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2024 AUGUST 18 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 AUGUT 18  2024
IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

THIS WEEK:-

WIA Director Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY. -

ALARA Contest Manager  Lesley VK5LOL. -

2 POLICE STATIONS TO WORK VI7POL and HB20SP. -

and THREE G or not 3G, THAT IS THE QUESTION.

NOW 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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The recent affiliated club forum which was held online on 30 July was
well attended, attracting nearly 50 registrations and was chaired by
President of the WIA, Scott Williams VK3KJ.

The forum was held to discuss with affiliated clubs, the current
consultations that are open for comment by our fellow amateurs.
The forum was held in two parts.

The first was introduced by the WIA Technical Advisory Committee
Chair, Grant Willis VK5GR who outlined the changes being proposed
to the way in which repeater and beacon licencing  and frequency
allocation is conducted and the implications for the new ACMA proposed
FAP10 process. The forum also looked at the purpose and high level
design of the new Radiocommunications Assignment and Licensing
Instructions (RALI) technical standards for selecting amateur
repeater and beacon frequencies.

The second part of the forum was also introduced by the WIA Technical
Advisory Chair. Grant outlined the new 40m band plan consultation,
what the identified issues are and what some of the areas that we are
seeking feedback on.

The online forum was recorded and will be available for viewing in the
coming week.

This has been WIA Director Chris Dimitrijevic, VK3FY.
also calls W3YM / T30T / 3D2FY / DU8FY / 4E8T / 5W0FY / HK7T
AUSTRALIANA

The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References
Committee has delivered an interim report into the planned shutdown of
Australia's 3G mobile network, recommending that the shutdown — set to
take place at the end of the month — should be postponed.

The committee's report, recommends that the Minister for
Communications should urgently meet with Telstra and Optus to delay
the shutdown until they can prove the 4G network will provide coverage
equivalent to or better than the coverage provided by the 3G network.

The government and industry should also audit the number and type of
devices that will be affected and contact and help the owners of those
devices, with a focus on devices that are likely to have a significant
impact on public health, safety and business operations.

(critical comms)

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to ARRL, DX-WORLD, eHam, Hackaday,
IARU, ICQPodcast, IRTS, NEWSLINE, NZART, RAC, Radioworld.com, RSGB,
SARL and the World Wide sources of the WIA.

INDIA

A special workshop on 'Wireless Technology and its Practical
Solutions' was conducted for Rajkot - Police Wireless Department
at Gujarat (India) last month. The venue was the Police Training
Centre at Rajkot Headquarter.

Regional Coordinator of AMSAT-INDIA & The Amateur Radio Society of
India, Mr. Rajesh Vagadia, VU2EXP, gave insight into various Radio
Communication protocols, types of modulation, modes & various
applications used in Amateur Radio & Police department.

This workshop was targeted for 25 technical wireless officers &
radio operators and focused on the radio communication enhancing
methods, utilizing various techniques, using different antennas for
specific applications and diagnosis of wireless setup with various
measuring instruments including SWR/Power Meter,
NanoVNA/Antenna Analyser and they extended a handful of maintenance
tips for Radio, Antenna, Feed line & repeaters to optimize radio
communications.
USA

The FCC has approved the launch of a low-earth orbit communications array
of five satellites on V-band that is expected to open the door for US
smartphones to make use of space-based cellular broadband services across
the nation. The satellites have been given the OK to operate in the 37.5
to 42 GHz range for space-to-Earth communications; and the ranges of 47.2
to 50.2 GHz and 50.4 to 51.4 GHz for Earth to space communications.

Approval was also given for the use of 430-440 MHz for space-to-Earth and
Earth-to-space transmissions, 2025-2110 MHz for Earth-to-
space transmissions and 2200-2290 MHz for space-to-Earth transmissions.

The approvals are granted to Texas-based AST Space Mobile  for what the
company is characterizing as the largest communications array in historyin
low-earth orbit.

Alabama Broadcasters Association name Carl Sampieri as its
2024 Engineer of the Year.

He started as a HAM radio enthusiast as a teen and still carries the
call sign 'N 4 NRE, He built most of the radio stations in the
Tennessee Valley.

Sampieri earned his First Class Radiotelephone License at age 18
then joined the Air Force as an airborne radio repairman and got a
commendation for working with the Armed Forces Radio Thailand.

Sampieri's first broadcasting jobs were in 1967. After leaving the
Air Force, he moved back to Huntsville to work for WAAY(TV) as an
engineer.

Sampieri recently retired as the engineer at Huntsville's iHeart Radio
cluster after 26 years, and has worked for nearly 20 years as chief
engineer at WLRH Public Radio.

Fun fact: It's said Huey Lewis' "Heart of Rock and Roll" is the first
song played across every new transmitter Sampieri has turned on.

His future plans include finishing renovations to his 100-year-old
house in Madison, which features two 60-foot Ham radio towers in
his backyard.
AUSTRALIA

myGOV

After account abuse, inconsistent processes and lack of intel sharing
uncovered Services Australia will implement a range of security
challenges and controls in myGov by June 2025 after exploitation of
the platform's single sign-on model and unlimited creation of
accounts.

The agency has committed "to ensure sufficient and consistent
verification steps are in place" across its own services accessed
via myGov - Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support.
But it will be up to other departments and agencies that run digital
service delivery through myGov to do the same on their ends to ensure
consistency.

A Commonwealth Ombudsman investigation found that where cybercriminals
used stolen credentials to access a myGov account, they generally
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