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   The IARU CQP will be held for nine days, beginning Saturday 12 April and   
   ending Sunday 20 April. This event will celebrate 100 years of the IARU   
      
   (sarl)   
      
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   HARRY ANGEL MEMORIAL 80 Meter Sprint, Saturday May 3.     (vk4uh)   
      
   wia.org.au/members/contests/harryangel/   
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   VK Shires Contest  7th - 8th June 2025   
      
   wia.org.au/members/contests/wavks/   
      
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   NZ Straight Key Night   
      
   Next New Zealand Straight Key Night will be held Sunday 8 June   
   from 9pm to 10pm NZDT (0800 to 0900 UTC) on 80 metres.   
      
   (Neil ZL1NZ, SKN Manager)   
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   IARU HF World Championship.   
      
   The 24-hour IARU HF World Championship starts at 12 HUNDRED UTC on   
   Saturday 12 July and ends at 11:59 UTC on Sunday 13 July.   
      
   This annual contest supports amateur self-training in radio   
   communications, improving operating skills, conducting technical   
   investigations and inter-communicating with other amateurs around   
   the world using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 metre bands   
      
   (SARL)   
      
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   Trans-Tasman Low Band Contest - 19 JUL 2025   
      
   The Trans-Tasman contest, held on the 3rd weekend in July, aims to encourage   
   Low Band activity between VK and ZL   
      
      
   Only contest bands 160 80 and 40M are allowed with SSB, CW and Digital (RTTY   
   OR PSK)   
      
      
   wia.org.au/members/contests/transtasman/   
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   FEBRUARY 2025   
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   PC 80 TT is the special callsign for members of VERON Leiden to celebrate   
   the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands during   
   World War II (5 May 1945).   
      
   Look for activity now until June One   
      
   QSL PC80TT via the bureau to PI4LDN.   
      
   The special call sign honours the memory of Rudolf Tappenbeck (PCTT),   
   a pioneer of Dutch amateur radio who died in Neuengamme concentration   
   camp 1944.   
      
   (425dxn)   
      
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   Our I.A.R.U. celebrates its centenary this year (2025).   
      
   Since its founding in Paris, France, IARU has worked tirelessly to   
   promote innovation in amateur radio and to encourage the growth of   
   the service in communities throughout the world.   
      
   VI 100 IARU is a special event callsign transmitting from VK3 to help   
   celebrate the IARU Centennial.   
      
   Try as we may, and our Editor Graham VK4BB has tried, we will endeavour to   
   find out more about this "almost rogue" special event.   
      
   qsl via MO 0 OXO   
   A 9 100 IARU is the special callsign for the Bahrain Amateur Radio   
   Society to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International   
   Amateur Radio Union. Look for activity for five days each month   
   (which days don't ask me! HiHi)  during 2025. QSL via EC6DX.   
      
   (qrz.com / 425 dx news))   
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   This year the SARL is on the air with special event callsign   
   ZS 100 SARL as the society celebrates their centenary of organised   
   amateur radio activity in South Africa.   
      
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   Don, KW7R is active as V73KW from the Marshall Islands in the north   
   western Pacific Ocean. He is there on a work assignment until   
   September and in his spare time, he operates CW and FT8 on various bands.   
      
   QSL V73KW via Logbook of the World.   
      
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   British Railways Amateur Radio Society is running special event stations   
   GB0LMR and GB2SDR during 2025 to celebrate 200 years of train travel.   
   Operation will be mainly focused on 40m but there may be additional   
   activity on other bands.   
      
   QSL via the Bureau.   
      
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   Over in "the Motherland", the RSGBs weekly news broadcast GB2RS is   
   celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. As part of the celebrations,   
   special callsign GB70RS is active throughout the year. The callsign is   
   being operated by radio amateurs who help to deliver GB2RS each week and   
   could include Newsreaders and RSGB Headquarters staff.   
      
   Unlike here in VK , in the UK RSGB have to have separate news readers for   
   each frequency.   
      
   You can listen out for RSGB operators on all modes and all bands, with   
   activity taking place at any time, although you are particularly likely to   
   hear them before and after the GB2RS broadcasts.   
      
   Find out more via the GB70RS page at QRZ.com   
      
   (rsgb)   
      
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   Special event station LZ 75 IPA is active right throughout 2025   
   celebrating the 75th anniversary of the International Police   
   Association.   
      
   QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or direct to LZ 3 HI.   
      
   (425 dx news )   
      
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   Lonar Meteor Lake Special Event AU 6 LON.   
      
   Lonar Meteor Lake is a creator lake formed by the impact of a meteor   
   5 MILLION years ago. It is an astronomical wonder in itself. VU2DSI,   
   Datta from India will be operating/activating from this unique place in   
   the world of astronomy from 20 th to 24 February. Lonar Meteor Lake is  in   
   the Buldhana district of the state of Maharashtra in India.   
      
   (ard)   
   "I'm sure we're all supporting, with our thoughts, those in Far North Qld,   
   and in particular those severely affected by the flooding around   
   Townsville and Ingham where Felix VK4FUQ who normally does this report is   
   out of action, albeit temporarily. This is the first, FIRST time in   
   over 20 years Felix has not been able to file a report ... hopefully he'll   
   be back next week.   
      
   For WIA National News, I'm John VK4JJW"   
      
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   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ASTRONOMY (and Wireless Weather)   
      
   CORONAL LOOP 'FLICKERING' SEEN AS CLUE TO SOLAR FLARES   
      
   Scientists believe that one key to predicting dangerous solar flares may   
   rest in a clue they have found in the sun's coronal loops.   
      
   Analysing images captured at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory,   
   researchers say they have identified a tell-tale flickering that seems   
   to be a tipoff that dangerous solar flares are soon to follow.   
      
   The scientists detected the flickering in coronal loops of shining plasma.   
   This was actually ultraviolet light at specific wavelengths and it   
   occurred before the sun shot massive busts of electromagnetic radiation,   
   which we know as solar flares. The researchers viewed the phenomenon just   
   before 50 such solar flares.   
      
   Their findings were presented to the American Astronomical Society in   
   Maryland on January 15th. The scientists believe that what they have   
   observed may provide a way to develop more dependable forecasts of space   
   weather.   
      
   ( newsline 2466 )   
      
   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER   
   AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org   
      
   Europa Clipper heads out.   
      
   The 6-ton spacecraft, now with re-certified transistors, launches soon,   
   headed to Jupiter and its mysterious icy moon Europa for arrival in   
   April 2030.   
      
   At 30 meters wide once its solar arrays are unfurled, Europa Clipper is   
   NASAs largest planetary exploration spacecraft ever.  Clippers nominal   
   mission includes 49 passes by Europa, coming as close as 25 km above the   
   surface, and through Jupiters harsh radiation belts. There was fear in   
   that some on-board rad-hard MOSFETS were not actually so rad-hard, but   
   NASA has since tested spares and found them sufficient, based in part on   
   the fact that the intense radiation will only come in bursts every 21 days   
   during the spacecrafts orbit, and the rest of the time the transistors   
   can be slowly heated to allow them to anneal any radiation damage.   
      
   Europa Clipper carries nine instruments to study Europas crust and its   
   strongly suspected subsurface ocean, which may be 150 km deep.   
      
   Well know more in 2030, so stay tuned!!!   
      
   orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-10-09-Issue-289/   
      
      
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