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   NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 22 2024   
   IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS   
      
   THIS WEEK:-   
      
   WIA AR MAGAZINES EDITOR IN CHIEF ROGER HARRISON VK2ZRH . -   
      
   PLUS POTA, SOTA AND YOTA NEWS.   
      
   NOW WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE   
   WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.   
      
   I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB   
      
   WIA   
      
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   Dudes!	This is Editor-in-Chief of Amateur Radio magazine, Roger Harrison   
   VK2ZRH.   
      
      
   This week, I have some good news and some sad news.   
      
   First, the sad news. I was informed the other day that Pete Williams VK3IZ   
   became a silent key this past week. He was 94.   
      
      
   Securing his licence immediately post-World War 2, Pete became a stalwart of   
   the WIA over many years, serving in roles with both the Victorian Division   
   and Federal WIA across the 1960s and 70s, working with the late Michael Owen   
   VK3KI. He was also involved in the early Region 3 organisation of the   
   International Amateur Radio Union, and with the Victorian Wireless Institute   
   Civil Emergency Network  a.k.a WICEN.   
      
      
   During the mid-1970s, in company with a couple of amateur radio colleagues,   
   he co-founded the Vicom company, which imported Icom radios and a host of   
   other ham radio products. Vicom became a consistent advertiser in Amateur   
   Radio magazine, not to mention a number of industry and retail magazines of   
   which I was editor.   
      
      
   You will be able to read more about him in AR magazine, Issue 6. Vale, Pete   
   Williams VK3IZ.   
      
      
   Thanks to Dave Williams VK3YIZ.   
      
   So. Now to the good news  which is that  Issue Number 5 of AR magazine rolled   
   off the press at Bairnsdale last Wednesday, on time and under budget.   
      
      
   Look out for the issue landing late next week. In your letterbox, your Post   
   Office Box, or at your local newsagent.   
      
      
   The theme for this soon-to-arrive issue is, as promised  a Do It Yourself   
   special.   
      
      
   There are 30 pages  count em  when you get your magazine. Who said hams dont   
   built stuff any more? Or, worse  that we publish stuff that  quote  nobodys   
   ever going to build?  end quote.   
      
      
   Issue 5 features, for example, an article on A Practical Transverter for   
   241-250 GHz  thats our top band!   
      
      
   Back down the spectrum, we have an Antenna Matching Unit for Balanced   
   Feedpoint Antennas  and you can build it with discarded and re-purposed   
   parts.   
      
      
   Does your rig include Charlie India dash Victor  or CI-V  control? For Icom   
   rig owners, we have an article on commanding your Icom rig with a Simple   
   Arduino-based Keyboard   
      
   Interface. You might re-purpose an old PS2 keyboard!   
      
   That will do for now. Amateur Radio magazine, Issue 5. More guts. Less gab.   
   No butchers.   
      
      
   Serving Australian amateurs for over 90 years.   
   Proudly produced and printed in Australia. Also available online.   
   Always published to a schedule, never random.   
   Im Roger Harrison VK2ZRH for VK1WIA News.   
   AUSTRALIANA   
      
   Internet breach numbers across Australia hit a three-year high.   
      
   Government was the second-most breached sector in Australia during   
   the first six months of 2024, reporting 63 incidents in total.   
      
   The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) recorded   
   44 malicious or criminal attacks on government agencies, with the   
   majority of these - 41 - caused by impersonation or social   
   engineering.   
      
   One cyber incident was recorded in the six-month period and two   
   breaches were attributed to a "rogue employee or insider threat".   
   Meanwhile, the government reported 17 breaches caused by human error   
   and two from a system fault.   
      
   The OAICs rules mostly apply to federal agencies, although some state   
   and territory breaches could be present in its numbers, if a breach   
   impacted a Commonwealth credential such as a tax file number.   
      
   The latest OAIC figures for the first half of 2024, represent a   
   65 percent increase for the government sector compared to the   
   previous period.   
      
   The majority of breaches  around 87 percent  took more than 30 days   
   to identify.   
      
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