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VK National News 20Jul25
Weekly news from the WIA:
MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2025-07-20.mp3
Text edition:
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2025 JULY 20 WIA NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA
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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
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NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING JULY 20 2025
IN OUR 30th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS
THIS WEEK:-
Paul VK5PAS VKFF National Co-Ordinator. -
Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. -
WIA Director Lee Moyle VK3GK. -
Michelle VK2AYL President Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association. -
Picton Show Society are holding the PICTON HAMFEST and VK2TS TONY will
have details.
BUT WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.
I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB
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MOST weeks here at WIA NATIONAL NEWS we conclude with what we call the social scene, where we give details of ham club activities open to all
hams and the general public.
We ask clubs to email text with audio for that section,
nationalnews(at)wia.org.au
We have a lot of activity happening right around VK NOW TILL sANTA ROLLS IN SO THIS WEEK LETS START OUR NATIONAL NEWS with
THE SOCIAL SCENE.
THEN it's WIA Director Lee Moyle..
2025
VK - Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association 50th anniversary
Glen Waverly July 26 president(at)alara.org (vk2ayl)
This is Michelle VK2AYL for the Australian Ladies Amateur Radio
Association, ALARA.
On Saturday the 26th of July ALARA will be celebrating their 50th
Anniversary. ALARA members from across the country will be travelling
to Melbourne to enjoy a birthday lunch function and trips to local
attractions including the Phillip Island Penguin Parade and the
Puffing Billy train.
For those not able to attend the event in person, there will be an
opportunity to tune into the EchoLink ALARA conference station at
0000UTC on Saturday 26 July 2025 for the 50th Birthday net.
Please join in and say hello.
VK4 - Redcliffe Club CarBoot Sale Sat 30 August at club house (vk4tfn)
VK4 - SunFest at Beerwah Community Hall 25 Peachester Rd 9.30 Sept 13
(wiacal)
VK - Sep 14 4-5pm AEST WIA Affiliated Clubs briefing webinar (wiacal)
VK2 - Westlakes Field Day 8am October 26 on club grounds. (vk2wi)
VK5 - AREG's Amateur Radio & Electronics Sale Sunday 26th October
at David Roche Park, Kilburn (VK5QI)
VK - VKFF National Get Together October 24-27 Canberra. (vk5pas)
VK4 - GOLD COAST AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY 2025 HAMFEST NOV 9
Country Paradise Parklands 231 Beaudesert Nerang Road. (vk4dmh)
VK7 - Miena HamFest Saturday November 15 10am (vk7news)
VK3 - Rosebud RadioFest, Eastbourne Primary School, Rosebud (wiacal)
November Sixteen.
VK2 - PICTON HAMFEST November 23 Picton Show Ground 8AM (vk2xqx)
The Picton Show Society would like to inform amateur radio operators and
radio enthusiasts of THE PICTON HAMFEST. This event will take place at the Picton Show Ground 151 Menangle St. Picton on the 23rd of
November 2025.
Now, the important stuff....
Car boot sellers and traders are required to book and pay for their sites
prior to the event. $30.00 each for 6m x 6m outdoor sites. Bring your own shelter, tables etc.
Traders will have a limited number of indoor sites which are $40.00 each for 4m x 4m sites. tables are supplied and a power outlet is available.
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
tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y
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 rebroadcast stations.
The Common License is published on the WIA web site and details some important aspects which need to be followed by re-broadcast stations.
The Common License states that :-
The content of the broadcast is copyright to the 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 copyright provisions and the requirement to follow the common license will be included at the beginning of the broadcast.
A number of WIA members and Directors will be attending Tokyo Hamfair next month in mid August. I am sure the VK3s will notice the heat. Some VKs already have their Japanese reciprocal licences issued. The two day event attracts visitors from around the world and attendee numbers are usually around 35,000. It give us opportunity to meet and discuss important issues facing Amateur Radio in Region 3 as well as seeing new product releases from many radio manufacturers and catching up with many ham friends.
For now, 73 from Lee VK3GK.
Hello all, on this, the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.
This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH coming to you from what is now known as Southport on the Queensland Gold Coast.
You guessed it! Thats right, last Wednesday Issue No.4 of Amateur Radio magazine whizzed off the press in Bairnsdale, on the Mitchell River, in Victorias East Gippsland, Gateway to the Gippsland Lakes. A scenic part of VK3.
The theme for this issue is Antennas and Earths, subjects of keen interest to all amateurs, Im sure. Well, except for those hams on the International Space Station, I guess. I wonder where they earth their rigs up there? Ill have to ask.
Our articles on the topic of antennas include a review of a commercial 28 MHz vertical featured on the cover also, the saga of designing and building an inner suburban 9-band long-wire beam antenna by Doc Wescombe-Down VK5BUG plus Emeritus Professor Peter Hall VK6HP details a remotely-operated dual-band 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 earth resistance. You could, too.
There will be many listeners no doubt who are enthusiastic owners of the locally built TET beams and newer TET-Emtron models. Well, Mark Rawlings VK6MOA, who is well-experienced with TETs, offers a trove of tips to restore or refurbish those trusty TETs.
While antenna and feedline installations appear deceptively simple, achieving the intended
performance for an antenna system or troubleshooting problems can often be the opposite of simple.
Knowing just the value of the SWR is always one parameter to consider perhaps the first. But, you need to know more if theres a problem.
So, I took the opportunity to review an antenna analyser the MATCH from RigExpert, the Ukrainian-based developer and manufacturer of antenna analysers, transceiver interfaces, and amateur radio software sold all over the globe.
In learning how to use it, it taught me a lot. Smart people those four hams who launched RigExpert.
Thats it for now, folks. I plan having more for you next week.
Dont forget, theres always much-much, much more in every edition of Amateur Radio magazine.
More guts. Less gab. Serving hams across Australia since 1933. Proudly produced and printed in Australia.
Im Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.
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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.
A 28-YEAR-OLD woman who went missing from her home in Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur district nearly eight years ago has been traced in Bangladesh and connected with her family thanks to efforts made by some amateur radio operators from both sides of the border despite the frosty ties between the two countries in recent months.
It was on July 9, when an amateur radio operator, Muhammed Abdul Gani Fitu, saw a woman in ragged clothes at the Golabari railway station in Chapainawabganj district, Bangladesh.
He rescued her with the help of some local residents and gave her food. Later, the girl was able to give him the names of her parents and her home address in India.
I was surprised that she is from India. She seems to have intellectual disabilities and could not tell me how she ended up in Bangladesh. She was unwell and we gave primary treatment to her. She said her name is Sarma Khatun (28) and we found that the village she mentioned is in India. I contacted some amatuer radio operators I know in India, Gani told The Indian Express over phone from Bangladesh.
HAMSHACK HOTLINE TO BE DISCONTINUED.
Say goodbye to Hamshack Hotline, the free VOIP telecomm service. The service announced it would be discontinued, effective the 29th of August. The project began in 2018 and grew to be a global communications network with a peak establishment of 7,000 interconnections across numerous servers. Hamshack Hotline's board of directors said it will donate whatever cash reserves it may have to a charity that supports military veterans.
CANADA WE HAVE A QUESTION
A new Question Bank will be used for all Basic Amateur Radio Certificate
examinations starting last Tuesday July 15, 2025.
Candidates, instructors and authors of Amateur Radio Study Guides may
want to study the new Question Bank which is available for download from
the ISED website.
rac.ca/esc_cne
Radio Amateurs of Canada has had a committee of 20 instructors and
Accredited Examiners (AEs) working to update and improve the quality of
the 984 questions, 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.
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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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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.
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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.
(ard)
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 operate SSB and CW. QSL via M0OXO's OQRS.
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OC-013
Steve, ZL2KE will again be active from Rarotonga as E 51 KEE during
August, 3-18 to be exact. He was previously active 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 Island (OC-065),
Temotu Province on 8-27 August. This will be a 6m EME DXpedition,
using Q65-60A in the "Q65 Pileup" mode.
"When I am not aimed up at the moon, I will be monitoring 50.313 on FT8
mode", Lance says. "Please take the initiative to call my direction
when you think there may be ionospheric propagation. If propagation
is good and there are many callers, I may switch to FT4 or FT8 F/H on a
frequency to be announced". QSL via LoTW, or direct to W7GJ.
(425DX plus facebook.com/lance.collister/)
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OC-054
The DX Obsessed Group will be active as FW5K from Wallis Island
(OC-054) from 20 October to 7 November, including a Multi-2 entry in the
CQ WW DX SSB Contest. Six operators will be QRV on 160-6 metres CW SSB
FT8 and RTTY. QSL via Club Log's OQRS; QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW
6 months after the end of the DXpedition.
(425 DX and dxobsessed.org/home)
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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
From calls home during the Vietnam War, to pilots flying over the Pacific
today, MARS has been connecting Americas military for 100 years.
Since its beginning in 1925, the core mission of the Military Auxiliary
Radio System has remained the same:
keep our military connected, no matter what.
"The mission of MARS is to provide contingency backup communications.
If SATCOM radios go out, then pilots can jump on the high-frequency
radio," explained Dave Antry, Air Force MARS chief. "Most of our aircraft
have high-frequency radios in them. Pilots can call into one of our MARS
radio operators, and request to make a phone call," said Dave.
The system supports a range of mission communications for aircraft,
including updating bases on arrival times, troubleshooting aircraft
issues with maintenance crews, helping with medical evacuation,
or even morale calls to mum and dad.
(eHam)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO
WICEN NEW SOUTH WALES
The next WICEN online members forum, will be at 7:30pm, on Tuesday next,
i.e. the 22nd of July. This is where members can raise any issues that
are concerning them.
Central Coast WICEN have several events coming up in August
they are the Kirrawak Endurance Ride on the 2nd and 3rd; and the
Shazada, which runs from the 25th to the 29th. If you are interested in
assisting with these events, please contact Col VK2ZCO.
col.hodgson@bigpond.com.
The 2025 WICEN NSW AGM is Scheduled for 2pm on Saturday the 9th of
August, at the ARNSW site, Quarry Road, Dural.
One of WICENs flagship events is the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic.
This year, it is on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of November.
WICEN NSW provides the safety communications and requires many members
to provide coverage of the course.
And remember, WICEN NSW is a communications support squad of VRA Rescue
NSW. For more information about WICEN please visit the website,
nsw.wicen.org.au
(vk2wi)
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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.
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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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