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   UHF records for the WIA as he reports from VK4 that the microwave lads in   
   late May were breaking national records on 3.4 and 5.7 GHZ.   
      
   Volunteers keep your WIA running and there are several vacancies available   
   from VK3 inwards QSL sorting to Technical advisors for Dstar and satellites.   
   Interested? Then email WIA HQ asking for further information.   
      
      
   The Board of the WIA have published details of requirements to be followed by   
   WIA National News rebroadcast stations.   
      
      
   Stations wishing to rebroadcast the weekly WIA National News need to comply   
   with the provisions of a common license which has been introduced and shall   
   commence on 31st July 2025.   
      
      
   There is no significant change to re-broadcast arrangements for most   
   rebroadcast stations.   
      
      
   The Common License is published on the WIA web site and details some   
   important aspects which need to be followed by re-broadcast stations.   
      
      
   The Common License states that :-   
      
   The content of the broadcast is copyright to the WIA.   
      
   Ownership of the content is retained by the WIA.   
      
   The content of the broadcast shall not be modified, edited, or used to create   
   derivative works without prior written consent from the Secretary of the WIA.   
      
      
   Notification of the copyright provisions and the requirement to follow the   
   common license will be included at the beginning of the broadcast.   
      
      
   A number of WIA members and Directors will be attending Tokyo Hamfair next   
   month in mid August.  I am sure the VK3s will notice the heat. Some VKs   
   already have their Japanese reciprocal licences issued. The two day event   
   attracts visitors from around the world and attendee numbers are usually   
   around 35,000. It give us opportunity to meet and discuss important issues   
   facing Amateur Radio in Region 3 as well as seeing new product releases from   
   many radio manufacturers and catching up with many ham friends.   
      
      
   For now, 73 from Lee VK3GK.   
      
   Hello all, on this, the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.   
      
   This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH   
   coming to you from what is now known as Southport on the Queensland Gold   
   Coast.   
      
      
   You guessed it! Thats right, last Wednesday Issue No.4 of Amateur Radio   
   magazine whizzed off the press in Bairnsdale, on the Mitchell River, in   
   Victorias East Gippsland, Gateway to the Gippsland Lakes. A scenic part of   
   VK3.   
      
      
   The theme for this issue is Antennas and Earths, subjects of keen interest to   
   all amateurs, Im sure. Well, except for those hams on the International Space   
   Station, I guess. I wonder where they earth their rigs up there? Ill have to   
   ask.   
      
      
   Our articles on the topic of antennas include a review of a commercial 28 MHz   
   vertical  featured on the cover  also, the saga of designing and building an   
   inner suburban 9-band long-wire beam antenna by Doc Wescombe-Down VK5BUG   
   plus  Emeritus Professor Peter Hall VK6HP details a remotely-operated   
   dual-band antenna coupler for 136 and 475 kHz that feeds a 22-and-a-half   
   metre live mast.   
      
      
   Both Doc and Peter expound on the importance of earthing. Also, on that very   
   subject, Dale Hughes VK1DSH gets down in the dirt getting to know his earth   
   resistance. You could, too.   
      
      
   There will be many listeners no doubt who are enthusiastic owners of the   
   locally built TET beams and newer TET-Emtron models. Well, Mark Rawlings   
   VK6MOA, who is well-experienced with TETs, offers a trove of tips to restore   
   or refurbish those trusty TETs.   
      
      
   While antenna and feedline installations appear deceptively simple, achieving   
   the intended   
      
   performance for an antenna system or troubleshooting problems can often be   
   the opposite of simple.   
      
      
   Knowing just the value of the SWR is always one parameter to consider   
   perhaps the first. But, you need to know more if theres a problem.   
      
      
   So, I took the opportunity to review an antenna analyser  the MATCH from   
   RigExpert, the Ukrainian-based developer and manufacturer of antenna   
   analysers, transceiver interfaces, and amateur radio software sold all over   
   the globe.   
      
      
   In learning how to use it, it taught me a lot. Smart people those four hams   
   who launched RigExpert.   
      
      
   Thats it for now, folks. I plan having more for you next week.   
      
   Dont forget, theres always much-much, much more in every edition of Amateur   
   Radio magazine.   
      
      
   More guts. Less gab. Serving hams across Australia since 1933. Proudly   
   produced and printed in Australia.   
      
      
   Im Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.   
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   INTERNATIONAL NEWS is with thanks to Amateur Radio Daily, ARRL,   
   DX-WORLD, eHam, Hackaday, IARU, IRTS, NEWSLINE, NZART,  RAC,   
   Radioworld.com, RSGB, SARL and the World Wide sources of WIA.   
      
   A 28-YEAR-OLD woman who went missing from her home in Islampur in Uttar   
   Dinajpur district nearly eight years ago has been traced in Bangladesh and   
   connected with her family  thanks to efforts made by some amateur radio   
   operators from both sides of the border despite the frosty ties between the   
   two countries in recent months.   
      
      
   It was on July 9, when an amateur radio operator, Muhammed Abdul Gani Fitu,   
   saw a woman in ragged clothes at the Golabari railway station in   
   Chapainawabganj district, Bangladesh.   
      
      
   He rescued her with the help of some local residents and gave her food.   
   Later, the girl was able to give him the names of her parents and her home   
   address in India.   
      
      
   I was surprised that she is from India. She seems to have intellectual   
   disabilities and could not tell me how she ended up in Bangladesh. She was   
   unwell and we gave primary treatment to her. She said her name is Sarma   
   Khatun (28) and we found that the village she mentioned is in India. I   
   contacted some amatuer radio operators I know in India, Gani told The Indian   
   Express over phone from Bangladesh.   
      
   HAMSHACK HOTLINE TO BE DISCONTINUED.   
   Say goodbye to Hamshack Hotline, the free VOIP telecomm service. The service   
   announced it would be discontinued, effective the 29th of August. The project   
   began in 2018 and grew to be a global communications network with a peak   
   establishment of 7,000 interconnections across numerous servers. Hamshack   
   Hotline's board of directors said it will donate whatever cash reserves it   
   may have to a charity that supports military veterans.   
      
   CANADA WE HAVE A QUESTION   
      
   A new Question Bank will be used for all Basic Amateur Radio Certificate   
   examinations starting last Tuesday July 15, 2025.   
      
   Candidates, instructors and authors of Amateur Radio Study Guides may   
   want to study the new Question Bank which is available for download from   
   the ISED website.   
      
   rac.ca/esc_cne   
      
   Radio Amateurs of Canada has had a committee of 20 instructors and   
   Accredited Examiners (AEs) working to update and improve the quality of   
   the 984 questions, 984 correct answers and 2,952 distractors (incorrect   
   answers) in the Question Bank.   
      
   This is the first major update to the Question Bank since 2013.   
      
   Still with exams and in New Zealand their new question bank will take   
   effect from the 1st of January 2026, so as not to disadvantage anyone   
   who is studying for the exam now. Exam supervisors will be notified in   
   December to update their exams and destroy any old, printed exams.   
      
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