include:
IR 5 C from Capraia (EU-028) SSB.
QSL via IU3EDK, direct or bureau.
IB 7 V from San Pietro (EU-073) SSB.
QSL via home call, IK 7 IMO direct or bureau.
IP 1 X Gallinara (EU-083) ssb AND cw CW.
QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via IU1JCZ (direct or bureau).
II 3 Y from Santa Maria di Barbana (EU-130).
They will opective from there last
year.
QRV mainly on 40-10m, CW & SSB using verticals next to sea and
End-fed wires.
QSL via IK2DUW, LoTW, eQSL, Club Log.
(dx-world)
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Lance, W7GJ will be active as H40GJ from Pigeon Isclubs and societies can be found
on the WIA website, including email addresses and website links.
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Reception Reports
No we DO like to hear where in the world you are listening to this,
the WIA NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.
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
callbacks(at)wia.org.au
Not only but also those watching us on YouTube, leave a comment , access
is just below the picture on screen and again tell us where and maybe
even the day and time you are listening
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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