This is WIANEWS for week commencing JUNE 24 2007

This is an appeal again to all WIA members for assistance with the WIA QSL
Collection. Members will already know that this collection of nearly
one million QSLs is one of the finest QSL Collections in the world,
containing thousands of modern QSLs and very valuable archival QSLs
dating back to 1921. It would be a tragedy indeed if this collection were
to fall in a heap.

Listeners who heard last weeks VK1WIA news expressed sorrow at hearing
Honorary Curator of this Collection, Ken VK3TL has recently undergone
surgery for a cancerous tumour of the brain. He still maintains the
Collection, which gives him a great deal of pleasure. However he has been
forced to work on the Collection at rather short intervals and cannot give
his full-time attention to it.

For this reason we are appealing for help from WIA members, especially
those in the Melbourne area. No knowledge of DX is necessary for the
sorting of QSLs, the placing of QSLs in albums and similar tasks.

Would you care to lend a hand for an hour or two?

Contact Ken on 9728 5350.




WALKS

In this weeks audio edition we hope to make contact and hear from Jeff
VK4XJJ who is still going strong on his walk across Australia, around
Birdsville and still 60 days plus to walk and talk on 40 meters.


He still wants to hear from YOU, and it is these calls in particular
that keep him going! Every Day, from 5:30pm Eastern on 40 meters, 7045 put
out a call to VK4XJJ

www.jeffswalk.com




AMATEUR RADIO - HOME OF THE GOOD GUYS

The Potomac Valley Radio Club in Americas mid-Atlantic has shown that it
takes ethics very seriously, by winning a major contest and then
voluntarily forfeiting the victory because it was outside the rules.

Club President Jim Nitzberg WX3B examined the result closely to find that
the club's score included measurable activity of members who were outside
the required 175 mile radius stipulated in the ARRL Sweepstakes contest
rules.

The Potomac Valley Radio Club began 60 years ago and requires members to
participate in at least two of ten specified contests a year to maintain
their membership.

And in a true demonstration of the motto the buck stops here, Club
President Jim WX3B accepted full responsibility for the inadvertent rules
breach, and extended congratulations to the new winner of the 2006
contest.
(VK3PC, ARRL & various)




BPL INTERFERENCE - THE BATTLE CONTINUES

A simple test conducted by a ham radio operator in Manassas, Virginia, USA
has provided proof positive that even flea-power Q-R-P ham radio operations
can shut down Broadband Over Powerline Internet access operation.

Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Carlson, KQ6FM, reports:


The revelation comes on the website of George Tarnovsky, K4GVT. On it,
Tarnovsky shows the results of tests made using only 40 watts and QRP
at 2 watts on the 80 through 10 meter bands.

The gear used in his test was an Icom 706 transceiver, with Outbacker
Perth antenna on his car parked curb side. The vehicle was
approximately 70 feet from his house, and more than 100 feet from the
BPL power pole interface. Inside the home a laptop with BPL interface
repeatedly downloading a 40 Megabyte file.


Tarnovsky: "Well, what we found is that when we were within reasonably
close proximity -- I would say within 100 feet or so of any of the BPL
installations -- when we transmitted on E-CARS on 7.225 that we
actually had an affect on them. The way ewe knew that we had an affect
was that as soon as you released the microphone (PTT), rather than
hearing the typical BPL noise, you knew the system was backed up with
data and consequently became very aggressive and just blanked (the
band). If you looked at a spectrum display of it -- it just covered
the entire spectrum. Its almost as though all the stops were off. In
other words the band stops were off. Just rip and get the data out and
that's exactly what it did."


What K4GVT found was that on all bands the connection suffered at least
a major slowdown when he transmitted at the 40 watt level. On 80
through 15 meters the 40 watts caused the download to stop altogether
and requiring it to be restarted. But the biggest surprise was on 40
meters where 2 watts of R-F rendered the BPL connection numb. He says
that the 2 watts at 7 MHz caused the BPL data transfer to stop.


Tarnovsky: " With the original G1 installation, 2 watts would have an
affect on it. Since then they have made some changes in their firmware
to the G1. The G2 has agile notching so they can go in and they can
notch it (the spectrum), but being agile they can also remove them and
that's the problem that we are facing here."


Tarnovsky notes that regardless of what carriers a BPL provider might
notch out of a system, the system operator cannot filter its input. As
such, R-F ingress to the BPL system is wide open, and susceptible to
all near field RF from 2 to 29 MHz. Even one that only 2 watts and
more than 100 feet away.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Carlson, KQ6FM, in Reno.


More on the BPL ingress experiment by K4GVT including a band by band
results chart is on his website. Its in cyberspace at
www.k4gvt.com/bpl/bplweakness.html
(ARNewslineT, QRZ.com)




AROUND VK in 80 Seconds.
(vk5nz)

VK1

Next Meeting - Tomorrow, Monday 25th June, a "Radio Check" night.

There will be a number of Radio Test Sets available, along with people who
know how to use them. Club will check your Transmit Power, Frequency,
Modulation, RX sensitivity, etc, to see if they are within "spec" for your
UHF & VHF radio's, plus low power AM sets as well.

They will also have access to the Antenna Analysers so you can check
your mobile antennas tuning.

And the CRARC is busy as usual on the WICEN scene, with their next WICEN
event the L.CCC. BRM Silverstone Safari rally on Saturday 7th July .



VK2

Westlakes Amateur Radio members and visitors to the club Michael Owen VK3KI
WIA President will be attending your club on Saturday the 30th of June.

Although our notification advises "be at the club by 1am on the day", even
poor old VK3KI has to sleep sometime, so we'll tell you it's 1PM June 30.




VK3


Over the last few months some of members of Melbournes Eastern and Mountain
District Radio Club have undertaken proactive approach to their health by
joining the local weight loss club.

One member John VK3ARK simply refused to join and said the only way HE
would become a member of the weight loss club was if his wife Jean got her
Amateur Radio ticket, so guess what ... his wife Jean now VK3FJYL sits in
the warm shack with the Alarm group whilst her OM John is down at the
weight loss club!

A competition broke out amongst those involved with a prize offered for he
who can loose the most weight. To accelerate the weight loss process it was
suggested some decent walks may be of benefit, so last Saturday morning
morning half a dozen EMDRC members undertook a 8 kilometre round trip walk
with a tea and coffee break at the Strictly Ham Amateur Radio shop along
the way. Who turns out to be the biggest looser still remains to be seen,
but one things for sure it won't be Ross from Strictly Ham who sold quite a
bit of gear that morning.




VK4
Problems for 2 meter simplex operators in the Wide Bay area with at least
one echo link station operating outside of our gentlemans agreement band
plans, heard on 146.5 the VK national calling frequency. If you see this
station on Echlin you might wish to pop up and advise him of the
"error of his ways".




VK7

Optical Extravaganza Night

REAST have held a great night of optical history, optical show and tell
and practical calibration.

In fact, the clubrooms were so full of optical transceivers and test
equipment with four transceivers, five separate transmitters, one dedicated
receiver and six pieces of optical test equipment with calibrated
transmitters and receivers that there was hardly any room for the people
attending...HIHI.

Mike VK7MJ their optical guru initially took REAST through a brief history
of optical communications which started back with Alexander Graham Bell
who patented the Photo-phone back in 1880s, THEN through the various
developments prior to the development of electronics as we know it, through
the use of different types of lamps from incandescent, arc, vapour and
into lasers and ending in LEDs and finally the recent development of the
Luxeon.


All in all a fantastic hands on night.

There are some great photos of the night available on the REAST Website.

http://reast.asn.au/events.php#opticalcalibration




EDUCATION YOUTH AND ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR RADIO
PRESENTED BY KYLEA VK6FXYL

A NEW AMATEUR RADIO club FORMS, AT Roxby Downs.


Several months ago there were no radio amateurs in Roxby Downs a remote
mining town in northern South Australia

Michael Wright (now a scout leader) decided to do his Foundation Licence by
remote assessment and training. Shortly after that Michael when on to do
his Standard licence using R&ES self training resources.

Michael is now VK5MCW.

Michael also arranged a arrange a talk to a group of scouts and leaders
to be given remotely by Ron VK2DQ.

The hook up lasted about an hour with communications be done by Radio,
EchoLink and Video displayed by VOIP.

Multimedia materials were used and a remote Q&A session conducted remotely.

Since then as in excess of 10 Scouts and leaders have decided to do their
Foundation Licence and the Roxby Amateur Radio Club is growing.

Michael is now studying for his Advanced Licence and hopes to be successful
and then become a WIA assessor




Amateur Radio NewsLine are reporting how Rescue Radio meets Education.

This a very positive story with word that 47 eighth grade students in
California are now prepared to serve their community in time of crisis using
Amateur Radio.

Representatives of the City of Calabasas, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department, the American Radio Relay League and other
agencies were on hand recently to congratulate 47 eighth-graders at
A.C. Stelle Middle School. This, after they completed a class that
lead to their getting the Amateur Radio licenses as a part of the
American Radio Relay League's educational incentive known better as
The Big Project.

Meantime, emergency services groups are supporting this project with
hopes that it will provide a source of communications volunteers.

Sheriff's Department Reserve Captain, Tom Fakehany, N6FDR, says that
these students are likely the next generation of emergency volunteers
who will provide communications when all else fails. County Disaster
Communications Service member Norm Goodkin, K6YXH, says that the plan
is to help organize these new hams into a youth group. One with the
ability to provide emergency communications services to the school and
to the community in the City of Calabasas.

Next semester, the 47 students plan to start an amateur radio club at
Calabasas High School, along with the 17 new hams already there from
last year's project. According to Beutel, his school nearly tripled
the number of students who earned their licenses from the program's
inception last year.




FUTURE EXAMS

To find out when a club in YOUR area is hosting assessments and/or
training in Amateur Radio go to wia.org.au and check out the club pages.


Participating clubs keep this site up to date and post the latest
information for all to see.

Next Foundation Licence course, and Standard / Advanced assessments .....


NEW SOUTH WALES

ARNSW regularly holds Foundation Licence Assessments on the last weekend of
each EVEN numbered month. The next Assessment will be 30th June & 1st of
July.



WEST AUSTRALIA
Foundation course:-
Assessment on the 28th of July.
VK6 Exams for Standard and Advanced are on June 30th.
Contact Neil VK6BDO.




MEDIA WATCH

Peter Berrett VK3PB is a member of the Eastern & Mountain District Radio
Club, a member of the Wireless Institute of Australia and is a keen ATV
enthusiast famous for his electronic Fish Bowl on Melbournes VK3RTV
repeater.

This month Peter joins the team at Amateur Logic TV as their Australian
news presenter and Australian news reporter.

Amateur Logic TV is a Television program made by Radio Amateurs for Radio
Amateurs. It is an IPTV program which in simple terms means you download it
from the internet and watch it on your PC.

You can download Amateur Logic edition 13 from the following web address.
www.amateurlogic.com/downloads.htm

In this latest edition of the show, two of the team members Tommy and Jim
visit the Dayton Hamvention, the worlds largest amateur radio gathering and
brings back some great coverage of the event, including an interview with
the infamous Tom, WA5KUB and his live helmet cam.

Peter Berrett brings to the show some Aussie content with footage of the
Moorabbin and District Radio Club Hamfest held recently in Melbourne. The
show also contains many practical do it yourself type tips with the current
episode showing you how to building your own Homebrew Crimpers for RG213
and LMR400 cable...

All in all its 50 minutes of solid Amateur Radio televisionVisit the
website today http://www.amateurlogic.com/downloads.htm




INTERNATIONAL NEWS

NEW ZEALAND - NZART

Highlights from their AGM included the event being opened
by the Honourable Steve Maharey local MP for the Manawatu,
and also Minister of Education, Minister of Broadcasting,
Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Minister for Crown Research
Institutes and Minister responsible for the Education Review Office.



Concerns were expressed by the Evan Sayer NZART Treasurer, of the
falling numbers in membership, with a critical membership number of
1800 mention. If membership drops below this number then Break-In
and NZART Headquarters is seriously at risk.
He urged members to try to get non-members signed up to NZART to
ensure these two valuable asserts are retained.

Mike Newman ZL1BNB was awarded the title Amateur of the Year.
Award was presented by the President of NZART Bruce Douglas Zl2WP,
as recognition of his work as Local Government Liaison Officer.




OPERATIONAL NEWS - READ BY ROBERT VK5MM
CONTEST COLUMN - D A T E L I N E


VK/TRANSTASMAN CONTEST
160M Phone 7 July 2007
160M CW 21 July 2007




NZART MEMORIAL CONTEST 80M SSB AND CW.
7 & 8 July 2007.

Times :- 2000 NZST 2300 NZST, divided into 3 operating periods each
evening.

Band :- 80M SSB and CW.

Contest Rules NZART Website. http://www.nzart.org.nz
(John Powell. ZL1BHQ, NZART Contest Manager)



14th of July the Jack Files Contest.
0800 UTC 1400 UTC
80 metres only.
Use 3.5MHZ 3.7MHz
CW; SSB; or All Modes




JULY 14-15
The annual IARU HF World Championship is held on the second full weekend of
July. This year it will be held during the 24-hour period from 1200 UTC
Saturday, 14 July to 1200 UTC Sunday, 15 July.
Rules are at www.iaru.org/contest.html

Because this is unusually late in the month for the event to occur, there
has been some confusion about the dates. The CORRECT dates are 14-15 July.
Any references to 7-8July are INCORRECT.
(David Sumner, K1ZZ Secretary, IARU)




Boat Anchor Sprints:
August (11), October (13).
Local ZL time: 2000 to 2100 hrs

Section 1: Old radios - all valves - i.e. ZC1, 19 set, Heathkits, any
home brew set, but must have all valves.

Section 2: Any Hybrid transceiver (must have valve finals i.e. FT200,
FTDX400/401, Drake, FT 101s, etc..

Amplitude Modulated signals only.

The overall winner shall be the entrant having the highest points score
which will be published in the following New Zealand "Break-in".
(Jamie Pye ZL2NN, Editor NZART's InfoLine)




AUGUST 11/12 Remembrance Day Contest (The RD) wia.org.au

Counting down to the 11th Aug and it is now only 48 days to the 2007 RD
contest.

We suggest that you take the time between now and the contest, to check
that your gear is up to the marathon contest, apart from the Radio
equipment check the caffeine machine, or plenty of match sticks for the
eyes.

On the WIA Website the rules are available along with associated documents.

Another reminder for those using computer logging programs PLEASE check
that you have the current version, your final score will depend on it.

For those using hand written logs I suggest that you look at the logging
forms on the WIA website in the Rd section.




7th World HST Championship will be held in Belgrade Serbia September
19-23rd.
www.hst2007.org



NOVEMBER 17/18
Spring VHF-UHF Field Day - November 2007
For everyone who likes to plan ahead - please note the dates for this
year's Spring VHF-UHF Field Day. It will be held on November 17/18, a
week later than usual. This will prevent a clash with club activities
in two states.




SPECIAL EVENTS, BEACON AND NET ADVICE
VK's longest continual net;
The Southern Cross DX Net has been running for 43 years, operates
7 days a week - propagation permitting - on a frequency
of 14.238.5MHz at 1215 zulu.


Centenary of Marconi's Clifden station

This year marks the centennial of those first sparks generated
from Marconi's historic Clifden station. To commemorate this event
W8HC has announced a special amateur radio operation from both
locations central to Marconi's fame and success as a pioneer in
wireless technology.

Ballycastle-Rathlin was his first wireless telegraph station and
the Clifden station was his last, ceasing operation in 1922. In
1907, Guglielmo Marconi's dream of fixed point-to-point wireless
telegraph stations linking North America and Europe became a
reality. Derrygimla near Clifden, County Galway served as the site
of his wireless station. Over the next 15 years, spark-induced
blue flashes generated by the station's massive 20 kV generators
sent tens of thousands of wireless messages across the Atlantic,
linking to its North American counterpart at Glace Bay, Nova
Scotia.

On 4th and 5th August Hal, W8HC, will operate from Ballycastle as
GI/W8HC/P. He will also be taking part in the annual Marconi
Festival at Ballycastle with the Marconi Radio Group's MNØMRG
special event station on 5th and 6th August, he will move to
Rathlin Island (EU-122) and operate from East Lighthouse (ARLS
designator NTI 011). He will arrive in Clifden on 8th August where
he will operate as EI/W8HC/P at the Derrygimla site on 9th and
10th August.

It is hoped that some operating time can also occur from nearby
Letterfrack, site of an ancillary receive station built in 1912 to
allow for full duplex operation of the transatlantic signals.

All QSOs will be confirmed via Log of The World and special QSLs
from each of these historic Marconi locations will be printed and
sent via www.globalqsl.com. In addition, a specially designed
certificate will be issued to those stations making contact with
both GI and EI operations from either Ballycastle or Rathlin and
Derrygimla or Letterfrack.
(rsgb)




D X A C T I V I T Y A N D D A T E S

Prefixes for Montenegro and Serbia

When Montenegro first became an independent country, the prefix YU6 was
tentatively allocated to it. However, it now has a call sign block of its
own. The ITU now lists 4O (thats four Oscar) as Montenegros prefix. This
means Montenegro stations may use 4O0 through 4O9, while Serbian stations
will continue to use YT and YU prefixes for all call districts, 0 through 9.
The ITU reportedly wants the two nations to complete the transition to new
call sign blocks as soon as possible.

The ITU has taken back the former 4N and YZ prefixes for future
reassignment.

Members that use computer logging software should update their software to
reflect these new prefix allocations
(IRTS)



AFRI 75 DXpedition QSL Update

The QSL Manager of the recent Swaziland DXpedition, Peter EI7CC, reports
that over the past few weeks QSL cards in respect of over 1000 QSOs have
been sent to those who requested a direct QSL. The remaining 200 or so
requests should be dealt with in the coming week, sent via the bureau.


Hong Kong Special Prefix

Approval has been granted for the use of the Special Prefix "VR10" in
addition to "VR2" for Hong Kong Radio Amateurs starting from July One 2007
to the 30th of June 2008 for the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's
reunification with China.

More details are available in the OFTA letter for Hong Kong Radio Amateurs,
which can be found at www.ofta.gov.hk/en/amateur/ama-cir200706.pdf.

HARTS is also going to use the special callsign "VR10HK" as HARTS HQ Station
during the IARU HF Contest (14-15/7/2007).

if you want more detail.




WIRELESS WEATHER

In VK6 Graham Rogers reports that the VE7CC cluster and WWV is reporting
the solar flux on the 20th June 2007 was 66, if correct, this means that
means on Wednesday we reached the bottom of this cycle!!

at last we are there/here.

OR ARE WE?


I guess we now drag along the bottom for a while and the slowly move up

OR

enter a Maunder minimum




INTRUDER WATCH - ENFORCEMENT ZONE

Exclusive amateur only spectrum world wide
7.050 to 7.100
14.000 to 14.250
14.250 to 14.350 No broadcasters
21.000 to 21.450
24.890 to 24.990
28.000 to 29.700


ARISS warns of pirate activity:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) reports a rumour
that the ISS was making direct contacts on the 40 meter band.

ARISS stresses this is not happening, as there is no HF radio equipment on
board the space station, although the HF antenna is mounted.

Sometimes the Goddard Amateur Radio Club, WA3NAN, retransmits shuttle audio.

Also in INTRUDER WATCH - ENFORCEMENT ZONE this week, The ARRL has sent out
more than 100 letters to repeater owners/trustees who have repeaters
affected by the "Pave Paws" radars.

Citing an increasing number of interference complaints, the US Air Force
has asked the FCC to order dozens of repeater systems to either mitigate
interference to the Pave Paws radars or shut down.

The ARRL is working with the US Department of Defence to develop a plan to
mitigate alleged interference from 70 cm ham radio repeaters to this
military radar system on both US coasts.




A mother of two in a suburb of Chicago does not have to turn on the news
for an update on NASA's space mission.

She just turns to "on" her baby monitor.

Live video of the mission is available on NASA's Web site, so it's possible
the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere close by.

Officials from NASA have said the signal is not coming straight from the
shuttle, according to NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean.

Summer Infant, the monitor's manufacturer, was looking into what could be
causing the transmission, said communications director Cindy Barlow. She said
she's never heard of anything similar happening.

"Not even close," she said. "Gotta love technology."
(packet bulls)




NOW ROBERT BROOMHEAD - VK3KRB.


WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- Internet Linking of Repeaters


How often, especially when travelling do you need a map of IRLP/EchoLink
nodes?

Well Roger VK7ARN has prepared a map of the Tasmanian amateur repeater
network designed primarily for Amateur visitors to the State it
provides repeater location, frequency, offset, access tone if needed
and linking information.


It's all on one page, in colour but prints OK in black and white.

It can be viewed on the WICEN South web site where it will be kept up
to date.

Or downloaded as a PDF file at the address that can be found the
email and internet editions of this broadcast.
http://wicen.taswireless.net/SOPs/Rpt_Map.htm




WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING
http://www.scouts.com.au
http://www.scout.org/jota
http://www.wiaq.com/nationalnews/jotahead.htm

SCOUT JOTA HF Voice Calling Frequencies
3590, 7090, 14190, 21190, 28590 kHz
14290, 18140, 21360, 24960, 28390 kHz (DX)


This years 50th JOTA will run from October 19th at 22:00 hours to October
21st at 24:00 hours YOUR local time.

An official start will be given by the World Scout Bureau radio station in
Geneva, Switzerland on October 19th at 21:00 h UTC with a transmission in
the 20 and 80 meter bands and on EchoLink.




Scouting's Sunrise with Amateur Radio

On 24th July to 8th August both the 21st World Scout Jamboree in
Chelmsford in the United Kingdom and Brownsea Island will be on
the air with their own fully equipped amateur radio stations.

Both will offer a radio programme to the participating Scouts. The
stations are operated by an international team of Scout radio amateurs.

During the Sunrise Ceremony on 1st August, GB100J will have a central role
in connecting the world together. It will be part of the Sunrise Network.

The staff at GB100J offer a full radio-scouting set of activities
to all Jamboree participants. The station is located at the
Central Plaza of the camp site and will be active on all HF bands.
Arrangements are being made for a contact with the International
Space Station on one of its passes over the Jamboree.
(rsgb)




WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO

EMERGENCY FREQUENCIES REGION ONE
21.360 - 18.160 - 14.300 - 7.060 - 3.760 MHz.


Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club have just successfully assisted with the
Rally of Canberra.

A full on weekend, with Friday seeing 3 people undertake duties at 3 field
locations, and 3 persons rostered thru HQ

Saturday saw 29 people undertake duties at 32 field locations, and 8
persons rostered thru HQ

Sunday again saw 29 people undertake duties at 35 field locations and 8
rostered thru HQ


A Total of some 44 plus individuals across the entire event, (Most whom
hold CAMS officials licences for either Rally, Communications and/or Flags)


Some 772 Man-hours undertaken on the weekend of the Rally, and 267
Man-hours undertaking Pre / Post event work. a staggering 1039 Man-hours in
total.


Well done C.R.A.R.C.




SOCIAL SCENE


July 7+8 - GippsTech
Conference for VHF, UHF & SHF enthusiasts in Australia.
Held at the Gippsland Campus of Monash University in Churchill, about
two hours drive east of Melbourne.
www.qsl.net\vk3bez\index.htm



August 5 - HAMFEST 2007 happens in Perth at 9am.
Cyril Jackson Recreation Centre
Fisher Street
Ashfield.



SEPTEMBER 21-23
North Queensland Amateur Radio Convention
Happening in twin cities of Thuringowa and Townsville.



JANUARY 20 2008

The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group invite all amateurs to attend the
2008 Mid North Coast Radio Expo to be held in Coffs Harbour on Sunday 20th
January.

The Expo is held at the St Johns Church Hall, Mc Lean Street, Coffs Harbour.
Gary VK2ZKT is the Radio Expo Coordinator on 02 66 55 2 990 or visit the
Groups comprehensive web site at www.mncarg.org






REWIND - A LOOK BACK IN HISTORY
(Will McGhie VK6UU is WIA National Historian)


National Film & Sound Archive - 01 - 1896 - The Hen Convention

1896 - The Hen Convention - The earliest known Australian recording, made
by Dr Thomas Rome of a novelty song featuring imitations of a chook.

This recording is known to have been made prior to 15th January 1897 at
the Warnambool Industrial and Art Exhibition.

www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/soundsofaustralia

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