WIANEWS for WEEK COMMENCING MARCH 5 2017
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IN OUR 22nd YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 2017 AND FOR WEEK OF MAR 05 WIA logo for Affiliated Clubs. - WIA logo for QSL cards. - WIA Committees annual reports due. - WIA AGM with Grant VK5GR and Mark VK5QI. - WIA Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH bowled over in Wyong. AROUND VK Amanda VK1WX the Canberra Region clubs Immediate Past President has been awarded life membership of the club. Congratulations Amanda.. a long-time supporter and rebroadcaster of this your WIA News Service. Southern Peninsula Amateur Radio Club (SPARC) have their Rosebud RadioFest coming up, November 12. Marc has told the WIA this annual RadioFest continues to grow. Forums, displays, demos, prizes galore, new products, pre-loved and new gear for sale, retailers and suppliers plus special outdoor attractions as only Rosebud can do! Write Sunday the 12th of November in your diaries and take a ferry from the West or Peninsula Link from the city. http://www.rosebudradiofest and FaceBook also. Call Mark 0407 844 063 WIA BOARD TALK WIA logo for Affiliated Clubs Many radio club websites now include the specially designed WIA Affiliated Club logo, this follows requests from the clubs themselves. The WIA logo is the copyright corporate logo of the Wireless Institute of Australia and any use of the logo in any form of printed, electronic or online medium requires the written permission of the WIA Board. Other uses of the WIA logo by individuals, clubs or commercial organisations may be possible. The WIA grants pre-approval for use of the special 'WIA Affiliated Club' logo on the home-page of WIA Affiliated Club websites. Earlier, members were given conditional pre-approval to use the WIA logo on their QSL cards. Both the 'WIA Affiliated Club' logo, only for club websites, and the member WIA logo for QSL cards, along with their individual use conditions, may be found on the WIA website www.wia.org.au Time for WIA Committees annual reports A lot of good work has been done by the WIA Committees in 2016 and all are now invited to make a brief annual report on their achievements and aims. The WIA has in an email reminded Committee leaders to submit their activities for all to see through the Members Forum process of the annual general meeting in May. If a member of a Committee please help your leader by contributing thoughts for the annual report. WIA AGM I would hope that all members have read the great publication in AR of activities set for our enjoyment in VK5, this penned by VK5GR. "Hello, this is Grant VK5GR, for the WIA AGM Convention program organising committee, with some more news about the convention side of the weekend. After the all-important meetings and forums Saturday morning, the radio clubs of South Australia wish to take you on a journey of discovery, or perhaps rediscovery, into what makes radio communications inspiring and fascinating in this modern world. We aim to rekindle the Magic of Radio, that spark of fascination in us all that drove us to become amateurs in the first instance. In doing so, we hope to give you all ideas of things you might like to take away and try yourself, or at least give you a better perspective on how to talk about the amateur service and introduce it to others who are currently outside this hobby of ours. To achieve this, the Saturday afternoon program will be a showcase of many different facets of the hobby. We have the experts in their fields from across VK5 lined up to come and talk to you about their areas of interest. One of these is Mark, VK5QI from Project Horus, the High Altitude Balloon project that has been running in VK5 now for many years. " Mark.. "I've been involved in Project Horus since 2010 and I was also one of the presenters at the WIA AGM in 2012. Lots of launches have occurred since then, and more importantly we have had a lot of advancement in our balloon payloads, our tracking systems and our software. I'll be talking about some of these advancements including the work I have been doing on a high speed imaging system which we have been using to downlink HD images. This uses a combination of cheap software defined radio receivers and a whole lot of open source software which you too can use to decode images from our launches. We are also planning on performing a balloon launch from Mt Barker on the Sunday after the AGM. Showcasing some of these advancements. " "The Sunday activities will centre around Hahndorf Oval where we will have all of the presenters available for you to get up close and discuss in detail more about the areas of interest you have. In particular, tracking of the Horus balloons will be available from Hahndorf (although the launch will take place from Mt Barker to follow the necessary CASA rules). So, if you haven't already booked your spot at the WIA AGM Convention weekend, how about it? We would love to see you pay us a visit here in South Australia! 73 from Grant VK5GR" DISCUSSION POINT Again this week we pick up on QNEWs from VK4 and their "Thinking Man" Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP Hello, I'm Geoff and I've been thinking. It is interesting how people react together and separately. This used to be the area of study called social psychology although these days, possibly more work is done by social economists in trying to understand what makes us tick alone and in mass. In a small way, you can see some of this behaviour if you belong to discussion groups on social media and internet forums. Once a certain mood is put in place, you tend to see several people posting in agreement within a topic. The discussion becomes lost in a bevy of self-affirming opinions all agreeing but maybe expanding on areas or issues within the original post. The popular press calls this a feeding frenzy and the psychologist would probably start by calling it mental set. However, what is causing people to question the effect and the value of social media is the lack of diverse opinions. The sorting algorithms used by the moguls of the net select items that tend to re-enforce people's own biases and likes. Then the people self-select groups who share similar views to their own. This can be destructive to cohesion and progress when angst replaces reason in discussion of common interests. Take the WIA election and the heat that has been generated over the past months. Whatever the serving board said or did during this barrage was soon contrived to batter their reputations. Whether the claims made could be properly supported was immaterial when the collective vitriol was unleashed. Now the elections are underway, the important thing is to now go into the future with a clear insight as to the things that need to be changed are and the courtesy and consideration that normally goes with our hobby are allowed to nurture relations from now on. I'm Geoff Emery and that's what I think....how about you? You know? I'm "on the green" with Geoff on this one. One point in case is the outrage, the language used by hams on one group all because the WIA issued Proxy Forms that were "BS" in the eyes of 1 member.. THEN the lemmings followed suit. The 'discussion' was about the WIA proxy form for the 2017 AGM that was in the election pack sent by mail. That version of the proxy form IS slightly different to the one which is available through the WIA website, but both versions will be accepted and deemed to be valid for 2017. Websites form included a box to tick to give your proxy to the days Chairman. or an Amateur of your choice whereas the mailed version did not show 'Chairman'... All members giving their proxy would, I hope, know exactly who they wanted .. so this made no difference. The proxy form enables members who cannot attend the meeting to nominate another WIA financial member to cast a vote on their behalf at the AGM. Proxy forms need to be received by the WIA National Office in Bayswater at least 24 hours before the AGM at Hahndorf on 20 May 2017. The WIA proxy use is explained in Clause 11 of the WIA constitution. http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/new...01-1/index.php (Ed VK4BB and VK4ZPP) This is WIA Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH and I've been bowled over ! On Sunday last, I attended the annual Central Coast Amateur Radio Club Field Day at Wyong, north of Sydney. That's right. The Wyong Field Day. For all the reports of its imminent demise, I have to say that it remains Australia's largest gathering of hams and for those people otherwise interested in amateur radio. To assuage my sins as a WIA Director, I volunteered to spend most of my day on the WIA's display - table - stand - or whatever else it might be called. In a reprise of last year, I manned the WIA's trestle tables along with President Phil Wait VK2ASD and Peter Young VK3MV. This year, our host - the Central Coast Club - relocated the WIA stand to the top deck of the grandstand. Never mind the reason, it proved a good spot because we did a roaring trade. Sales of books and memberships and renewals were much better than in the years since 2014, when I first manned the stand for the WIA. Thanks to all those that came along to eyeball the books and to have a chat. Great to see you all. I was also the convenor of the annual VHF-UHF-microwave and weak signal group get-together, scheduled for 11:15am on the day. I counted 53 eager souls who turned up to the get-together, much the same as for previous years. Among the familiar faces from VK2, there were a few VK1s, some well-known VK3s and VK4s and a few hamfest perennials from VK5. Having paid tribute to "absent friends" who became silent keys recently, including Maurie Findlay, who many will no doubt recall as a prominent member of the radiocommunications industry - we moved-on to hot topics of the day. Issues with local councils concerning amateur antenna masts and towers generated some animated discussion. Gary Beech VK2KYP gave the group a rundown of his run-ins with a neighbour and the local council - who is insisting on a draconian interpretation of the State Planning Policy. It's a pity that those in the Planning Department that formulated the policy a few years back have - er - moved on and salient corporate memory has perhaps been lost. It was good to see that there was a high level of basic knowledge of the NSW policy among the group, but perhaps some further education would be helpful. As with a lot of legislation, this planning policy will come up for review in a year or two - time to mount another lobbying campaign to help improve it for amateur antenna masts and towers. The second hot topic was about VHF-UHF Field Days. No surprises there ! BUT not wanting to spoil that surprise, we'll talk about it in FULL in next weeks edition of news from the WIA. Suffice to say " I was bowled over. " Together we'll stand Divided we'll fall Come on now, people Let's get on the ball And work together Advocacy. Education. Support. That's what we do. This is WIA Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News. INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL, Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART, WIA Local News Service VK7, VK3PC and the WW sources of the WIA. PUPIL FREE DAY A school in the city of Xenia, Ohio will shut on Friday, May 19 so the students can attend the amateur radio HAMVENTION ! Xenia High School site says: "Xenia will welcome Hamvention to our community for the first time ever this year. Hamvention will be taking place May 19-21. Since this is the first year of Xenia hosting it, we want our students to have the opportunity to take advantage of all of the sessions associated with this program." I'm sure the kids will love the Board of Education deciding to cancel school May 19. Source http://www.xenia.k12.oh.us/News/15508 OSCAR number EO-88 for Nayif-1 The UAE CubeSat, Nayif-1, with conditions for an OSCAR number have been met, and Bill W3XO OSCAR number coordinator, by the authority vested in him by AMSAT-NA president, do convey on Nayif-1 the designation Emirates Oscar 88 or EO-88. We'll hear more of OSCAR 88 later in Special Interest Group news. 'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse a bright success Feb. 26 Something strange happened to the sunbeams over much of the southern hemisphere when on Feb. 26th, the Moon passed directly in front of the sun, covering as much as 99% of the solar disk. This seen mainly over parts of South America and Africa. Spaceweather.com say crescent-shaped sunbeams and thin rings of light danced across the ground of more than a dozen countries. So if YOU were being chased by a moon shadow it wasn't Cat Stevens playing tricks! Disney Research demonstrates open-air wireless charging Disney Research has invented a new method of wirelessly charging mobile devices that could someday allow amusement park patrons to walk about freely while also getting their mobile devices charged. The technology, which Disney has dubbed "quasistatic cavity resonance" (QSCR), enables purpose-built structures such as cabinets, rooms and warehouses to generate quasistatic magnetic fields that "safely deliver kilowatts of power to mobile receivers contained nearly anywhere within." http://www.computerworld.com/article...-charging.html Truth Matters. Facts Matter' This story maybe from WKRP in Cincinnati ? There, their local journalists will explore, explain the importance of a free press in a democracy as Cincinnati's Society of Professional Journalists will host a panel discussion titled, "Truth Matters. Facts Matter," Thursday, March 23. This is at the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting, what better place as VOA commemorates their 75 th anniversary this year. It will tell how to tell the difference between real and fake news; what standards editors use to determine facts; and the importance of a free press in a democracy. HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT All major Australian contests, rules and results, are on the Contest Section of the WIA website. wia.org.au/members/contests/about 2017 Jan 1 - Dec 31 The Victorian Local Government Award 2017 Challenge RSGB 80th Commonwealth Contest 11 and 12 March for 24 hours FROM 10.00 GMT. Ham Radio On The Ferries 12th of March WIA's John Moyle Memorial Field Day 18th-19th March 2017 What else happens on the Moyle Weekend? St Patricks Day 2017 is "On The Air" Yes the worldwide St Patricks Day celebrations are nearly upon us. Once again it is hoped to turn the bands green as part of the St Patrick Award on the 17th and 18th March. Whether as an official station or a chaser why not join the celebrations and go green...where it matters ! For more information go to stpatrickaward.webs.com/ WIA's Harry Angel Memorial 80 meter sprint Saturday May 6 10:00 -11:46 UTC May 13-15 Mills On The Air VK SHIRES June 10 and 11. Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest 160/80/40 Saturday night July 15 and Start Time is 08:00 UTC and finish time is 14:00 UTC 10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 5 - 6 WIA's Flagship contest the Remembrance Day Contest 12th & 13th August Aug 19-20 ILLW the 3rd full weekend in August since 1998 Aug 26 ALARA Contest Start Time 1600 this is a 24 hour Contest for YL's IARU High Speed Telegraphy world championships are 8th to 12th September. October CQ WW DX / SSB CONTEST (always Octobers Last full weekend) Running ALL year 'til Dec 31 Victorian Local Government Award 2017 Challenge LETS GO A DXIN' The callsign OA0MP has been issued by the Peruvian authorities for use from the 'Machu Picchu' Antarctic Base on King George Island in the South Shetlands until the 31st of March 2017. 2 members of the scientific team will operate during their spare time on 20m and 40m SSB. QSL via OA4O. YET ANOTHER Antarctic operator is Alex RN 1 ANC on the Russian Vostok Station Antarctica where he will be until February 2018. His callsign again, RI1ANC, and during his spare time he will be active on CW, SSB and Digital. QSL Manager is RN 1 ON. And whilst on a role, Francois FT 3 YL is on Dumont d'Urville Research Station, Petrels Island in Antarctica for a one year stay. He has been issued with the callsign FT 3 YL which is valid from 1st December 2016 until 1st February 2018. He will be on the air when possible during his spare time and his QSL Manager is F6KPQ. Alan, VP 8 DPJ is at the British Antarctic Territory Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island, IOTA AN-001, until April 2018. QSL via operator's instructions. EI DX Group Members of the EI DX Group are DXpeditioning to Nepal, March 8to 20 will see this 11 man, all Echo India team run up to 5 stations from 80 metres through 10 metres on CW, SSB & Digital. Nepal is currently number 91 Most Wanted DXCC in the world and an amazing number 31 most wanted in North America. Operating from a QTH at 5,600' above sea level, the team are looking forward to intense pile-ups. For full information, please visit their website 9n7ei.com OC-177. A group of Indonesian operators will be active as YE 0 S from Sebira Island, north of the Jakarta City, between March 20-27th. The Sebira Island is the outer-most island of Jakarta Special Capital City District of the Republic of Indonesia. Activity will be on 160-6 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital modes. An Online QSL Request Service (OQRS) will be used for this DXpedition. VI 4 ALARA July 1 to September 30 to gain recognition for the ALARAMeet in Cairns, VK4 from September 8 to 12 VI 3 FB 75 Active March 17 18 and 19 at the Lake Boga Catalina Communications Bunker in northwest Victoria. Marking the 75th anniversary of Lake Boga Flying Boat base during WW2. VI 50 ER To mark the 50th year milestone of the EMDRC club in March it's on air VI 50 ER also helps serve as a reminder of the EMDRC HamFest Sunday March 26 at the Great Ryrie primary school in Heathmont. (sourced to VK3BQ) VI 100 TRF Rotarians of Amateur Radio (ROAR) in Australia have hit the HF bands for 3 months from late February to May, with the special event callsign VI 100 TRF. This to highlight the Rotary Foundation's work over the past 100 years. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ATV arvideonews.com hamradiotube.com youtube.com qdg.org.au Remember back in time when Radios and TV sets came as FURNITURE..? Walnut cabinets and all... Well here's a story ( and a video site ) of a radio ham who goes 'nuts' for a tiny transmitter Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday about the achievement of Jarno De Haan PA3DMI in building a 7 MHz Morse transmitter ...... INTO A WALNUT ! The transmitter uses a single 2N3904 transistor and has just seven parts, eight if you count the walnut. Read the Hackaday report and watch the video at the link we like in this weeks text edition of the news you can trust.. at wia.org.au https://hackaday.com/2017/02/24/ham-...y-transmitter/ WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DEFENCE New military SDR radio jamming proof A communications system at the IDEX-2017 expo in the United Arab Emirates, claims it has technology that works even when attempts are made to jam its transmissions. The multi-mode portable software-defined radio defends against jamming via random frequency shifts at a speed of 20,000 hops per second. It's promoted as being able to communicate with older radio sets on different frequencies and using different protocols. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FEMALES IN RADIO ALARA - AUSTRALIAN LADIES AR ASSOCIATION http://alara.org.au Net is held each Mondays on 3.570± MHz, commencing at 1030 UTC. (1000utc during daylight saving) ALARAMeet 2017 has callsign VI4ALARA The Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association holds an ALARAMeet every 3 years in a different Australian state, and has been given the special event callsign of Victor India 4 Alpha Lima Alpha Radio Alpha. This year the ALARAMeet is in Cairns, Queensland, from September 8 to 12. It will have a number of components including education sessions as well as Amateur Radio related activities. ALARA Publicity Officer Diane Main VK4DI said the event will focus on educating and mentoring those new to the hobby, or who have become less active, encouraging them to involved in a fun and friendly environment. The primary focus will be women on air and attracting more women into Amateur Radio. The callsign VI4ALARA will promote the event by being on air from July 1 to September 30. ALARA was founded in 1975 and comprises members from all over Australian and some members overseas with a few expected to make the trip to Queensland. For more information about the ALARAMeet contact the coordinators Diane Main VK4DI or Lyn Battle VK4SWE. (Jim Linton VK3PC) WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- FINAL FRONTIER Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, is on the air ! For this story it's to OUR news editor who broke the story on this weeks Amateur Radio Newsline... So from Melbourne it's to New York who in turn cross to Brisbane Australia for THIS story from the UAE thanks to work carried out in INDIA ! "The Sheikh may not have his ham radio license, but his message is traveling far and wide on the HF bands, the first message to be transmitted from a newly launched satellite of the United Arab Emirates. The satellite is a Nayif-1 launched in late February from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India and it is Dubai's first nanosatellite. The sheikh's message, being sent out in Arabic, translates to say [quote] "The renaissance of peoples, nations and civilizations starts with education and the future of nations starts at their schools." [ENDQUOTE] At one school in particular, the American University of Sharjah, engineer students worked with the space centre in India to design, build, test and operate the nanosatellite. Now the school is monitoring it. Its main objective is to send and receive messages on amateur radio frequencies, transferring messages mainly among speakers of Arabic. So far the sheikh's message has been heard loud and clear by hams in Haiti, the U.S., Sweden and Spain, as the satellite flies high over the earth at an altitude of 600 kilometres, or not quite 375 miles high. Its telemetry and transponder data are available online at the AMSAT-UK website. Now, if the sheikh happens to hear his own message endorsing the power of education, perhaps he will undertake some study himself and get on the air in a more conventional manner - as a brand new ticket. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB Now to Clive and WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS http://www.raotc.org.au Hallo everyone, this is Clive VK6CSW reminding you that tomorrow, Monday, March 6th, the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia's monthly bulletin goes to air. As well as all the usual RAOTC news, this month we begin a three part series on Broadcasting in Australia. We also have another potted biography of someone who made a significant contribution to the development of wireless communications, plus a piece entitled The Future is Light. The principal HF transmission will be on 20 metres on 14.150 MHz upper side band starting at 0100 UTC, beamed north from Melbourne for the eastern states. An hour later at 0200 UTC there will be a 40 metre transmission from Perth on 7088 kHz lower sideband with a simultaneous transmission via all linked News West VHF and UHF repeaters. As well, numerous local relays will take place. Details for your local area transmissions can be found at the RAOTC website, www.raotc.org.au. Again that's www.raotc.org.au and as from Tuesday you can download the audio file from this website. Everyone, RAOTC Members and non-members alike, is invited to enjoy tomorrow's half hour program and to join in the call backs afterwards, and we hope to hear your call sign amongst them. 73 from Clive VK6CSW. WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS A Youth Net meets Saturdays at 0100 UTC on IRLP Reflector #2. Young Hams Net 3.590 - 7:30pm Victorian time. http://www.ham-yota.eu/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/youngstersontheair http://www.arrl.org/youth-nets RIDE THE MAGIC BUS - Old bus, young people, and Amateur Radio Media coverage of teenagers learning about Amateur Radio has been scored by the work of Tony Falla VK3KKP, in both ABC Central and the daily Bendigo Advertiser newspaper. The ABC had the story headlined: 'Youth take up Amateur Radio from inside central Victorian bus in the bush'. ABC reporter Larissa Romensky spent some time speaking to and photographing Tony VK3KKP with the Castlemaine Venture Scouts. In an old converted bus the young people learnt more of magic of radio, what the hobby could do, and even spoke to French and New Zealand radio amateurs. Also they were told of school contacts with the International Space Station, and emergency communications provided by radio amateurs in times of disasters. The lifelong enthusiast and computer professional also had a story in the Bendigo Advertiser by Tom O'Callaghan, under the headline: 'Radio far from over for Scouts in digital age'. It's important to teach the younger generation Amateur Radio skills, he told the media, because the digital age relies the Internet, while Amateur Radio is resilient. Tony VK3KKP feels that despite what the naysayers believed, young people are responsive to the argument radio is important - and the difference between it and the telephone. ABC Central: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-1...e-bush/8277122 Bendigo Advertiser: http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/...n-digital-age/ (Jim Linton VK3PC) SOCIAL SCENE 2017 For those who were unable to get to the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club's Field Day at Wyong, last Sunday, the 26th. of February, you missed an enjoyable event. Aerial shots of the HamFest from a drone showed the car parks to be over flowing and lots of people walking around the flea market. Although hectic to organise the variety of topics being covered in the two, parallel lecture streams were a hit and a big vote of thanks goes to Bob VK2AOR for putting this all together. The demonstrations on the upper floor of the race club was well attended with all seats being filled and standing room only for the Brandmeister and DMR demos. Ian VK2HK who ran these demonstrations tells me he was only able to get away for 10 minutes during the day, so high was the interest and questions about this new digital voice mode. Thanks to Ian for his dedication. Along with the DMR demonstrations, the other hits of the day were the lecture on Space Weather from the Australian Government's Meteorology department and the Drone flying demonstrations. These demonstrations were so effective that the drone retailer left at the end of the day with no stock left. While lectures and demonstrations were taking place on the upper floors, there was also lots happening at ground level with the traders and flea market stalls getting lots of attention and the testing room busy not only with Australian but this year also US amateur radio examinations. Through involvement of a local radio station and attendance of youngsters from local schools, it is hoped that the message about Amateur Radio will be passed on to a new generation of club members. For those who attended the field day, the CCARC would like your input so please take couple of minutes to fill in a survey form. The link to this is on the ( fieldday.ORG.AU ) website homepage. For the Central Coast ARC this has been Ed DD5LP / VK2JI. March 19 VK7 "Meet the Voice" barbecue 11:30am at Ross (vk7cl) March 26 VK3 EMDRC HamFest, Great Ryrie Primary School, Heathmont (VK3BQ) Ap 28-May 1 VK4 Clairview Gathering between Rockhampton and Mackay (TARC) May 19 VK WIA AGM Hahndorf some 25km from Adelaide (vk5kc) Jun 2-4 VK4 Theresa Creek Camp-out-day (CHARC) (tarc) Theresa Creek Dam is located 22 km southwest of Clermont in Central Queensland, with bitumen access all the way to the boat ramp plus 2 boat ramps to choose from. If you are able to get along for a great weekend, let Helen VK4FHEL know by email CHARC Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/632669076759173/ June 10-11 VK5 SERG Annual Convention / VK Foxhunting Champs. (vk5dj) July 1 VK3 GippsTech 2017 technical conference in Churchill. 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