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Weekly news from the WIA:
MP3 edition of news available at:
http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2024-08-04.mp3 Text edition:

2024 AUGUST 4 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 04  2024
IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

ALTHOUGH ONCE AGAN NO DIRECTORS REPORT WE DO HAVE IN JUST A MOMENT
ROGER HARRISSON VK2ZRH WHO ALONG WITH A TIRELESS BAND OF WORKERS
HAVE BEENN ENDEAVOURIING TO GET THE WIA VHF UHF FIELD DAY RESULTS UP
TO DATE

STAY TUNED!

BECAUSE - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.

WIA

JOIN THE WIA
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EDUCATION.

Although ACMA runs the Amateur Radio Assessors Service in VK4
these Specialist Assessors are available for remote or online
assessments

Laurie Pritchard/VK4BLE in Brisbane on 0411413588,

Ron Bertrand/VK2DQ on Gold Coast on 0426771808,

Gail Lidden/VK4ION in Bundaberg on 0410121345,

General Assessors available for face to face assessments in
the regions:
Stuart Dunk/VK4SDD in Malanda on 0407700096,
Darrin Archer/VK4GEO in Mt Isa on 0418981353,
Lyndall Reibelt/VK4ZM in Townsville on 0427688014,
Roy Moore/VK4RM in Sarina on 0409597410,
Clive Sait VK4ACC in Rockhampton on 0429632815,

If you do not get an answer on these numbers, be sure to leave a
message otherwise, you will be treated as a bogus caller and possibly
be  blocked.

For the full list of assessors, information on the Exam Service and
the Amateur Radio service in Australia, surf to the ACMA website and
search for Amateur Radio Accredited Assessors

(tarc newsletter July)
AUSTRALIANA

To help media organisations in the Pacific, Southeast Asia and South
Asia  provide quality media services, the Australian Government is
establishing the Indo-Pacific Media Fund. One of the Fund's first
initiatives is to support the Australian Associated Press to provide
targeted training and access to news content in the Pacific.

The Strategy is underpinned by the Government's investment of over
$40 million over five years in the ABC to create new content, improve
digital engagement, increase ongoing support for media partners in the
Pacific, Southeast Asia and South Asia, and expand Radio Australia's
FM footprint across the Pacific.

The PacificAus TV initiative is also receiving $28.4 million over
five years to bolster the viability of Pacific regional media and
expand access to Australian commercial television programs.

Minister for Communications, the Hon Michelle Rowland MP said
"This Strategy continues Australia's longstanding commitment to
supporting a robust media sector in our region."

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This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH, manager of the VHF-UHF Field Days.

As foreshadowed previously, recent efforts to catch up preparation of the
outstanding results for past events have borne fruit!


Results of the 2022 Winter VHF-UHF Field Day have been posted to the Field
Day web page.


This fact is noted in bold at the top of the page. Scroll down toward the
bottom of the page and youll see the link to the results, ready for you to
download the PDF.


Many thanks are due to the small group of stalwart volunteers who gave of
their time and effort to extract the log information.


Some interesting observations can be made  85 logs were submitted, of which
77 were fit for purpose.


Logs were received from operators in VK2 through VK7. Time was when that
stopped at VK5. Thats a developing new trend.


There were some operators who worked the contest and gave out numbers, but
did not submit logs, although they appear in the logs received.


A small sample of logs were checked for log accuracy and a few adjustments
made.


Thanks to all VHF-UHF Field Day participants for keeping on keeping on, and
getting out to the hilltops and ridges giving your gear and yourselves a good
workout.


Remember the field day-ers motto? Thats to do better next time!

This is Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.
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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.

Professor Theodore "Ted" S. Rappaport, Ph.D., N9NB, has been elected
to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Vehicular Technology Society's Hall of Fame.

The IEEE VTS Hall of Fame recognizes individuals whose truly
outstanding leadership and contributions have had a significant
impact on the technologies represented by the fields of interest of
the IEEE VTS.

Dr. Rappaport has co-authored over 300 papers and 20 books, including
the most-cited books on wireless communications, adaptive antennas,
wireless simulation, and millimeter-wave communications, which have
been translated into eight languages.
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple,
relatively recently. Or, you might think back to those fancy
Timex models with the datalink thing going on in the 1990s.

Seiko can beat them all, though, with its UC-2000 smartwatch that
debuted all the way back in 1984.

The UC-2000 very much looks cutting edge for its era, and absolutely
ancient today. It featured a 4-bit CPU, 2 kilobytes of RAM, and
6 kilobytes of ROM. Display was via a simple 104 character LCD in a
rectangular form factor, with four buttons along the bottom.

Branded as a personal information processor, it was intended for use
with the UC-2200 dock. This added a full physical QWERTY keyboard
also a thermal printer to boot. Oh, and ROM packs for Microsoft Basic,
games, or an English-to-Japanese translator.

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The UK regulator has begun exploring ways to provide mobile devices
with direct coverage - from the sky. The UK regulator seeks views on
ways to implement direct-to-device services for mobile coverage during
outages of traditional networks and as a way to provide service to
underserved areas. This could mean technology deployed from
satellites, aircraft or additional airborne platforms.

Acknowledging that such technology will have an impact on the limited
availability of the radio spectrum, the regulator is asking for input
from the public and will receive comments until the 13th of September.
INDIA

New Ham Radio Rules being proposed with a deadline of August 24 for
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