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Text edition: Weekly news from the WIA:

MP3 edition of news available at: 
http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2020-03-29.mp3 


Text edition:
March 29 2020 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA

 
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2020 MARCH 29 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA

 

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 THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK

 Oh... and to contact us with your news because
 If It Matters To You It Matters To Us!

 Email nationalnews @ wia.org.au 
 wia.org.au click news in member area & submit your audio 

 Please... If you are only submitting text and not audio, NEVER send
 just links & url's but write your story as you would expect to hear
 it being read back. 

 Click the links below to download the most recent edition of
 National News, BUT this is ONLY the backup site!

 wiaq.org.au/ftp/wianews_128.mp3 (28 megs)
 
 wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/ (This is the link
 to the original text version and original audio on wia site)


 THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN
 youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVYaqjM0J64B7W_FUGfpkzNF0O_21cu__


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 NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING MARCH 29 - 2020
 IN OUR 25th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS
  
 WIA called on to help CubeSats & the Radio Amateur Service.

 
 THIS & MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
 WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA 


 As the world below wrestles with this deadly pandemic, a message of
 hope and concern is being delivered from above, from an amateur radio
 satellite using APRS, Automatic Packet Reporting System.

 The satellite is LAPAN-A2 and the text message it is sending on
 2 metres says simply this: [quote] "Stay Healthy, Stay at Home
 hashtag LawanCorona." [endquote]  

 News of the message was posted on the website of Indonesia's amateur
 radio society ORARI. Hams throughout Indonesia who have their
 APRS-equipped HTs tuned to the frequency of 145.825 are received
 the message, a plea from Sonny Dwi Harsono, a researcher at the
 Centre for Satellite Technology. He said it was being sent in support
 of government policies encouraging social distancing.

 The Indonesian microsatellite has been in orbit since 2015.

 orari.or.id/index.php/2020/03/20/satelit-lapan-a2-lapan-orari-sebarkan-pesan-lawan-corona/





 Another satellite of interest is set to launch from New Zealand 
 No earlier than March 30 

 Yes the M2 Pathfinder Satellite Launch is imminent

 M2 Pathfinder is a collaboration between the University of
 New South Wales, Canberra Space and the Australian Government.

 It will test communications architecture and other technologies that
 will assist in informing the future space capabilities of Australia.

 The satellite will demonstrate the ability of an on-board
 software-based radio to operate and reconfigure while in orbit and
 speaking of SDR's Col VK3GTV will have more on this type of radio
 when he joins the team during Special Interest Group News in this
 bulletin.

 The M2 mission has been named "Stop Me" in recognition of
 Rocket Lab board member and avid Queen fan Scott Smith, who recently
 passed away.

 Now we might not be able to GET to NZ these days but a live stream
 of the launch will be available.

 rocketlabusa.com/live-stream and Rocket Lab's YouTube channel.

 Complete information on the mission is available at 
 rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/.

 (AMSAT-NA)






 WIA

 Not a WIA Member? details email nationaloffice @ wia.org.au
 OR the link on bottom right of wia.org.au
 wia.memnet.com.au/MemberSelfService/NewMemberForm/WIA/NewMemberForm.aspx


 WIA board minutes can be found on wia.org.au click 
 WIA Information.

 Directors heard usually as follows
  Greg VK2GPK (President),  Peter VK8ZZ (Secretary),
  Mike VK8MA, Aidan VK4APN, John VK4JJW

 This is Greg VK2GPK with this week's WIA board comment. 

 CubeSats & the Radio Amateur Service. This week's board comment
 is about the WIA's contribution to Australian research into
 space communications in assisting Curtin University in
 Western Australia.. 

 Curtin University and the University of Western Australia have
 recently launched AROSE "the Australian Remote Operations For Space
 and Earth consortium" with the partnership including universities,
 the state government of Western Australia and industry partners
 Woodside, Fugro and Nova Systems. 

 Curtin's contribution to the program is the development of CubeSats:
 tiny sized but fully functioning satellites that West Australian
 Scientist of the year Professor Phil Bland describes as
 "about the size of a small sandwich". 

 Each CubeSat has all the systems required to operate, including the
 power, computer, steering and communications, making it efficient
 and light weight less than 2kg.

 The university expects to send its lightweight CubeSat on a supply
 rocket destined for the the International Space Station (ISS) later
 this year. Unlike many CubeSats, Curtin's is the result of intensive
 testing to understand the limits of the technology.

 How is the WIA involved? 

 The WIA has facilitated the allocation of appropriate radio spectrum
 and channels for this research endeavour. The IARU (International
 Amateur Radio Union) has global responsibility for allocating the
 radio channels to be used for experimental satellites. The WIA is a
 member of the IARU , and is the only Australian national association
 of Radio Amateurs recognized by the IARU.   The WIA was contacted by
 Curtin University to approach the IARU on its behalf to seek
 approval for the appropriate RF allocation for their satellite.  

 The WIA has been successful in gaining that approval which was
 passed onto the ACMA a few days ago. The satellite will operate
 in the 70cm band.

 Until next time
  
 This is Greg VK2GPK, on behalf of the WIA board.





 Apologies for so little info on the following items but in short

 WIA office is only open for non essential visitations and those
 people must telephone ahead

 WIA QSL bureau is taking a break from operations
 
 WIA Poll result showed almost 60% of preferences were for Option 1:
 Allow any operator to have any 3 letter callsign.

 WIA advise AMC to resume remote assesments Wednesday  

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 INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club,
 ARRL, RAC, NZART AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE & the World Wide sources of

 CORONA VIRUS: HOW IS THE IARU ADJUSTING TO COVID-19? 

 Don Beattie, G3BJ provides an update on how the IARU is dealing, as
 of 19 March, with the restrictions now in place to slow the spread
 of COVID-19. On the IARU Region 1 site he writes that the ITU has
 cancelled some meetings, postponed others and converted still others
 into E-meetings with no in-person dimension.

 ITU Headquarters in Geneva is not accessible to visitors until
 17 April at the earliest.

 The largest amateur radio gathering in Europe, Ham Radio in
 Friedrichshafen, Germany, is still scheduled for 26 to 28 June
 and plans are going forward for a two-part IARU stand, including
 a dedicated one for youth. Whether the event will take place is
 unknown at this time.

 The IARU Region 1 Executive Committee was scheduled to meet on
 17 to 19 April. A series of virtual meetings will be held instead.

 
 IARU Region 2 was planning workshops on Emergency Communications and
 Satellite Communications in Trinidad & Tobago on 30 and 31 May
 but has announced that the workshops will be held online instead.
 Interest and registrations have surged since that announcement.

 These workshops will be held in English but preparations are
 underway for workshops in Spanish to be held later.





 SPAIN

 In a truly great initiative Spain's URE makes their magazine PDF
 freely available!

 Spain's national amateur radio society is making the PDF of the
 April edition of their magazine Radioaficionados available to all
 
 Following a Royal Decree on March 14 the Postal Service in Spain
 has been suspended making it impossible for the URE to distribute
 the paper edition of the magazine. In response the URE has decided
 to make the magazine PDF freely available.

 Download "Abril 2020 Revista" from  
 ure.es/descargas/?categoria=revistas#

 URE in Google English 
 tinyurl.com/SpainURE

 Hot on URE's offer comes news that CQ Magazine will offer free issues.

 In view of the "stay at home and flatten the curve" recommendations
 from the health experts during this worldwide pandemic, CQ would
 like to give everyone the opportunity to escape the c-19 news alerts
 for a brief period and enjoy the hobby they love through the pages
 of CQ!

 View the March and April issues of CQ magazine at no charge! 

 It's easy, simply send an E-mail to FreeIssues@cq-amateur-radio.com
 and they'll send you the March issue now and the April issue on
 April 1st!

 Take advantage of this opportunity to read CQ - free of charge - and
 keep connected with the latest trends and activities in amateur radio

 Stay home . . stay well!




 USA

 LOUISIANA HAM FINED $18,000 BY FCC

 An amateur radio operator faces this fine in the latest enforcement
 action by the FCC.

 FCC ordered the $18,000 forfeiture for what the bureau said is
 intentional interference with a local repeater. 

 The bureau said that the resident is in violation of Section 333 of
 the Communications Act of 1934.

 Agents are claiming he caused the interference using digital noise
 and also failed to identify himself by giving his call sign.





 Who among us hasn't experienced the frustration of RFI? 

 Now add the Seattle Police Department to that roster.

 When Washington State Department of Transportation opened its new
 tunnel on State Route 99 the tunnel was heralded as a long-awaited
 remedy to the snarl of downtown Seattle's traffic.

 Little did Seattle officials know that other unwanted traffic was 
 waiting - specifically on the radios of some of the city's police
 officers.

 It was RFI which, according to accounts in local media, at times
 reduced everything to static or scrambled signal for some officers.
 Those members of the force said it hampered their ability 

 The city of Seattle sent staffers out to pin down the source.
 According to a report on the KTTH Talk Radio website the
 interference was eventually traced to the tunnel itself, which was
 built with an array of high-tech safety and operating features.

 Transportation officials have described the project as
 [quote] "one of the smartest tunnels ever built." [endquote]

 Apparently it just wasn't smart enough to solve this mystery on its
 own--'Tunnel Vision?'





 UK
 
 In another  great initiative the RSGB launch's coronavirus updates
 page

 The RSGB has launched a new Coronavirus updates web page to serve
 their (and I guess all) radio amateurs 

 The Society Tweeted: 

 These are challenging times. However, licensed radio amateurs have a
 great way of keeping in touch across the world. RSGB has launched
 a new Coronavirus updates page, bringing together some positive 
 ideas as well as our important announcements: 

 rsgb.org/main/news/coronavirus-updates/





 WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

 In 'breaking news' Telecommunications experts are researching ways to
 make communications safer in these uncertain times.

 Currently under test is the bandwidth of Single Sideband contacts
 and how narrow can bandwidth be made before the limits of
 social distancing come into force. Some researchers are uncertain
 if 25 or 12.5kHz is safe while others have found that 6.25kHz is safe
 enough while 3.125kHz comes dangerously close to the unsafe limit.

 We've reported - you decide - how silly that was.

 (written by vk4zz from an item by vk4ab)


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 HAM RADIO OPERATIONAL NEWS - IT'S A CONTACT SPORT    
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------  

 CONTEST RULES CHANGES
 
 As a result of the UK government's recent advice on social distancing
 the RSGB HF Contest and VHF Contest Committees have decided, sensibly,
 that, with immediate effect and until the end of June 2020, they will
 no longer accept multi-operator contest entries for any RSGB
 Contest.

 Single operator entries from shared stations will also not
 be accepted, unless the station is being shared by family members
 living at the same postal address.

 In early June they will decide if the IOTA Contest and other events
 can go ahead as planned.

 (SARL)





 IARU Contests

 Field days bring radio amateurs together and therefore represent an
 environment where social distancing is difficult to achieve. We must
 recognise that many radio amateurs are in the older, higher risk age
 groups.

 IARU asks national societies which promote field days and
 multi-operator contests to reconsider their position on these events
 for the next few months of 2020. 

 Field days are essentially team contests, and so IARU will not
 sponsor the Region 1 HF-CW Field Day in June.

 It is a matter for national societies to decide whether and how they 
 continue with their national field day events. 

 IARU Region 1 believes more generally that multi-operator contests
 are not consistent with the principle of ”social distancing” and
 should not be promoted at this time, as mentioned in my earlier RSGB
 item. 

 Single operator contests, however, remain a great way for those
 forced to stay at home to enjoy the magic of amateur radio!
 
 (Don Beattie, G3BJ President IARU Region 1 via SouthGate)

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 AM and CW on ANZAC Day, 25th April 2020

 While news is coming in about ANZAC Day Ceremonies in 2020 sensibly
 being cancelled to restrict the spread of COVID-19 and to protect
 veterans health, one event will be going ahead regardless as it meets
 all the requirements for social distancing whilst still honouring
 all who have served both fallen and alive.

 The AM and CW on ANZAC Day event will again take to the air for the
 9th year to honour those modes used by service personnel in earlier
 wars. 

 And don't forget this nice thought for ANZAC Day 2020 from
 RSL Queensland - At 6am on the 25th April householders to walk to
 the end of their driveway for 2 minutes silence. If you are in an
 apartment block, and that drive is seeing to many other people, 
 stand on your balcony!

  --------------

 This weekend of March 28-29 sees the CQ World Wide WPX Contest
 for amateurs world-wide to contact as many amateurs and prefixes
 as possible during the contest using the SSB mode.

  --------------

 Harry Angel Sprint Saturday May 2nd 2020. 10:00 - 11:46 UTC. 

  --------------

 May 30-31 the CQ World Wide WPX Contest for amateurs worldwide to
 contact as many amateurs and prefixes as possible during the contest
 using CW.

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 The VK SHIRES the June long weekend, which is the weekend prior to the
 second Monday of June each year.. making it June 6 - 7 in 2020 

  --------------

 IARU HF World Championship July 13-14

  --------------

  TRANS TASMAN LOWBAND CONTEST
 
  Next contest - 17 JUL 2020 - and has the aim of encouraging
  Low Band activity between VK and ZL on 160 80 and 40M using
  SSB, CW and RTTY OR PSK 

  --------------

 RD or Remembrance Day Contest will be August 15 - 16 

  --------------


 OCEANA CONTEST

 VOICE from 0800 UTC Saturday October 3 to 0800 UTC Sunday October 4 

 CW from 0800 UTC Saturday October 10 to 0800 UTC Sunday October 11
 

  --------------

 CQ WW DX SSB OCTOBER 24-25

  --------------

 CQ WW DX CW NOVEMBER 28-29

  --------------

 December 6 - 8 160 Meter WW

  --------------

 DECEMBER 14 - 15 10 Mtr World Wide

  --------------

 TED POWELL MEMORIAL DX CHALLENGE

 4 award periods, each of 3 months starting in January of each 
 calendar year and 2 categories in the contest,
 MOST WANTED and TOP 5.

 Top 5 you try and work the 5 most wanted DXCC entity's
 Most Wanted you work the most wanted DXCC entity.
 
 The dx entity's in play are those most wanted DURING those
 3 month windows.

 Complete details can be found at contest.fgarc.org.au/


  --------------

 All major AUSTRALIAN contests, rules and results, are on the
 Contest Section of the WIA website.

 wia.org.au/members/contests/about



***********************

 AND WITH A THUD WE CLOSE THE DX WINDOW

 Due to travel restrictions around the world changing daily
 no DXpedition or similar news will be propagated.

 When the situation changes, and I have no doubt it will, the
 we'll open the DXWINDOW again.


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 WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS



 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF
 WIA ARDF COORDINATOR VK3WWW  Jack vk3www@wia.org.au
 http://users.mackay.net.au/~ron/
 http://www.homingin.com
 http://www.ardf.org.au 

 This is Jack VK3WWW WIA ARDF Coordinator with an ARDF update. 

 With all the local and International Ham related events being
 postponed or even cancelled ARDF has also been effected.

 IARU Region 1 have advised that the 20th IARU World ARDF Championships
 that were planned to be held in Zlatibor Serbia in August and 
 September 2020 are to be either postponed or cancelled. Chairman of
 the IARU Region 1 Working Group has advised ARDF Coordinators from
 all IARU Member Societies with some suggestions for them to consider.

 Local news.
 This week it was announced that the SERG Hamfest and Australian
 Foxhunting Championships to be held Mount Gambier South Australia
 over the Queens Birthday long weekend in June 2020 have also been
 cancelled. This is a shame for the SERG Hamfest and Foxhunts are one
 of the longest continuously running hamfests in Australia. Local
 Orienteering events are also cancelled for time being. Although they
 are not Ham Radio events here in VK3 most of the Victorian ARDF
 Group events are run in conjunction with orienteering events so,
 without Orienteering we will probably have to cancel any proposed
 events. 

 I do hope you are all staying safe and self isolating as much as you
 can. As mentioned on WIANews before it is a good time to get some
 shack jobs done or even antenna work happening. Personally I have
 been in the workshop working on a new ARDF antenna design and 
 finishing off a few ARDF GPS Locked Start Clocks. As a side project
 I am also working on getting my HF trap dipole back up in the air.

 HI





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- APRS

 I remind those of the APRS story from Indonesia that our Editor VK4BB
 brought us at the 'top of the 'cast.' That of the amateur radio
 satellite  LAPAN-A2 using APRS on 145.825 and the text message
 it is sending saying simply:-
 "Stay Healthy, Stay at Home hashtag LawanCorona."





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS  ATV (Every pixel tells a story) -
 arvideonews.com
 hamradiotube.com
 youtube.com 
 qdg.org.au 

 youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVYaqjM0J64B7W_FUGfpkzNF0O_21cu__

 THAT LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN


 So many pro-active groups helping us through this period and one 
 is the BATC

 An announcement from them says: 

 "In order to support the worldwide amateur radio community 
 during the COVID-19 virus pandemic, BATC is offering free use
 of the BATC Video Streaming Service and chat facility to any
 radio club or group of radio amateurs which can be viewed using
 a standard browser on any device including mobiles and tablets. 

 This will enable clubs to hold virtual meetings with HD video
 and audio streaming and a membership chat window for real time
 feedback and discussion. To enable this, we are offering free
 1 year "cyber membership" to any radio club or group of 
 radio amateurs. 

 See the full BATC announcement at 
 wiki.batc.org.uk/Radio_Club_membership_2020

 (SouthGate) 





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FEMALES IN RADIO. 

 Women radio hams majority in LABRE-MA board

 LABRE MA amateur radio society in Brazil has announced its new board,
 the majority of whom are women 
 
 A translation of the announcement on the LABRE site reads: 

 I don't remember seeing a board with its majority formed from YLs.
 Congratulations and our best wishes for success. 

 We invite everyone to visit our website labre-ma.org.br there you
 will find all the directors. 





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER
 AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary @ amsat-vk.org

 Official QO-100 International Emergency Frequency

 In order to coordinate potential emergency communications in this
 troubled time, a frequency has been assigned as the international
 emergency frequency on the QO-100 geostationary satellite
 narrow band transponder 

 QO-100 International Emergency Frequency
 Downlink: 10489.860 MHz
 Uplink: 2400.360 MHz
 SSB channel: max. 2.7kHz bandwidth

 All users on QO-100 are encouraged to monitor this frequency
 but keep it clear for emergency traffic!

 QO-100 Information 
 amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/





 Students at a number of universities in the United States received 
 word recently that their CubeSats were selected among the 18
 approved by NASA for launch in the next few years. The design teams
 are at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Rice University in
 Houston, Dartmouth College, the University of California, Berkeley,
 the University of Florida and the Massachusetts Institute of
 Technology.

 The Tuscaloosa project, known as BAMA-1, will test so-called
 "drag sails" that are capable of taking small satellites out of
 orbit -- a benefit when spacecraft want to leave orbit easily and
 reduce the risk of becoming space debris that could collide with 
 other spacecraft.

 The Rice University CubeSat will analyse the relationship between
 solar activity and the Earth's lower atmosphere.

 The CubeSat from MIT and the University of Florida will send and
 receive laser communications as a way of helping create future
 communications relays and satellite constellations.

 (ARNewsLine)





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO
 IARU REGION 3
 Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies  
 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz        
      

 IARU Region 1  3760  7110  14300  18160  21360 kHz

 IARU Region 2  3750  3985  7060  7240  7275  14300  18160  21360 kHz

 QO-100 International Emergency Frequency
 Downlink: 10489.860 MHz
 Uplink: 2400.360 MHz
 SSB channel: max. 2.7kHz bandwidth



 In the USA, the pandemic has reaffirmed the need for a special net
 created 18 years ago. Kevin Trotman N5PRE explains.

 "Created in 2002, the Georgia Hospital Net connects about 40 
 hospitals in the state, along with nursing homes, and operators are 
 ready to respond in a crisis. During every hurricane that has struck
 the region in the past few years, hams were on the air handling
 emergency traffic. But even Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful
 storm of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season, was nothing compared to
 the COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant concerns.

 According to the hospital net's manager Stephen Jonas K4SDJ, hams 
 activated the net on the 13th of March after the Section Emergency 
 Coordinator said there was a need for a welfare net. Stephen told 
 NewsLine that just hours later, 56 operators checked into the 80m net 
 that was activated covering the whole state of Georgia. Information
 was passed on the status of water, power, landline and cellphone
 service as well as internet, schools, government services and area
 businesses.

 For Amateur Radio NewsLine I'm Kevin Trotman N5PRE.





 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- SDR

 There's good news for fans of software-defined radio:

 SDR's advanced technology has driven the expansion of the market
 where it is expected to be worth 39.6 billion U.S. dollars within
 the next seven years. 

 That's a compound annual growth rate of 8.7 percent between now 
 and 2027.

 Hams aren't the only ones capitalizing on the radios' usefulness for 
 long-range communications. SDR is expected to grow for military use
 in the United States, South Korea, here in Australia along with
 Japan and Germany as defence technologies around the world continue
 to modernize.

 There is also growth in more commercial usage.

 According to a report in Globe Newswire, SDR is being seen as the
 basis for digital TV, video-streaming and commercial radio broadcasts
 and a number of 5G mobile network trials being conducted between
 3.5 GHz and 25 GHz are also making use of SDR.

 (ARNewsLine)





 WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- YOTA
 (Youngsters On The Air)


 A Youth Net meets Saturdays at 0100 UTC on IRLP Reflector #2.
 Young Hams Net 3.590 - 7:30pm Victorian time. 
 http://www.ham-yota.eu/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/youngstersontheair
 http://www.arrl.org/youth-nets

 The first EVER IARU Region 3 (our own Asia/Pacific area)
 Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) camp due to take place in Thailand
 October has been cancelled due to COVID-19.
 The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST) sponsors of the event
 would also like to remind everyone that amateur radio is a great
 hobby --- because we can operate our radios without having to leave
 the safety of our homes.

 (RAST and YOYA region 3)



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 2020 Social Scene

 Due to the COVID-19 situation, and all repeat ALL social gatherings
 canned for the time being we will not publish any existing ham
 gatherings due to take place before November.

 HOWEVER please check any event you may be interested in direct
 for up-to-date status information.

 As soon as you ARE aware that your event is going to go ahead get
 details in to nationalnews @ wia.org.au

 So again, at this point of time assume all gatherings postponed or
 off until November 2020



 VK7 - VK7 biennial HamFest November                           (vk7tw)


 Hi, this is Shirley VK5YL on behalf of the ALARA Committee.

 Due to the current situation with the Corona virus, and after
 careful consideration, the recommendation of the ALARAmeet committee,
 have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we should postpone the
 2020 ALARAmeet until 2021.
 
 We realise that it is still too early to know the real outcome, but
 some information advises that the Corona virus may still be around
 until August and given the average age of our attendees, we think
 that many of them will still be reluctant to travel by early October. 
 So, we have re-booked the Shamrock Hotel for October the 1st  through
 to the 4th, 2021 and very much hope that you will join us then.

 If you have booked accommodation with the Shamrock, you might want to
 check with them and possibly re-book for next year.  They are not
 charging for cancellations and re-bookings.

 We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused and
 look forward to cat be broadcast once, if you want a couple of
 mentions, please submit different slants to keep your event 'fresh'
 and always if the news room is to read your item ---
 write it in the 3rd person.

 
 A reminder when supplying HamFest info we obviously can't plug
 DEALS from commercial traders "on air", but we at the WIA will put
 your supporters 'goods' in this text edition "no worries."

 We cannot give blatant 'plugs' to raffles. 

 
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