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VK7AX > BCAST 30.11.25 12:30l 978 Lines 38553 Bytes #200 (0) @ WW BID : 6370_VK7AX Subj: VK National News 30Nov25 Path: ED1ZAC<ED1ZAC<CX2SA<VK7AX Sent: 251130/1316Z 6370@VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.AUNZ LinBPQ6.0.24 VK National News 30Nov25 Weekly news from the WIA: MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2025-11-30.mp3 Text edition: 2025 NOVEMBER 30 WIA 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 ------------------------------------------------------------* IN NATIONAL NEWS THIS WEEK:- A note in from Grant VK5GR to advise he will explain the WIA TAC band plan consultation, live on Hayden VK7HHs YouTube channel 7.30pm AEDT Monday Dec One. - Dec 7 is the WIA Affiliated Clubs briefing webinar. - WIA Director and Company Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ with al that's going on at WIA HQ. - Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine with part 2 of all that's going on IN AR Magazine. Plus I'll ask the question, what has 5,000 batteries and FLOATS. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2025.. I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB WIA JOIN THE WIA tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y Well the election for three of the directors of the WIA is already upon us, as the WIA Returning Officer has told us all the nominations close on 16th December. Details are available in the November / December edition of Amateur Radio Magazine. The election will be by electronic means and will be conducted in January / February 2026. For those members that wish to do a postal vote the application form is in the WIA news pages. Applications for a Postal vote close on 24th December. The Webinar for WIA affiliated Club Presidents will be held next Sunday 7th December at 4.30pm Eastern Summer time. The WIA Affiliated Clubs co-ordinator Angelo VK2NWT, will be sending out an agenda and a Teams invitation in the next few days. This has been WIA Director and Company Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ Back again! This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine. The electronic edition of Issue 6 was posted on the WIA website on Monday last. And Im confident that printed issues are already in the lucky hands of those who live closest to the postal warehouse where the bulk copies of AR were deposited. For everyone else, including me here on the Gold Coast ducking hailstones bigger than cricket balls, patience will be rewarded. With the issues theme being OUTDOORS, OFF-SHORE AND ON-THE-AIR, we have further articles under that beach umbrella. Greg Mew VK4GRM goes off-shore to enthuse about his experiences over three days last June while attending the annual German ham radio equivalent to USAs Dayton, known as Messe Friedrichshafen. In German, Messe means Fair, as in a county fair. With nearly 12,000 visitors attending this year from 52 countries across the globe, Messe Friedrichshafen is Europes largest ham radio event. With 85,000 square metres of exhibition space in twelve trade fair halls, Greg had his work cut out to see it all. The Flea Market occupied one and a half of the halls housing 230 exhibitors, while the 150 commercial exhibitors crammed into another, smaller hall, he says. And then there were the numerous conference presentations. Be sure to check out Gregs aeronautical mobile contact with a Zeppelin. Moving-on to an on-the-air topic, the Bayside District Amateur Radio Society from Brisbane generally known as BDARS sent us a story about the clubs remote HF station; how a dream became a reality. Bayside is not the first club to set up a remote HF station, but the club members got together and wrote an article that gives something of the inside story including details on how they financed it, and went about ensuring security and reliability. Even this issues Op-Ed article covers an on-the-air topic dear to many amateurs hearts and minds the regime of compliance with RF exposure limits we all suffer under. Never mind the abortive one kilowatt high RF power trial from over a decade ago. Firstly, Op-Ed is an old newspaper term, short for opposite the editorial page, usually meaning a probably contentious article airing a writers strongly focused opinion on an issue of relevance to readers, but not necessarily aligned with the publishers policies. Dr George Galanis VK3EIP relates his experiences asking answers of the ACMA trying to understand just what Australian amateurs have to comply with and why arent candidates for an amateur qualification examined on it? And a whole lot more besides. If equations arent your thing, you can skip those paragraphs and still get a really good read from Georges Op-Ed piece. Thats it from me this week. Again, this issue has been brought to you by numbers greater than 5, and by the letter O. Amateur Radio magazine. Devoted entirely to everything amateur radio. More guts. Less gab. No bunkum. A wholly Australian production. Serving hams across all VK call areas since 1933. Proudly produced and printed in Australia, including the online edition. Im Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. AUSTRALIANA What has 5,000 Batteries and Floats? While it sounds like the start of a joke, Ship maker Incat Tasmania isnt kidding around about electric ships. Hull 096 has started charging, although it has only 85% of the over 5,000 lithium-ion batteries it will have when complete. The ship has a 40 megawatt-hour storage system with 12 banks of batteries, each consisting of 418 modules for a total of 5,016 cells. Vannessa Bates Ramierz breaks it down in a recent post over on IEEE Spectrum. spectrum.ieee.org/electric-boat-battery-ship-ferry? The ship is 130 meters long, mostly aluminium, and has a reported capacity of 2,100 people and 225 vehicles per ferry trip. Ferry service is perfect for electric ships the distance is short, and its easy to schedule time to charge. Like all electric vehicles, though, the batteries wont stay at full capacity for long. Typical ship design calls for a 20-year service life, and its not uncommon for a vessel to remain in service for 30 or even 40 years. But experts expect the batteries on the ferry will need to be replaced every 5 to 10 years. ( twiar.net/?p=37075 ) Why Samsung Phones Are Failing Emergency Calls In Australia Were taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 here in Australia. The concept is simpleif you need aid from police, fire, or ambulance, you pick up a phone and dial and help will be sent in short order. Its a service many of us have come to rely on; indeed, its function can swing the very balance between life or death. Sadly, in Australia, that has come to pass, with a person dying when their Samsung phone failed to reach the Triple Zero (000) emergency line. It has laid bare an obscure technical issue that potentially leaves thousands of lives at risk. While we here in Australia are currently tangling with this issue, expect it to crop up in other parts of the world before long. Europe is currently working towards 2G and 3G shutdowns, as our other jurisdictions, and issues around roaming functionality still loom large for those taking mobiles overseas. Probably the best explanation is to be found on hackaday.com It's worth the read. twiar.net/?p=37334 ------------------------------------------------------------* INTERNATIONAL NEWS is with thanks to Amateur Radio Daily, ARRL, DX-WORLD, eHam, Hackaday, IARU, IRTS, NEWSLINE, NZART, RAC, Radioworld.com, RSGB, SARL and the World Wide sources of WIA. Several well-known radio amateurs are among recipients of this years honours from the Radio Club of America (RCA), an organization of both professionals and amateurs that has been promoting advancements in wireless communication for more than 100 years. The awards were announced in the Fall 2025 issue of RCA Proceedings. Among the amateurs recognized this year by RCA are: Julio Ripoll, WD4R, long-time amateur radio coordinator at the National Hurricane Centre, recognized for his service at WX4NHC with the Barry Goldwater Amateur Radio Award; and Dr. Kristina Collins, KD8OXT, this years recipient of the Carole Perry (WB2MGP) Young Professional Award. Dr. Kristina is the Chief Operations Scientist for the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station Network. She also voices announcements heard each hour on WWV and WWVH as part of the WWV/H Scientific Modulation Working Group. The US space agency NASA is taking a close look at the serious damage that disabled the largest antenna at its Deep Space Network site in California two months ago. The 230-foot antenna, which tracks near-Earth asteroids and communicates with NASA's interplanetary spacecraft, has been out of service since the 16th of September. The antenna suffered an excessive rotation that strained its cabling and piping and damaged its fire-suppression system, which led to water damage and flooding, according to a report on the Gizmodo website. The damaged antenna, prized for its sensitivity, received its first signal in 1966 from NASAs Mariner 4 mission. In preparation for Voyager 2's mission toward Neptune, NASA upgraded the antenna's width from 210 feet, or 64 meters, to 230 feet, or 70 meters. It communicated as well with Voyager 1 in 2012 following the spacecraft's entry into interstellar space. Meanwhile, NASA relies on two other deep-space communication antennas. They are located in Madrid, Spain and near Canberra, here in Australia. The IARU Region 1 Intruder Watch Service newsletter note that hardly a month goes by without the appearance of new signals, which add to the long list of known emissions and intrusions on our amateur radio bands. The newsletter reports with concern, that our HF amateur radio bands are increasingly being used as a testing environment for new military-related systems and electronic warfare approaches. The free report can be downloaded from the Monitoring System section of the IARU website located on www.iaru-r1.org WEIRD AND WONDERFUL AND DECLASSIFIED. It has been 88 years since Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South Pacific. But until now the records of the search have remained classified. The records consist of photostats and copies of photostats of records relating to plans for the around-the-world flight, including a letter written by Earhart to President Franklin Roosevelt, where she outlines her proposed route and notes she will need to refuel over the Pacific. Earhart was friends with the Roosevelts, in particular Eleanor, the first lady. On one occasion, the pair ducked out of a state dinner to go flyingboth dressed in evening gowns. The purpose of the letter was to ask the president to use his influence to gain the cooperation of the U.S. Navy during her flight. The last authentic transmission for Earhart, according to the report, came at 0855: Heading north and south. In the days that followed, there were reports of ham radio operators on the US West Coast and as far inland as Montana picking up radio transmissions allegedly from the Lockheed Electra. Some were more credible than othersone received by the HMS Achilles 225 miles north-northwest of Howland was reported as Putnam __ fly kite, which was encouraging because part of the safety equipment aboard the Lockheed was a bright orange box kit with a special antenna to boost radio signals. The Lockheed company was sceptical of the reports that stated the airplane was in the water, as although the aircraft was designed to float with empty fuel tanks, provided they were not compromised, the aircrafts normal radio power supply would not work if the airplane was in the water. Read more Flying Magazine bit.ly/4ifDhwF Youve heard of Winter Field Day and youve heard of the traditional ARRL Field Day held in the summer in the northern hemisphere. Jim Meachen ZL2BHF speaking on Newsline takes us to West Bengal, India where amateurs have just completed a season transition field day. "As surely as autumn turns to winter in some parts of the world, radio operators are curious about the impact that seasonal changes are going to have on propagation. A recent extended field operation by a group of 17 hams from the West Bengal Radio Club tracked those changes by getting on the air near the Earths Tropic of Cancer. This was as much an academic exercise as a radio exercise, as two professors from nearby universities collected data over the 30-hour period to be used in their research. Ambarish Nag Biswas, VU2JFA, the clubs secretary, said that Suman Patra from Jhargram University and Ambika Ghosh from the Heritage Group of Institutions in Kolkata are both studying disaster communications at the Indian Academy of Communication and Disaster Management. The pair hope that analysis of the data will show ways to improve the quality of emergency communication at this challenging time of seasonal change. The Tropic of Cancer was chosen because when it is summer in the northern hemisphere, the suns rays are directly overhead. With the approach of winter, the sun is lower in the sky. This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF. (ABOVE IN TEXT EDITION ONLY) SOUTH AFRICA Two members of the SARL Science and Technology Workgroup attended the recent African Telecommunications Union virtual meeting. Brian, ZS6YZ, attended day one, while James, ZS6NS, attended both days. On day one, the input document "Strengthening the Role of Amateur Radio in Africa" was presented by Dr Alfred Bogere from Uganda. The chairman requested that examples of where Amateur Radio has played a key role in emergency communications be incorporated and that the document be updated. James, ZS6NS submitted a summary of eight past instances of Amateur Radio involvement in disasters to Dr Bogere for inclusion in the document. (ABOVE IN TEXT EDITION ONLY) ------------------------------------------------------------------- OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION -------------- -------------- ---------------------- NOVEMBER 29-30 THIS WEEEND The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Starts: Zero hundred hours UTC Saturday. End 2359 UTC Sunday. --------------- Following weekend of December 5 - 7 hears the running of the ARRL 160 meter CW contest. This for Amateurs worldwide to exchange information with W/VE amateurs on 160-meter CW. DX-to-DX QSOs do not count for contest credit. Stations located in overseas and non-contiguous U.S. Territories may be worked by DX stations. This includes Alaska KL7, the Caribbean US possessions KP1-KP5, and all of the Pacific Ocean territories KH0-KH9, including Hawaii KH6. These stations can work BOTH domestic stations (US and VE) as well as DX stations around the world. As with each and every contest you take a part in make sure your logging software is up to date before the contest to be sure it will accept these QSOs. Dates Again: First full weekend in December, i.e. December 5-7, 2025. Contest Period: Begins 2200 UTC Friday, ends 1559 UTC Sunday. This is a forty-two hour period with no time limitation. (arrl) ------- Also December 6-7 is the 2025 KALBAR DX-CONTEST. The Kalbar Contest is held by ORARI West Kalimantan Region. Coinciding with the 39th Anniversary of ORARI West Kalimantan Region in 2025 PURPOSE and OBJECTIVES: Improve skills among ORARI members throughout Indonesia while establishing a spirit of kinship, strengthening brotherhood and upholding the sportsmanship of the Indonesian Radio Amateur Contest. PARTICIPANTS Participants are ORARI members who have a valid Amateur Radio License. Indonesian Radio Amateurs are expected to make as many contacts as possible with stations from within and outside the country ALL BAND 80 40 20 15 10 meter band (No WARC band). MODE & EXCHANGE SSB -> 59 + Serial Number 001 (arrl and DX Contests World Wide FaceBook Group) ------------------ YOTA Contests December The Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club are hosting the inaugural VK YOTA CONTEST, the entire month of December. yota.fgarc.org.au/ Then just 3 days from the end of what we call the VK YOTA CONTEST comes ROUND 3 of the YOTA contest organized by the IARU R1 Youth Working Group in cooperation with the Hungarian Amateur Radio Society. DECEMBER 29. A great way to gain extra contacts for the VK Contest organised by Fishers Ghost AR Club. yotacontest.mrasz.org -------------- -------------- NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2026 -------------- --------------- 1st January 2026 NZART Centenary 100 QSO Challenge You are invited to kick off the NZART Centenary year in style with a fun, on-air event. Can you make 100 contacts in 24 hours? 1101 31 December 2025 UTC, i.e. 0001 NZDT 1st January 2026 to 1059 1 January 2026 UTC, 2359 NZDT 1 January 2026. Object: To celebrate the start of the 2026 NZART Centenary Year by making 100 QSOs with amateur radio stations in 24 hours. All bands including WARC as this is NOT a contest. All modes are permitted. Special categories include Most Portable stations: Most DXCC Entities: The fastest to work 100 QSOs as judged by the time of their hundredth QSO. Most Modes: For the person who uses the most different modes in making their 100 QSOs. Full details on the new NZART site which Bruce will tell us about in a moment, but the link is in the text edition of this weeks WIA NATIONAL NEWS sites.google.com/view/zl-amateur-radio-hsistory?usp=sharing (NZART) ---------------- QSO Party Day Contest organized by Marconi Club is scheduled for Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 its as always in "short contest" format and is now in its 8th edition. The purpose of the event is to introduce the club and CW to the younger generations and bring together all those who truly love and believe in telegraphy. The event will involve all members of the historic club, which has nearly 1000 members from all over the world, and all enthusiasts of the wonderful and magnificent art of CW. Further information may be found at marconiclub.it (IRTS) ---------------- MARCH - Jock White Memorial Field Day This annual contest is named to honour Jock White ZL2GX, NZART Contest and Awards Manager for over 40 years, for the service that he gave to NZART during that time. Feb 28, Saturday, 1500-2400 NZDT and Sunday March one 0600-1500 NZDT. 40 and/or 80 metres, PHONE (SSB) and/or CW, 100 watts PEP maximum. Stations using two transmitters may operate simultaneously on both bands, however only one transmitter may be operated on a single band at a time. Single transmitter stations may operate on one or both bands. (nzart.org.nz) -------------------- MAY:- HARRY ANGEL MEMORIAL SPRINT May 2nd. ----------------------------------------------------------------- NOW LET'S OPEN THE DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD ------------ ------------ FOLLOWING IS CANCELLED Team S 21 SDX from deep inside the Sundarbans organized by Bangladesh Amateur Radio Club Khulna is cancelled. "Due to unexpected circumstances", the team says. "The current conditions no longer allow us to safely and effectively carry out the S21 DXpedition as intended. (425dxn) --------- ----------- Special event station GB 130 WRD is active until today the 30th of November to mark the 130th anniversary of the discovery of X-rays. Recently, the station was spotted using FT8 on the 40m band. QSL directly to M0KZT. See QRZ.com for more information. (rsgb) -------- The 3 Y 0 K team has added a skilled medical and support team for the 2026 Bouvet DXpedition. Six experienced professionals (one of them is HB9FKF) in medicine, security, evacuation, and emergency situations will assist with camp setup, maintenance, safety, and weather monitoring. The team is ramping up preparations to depart from Cape Town in February LA 7 GIA reports. "In two weeks, we plan to make the next payments, totalling 650,000 USD. By then, they will have invested approximately 1,650,000 USD in the Bouvet expedition." ------------- REMINDERS NOVEMBER ------------- 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. (sarl) ---------------- HUNGARIAN AMATEURS CELEBRATE BROADCAST CENTENNIAL WITH HG100 There was a time in Hungary when the simple act of a radio broadcast - or listening to one - was a crime. Now it's a special event, as we hear from Jeremy Boot G4NJH on NewsLine. "The transmission of radio signals of any kind was merely an experimental pursuit in Hungary until late 1925 - and listening to radio over the air, or having privately owned amateur equipment - was forbidden. All of that was to change later that year with the start of the first Hungarian public radio broadcast on 1st December. One hundred years later, amateurs in Hungary are celebrating Hungarian Radio Day, when radio was permitted there. Nine special callsigns - all beginning with "HG100" - are on the air throughout December until 31st, operated by amateurs from the Hungarian Radio Amateur Society and the Honfy Jozsef Radioclub. Contacts have been made since the 15th of November on CW, SSB and the digital modes on 160 to 10 metres. The operators are also making use of the QO-100 satellite. This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH." The Hungarian Radio Amateur Society website has a full list of the nine callsigns and more details about how to receive a commemorative certificate. (newsline2508) ------------- 80th anniversary of the Technical University of Sofia operating special event station LZ 80 TUS. On the air now through December 24th. (ard) --------------------- CROATIA 9 A 169 TESLA This is a special callsign that will be used until 31 December in celebration of the 169th anniversary since the birth of Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856). QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW, Club Log, and QRZ Logbook. (425dex) ----------------- Listen for Red, operating as TY 5 FR from Cotonou, Benin now through to the 11th of December. Red will be using CW and SSB on 80-10 metres and will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest Red's home call is DL 1 BUG. (newsline 2507) -------------- ZL 100 C is the callsign celebrating the centenary of NZART the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters which was formed on 16 August 1926. The callsign is valid until 6 August 2026. QSL via the bureau and LoTW. (425dxnews) -------------------- To mark the 60th anniversary since the first French satellite, named Asterix, was launched into orbit, on 26 November 1965, members of the Wingles Radio Club (F 4 KLR) will be active as TM 60 ATX on Fridays and Saturdays between 14 November and 13 December and again on 19-23 December. All SSB and CW QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau; FT8 QSOs will be confirmed via eQSL. (425dxnes) -------------- South Africa. The special event stations ZS 100 SARL, ZS 6 SRL and ZS 9 HQ celebrate the 100th anniversary of the South African Radio League, the S.A.R.L. until the end of 2025, so not much longer to work them if you need them in your log. (sarl) --------------- Celebrating the 70th anniversary of their organization, members of the International Police Association's Swiss branch will be active as HB 70 IPA between 1 November and 31 December. Activity will be on various HF bands and the QO-100 satellite. QSL via LoTW and eQSL, (425dxn) --------- 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) ------------ Special callsign LA 100 A is active to end of year to mark the 100th anniversary of the first amateur radio two-way contact between Norway and the USA in November 1925. QSL directly to LA100A, via the Bureau, or QRZ.com (RSGB) ------------------------------------------------------------* WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ASTRONOMY (and Wireless Weather) Ever wondered what MUF, TEC or what sporadic-es are when you look at the space weather prediction charts? In February the REAST presentation night is for you. They have Mr. Roger Harrison, VK2ZRH to guide both live visitors and those connected via the REAST you tube channel, through real science and practical techniques behind understanding radio propagation and space weather. With decades of experience, including his time at the IPS, ( Ionospheric Prediction Service ), Roger brings significant expertise in 'this space' (pardon intended!). This presentation will unpack the tools and data sources we amateurs rely on every day: MUF maps, ionosonde charts, solar indices, TEC plots, WSPR datasets, and much more. Whether you're chasing DX, planning portable operations, experimenting with digital modes or trying to understand why your favourite band just vanished, this session will give you the skills to read the sky like a pro. This session will be in person and streamed from 7:30pm in Queens Domain clubrooms. tinyurl.com/ysver2th (vk7winews) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - BALLOONS PICO BALLOON NEWS The high-altitude Pico balloon ZS1ERZ-12 completed its eighth circumnavigation of our planet on Monday 17 November. As of Friday 21 November 2025, it has been 96 days since the launch and the balloon has travelled over 272 000 km. During this lap, it spent a few days near the Antarctica station DP0GVN. From there, it headed north to the Indian Ocean. However, when last heard, it was again travelling south-east towards Antarctica. (SARL) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - DIGITAL. It's being heralded as a milestone in the long-overdue evolution of speech quality for land-mobile radio systems - the use of an adaptive neural network that replaces traditional signal processing. This digital voice milestone was announced at the recent acoustics and speech conference in California when the Free DV Project's David Rowe VK5DGR co-presented a paper describing a neural network that replaces traditional signal processing with machine learning. In a recent post on the FreeDV website, David called the development: "the first known real-world deployment of a neural codec an important milestone that the Ham community can be proud of." He and programmer Jean-Marc Valin presented the details to attendees at the IEEE Signal Processing Society conference where David said it was well-received. Instead of using the fixed algorithms of traditional digital voice, the FreeDV Radio Encoder, known as RADE V1, employs fully adaptive machine learning, producing a higher-quality result, developed using open source software. Writing as a guest contributor to the Amateur Radio Digital Communications website in October, David noted that the technology "provides unprecedented speech quality and robustness for VHF/UHF land mobile radio applications." (newsline2508) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA iota-world.org/ --------------- Holger, ZL3IO is active again as ZL7IO from Chatham Islands OC-038 Now until the 4th of December, including an entry in this weekends CQ WW DX CW Contest. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or via DK7AO. (425dxnews) Lasse, DL9LU is the IT engineer and radio operator of the new over-wintering team at Neumayer III Station, Antarctica (AN-016). He arrived on 18 November, and will remain there until shortly before Christmas 2026 (YES XMAS 2006). He will be active as DP 0 GVN; QSL for contacts via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via DL4BBH. (425DXNEWS) ---------------- OC REMINDERS ------------ ---------- OC-031 - C21TS - NAURU Phill, C 21 TS is active on the island of Nauru, OC-031, until today the 30th of November. The station is spotted regularly using FT8 on the HF bands. QSL via Logbook of the World or OQRS. See QRZ.com for more information. (rsgb) ---------------- OC-035 Vanuatu.- Active YJ 0 GC from Efate Vanuatu is Stan, LZ1GC from 22 November to 5 December on CW, SSB and FT8/FT4 using 160-10 metres with two working stations on different bands and modes (one on digital modes and another one on CW/SSB). QSL YJ0GC via Club Log's OQRS (preferred) or via Stans home callLZ1GC. c21gc.com --------- OC-047 - H44MS - Malaita Island in the Solomons. Bernard, H44MS will be active from Manakwai village, nearby Maluu (northern Malaita island) covering the period next year from January 25 to April 10. (dx-world) ------------- OC-66 - TX9XG - Rangiroa Atoll. Haru, JA1XGI has announced that he will be active from Rangiroa Atoll, French Polynesia (OC-066) as TX9XG during April 1-8, 2026. He plans to QRV on 40-10m; CW, SSB, RTTY & FT8 using the new IC-7300 MK2. QSL TX9XG via Haru's home call, JA1XGI using OQRS Club Log. (dx-world) ---------------- WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - MILITARY Recordings of military transmissions can be found on the Signal Identification Guide Wiki at sigidwiki.com/wiki/Category:Military youtube.com/@militaryhfradio244 open.spotify.com/playlist/28SXuX8vL2wHbnfCS0uBVF?si=d9ee366a38a4472e The Hunt Valley, Maryland, Amateur Radio Club of the National Electronics Museum will commemorate 2025 Pearl Harbor Day and the role of electronics in World War 2 December 1 - 11 1300Z - 2200Z. Primary operation will be December 1 - 7 with additional operation possible December 8 - 11 as operator availability permits. Special event station W2W will operate on 14.241, 14.041, 7.241, and 7.041 MHz. Operation on 80 meters, 3.541 and 3.841 MHz, and digital modes is possible during the event. Certificate available via a SASE. (arrl) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS - YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) WIA committee:- Steve VK6SJ, Alec VK2MV and Pete VK2LP. ham-yota.com/category/yota-region-3/ facebook.com/groups/YOTAOC/ youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA December 2025 YOTA Month Yes it's our BIG month! YOTA Month is when many of we youngsters from Member Societies will become active on the air with YOTA as suffix in the call signs. From 00:00 UTC on Monday 1 December to 23:59 UTC on Wednesday 31 December international YOTA stations, operated by young amateurs up to early 20s, will attempt to make many contacts worldwide with each other. This event is aimed at our young generation and is an excellent opportunity for clubs to get youngsters on the air who are interested in or want to find out more about Amateur Radio. BUT it is not a formal contest, but a way to get our current young hams on the air contacting hundreds of other youngsters around the world. Over in South Africa, their SARL has registered the special call sign ZS 9 YOTA on the YOTA website for use by Clubs and individuals during the month of December. All radio amateurs are welcome to enjoy a QSO with the youngsters. Please note that many of us are new to the radio hobby, while others are more experienced. (sarl) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS qcwa.org raotc.org.au Hello everyone, this is Peter VK7PD reminding you that tomorrow is the first Monday of the month, time for the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia's December bulletin to go to air. This month as well as the latest Club news: * First up, is an article by Bill, VK3BR, and a discussion on the AVO Moving coil multi meter. * This will be followed by an article, read by Clive VK6CSW, who will tell us about World's 1st telegraph network. * In addition, there will be details on the upcoming final Perth RAOTC luncheon for 2025. * A reminder that there is no RAOTC Broadcast in January; the first broadcast for 2026 will be on February 2. Everyone, RAOTC members and non-Members alike, is most welcome to listen to the program and join in the call backs afterwards. Full details of all transmissions times and modes can be found on the RAOTC website at www.raotc.org.au or just Google RAOTC broadcasts. If none of the transmission times suit you, you can download the audio file at any time from today from the clubs website. Once again, tune in tomorrow for the December RAOTC bulletin, enjoy the program and please join in the call backs afterwards. 73 from Peter VK7PD. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - RADIO SCOUTING VK7's Scouting Clark Trophy 2025 The 2025 Sir Ernest Clark Trophy once again proved just how crucial amateur radio is when young people head bush for 24 hours of Scouting challenge. This long-running event, now more than 90 years old, brought together seven self-managing Scout Patrols and around 60 Scouts and Leaders at Rockton, west of Oatlands. With camping, navigation, construction, hygiene, first-aid and much more on the program, the Clark Trophy depends on reliable communications to run safely, efficiently and with the kind of calm oversight only radio can deliver. This years site, offered the perfect terrain for a radio-heavy event. A high central hill provided an excellent vantage point for the amateur radio headquarters, allowing operators to monitor handheld UHFCB patrol radios across the entire property. Scouts used those radios to move from activity point to activity point, reporting their progress, locations and camp coordinates using GPS, maps and basic radio procedure trained for ahead of time. Amateur operators maintained a three-channel system: two UHFCB channels for activity and patrol traffic, and a dedicated 2-metre amateur frequency linking headquarters with base. Both HQ and base ran 24-hour coverage, logging every transmission, providing location checks, and standing ready for emergency calls that, thankfully, never came. Throughout the night and day, leaders frequently checked on patrol positions, and radio operators were able to provide accurate SitReps and campsite details to keep scoring and inspections moving smoothly. Oh and for the record, the Lindisfarne Scout Group claimed the 2025 Clark Trophy and Flag, and every participant walked away with a badge, including the radio operators who helped keep the whole adventure safe, connected and running without a hitch. (vk7winews) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO USA SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 Cancelled NOAAs National Weather Service has announced the cancellation of SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025. The necessary time and resources required to plan a comprehensive national event for SKYWARN Recognition Day 2025 are not available this year. Thus, the difficult decision was made to cancel this year's event by the NWS. However the National Weather Service will work with ARRL and SKYWARN spotters to brainstorm ideas to redevelop a spotter appreciation event next year. ARRL, which has a Memorandum of Understanding with NWS, ha emphasized the strength of the long-standing partnership behind the event. (arrl) FOLLOWING ITEMS TEXT ONLY EDITIONS WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary(at)amsat-vk.org On November 21, 2013 FUNcube-1 (AO-73) was launched from Russia into a 600 km, 97.8 inclination sun-synchronous orbit. AMSAT has just reported that AO-73, also known as FUNcube-1, has reached its 12th birthday. The satellite is a 1U CubeSat featuring an SDR receiver, transponder, and telemetry system all of which continue to function for amateur operators today. 145.935 MHz BPSK Telemetry 435.150 435.130 MHz Uplink 145.950 145.970 MHz Downlink As of writing, ground stations from around the world have collected 11,631,536 frames of telemetry throughout the satellites life. (ard / amsat) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - INTERNET - THE HAMS DOMAIN. In case you didnt hear on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle the organization and its facilities grew through the late nineties; in 2001 access to their archive was greatly improved by the introduction of the Wayback Machine. From their own website on Oct 21 2009 they explained their mission and purpose: Most societies place importance on preserving artefacts of their culture and heritage. Without such artefacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artefacts in digital form. The Archives mission is to help preserve those artefacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars. (twiar) ------------------------------------------------------------* IT'S A DATE Clubs are welcome to email text with audio for this section, nationalnews(at)wia.org.au Details of all WIA affiliated clubs and societies can be found on the WIA website, including email addresses and website links. ---------------------------- 2025 VK DECEMBER ONE at 7.30pm AEDT ie Monday night on Hayden VK7HHs YouTube channel Grant VK5GR will do a live stream walkthrough and Q&A of the WIA TAC band plan consultation, looking at each of the different aspects of the proposals and breaking them down into why WIA are proposing various changes. (vk5gr) VK8 - Darwin Amateur Radio Club Xmas Party 6:30pm Dec 3 (wiacal) VK - Dec 7 WIA Affiliated Clubs briefing webinar (wiacal) --------------------- SOCIAL SCENE 2026 ------------------ VK3 - Ballarat Amateur Radio Group Hamvention Sunday Feb 1 (wiacal) VK6 - PARGFEST Mandurah Bowling Club February 7 9am (vk6pbs) VK4 - Redfest - Deception Bay North State School 9am April 11. (vk4ble) VK - WIA AGM May 2 at 2pm Albury VK2 (wiacal) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------* (Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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