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Subject: WIANEWS for WEEK COMMENCING DCEMBER 29 2024
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Weekly news from the WIA:
MP3 edition of news available at:
http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2024-12-29.mp3 Text edition:

2024 DECEMBER 29 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 DCEMBER 29 2024
IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

THIS WEEK:-

WIA Director and Company Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ. -

WIA's  Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine Roger Harrison VK2ZRH. -

VK4FUQ Felix will have the operational news, VK3FFF Bruce takes a look at
Special Interest Group news and VK2LAW Jason is at our International
Desk. -

Many clubs have held a "Bunnings Sausage Sizzle' this year but we have
news of a club that has done 18,000 times better.

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
tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y

WIA Director and Company Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ

Last week the Pete VK2LP, The WIA Returning Officer advised that there had
been 5 nominations to fill the 4 vacancies that will be created at the end of
the AGM in May 2025.

As advised in Petes broadcast an election will be held by electronic means in
February 2025. Detail of all nominees and the election timetable will be
published in Amateur Radio Magazine and on the WIA News Service during
January 2025.


Wow so how fast has this year gone, already we have seen out Christmas and it
is the new year in a couple of days, and we are already talking about the AGM
to be held in May.


The Bendigo Amateur Radio and Electronics Club and the Wireless Institute of
Australia advise the dates of the Amateur Radio and Technology Expo to be
held in Bendigo Victoria in May 2025.


The Bendigo Amateur Radio and Technology Expo will be held in conjunction
with the WIA Annual General Meeting. The event will be held over the weekend
of3rd and 4th May 2025.


A program for amateurs, partners and the general public is currently being
developed by the Bendigo club and announcements detailing the event and the
program will be advertised shortly.


Congratulations to Graham and the Broadcast team on the advent of our 30th
year of the WIA News broadcast.


Director Giles Kirby VK5GK told you about our work being done on the new web
pages and also on the the membership system.

On behalf of President Scott Williams VK3KJ and the Board of the WIA we wish
you all seasons greetings and a happy and prosperous 2025.


This has been WIA Director and Company Secretary Peter Clee VK8ZZ

Hey dudes! This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison
VK2ZRH coming to you from Southport in Queensland, on the traditional lands
of the Yugambeh people.


A usually reliable source has told me that a new year will begin in a few
days.


If true, and Im mindful that I will only know that it is true once it
happens, observation or recollections of this period in years gone by
indicate to me that many people reflect on the year just about to end and
cogitate or prognosticate on what may lie in the year just ahead.


Recognising all that, as well as realising that, as the Bureau of Meteorology
well knows, forecasting too far ahead is very tricky, not to mention
unreliable, I will pass on a small snippet of what may be in store for
Amateur Radio magazine Issue 1 for 2025.


Naturally, we have a little something to say about progress of the current
solar cycle. If youre looking for answers to the two questions on everyones
lips this past 15 months, you know the ones: are we there yet?, and how high
will it go?, all I can say with any shred of reliability is this:   what goes
up will sometime later go down. Nothing to do with gravity in this instance.


The theme for the next issue is Portable Pursuits. For the sceptics in the
audience, or for the recall-istically challenged, that is the theme as
printed on Page 3 of the current issue. Every issue, toward the bottom of
Page 3, we print  in large, bold type  the focus for the coming issue. So
far, those forecasts have always come true.


Portable Pursuits is all about how much fun and pleasure hams can have
outdoors with their clothes on! The stories we plan to use run from offshore
DXpeditioning to beachside support of public events, from operating in lonely
low-noise historic places to putting a portable station together in an Esky.


And, as always, theres much, much, much more in AR magazine, Issue 1 for
2025.


More guts. Less gab. Serving Australian amateurs since 1933.

Proudly produced and printed in Australia. Also available online.

Always published to a schedule, never random.

Im Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.

OUR GIFT FOR YOU.

This free calendar looks good in the radio shack.

Your very own International Space Station 2025 calendar.

Download here

nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/iss-calendar-2025.pdf
Of course don't forget that free copy of the VK4SN Contest Calendar which
comes with the current Amateur Radio Magazine from the WIA.
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