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VK7 Amateur Radio News 27Jun21
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 27TH JUNE 2021
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News for the 27th of June 2021. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Rick, VK7RI.
This broadcast goes out on repeaters all over VK7 and on digital radio - DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C by Clayton, VK7ZCR.
We also go out on medium and high frequency courtesy of the following rebroadcast stations:
On 1.865 MHz by Graham VK7GS
On 3.670 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD
On 7.140 MHz by Dale, VK7DG
On 14.130 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE and
On 28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT
You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RTC in Southern VK7.
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Contest News
2021 WIA Winter VHF and Above Winter Field Day
This weekend is Winter VHF/UHF field day. We hope you have been making lots of contacts with VHF and above stations.
If you are listening to this broadcast on Sunday morning there is still some time to make contacts up until 0100UTC or 11:00am local.
The field day is aimed at VHF and up to the best places to listen for activity would be 52.525, 146.500, 439.000 and 1296.150 on FM, and of course the usual SSB frequencies of 50.150, 144.150, 432.150 are always worth a listen or a call. Knowing your current grid square is a requirement for logging, so perhaps do some google earthing or use one of the many apps that will let you know your 6 digit grid square.
Please remember to put your logs in before midnight on Monday 12th July 2021.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
73 Richard VK7ZBX
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QSL NEWS
Report - from Herman VK7HW Manager of the WIA VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
The current list of Cards held as at 25 June 2021, is in the email version of the broadcast.
If you have any questions re QSL cards, please contact Herman by email vk7bureau(at)wia.org.au
REAST members can collect their cards from the Domain Club rooms if they let Herman know to deliver them there. He can drop them off most Wednesdays at lunch time.
Thank you to those amateurs who have been in touch.
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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VK7 Inwards QSL Cards held as at 25 June 2021
AAA, AB, ACN, AD, AG, AIR, AL, AM, AO, AP, APZ, AS, ATH, AV
BA, BB, BPV
CH, CJ, CL, CV, CX
DG, DN, DO, DQ, DT, DZ
EG
FALX, FAZZ, FCIA, FEDT, FG, FGGT, FJFJ, FLAR, FOTR, FTAS
GA, GC, GM, GZ
HCH, HDM, HRS, HRW, HSJ, HVK, HZ
IK, IS
JA, JB, JGD, JP, JW
KBA, KD, KI, KJ, KL, KO, KR, KRJ, KX
LAZ, LDH, LLL, LM, LVH
MAG, MAT, MBD, MBP, MC, ME, MHZ, MI, MK, ML, MS
NA, NC, NMH, NRF, NSB, NSE, NSS, NTE, NWQ
PBD, PRN, PSJ, PW
RUM
SN, SV
TAS, TCE, TED, TK, TS
VAC, VAZ, VH, VKV, VR, VZ
WA, WC, WIA, WT
XDM
YN
ZA, ZM, ZT, ZZ
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH WEST
North West Tasmania Radio & TV Group
Major Club changes
The NWTR&TVG wish to advise of a change to the clubs name, and that its incorporation has been finalized by the Assistant Commissioner for Consumer affairs
From the 30th June 2021 , the Club name will change to the North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club Incorporated, the Clubs Public Officer will be Dave VK7DC, The club members would like to thank Dave VK7DC, Roger VK7ARN, Ian VK7FICR and others members for modifying the government’s model rules, to suit our club and applying for incorporation.
We see this as moving the Club forward, as well as a significant upgrade of club rules and updating them for our modern world. It also provides protection for our executive and members, as well as good governance and stewardship. With our membership increasing, we look forward to encouraging , assisting and educating persons interested in amateur radio. As well as fostering a community appreciation of amateur radio and assisting organisations like Scouts to encourage young people to obtain an Amateur licence.
73, Eric VK7EV, News Officer
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CHAT & SHOW GROUP.
The group will be meeting on the 3rd of July at 2pm at the Ulverstone Sports Complex in Flora St. West Ulverstone. Come to the door marked Show Society Office and ring the phone number listed to cooperate with new regulations of the premises.
Tea and Coffee will be available all the afternoon, and a small snack to put on the table is appreciated.
Would you please use commercially produced items for afternoon tea to work with COVID issues, and make it a small package and take home your leftovers.
All COVID regulations still apply, and it would be very pleasing if you could carry out the regulations set out by the authorities. I'm sure you know by now all that there is to consider.
Sanitizer will be available and an attendance page to fill in as well.
Bring along new and old toys to show, discuss, or talk to us about, and projects under way as well.
Anybody visiting in the area at the time is welcome to drop in for a radio rag chew and a drink.
Hope some have time to join us
73 Shirl VK7HSC
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH
SOTA/WWFF PARKS GROUP
The Summits On The Air/World Wide Flora and Fauna parks group is now meeting twice weekly – Mondays and Fridays 10.30AM till 12.00 at the Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry Street, Launceston.
For more information contact Al on 0417 354 410.
73, Al, VK7AN
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Northern Tasmanian Amateur Radio Club Incorporated
www.ntarc.net
It has again been a very quiet week on the news front, in actual fact we have no new news. Since there was no Tech night held this week we can move straight into upcoming and future events.
UPCOMING EVENTS
TECH NIGHT – Wednesday 30th June at the NTARC Club rooms, 19:30 hours until whenever. Continuous tea and coffee will be available, although again, a gold coin donation for the evening would be appreciated.
SLOW MORSE COURSE – Wednesday 30th June. Your host and teacher is Nic VK7WW. Frequencies and times are the same as were used by Nic for the previous TestNet and TechNet. And if you have forgotten what they were, here they are, 1900 hrs to 1930 hrs on 3.580 MHz and then at 1930hours through to about 2030 on 3.567MHz.
So why not tune in and give it a try. By the end of each week, between Morse Course Sessions, participants may have learned 12 characters. Then it’s time to practice them on air.
Nic will be explaining “how to have a contactö and the procedures and protocols. For those who may want some extra help, this website is reported as being very good. www.morsecodeclassnet.com
FUTURE EVENTS – Saturday 28 August, Equine Endurance ride, Santarena Park, Scottsdale. Plenty of warning to help out on this ride. Further information as it comes to hand.
COFFEE MORNINGS – currently held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Catch up time is from 10.00 am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all.
These coffee events in the past have been normally a good opportunity to collect your QSL cards. We currently have no cards awaiting collection.
Please demonstrate your appreciation of all the effort that goes into operating the club and its facilities and other services we provide by joining us at these sessions, enjoying the company, coffee and the cake and leaving a gold coin or two, or even a small bank note, in the jar to assist in our on-going operations. I don’t know of any other venue in Launceston where you can get endless coffee, tea and eats for a donation of this miniscule amount.
FINALLY – A reminder to all members that if you have any items of news you would like added to our weekly roundup, no matter how trivial, then please email me at the following address ntarc.emails(at)gmail.com, all items to be received no later than 17:00 on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
Your continued cooperation in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
We will bring you all such contributions next Sunday morning.
73, Yvonne VK7FYMX, Secretary NTARC Inc
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
https://www.reast.asn.au/
https://www.facebook.com/reasttas/
https://www.youtube.com/reasthobart/
July Presentation Night
Tasmanian Maritime Radio
Our July presentation night will be on the second Wednesday night - the 14th July from 7:30pm.
Barry McCann OAM will be doing a presentation on the Tas Maritime Radio Network that now covers all of Tasmania.
Barry will then do a tour of the operations room and the museum which is in the building next to our clubrooms.
This will be a fascinating presentation and tour and demystify our close neighbours and show the vast radio network that Tas Maritime is responsible for monitoring.
https://www.facebook.com/events/780741719283986/
73, REAST Committee
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August Presentation Night
Contesting on HF, VHF and above
REAST's August presentation night is all about contesting on HF and VHF and above.
With the Remembrance Day contest just around the corner (14/15 August 2021) we want to equip everyone with contesting skills to ensure they get the most out of their RD Contest experience.
Martin VK7GN will be giving us the High Frequency (HF) contesting low down and Richard VK7ZBX will be covering contesting on VHF and above frequencies.
A huge thank you to Martin and Richard.
See you there.
https://www.facebook.com/events/329823411883355/
73, REAST Committee
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Training and Assessments
REAST’s next Foundation Licence course and all licence assessment day is on Saturday the 31st July 2021 from 9am to 3pm.
If you are thinking of coming along then please let Reg Emmett VK7KK REAST Learning Organiser know ASAP that you will be coming along by phoning 0417 391 607 or email assessor(at)reast.asn.au.
Check out the REAST Foundation Licence Training Videos that can be found on the REAST YouTube Training and Assessment playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnsP_zjw831mdC6sY4XqavRUY-53ZWUn
Checkout the REAST Facebook page events for further details.
https://www.facebook.com/events/718404075716863/
73, Reg, VK7KK
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DATV Experimenter's Night
We started the DATV night with something a little different - Steve VK7OO started with a tribute to his Mum Pat VK2JPA. Pat was very well known in NSW and recently became Silent Key at the age of 91. Pat bought up five kids and was very interested in what her boys did and ended up very involved in many aspects of amateur radio in NSW which is attested by the many certificates and memberships of ARNSW, WICEN, Gladesville Amateur TV, ALARA and many other groups. Thanks Steve.
Steve then went on to give viewers a view of the New Zealand made in-road sensors that are used by Hobart City Council. This was a view inside these parking sensors - two lithium batteries, infrared sensors, PIC controller, magnetic sensor, LIPD 433MHz transceiver and PCB antenna. The unit draws 2 micro amps when asleep and lasts more than 12 months.
We then showed the latest SSTV images from the ISS received by Justin VK7TW and Steve described his simplified SDR arrangement with SSTV that he has been using to receive the images from the ISS and for his 20m SSTVCam.
https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php
We thank Trent VK7HRS who sent through a reference to the in-development Cariboulabs SDR hat for RaspberryPi - https://www.crowdsupply.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite
CaribouLite gives two Tx/Rx SDR channels: (1) 30-6000 MHz, and (2) Sub-1GHz. On the software side, Raspberry Pi’s high-level APIs like Soapy / GNU Radio, etc. are fully supported, through which the HAT’s complete feature-set can be accessed.
Justin then went into his latest dumpster dive and we presented a segment on Recover, Recycle, Reuse session and there were many ditched hospital drip pumps and Justin showed the complete unit and then the recovered useful items from them. This included a IEC mains cable, stepper motor, battery pack, SD card, springs, toothed belts, optical encoders, large LCD matrix screen, etc.
Peter VK7PD down in Hobart from the North and James came along to the night and Peter showed his 23, 13, 9 & 3cm transverter, IF Rig (FT-817), Kuhne & SG Labs transverters and Power amplifiers arrangement that he will be using with VK7DW and VK7JAM on the field day next weekend. Thanks Peter and James.
We finished up by reminding people of the VHF and above field day and the future presentation nights and finished with an outline of the videos for our RF viewers.
The video is available from the REAST YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTZpVOU3kU
This week we will have some interesting electronics which assists Bee Keeping, many different forms of RFID tags, some more dumpster diving with some very interesting linear actuators, magazine reviews and some more experiments with GNU Radio Companion. See you then.
We get underway from 7:30pm in the Queen’s Domain clubrooms.
Keep an eye on the REAST Facebook Events for more details. Why not come up to the Queens Domain COVID-safe clubrooms and see what we get up to.
And a reminder that we go out on RF on 445.5MHz DVB-T 7MHz Standard Definition. So, if you have a TV, Set-top box or USB DTV Dongle that you can tune and scan 445.5MHz and you can see the Queens Domain, then you have a good chance of receiving the DATV Experimenter's Night Signal.
Look out for VK7OTC. We also stream the nights on the REAST YouTube channel.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/live-stream/
https://www.reast.asn.au/special-interest-groups/amateur-tv/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ReastHobart/
73, Justin, VK7TW
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DATV News
SAVE THE DATE - DATV QSO Party 2021
Planning is underway for the annual DATV QSO Party and again it will be a global event!
Peter VK3BFG lets us know that planning is underway for the annual DATV QSO Party that will be held on Friday 27th August and Saturday 28th August, Eastern Australian Time.
Friday night will again be a VK occasion with stations working through their local repeaters as a priority to maximize the use of amateur radio. Saturday here will be Friday evening in the US and as usual we will start with stations more to the east and work our way over to the west coast.
Saturday evening here it is possible to work into the UK if Peter can find any stations who may be interested.
There will be Anchors who will be coordinating the various areas around VK, the US and the UK.
Zoom will be used as the Internet Backbone between countries and then put out on the various ATV networks around the world.
73 Peter VK3BFG
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Weak Signal News
New WSPR beacon rowing the Atlantic Ocean!
New start for Guirec.... After he rowed from the Canaries islands to the Caribbean - St Barth in a rowing boat. The second leg is from the U.S. to France and back home to Brittany!
Guirec said - I am so happy to begin this mythical adventure, I admit having shouted with joy as I rowed away in the fog, the result of an exhilarating feeling of being where I should be, even if I know it’s gonna be hard, I am ready!
So here we are, friends !! We will have to swallow miles at arm's length before seeing the familiar coasts of my adored Brittany take shape !!
On board the row boat is a small experimental beacon WSPR 1w on 10 MHz....callsign is F4GOH made by Anthony F4GOH and Maurice F6CIU from RadioAmateurs de Penn ar Bed , radio club association.
Take a look at the blog site to see the amazing amount of work that went into this expedition and specially kitted out boat that have been built to withstand this journey.
http://wsprnet.org/drupal/blog/43845
https://twitter.com/f6ciu
https://www.guirecsoudee.com/blog?lang=en
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2021/june/new-wspr-rowing-atlantic-ocean.htm
Sourced from the Southgate AR News
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Space News
MIR-SAT1 Deployed from the ISS
Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU reports it is official that MIR-SAT1, the first Mauritius Amateur Radio 3B8 satellite, was deployed from the ISS on June 22, 2021. The deployment was made using the robotic arm on the Japanese Experiment Module nicknamed Kibo.
MIR-SAT1 is a 1U CubeSat mission with the following objectives:
1. Verify the performance of the on-board subsystems by receiving telemetry from the satellite and establish communication to and from the satellite (command and control).
2. Collect images of Mauritius and the Mauritian EEZ for capacity, building, experiment and research.
3. Experimental communication with other islands via the satellite (for scientific and/or emergency purposes), through a Radio Amateur digipeater payload.
4. V/U 9600bps GMSK digipeater may be open for Radio Amateur communication worldwide when the satellite not used for all above.
Further details can be found at the website on the link in the email edition of the broadcast.
https://spacemauritius.com
There are also details on experimental decoders that are available.
Sourced from the AMSAT News Services
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Regular VK7 gatherings and events over the coming months:
Regular gatherings:
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
NTARC – Friday coffee session – Rocherlea clubrooms Launceston from 10:00am
NTARC - Tech Night sessions Wednesday 30th June - Rocherlea clubrooms Launceston
NTARC - Slow Morse Training Wednesday 30th June on Tech Net Frequencies
NW VK7 – Wednesday from 2000 local – NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net on VK7RMD
NW VK7 - Thursday commencing at 10:30 UTC (20:30 local) - N.W. Tassie 2m DX Net 144.190 USB (upper sideband).
REAST – MICROWAVE QSO Party – following after the Sunday broadcast on 1296.15 MHz FM.
REAST – WAGS – Wednesday Afternoon Group meet in the Queens Domain Clubrooms from 12 noon.
REAST – DATV Experimenter’s Nights from 7:30pm live in the club rooms also on DVBT RF and YouTube Streaming
Sewing Circle Net – Daily on 3.640 MHz commences at 5:00pm.
Events:
WIA - 26-27 June - WIA VHF and above Field Day 0100-0059 UTC
NW VK7 - 3 July - Chat and Show Gathering from 2pm at the Ulverstone Sports Complex in Flora St. West Ulverstone.
REAST - 14 July - Tas Maritime Radio Presentation and Tour of Facilities with Barry McCann from 7:30pm in Queens Domain clubrooms
REAST - 4 August - Contesting HF & VHF with VK7GN & VK7ZBX - Queens Domain clubrooms from 7:30pm
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A reminder to those people rostered for next week’s broadcast:
Newsreader: VK7TW
Repeaters: REAST, NTARC and in the NW thanks to NWTR&TVG, West Coast Radio Group, Cradle Coast Radio Amateur Radio Club, VK7AX, and VK7DC
160m: VK7GS
80m: VK7DG
40m: VK7TPE
20m: VK7ALH
10m: VK7JGD
DMR: Talk Group 5 and D-Star: Reflector 91C VK7ZCR
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You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RTC in Southern VK7.
A huge thank you to all people and organisations that assisted with this broadcast.
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That concludes our VK7 Amateur Radio News Broadcast for this week.
You have been listening to or have just missed VK7WI. Next week the National WIA news can be heard at 0900 followed by the VK7 Amateur Radio News around 0930 hours.
Items for the broadcast can be emailed to vk7arnews(at)gmail.com
Further information about the broadcast can be found at the VK7 Amateur Radio News Groups.IO Group.
https://groups.io/g/vk7arnews
The deadline for items is 21:00 on Friday prior to the Sunday of the broadcast.
VK7WI is now closing but will reopen shortly for callbacks and relay reports. Callbacks will be taken on the frequency to which you are listening. Relay stations will use their own callsigns during the callback.
On behalf of the VK7 Amateur Radio News Team it’s 73 from Rick, VK7RI.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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