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As this WIA news goes to air, JOTA - is on the air!


JOTA WEEKEND 2008 - RADIO SCOUTING
http://www.scouts.com.au
http://www.scout.org/jota
http://www.international.scouts.com.au


CALLING FREQUENCIES
Please QSY off the calling frequency after establishing communication.

Australian voice calling frequencies:
3.650, 7.090, 14.190, 21.190, 28.590, 52.160

World CW calling frequencies:
3.570, 7.030, 14.060, 18.080, 21.140, 24.910, 28.180, 50.160

World voice calling frequencies:
3.690 & 3.940 MHz, 7.090 & 7.190, 14.290, 18.140, 21.360, 24.960, 28.390, 50.160


Calling frequencies for Slow Scan TV (SSTV):
3.630, 7.033, 14.227

Calling Frequencies for PSK31
14.070



SKEDS WANTED - ADVICE

GB4CNS Central Nottingham District Scout camp site 6 miles North of the city.
It is planned to operate from approx 19:00 to 23:00hrs UTC on Friday 17
07:00 to 23:00hrs UTC Saturday 18 and 08:00 to 12:00hrs UTC Sunday 19.
20 80 or 40 metres, with EchoLink via repeater GB3IN node 98258.
Skeds would be appreciated. Yours in Scouting. Ivor Secretary
Rotherham District Scout Council - G4GET
Skype Name - ivorajordan




A JOTA station Gunnamatta Park, Cronulla, are operating to noon today Sunday
19 on HF 20, 40 and 80 metres, VHF 2 metres FM and Echo Link.



The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio group are be assisting scouts in the
Bellingen and Dorrigo districts high on the Dorrigo mountain, south west of
Coffs Harbour.



At Murwillumbah, actually on Wises Farm there will be amateur radio set up
courtesy of Summerland Amateur Radio Club.



Lismore RNA Show this weekend sees Lismore and Casino Scouts with other groups
between the two main Grandstands.



An EchoLink conference server, complements of the Victorian team, is on
EchoLink as *SCOUTSAU* (Node number 404833)
Scouts Victoria have two of their own repeaters: VK3RSR (146.975 MHz) located
in the outer North-Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne (IRLP Node 6370).
VK3RSS (439.975 MHz) in the outer South-Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne (IRLP Node
6371).



Scouts in Western Australia will be on air as VK6SAA, on EchoLink as VK6SH
EchoLink, VK6POP-L Node 354893 will be on repeater VK6RTH sometimes, and other
times on HF simplex.



VK JOTA and Scout coordinator for Ham Radio VK6POP Bob tells us "Don't forget to
have a go at AO-51 as it goes overhead. Satscape is a good tracking and
information utility for satellites. Look out for ARISS too."



In North Queensland the Kennedy District Scout Groups are at Camp Tarmaroo
near Bluewater with at least 3 radio bases about the camp and a hall full of
EchoLink computers to keep the weekend alive.



Ross River Guides occupy the property on top of Herveys Range
with at least 3 radio operators in attendance for a all day all night
effort with lots of open space and a few big wire antennae deployed, including
Rhombics.
The rest of Flinders District Guides have joined up with other Guide groups
in Charters Towers at the Distant Education Centre.



Members of the MARYBOROUGH ELECTRONICS AND RADIO GROUP are out at
ALDERSHOT Scout Camp, on the Bruce Highway, north of Maryborough, Queensland.

Operations obviously on and around the JOTA frequencies in the 80, 40 and 20
metre bands and also on 2 metres, feeding to EchoLink Node VK4TPT-L, # 348609.

This year they are up on UHF CB Channel 14 to the Special Events
Room on the E-QSO FOR CB network so that ANYONE can take part in the JOTA
experience.

For details of this system, Google AU6PER, or go to:
http://palmbeach.dynalias.com/gateway.htm



Swaziland:-
David GI4FUM / EI4DJ will be active during JOTA using the call 3DA0SS -
Swazi Scouts. There will be a group of 20 Swazi scouts experiencing JOTA for
the first time. QSL details on "QRZ dot com"

(irts)


USA
Near Space Ventures will launch a 1500g, Hydrogen filled High Altitude Balloon
Sunday 19th, at approximately 8:30a.m. Central US time as part of the North Star
District B.S.A. Camporee & Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) 2009 event.

Launch Site:
Smithville Lake, MO @ 39.41585N -094.50503W

Onboard APRS on 144.390Mhz,

Call Sign: WØNSV-11

You can follow the balloons location, altitude and speed by clicking on;
http://aprs.fi/?call=w0nsv-11
after launch on the day of the flight.

Simplex Repeater: 46.460/100PL -- The tone is critical to keep the
repeater out of APRS.

For more information
See http://nearspaceventures.com

They will also have at least two HF stations operating during this JOTA weekend,
including examples of digital (PSK31, Hellschreiber, etc), VHF/UHF, satellite
and slow scan TV. Join them in person, online or on the air for a great weekend
of Ham Radio.

(from a yahoo group posting by Keith WA0TJT)



Australian JOTA Badge

51ST Jamboree On The Air badge is now classified as a "Camp Blanket" badge and
as such should no longer be worn on the uniform. There is a disparity these
days where members wearing the old uniform may wear event badges and those in
the new uniform may not.
In order to be fair to everyone, the rule applying to the new uniform should be
used.

(scouts web site)



THE BIG NEWS THIS WEEK IS THAT THE 2008 ORIONIDS SHOWER IS EXPECTED TO BE BIG!

If you are a ham who chases rocks flaring across the sky, there's some good
news. After the successful 2006 and 2007 outbursts, predictions say that
this years Orionids Meteor activity will again be much higher than normal.

According to the Make More Miles on VHF newsletter, while the "traditional"
peak for this shower is expected on October 21st. However, another
maximum, related to the encounter with an ancient dust trail rich in bright
meteors is expected to occur on October 19th, between 02:13 and 08:08 UTC.

For those not aware, hams involved in Meteor Scatter communications make
contacts by bouncing their signals off the ionised trails of meteors as the
burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.



VK1
vk1 local news email and ask for subscription.

In VK1 today see on Sunday 19th October the Brindabella Challenge from
Cotter out to Bulls Head & Return via Vanities Crossing, then up Warks road
& back.



VK2
web service:- http://www.arnsw.org.au/html/news_vk2wi.htm
VKG Roundup http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news


Be advised that the Westlake's clubs Christmas get together will be at the club
grounds Saturday 13th December 2008.


Summerland in VK2 well their WICEN event was a great success last weekend.
Six members assisted at the event and had a great weekend.
Due to access difficulties a new route was needed to Toonumbar Dam.
This relocated Checkpoint 1 just south of the dam, the route skirted the
catchment area through the bush.
2 meter comms worked to all points.
Backup was via UHF CB Repeater Ch 1 at Kyogle.
Almost an incident free weekend until near the last leg when the last rider's
horse bolted and threw her off, rendering her unconscious and she was
transported to Kyogle hospital for a check-up.
However the horse went bush and was still being sought at days end.

(summerland)



VK3
web service:- http://www.amateurradio.com.au/news/
VKC Roundup http://www.police

Oct 26
B.A.R.G. Hamvention Ballarat held at the Great Southern Woolshed approx 3kms
from Ballarat CDB, located on the Melbourne side of Ballarat on the western
highway. General public admitted at 10-00am.
Door prizes, raffles good food and fellowship




VK4
web service local news:- www.wiaq.com/qnews/upload/qnewsbcast.htm
local news email
VKR Roundup
http://www.police.qld.gov.au/News+an...edia+Releases/

NOV 8 GOLD COAST AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY HAMFEST
ALBERT WATERWAYS HALL BROADBEACH.



EDUCATION YOUTH AND ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR RADIO
www.hamcollege.com.au

Morry Clark VK4HBK has posted to the WIA calendar the info that St Thomas'
Primary School at Camp Hill in Queensland will be holding an ARISS Contact.
7:30pm the 6th November this will be a Direct VHF linkup with the ISS
using call sign OF VK4HBK.
Audio from the link up will be available on Echo link node 340255.


A Foundation training weekend was held by N.E.T.G and they congratulate four
successful students, Ian, Laughlin, Bruce and Ron. Once again John VK3XD and
Greg VK3GG did an outstanding job of delivering the course!


Ian VK7QF and Justin VK7TW will be running another Foundation Licence course
over two Tuesday nights starting the 21st October at 7:30pm with a practical
and theory exam on Nov the 4th.
If you are interested in attending the course and/or the examination then please
let Reg VK7KK know and he can be contacted by ringing mobile: 0417 391 607 or
email:


The chair of Gujarat Institute of Amateur Radio (GIAR), has called on the
Government of India to incorporate Ham Radio as an optional subject in schools
and colleges.
"Having radio communication as a subject in educational institutes will help
develop people's interest in Ham radios. This will result in more people
joining the group, which will subsequently result into more traffic in the
amateur radio spectrum and better connectivity," She said.

(Indian Express.com)


OCTOBER EXAM IN SOUTH AFRICA HITS CLOSE TO RECORD ENTRANTS

The national RA examination which took place Thursday saw the October ham
exams, which are usually fairly small, have a close to record 97 Students
that sat the written examination.
All students writing the Class A examination had the opportunity to write the
lesser Class B paper as well in the event that they felt that they may not have
done as well as they expected in the primary one.
We hope all students had good luck with their examinations and look forward
to welcoming new call signs and new Amateur Radio Operators into this wonderful
and exciting hobby.

(sarl)



IZ7KHR ANED 2008 YOUNG HAM CONTEST WINNER

20 year old Francesco Cozzi. IZ7KHR, of Italy, has been chosen as the winner of
the Young Ham Contest Program for 2008.

As his prize, IZ7KHR gets to take part in the CQWW SSB contest from the famed
Jamaican 6Y1V contest super-station with all expenses paid.

Cozzi is a member of the Italian RadioHams Association and the World Wide
Young Contesters group. He is described as a student and is active in many
areas of amateur radio, including contesting, DX'ing and volunteer
emergency services.

According to David Kopacz, who is the owner if 6Y1V, Cozzi speaks English
quite well. He also loves to cook and believes it is every hams social

responsibility to spread international good will.

The 6Y1V contest super station is owned by K1LZ and KY1V and is located at
the home of at the home of George Campbell, 6Y5GC, in Hopewell
Jamaica. David Kopacz says that he and his contest group are proud to

have been granted the opportunity to make Francesco's dream come true.

(Various DX sources via ARNewsLine)



ACMA NEWS

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has allotted and assigned
digital channels for television repeater services in 94 areas in Remote Central
and Eastern Australia.

The full media release can be found at
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311415



INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to RSGB, Southgate AR Club, the ARRL,
Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA.

Singapore Make Temporary Licenses Available for Visiting Hams:

Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (SARTS), that country's IARU
Member-Society has announced that the Infocommunications Development Authority
would begin issuing temporary Amateur Radio licenses for visiting hams.

I.D.A. is the agency responsible for Amateur Radio licenses in Singapore.

According to SARTS Vice President Peter Cook, JV1PC, visiting hams should apply
three weeks before arriving in Singapore. The license, typically valid for a
three month period would use the call sign 9V1/home call.

"The Singapore administration's accommodation of visiting radio amateurs will
be greatly appreciated by many who visit and pass through this busy city-state,"
said IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ.

(sourced to arrl letter)



BPL: THE SAGA CONTINUES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Two South African ham radio political leaders have testified in opposition
to the introduction of Broadband over Powerline or BPL Internet access in
that nation.

ZS6AKV, and ZS6BUU, have made presentations at the South African
telecommunications regulator's BPL Hearing.

ZS6AKV presented the South African Radio League's objection to the current
draft regulations and ZS6BUU showed how BPL could potentially interfere with
the nations emergency communication.

Telecommunications regulator ICASA said that by law it is tasked to protect
licensed radio services against interference. It also admitted that it is
BPL operators that cause interference. A final decision on the South
African BPL rules is due out in a few months.

(SARL)



Major Award goes to EI

The First Class CW Operators' Club (FOC) is an international group of CW
enthusiasts whose central aim is to encourage a high standard of operating and
behaviour on the amateur bands.

FOC sponsors the Al Slater, G3FXB, Memorial Award. This is given once a year to
an individual, group or society for an outstanding contribution to the hobby
that reflects the attitudes and approach of G3FXB, a former President and a
keen contester.

The 2008 award was presented to Paul, EI5DI, at the FOC's annual dinner on 4th
October, which celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Club's formation.

Paul is a past-President of I.R.T.S. and the author of SD contest logger.

(irts)



The Radio Amateurs of Canada's Canadian Amateur Radio Emergency
Database, or "CARED", which was announced some months ago, has been
changed in name to the National Amateur Radio Emergency Database, or "NARED".

This change was made in order to avoid possible confusion with another
Amateur Radio-related list that uses the "CARED" acronym for a database

unrelated to emergency communications.

(Bob Cooke VE3BDB RAC Vice President Field Services)



RADIO LAW: DEFENSE ADMITS SKYLAR DELEON KILLED KD7VWJ AND KD7VWK

A strange twist in the trial of the man accused of killing an Arizona ham
radio couple to steal their boat. Amateur Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant,
K6PZW has reported that the attorney for Skylar Deleon said that his client
is guilty of those two murders and a third, but shouldn't be put to death.

Skylar Deleon is accused of the 2004 murders of Thomas and Jackie Hawks,
KD7VWJ and KD7VWK, in order to steal their yacht.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Deleon. They say that he was
the mastermind that came up with the plan to kill the Hawks after learning
they were preparing to sell their 55 foot yacht. They say Deleon pretended
to be interested in buying the nearly half-million-dollar vessel. He then
enlisted the help of two men to overpower the Hawks on a demonstration
cruise. Deleon then forced the couple to sign over paperwork for the yacht
before killing them at sea.

(arnewsline)



A COMPUTER WITH HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS

A computer system that can carry on a discussion with a human being by
reacting to signals such as tone of voice and facial expression is being
developed by an international team of researchers. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Burt Hicks, WB6MQV, says the project is known as SEMAINE and it
plans to build SAL. That's short for the Sensitive Artificial Listener
system.

SAL will have the ability to perceive a human user's facial expression,

gaze, and voice and then interact with the user. When engaging with a

human, SAL will be able to adapt its own performance and pursue different
actions, depending on the users non-verbal behaviour..

SEMAINE and projects like it will change the way people interact with
technology. They hope that this means that you will be talking to your

computer in 20 years time. When you eventually are able to do this,
Professor Cowie asks that you pause for a minute, and remember that the
human sciences at Queen's University helped to lay the groundwork.

(arnewsline)



OPERATIONAL NEWS -

ON AIR CONTEST AND EVENT COLUMN - D A T E L I N E

2008


October 25-26 WW CQ WW SSB contest 0000Z, Sat until 0000Z Sun.

November 15-16 (Weekend) Spring VHF/UHF Field Day

November 29-30 WW CQ WW CW contest 0000Z, Sat until 0000Z Sun.



2009

FEBRUARY 21-22 JOCK WHITE MEMORIAL FIELD DAY CONTEST 0200 UTC til 1100 UTC 21ST
1700 UTC til 0200 UTC 22ND

Rules:- Please refer NZART Website -
www.nzart.org.nz/contests/



SPECIAL EVENTS, BEACON DX AND NET ADVICE
hf nets ON the net, www.timroberts-vk4yeh.id.au/

9M1CS* 18 Scouting stations (* Apart from 9M1CSS in 9M6 all
others are 9M2 stations.
QSL via 9m2 bureau) Until Dec 31


C 4 EURO E-Day, 1st of January currency changes to Euro. Until Dec 31



PY 100 JA Centenary of first Japanese immigration to Brazil. Until Dec 31


VI 90 BV Waverley Amateur Radio Society 90th Birthday JAN 1-DEC 31 2009



SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS CELEBRATE QTC MAGAZINE

Three consecutive special event stations are active to celebrate the 200th
edition of Poland's QTC Magazine. HF200Q was operational through October
10th. Currently on the bands is HF200T. It goes away on October 20th to
be replaced by HF200C which will be handing out contacts through the 31st.
The QSL manager for all three stations is SP4KDX. SP2FAP is the publisher
of QTC.

(DXNS via arnewsline)



DX

Some breaking news in the world of DX. Word that the 2008 Kabul
Afghanistan DX operation we reported on last week has been postponed. John
Kountz, KE6GFF, tells Newsline that unexpected circumstances preclude the
use of T6EE's QTH as a centre from which to operate. John says that he

feels bad about this disappointment but does look forward to working all of
you in the near future from Kabul.

(W2VU, KG6GFF via arnewsline)



One of Westlake's ARC members, a Queenslander no less, (Tim VK4HFO) has just
received his 205th QSL Card for qso's on 40 Mtrs ONLY.
Paul vk2hv has told us that VK4HFO racked this up ever since he got 40 meter
status.
Tim ONLY operates on 40m and is known to be on air at 3am chasing African DX
on both CW and SSB.



MEDIA WATCH

October 2008

Amateur Radio magazine for October is already at your newsagents. Nip down and
get yourself a copy before they all sell out.

You can't miss the sturdy-looking lighthouse on the front cover, stark against
"a million-dollar view" at Mersey Bluff in Tassie. International Lighthouse &
Lightship Weekend is fully reported inside with stories from four locations
right across Australia.

Well, the dust has settled at last on the 2-letter callsign furore. The audited
ballot was conducted on 5 September and the outcomes are reported in the WIA
News column with comment in the Editorial.

To find out who has which new 2-letter call, get your copy of the new 2009
Callbook due out next month.


Many repeaters on the 70 cm and 2 metre bands are in heavy demand, and can often
time out. This clever little Sniffit, designed by Jim Tregellas VK5JST, warns
the long-winded operator when he/she is approaching (and exceeding) the time
limit. It is a small but interesting construction project which includes the
software programming of a PICAXE chip. Jim, a regular contributor to Amateur
Radio magazine, provides all the practical and theoretical information you need
for this, in his usual thorough style.

Another great issue of Amateur Radio magazine with something for everyone,
courtesy of a hard-working little group of volunteers called the
WIA Publications Committee.

And they are also finding time to bring together the wealth of information you
expect in the annual Callbook - due out November.



ARRL Book Released in China:

First of several ARRL books to be translated and published in Chinese has just
been released.

"Getting Started with Ham Radio" by QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, published by
Posts and Telecommunications Press (PTPress) of Beijing, People's Republic of
China, is the first of eight books that will be published in that language.

Other ARRL titles to be translated and published in the P.R.C. include
"The ARRL Handbook," "ARRL Antenna Book," "Experimental Methods in RF Design,"
"Understanding Basic Electronics" and "Ham Radio on the Move."

(sourced to arrl letter)



SOCIAL SCENE


Nov 9 VK2
Westlake's major field day Teralba 9am


Nov 9 VK5
Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society will hold their Bigger Better Buy and
sell day Sunday November 9 at Goodwood community centre, Rosa St.


Dec 6 VK7
VK7 HAMFEST - Central Highlands of Tasmania at Miena - starts 10am.
http://www.qsl.net/charct/


2009

International Telecommunication Union's Telecom World 2009.



JANUARY 18 2009 VK2
Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group's Radio Expo St Johns Church Hall,
Maclean Street Coffs Harbour 8.30am



Feb 8 2009 VK2
WYONG FIELD DAY



Feb 15
Centre Victoria RadioFest at the Kyneton Racecourse
http://radiofest.amateurradio.com.au/


June 5 - 8 2009 VK4
FNNQARG at Cardwell Village Beachcomber Resort book on 1800 005633
Contact FNNQARG co-ordinator Gavin VK4ZZ for site booking guidance.


OCT 12 - 16 2009 ZL
14th IARU R3 Conference Christchurch 12 ? 16 October 2009.
Details at www.christchurch.org.nz/
The Region 3 Web Site: www.jarl.or.jp/iaru-r3/



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

Jim Linton has told us many a time of how Morse has "gone to the movies", VK4
Amateurs in particular have heard the story of QNEWS from the early 1930's,
Rob VK5MM has told us of where to gather promotional material and many a print
and audio radio commercials on Ham Radio have been heard and displayed on the
web.

But these days, where have all the old links disappeared to from the original
WIA and WIAQ web sites in particular?

Well material that "disappeared off the face of the Internet many years ago"
might be available on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive Web site.

Recently I read an item from the ARRL on this subject and "Sure enough" I used
the Wayback Machine and found the "Morse Goes to the Movies" Web site archived
for March 9, 2001. Even if not Jims original it is a great site.

The Wayback Machine is a free service that allows you to visit archived versions
of Web sites. Simply type in a URL, select a date range and then begin surfing
on an archived version of the site. The archive contains more than 85 billion
Web pages dating back to 1996; if you know the URL of a defunct Web site, you
may be able to find it using the machine.

Sometimes they are missing as web masters decided to block automated Web
crawlers so unfortunately at the whim of some the pages are gone for ever!

It's also possible that some sites were not archived because they were password
protected, blocked by robots.txt, or otherwise inaccessible to our automated
systems."

But, don't give up the ghost; you still may be able to find them using the
Wayback Machine.

http://www.archive.org/index.php


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Mackay club will be operating Jota but on the Saturday only
special callsign VK4SMK operating from Scout headquarters
Rowellan Park North Mackay



TOWNSVILLE

http://vk4zz.no-ip.org/tarc/

The 2008 Annual General Meeting of theTARCinc happens Sunday
November 23rd from 7am at Area 2 - Rossiter Park Aitkenvale.

The AGM will start off with Breakfast followed by the meeting
and attendance numbers are needed for catering purposes.

Relay your AGM numbers as soon as possible to
Gavin VK4ZZ either by mobile 0427 182469
or via Radio.




TARC Social Evening this Tuesday

October 21st the TARC Social Evening will be happening
at the Club Rooms atop SES HQ Green Street West End from
7-30pm. Come along and lend a helping hand to put the magazine of renown,
Back-scatter together and socialise with fellow hams.

All welcome !


- TARC WIA Exams Information

Exam sessions in the North Queensland
region are held on demand with WIA Assessors
and assessment packs available for all 3
levels of licensing.

Contact theTARCinc WIA Exams
Regional Co-ordinator Roger/VK4CD
on mobile 0417 638366 or home phone
47740211 to have a mutually suitable date
and WIA Assessors assigned to your
assessment.





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