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Foundations of Amateur Radio #168
How to start your own net …
In the past I’ve talked about a weekly net I run, called F-troop. It’s intended to be a place where new and returning amateurs find their feet, have a chat, test their gear, meet new friends, ask questions and sometimes get answers
ARISS contact planned for school in Australia
An International Space Station school contact has been planned for Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT with Glenden State School, Glenden, Queensland, Australia
Foundations of Amateur Radio #166
The mysterious three phase power …
There are times when you realise that you’ve always nodded your head when a particular topic came up and after doing that for long enough, you think you know what’s going on
Horus Binary Telemetry and FreeDV
David Rowe VK5DGR and Mark Jessop VK5QI have carried out the first flight test of their new MFSK Amateur Radio High-Altitude Ballooning telemetry modem
New Australian amateur radio representative body
The Radio Amateur Society of Australia Inc. (RASA). was formed in March 2018 to promote the hobby and represent amateurs to the Government regulator
Australian ham radio exam system under review
WIA Director Greg VK2GPK describes how changes proposed by regulator ACMA may impact the AOCP amateur radio exam process and callsign management
ARISS contact to be streamed live to the Internet
Essex Heights Primary School in Melbourne Australia is due for a scheduled contact with the ISS some time over the week of the 16th to 20th of July 2018
Interference a key issue for ACMA
Each year, Australia’s communications regulator, the ACMA, sets its priority compliance area (PCA) program for radiocommunications, which takes a strategic approach to their overall scheme and operational activities
Crickets, frogs and ham radio
What do crickets, frogs and grasshoppers have to do with ham radio?
Everything, if you ask the organizers of the School Holiday Electronics Workshops being offered for school kids in July
VK1 SOTA Winter QSO Party
The VK1 Winter SOTA QSO Party is popular with interstate activators seeking a boost to their S2S log
Station VK2KRR
Ham Radio/Blogs/Oceania
Station VK2KRRlocated at The Rock Hill, southern NSW, Australia. The station is located 222 masl. Locator is QF34mr.
Australian Ham Radio Licence Conditions Determination
In WIA News Robert VK3ARM provides an update on submissions to the ACMA consultation on amateur radio Licence Conditions Determination
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 10 June 2018 – History of AR Edition
A sky full of satellites, musings on the lot of the YL and the ACMA engaging us in a consultation. Not a bad mix. Welcome to NewsWest, the Amateur Radio news programme for the VK6 call area and beyond. I’m Bob, VK6POP, the NewsWest producer this week, and the team is Andrew, Onno and Glynn…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 157 Logging of a Different Kind
We as radio amateurs log things. We log our contacts, we log our progress towards an award, we log how many different countries we’ve contacted, which stations we heard with WSPR, how many kilometres we managed per watt, which stations were in a net, what callsigns received a QSL card, what location we’re in when…
Consultation on amateur radio qualifications
The Australian regulator ACMA is holding a public consultation on new approaches to amateur radio qualification arrangements
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 3 June 2018 – Club Focus Edition
Welcome to today’s NewsWest broadcast. It’s a pretty jam-packed 30 minutes. Once again, I’m Glynn, VK6PAW, your lucky producer this week. In this broadcast: It’s our CLUB FOCUS week, and we’ll hear from clubs around VK6 including Ham College and the NCRG, and of course – what’s been going on at WA Amateur Radio news.…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 156 – The Internet of Digital Radio
The topic of how radio evolves and embraces available technology is one that describes the hobby itself. From spark-gap through AM, SSB and FM our community picked up or invented solutions to make communication possible. When the internet came along it too became a tool ripe for picking and in 1997 a connection between a…
VK4DX/P Russell Island
Mike (VK4DX) is active as VK4DX/P from Russell Island, Southern Moreton Bay Islands OC-137, 1 to 3 Jun 2018.
Expulsion of members from the WIA
Many of you will have read with concern reports regarding the ‘expulsion’ of members from the WIA
Canberra runs arguably VK’s best ‘new comers net’
To our knowledge, Summerland Amateur Radio Club conducted VK’s first net for new hams. (Under the catchy ‘moniker’ of F-TROOP.) Well in Canberra their Foundation of F net is attracting newbies far and wide
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 155
How to find other Amateurs on Air Where are all the Amateurs is a question that I am asked regularly by new entrants into our community. The journey most new amateurs go through and the one I followed starts with becoming interested, getting a license, buying a radio, setting it up and then turning on…
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 20 May 2018 – New Amateurs Edition
In this broadcast: Are you new to the hobby of Amateur Radio? This week, Newswest welcomes newcomers to Amateur Radio. In this New hams edition of NewsWest, you’ll hear about new licenses granted to new and re-qualifying Amateurs, and words of wisdom and encouragement to New Hams, and a press release from the Radio Amateur…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 154 How does a waterfall display work?
With computers becoming more and more ensconced within the confines of our radio shack the variety of information available is increasing regularly. The introduction of a waterfall display has dramatically simplified the process of detecting what the activity level is on a particular band. If you’ve never seen a waterfall display, it’s often a real-time,…
VK9LI Lord Howe Island
VK Team will be active as VK9LI, from Lord Howe Island, IOTA OC – 004, 11 – 18 May 2018. [su_button url=”https://dxnews.com/vk9li/”]For the full article[/su_button]
VK5CE/6 IOTA Expedition
VK5CE/6 Craig, VK5CE inform dxnews.com that he will be active as VK5CE/6 From Woody Island, IOTA OC – 170, East Lewis Island, IOTA OC – 199, Direction Island, IOTA OC – 140, Cheyne Island, IOTA OC – 193, St Peter Island, IOTA OC – 220. [su_button url=”https://dxnews.com/vk5ce-6/”]For the full article[/su_button]
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 13 May 2018 – History of AR Edition
In this broadcast: It’s HISTORY week – and we head back to 1974, and before. To warm you up for your trip to the 2018 Gold Coast WIA extravaganza, Onno brings you a wrap of “WIA Convention #37” Bob discusses “A funny thing happened in the shack the other night” I’m shaking up a can…
The future of Ham Radio
Retiring WIA Vice President David Ford VK4MZ looks forward to a future where amateur radio is one of the fastest growing hobbies on the planet and Multi-operator contest stations are streamed live online via YouTube and Twitch …
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 153 Why do you contest?
The other week I participated in a contest. This particular contest was on the 80m band, around 3.5 MHz. The contest itself, while worthy of a mention, the Harry Angel Memorial Sprint, runs for 106 minutes and commemorates every year of Harry’s life, at the time, the oldest radio amateur in Australia. I made two…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 152 Preparation for an outing …
Previously I’ve talked about leaving your shack and setting up your station in a different location. I have my car configured as a mobile shack of sorts, that is, it’s got a radio, an antenna mount and wiring to manage the location of the speaker, the head-unit and the microphone. This weekend I’m planning to…
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 6 May 2018 – Club Focus Edition
In the news this week the Austravel Safety Net, the Friday Night Tech Net, something about French Renards, Ham College, a Homebrew club proposal and a brand new amateur club on Christmas Island. Welcome to the Club Focus edition of NewsWest. Also in the news an update on the WAARN broadcaster activity day, the AGM,…
ILLW involving the public at Point Lonsdale, Victoria
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum will again participate in International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) at this lighthouse with a number of activities being conducted in conjunction with the Geelong Amateur Radio club …
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 29 April 2018 – Clubs across Australia Edition
In this week’s special edition of NewsWest, we invited Amateur Radio clubs across Australia to tell us who they are and what they get up to. We are hoping that it will result in a better understanding of what makes other clubs tick, and to share ideas about what they get up to. This is…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 151 – SWR assumptions
In the past I’ve talked about the Standing Wave Ratio, the SWR, and how it describes some of the characteristics of your antenna system. I say system because it’s not just the antenna, it’s the connection between your radio and the antenna as well. The coax or feed line, their length and how you’ve connected…
Villa Griffoni Bologna: the birthplace of radio
Steve Ahern writes in Radio Info about his visit to Villa Griffoni where Guglielmo Marconi carried out his early experiments with radio
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WIA Annual Radio and Electronics Convention
Over on the Gold Coast the Commonwealth Games have drawn to a close just in time for the WIA Annual Radio and Electronics Convention (Including the WIA AGM) which is to be held on the 18th to 20th of May, 2018 …
VK6WIA NewsWest
In this Contesting edition of the news we look at upcoming contests and recent past experiences. There’s a reminder for HARGfest, notifications from Ham College, the WA VHF Group, and the Broadcaster get together with the NewsWest Team, plus more
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Foundations of Amateur Radio #150
Last week during F-troop something very interesting happened. If you’re not familiar with F-troop, it’s a weekly net for new and returning amateurs and every Saturday we welcome callers to the one hour net to discuss anything and everything amateur radio
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Radio pirate sentenced to 21 months
A man who broadcast spurious and potentially harmful calls on Victoria Police radio channels has been sentenced to 21 months’ jail
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Thelma Souper Memorial Contest
Thelma Souper worked to establish amateur radio as a hobby for women and to have women accepted as equals. She was instrumental in creating WARO, Women Amateur Radio Operators in New Zealand in 1962
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