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   The WIA Education Committee formed last year has been tasked with   
   providing training material to support WIA affiliated clubs with   
   their training endeavours.   
      
   To support WIA clubs a survey is to be emailed out seeking information   
   on the type of training material that may assist clubs with their   
   training programs.   
      
   The survey is not complicated and should only take a few minutes to   
   complete.   
      
   Please keep a watch on your inboxes for the survey.   
      
   Completed surveys can emailed to   
   vk1wx@wia.org.au   
      
   Amanda Hawes VK1AH/VK1WX   
   Chair & Secretary   
   WIA Education Committee   
      
   (text edition only)   
      
   LEARN THE SUBTLE ART OF BALUN BUILDING   
      
   The next ARNSW Buildathon will be on Sunday the 13th of October at   
   Dural.   
      
   After previous Balun Buildathon, ARNSW received requests to include   
   some Balun Accessories; so, this will be a Baluns and more   
   Buildathon.   
      
   Along with the kits, suitable to make either a 1:1 or 4:1 balun,   
   there are parts available to make something to connect to your balun   
   as well.   
      
   Kevlar-cored antenna wire will be available. This wire is lighter than   
   solid core copper wire and stronger, too. It can be used to make   
   dipoles and many other kinds of wire antenna.   
      
   An introductory technical presentation will provide an overview of   
   balun principles, balun kit assembly and some information on dipole   
   antennas, to assist in construction and use of your balun, antenna   
   or both. ARNSW also have facilities to test your balun and antenna   
   before leaving on the day.   
      
   Participants are requested to bring their own hand tools and soldering   
   stations if they have them  although a small number will be available   
   for shared use.   
      
   Balun kits and wire must be pre-ordered, but you can pay for your   
   items on the day. To register your interest email   
      
   events@arnsw.org.au   
      
   (sourced to VK2WI News)   
   DARLING DOWNS   
      
   Also on the education front, DDARCinc's  14 October meeting   
   will feature another "how to do it" session. They're talking "Makers".   
      
   John VK2 tells us more.   
      
   "We've invited Toowoomba's Maker Queen, Steph Piper - Head of the   
   UniSQ Maker Space, and a leader in Australia's wearable electronics   
   maker community.  Steph will show us how 3D printing works, and what   
   we can do with it.   
      
   Steph Piper is one of an emerging breed of technologists.  Steph is   
   focused on how to merge creative arts and electronics, and she's   
   passionate about passing important skills to kids.   
      
   Steph also creates Soldering kits that help introduce people to the   
   world of electronics.  You might just take away an inspirational idea   
   for a birthday or Christmas present for the younger people in your   
   family.   
      
   Come along to the Darling Downs Radio Club's next monthly meeting at   
   7pm 14 October at the Toowoomba Library - everyone is welcome.   
      
   ddrci.org.au and all the detail is on the home page under Coming   
   Events.   
      
   I'm John VK4JPM, Secretary of the Darling Downs Radio Club.   
      
   Thanks John and we'll have more on this gathering during QNEWS from   
   VK4WIA straight after WIA NATIONAL NEWS.   
   Submitting news items   
      
   If you would like to submit news items for possible inclusion   
   in the VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to   
   nationalnews@wia.org.au   and don't JUST send url's links or   
   posters, but take the time to pen YOUR contribution.   
      
   BUT WE ARE AN AUDIO NEWS SERVICE SO UNLESS YOU ONLY OPERATE FT8   
   MICROPHES AT THE READY AND THESE DAYS ALL MOBILE OHONES HAVE AN AUDIO   
   RECORDER.. AS 75% OF OUR CORRESPONDENTS USE.   
   To submit audio, email nationalnews@wia.org.au   
   and send BOTH the audio and the text   
      
   We would appreciate items certainly no longer than 1.5 mts in   
   length as we only have a half hour.   
      
   Remember the sooner you submit material the more the   
   likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition of   
   WIA National News.   
      
   Each recorded item will only 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. (First if YOU are   
   reading your own item).  If you are mentioning your own name / call   
   in the story, say something like "and myself, Pat, vk11abc"   
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   INTERNATIONAL NEWS is 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.   
      
   August edition of the IARU Monitoring System newsletter   
      
   The August edition of the IARU Monitoring System Region 1 newsletter   
   features reports of new intruder activity on the 10-metre band.   
   The report cites erratic behaviour of military radar type signals that   
   make it hard to avoid on the band.   
      
   Normally a quiet month in radio terms, radar-based intruders continued   
   to dominate reports across all bands monitored. The reports provide   
   detailed insights regarding intruders on the amateur radio bands and   
   offer details of what to look out for.   
      
   You can download the newsletter as well as previous editions from the   
   Monitoring System Region 1 page ON   
      
   iaru-r1.org   
   The BBC is looking to make its podcasts and other content delivered   
   via BBC Sounds more accessible to people who are deaf or have hard of   
   hearing issues. To achieve, the broadcaster is turning to generative   
   AI technology.   
      
   Beginning on Aug. 29, 2024, the BBC brings subtitling to the BBC   
   Sounds app for a three-month trial. According to a blog post from   
   Aniruddh Dimri, head of product for BBC Sounds, manually captioning   
   the 27,000 hours of content produced monthly for BBC Sounds would be   
   both time consuming and prohibitively expensive.   
   Instead, Dimri wrote, we have been looking at whether AI can help us   
   add high quality, accurate subtitles to our audio content.   
      
   BBC is using Whisper AI, an automatic speech recognition system.   
   EXPLODING PAGERS - RF ACTIVATED?   
      
   BEIRUT (AP)   
      
   Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah   
   exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing   
   at least nine people and wounding several thousand, officials said.   
      
   Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared   
   to be a sophisticated, remote attack.   
      
   The pagers that blew up had apparently been acquired by Hezbollah   
   after the groups leader ordered members in February to stop using   
   cell phones, warning they could be tracked by Israeli intelligence.   
   A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the pagers were   
   a new brand but declined to say how long they had been in use.   
      
   How did the pagers explode?   
      
   We still dont know.   
      
   BUT   
      
   We do know the day after what appears to be ICOM hand held walkie   
   talkies exploded.   
      
   Some speculation has focused on the radio network that pagers rely on,   
   suggesting that it may have been hacked, causing the system to emit a   
   signal that triggered a response within the already doctored pagers.   
      
   On Tuesday, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded   
   simultaneously, killing 12 people and wounding up to 2,800 others   
   a day later, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when   
   the walkie-talkies exploded.   
      
   The devices, according to photos and video of the aftermath of the   
   attack, appear to be IC-V82 transceivers made by Icom BUT Icom says   
   it hasnt produced or exported IC-V82s, nor the batteries needed to   
   operate them, for 10 years.   
      
   As an on going breaking news story we suggest you google authorised   
   news services to "stay abreast" (cnn/ny times/guardian etc etc etc)   
      
   HOLLAND   
      
      
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