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Weekly news from the WIA:
MP3 edition of news available at:
http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2024-07-21.mp3 Text edition:


2024 JULY 21 VK 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 21 2024
IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

THIS WEEK:-

Giles Kirby VK5GK Delivering the WIA directors update. -

Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison and
Issue Number 4 of AR magazine is at the printers. -

Last week both Felix VK4FUQ and myself, Graham VK4BB told you of the
WIA consultations in progress, this week Grant VK5GR with more news
about the current activities underway within the WIA Technical
Advisory Committee. -

And from ALARA, Lesley VK5LOL and the 2024 ALARA contest.
BUT WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.

I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB

WIA

JOIN THE WIA
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This is Giles Kirby VK5GK Delivering the WIA directors update.

Greetings from a wintery and cold South Australia. The kind of weather
where you need a pair of 6JS6Cs glowing warmly keeping the shack
cosy.

Im pleased to announce that the RSGB has approved the WIA use of
their online emf tool. This is, Im advised, a very good tool and will
go a long way towards assisting us in meeting our safety requirements
as amateur radio operators. A critical step in future high-power
discussions.

We currently have a couple of consultations on the WIA website that
Grant VK5GR will discuss in more detail. My one comment is that I
encourage you to get involved and provide feedback if you have it.

On a very positive note, WIA membership continues to increase.
A testament to the hard work of our members and volunteers in
spreading a positive message.

On a personal note, Id like to thank the Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio
Society, an affiliated club, for their hamfest last weekend. And a
good choice of venue. My young daughter loved the playground out the
front.

This has been Giles Kirby VK5GK delivering the directors update.  73.

This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison
VK2ZRH.

Well, Issue Number 4 of AR magazine went to press last week.

Look out for the issue landing late next week. In your letterbox, your
Post Office Box, or at your local newsagent.

The theme for this soon-to-arrive issue is, as promised, Sunspots and
Propagation. More on that in due course.

The cover feature is a story every DXer  whether serious or casual
will want to read. Its about an online DXCC map of the world. The
application, available on the WIA website Awards section, provides a
way to find every DXCC entity you always wanted to locate in the world
but didnt know where to look or how to find it. The application and
the story behind it come from Marc Hillman VK3OHM. Dont miss it.

Did you know that, last month, it was 100 years since the first direct
wireless voice link between Britain and Australia was made. In the era
when cable telegraphy dominated international telecommunications, the
heralding of international long-distance telephone calls sparked a
media sensation. Marconi himself and then-head of AWA, Ernest Fisk,
were behind it.

If youre enjoying chasing DX right now, as Solar Cycle 25 climbs to
ever greater heights, the question so often asked is  Are we there,
yet?  As parents often tell their insistent children when on a long
car ride  soon! Maybe.

At the WIA Convention and AGM in May, a member ventured a question
about the WIA logo. Well, we have the answer, courtesy of WIA
Historian, Peter Wolfenden VK3RV.

Thats all for now.

Amateur Radio magazine, Issue 4.
More guts. Less gab.
Serving Australian amateurs for over 90 years.
Proudly produced and printed in Australia. Also available online.
Always published to a schedule, never random.
Im Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.

Hello Everyone - this is Grant VK5GR with some news about the current
activities underway within the WIA Technical Advisory Committee.

Currently the committee has two amateur community consultations open,
the first covering the introduction of new standards that describe how
specific frequencies are selected for amateur fixed repeater and
beacon stations and the second which is considering what improvements
may be possible with the amateur 40m band plan. The details of both of
these are available to download from wia.org.au   I encourage you, if
you have any interest in either topic, to head on over to wia.org.au
and have a read.

What is more important, however is for people to understand what
happens next and how you can get involved.

The WIA TAC has released these consultation papers because we want to
hear your feedback and thoughts on these matters. We also want to make
it clear that these consultations are open to all radio amateurs,
clubs, groups, societies etc. We want any interested radio amateurs to
know that they are welcome to provide their feedback, whether they are
members of or affiliated with the WIA or not.

This point is very important. The changes proposed have potentially
wide reaching consequences, and so for them to be successful it is
important that we build consensus with as wide a cross section of the
amateur community as possible. This is why this is open to more than
just WIA members.

An example of the consultation processes being considered, can be seen
in the way the 40m band plan discussion is being carried out. The
domestic WIA options paper currently being circulated is only the
beginning of a longer international process. That process includes
seeking feedback via the IARU Region 3 HF Band Plan committee from all
of the Region 3 member societies. From there, if endorsed at the
Region 3 conference in November, it will be submitted to the IARU
inter-regional HF band plan committee where it will receive further
input and discussion, this time including IARU Regions 1 and 2.
Ultimately, should all three regions agree, resolutions adopting the
change would finally be made. This, as you can imagine, is not a quick
process. A final resolution may well still be 1-2 years away. Indeed,
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