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   Also the WIA is keen to hear from individuals or clubs that might be   
   interested in joining the WIA Social Media team. Please send your   
   expression's of interest to the WIA Secretary   
   Secretary@wia.org.au   
      
   This has been Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY on behalf of the Board of the Wireless   
   Institute of Australia for WIA NATIONAL NEWS.   
      
      
   ACMA release their Five-year spectrum outlook 202530. - THEN DISCUSSION POINT   
   with Dougal VK4EKA. -   
      
   AUSTRALIANA   
      
   ACMA have released their Five-year spectrum outlook 202530   
      
   acma.gov.au/publications/2025-10/plan/five-year-spectrum-outlook-2025-30   
      
   Informed by spectrum users, the outlook provides an overview of   
   technology, market and policy drivers likely to shape spectrum demand   
   over the next 5 years. It also sets out ACMA's work program for the   
   current financial year.   
      
   In March 2025, they invited comments on the draft FYSO 202530 and they   
   received 35 public submissions, including from representative bodies,   
   government agencies, individuals, and the satellite and   
   telecommunications sectors.   
      
   (acma)   
      
   DISCUSSION POINT   
   Dougal VK4EKA   
      
   For Australian Amateurs the Class Licence determines the technical and   
   operating conditions, such as bands of operation, transmitter power   
   levels and modes of operation. The common Class License also requires a   
   person to undertake a safety assessment for Electro-Magnetic Energy (EME).   
   The licence assigns a station Callsign to operate at a location or   
   portable as determine by the licensee. How does this work for Club Callsigns?   
      
   The Class Licence says nothing ! However before the Class Licence there   
   were special rules for clubs. Such as who could operate the station,   
   where it operated from (i.e. a location authorised by the management or   
   a General Meeting), and that a log must be kept. Recently the WIA in   
   Victoria the holder of VK4WI was advised they did not know where and by   
   whom the call was being used in Queensland.   
      
   Perhaps under the Class Licence a Club call can be used anywhere by   
   anyone with no records? Just asking? this is Dougal VK4EKA   
      
   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.   
   Hurricane Melissa made land fall in Jamaica October 28 just after 1:00   
   am, as one the most powerful hurricane landfalls ever in the Atlantic basin.   
      
   Hurricane winds at 165 miles per hour are battering the area and the National   
   Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida reports that Melissa was expected to bring   
   rainfall of 15 to 30 inches to portions of Jamaica and additional rainfall of   
   6 to 8 inches with localized maximum to 12 inches for southern Hispaniola,   
   with storm total local maxima of 40 inches possible.   
      
      
   Hurricane Melissa was a Category 1 hurricane as it neared Bermuda Friday.   
   The storm has already caused significant destruction across the Caribbean,   
   including Category 5 landfall in Jamaica and Category 3 landfall in Cuba   
   earlier in the week.   
      
      
   The Hurricane Watch Network (HWN) is active on 14.325.00 MHz (USB).   
      
   Our thoughts with all.   
      
   A giant radio telescope in Crimea used in the past to support missions to   
   Mars and Venus and attempt to contact alien civilizations has been destroyed   
   in a drone attack.   
      
      
   Ukrainian defence forces took down the 70 meter antenna dish to prevent   
   Russian forces from using it to guide attacks on its territory. The RT-70   
   radio telescope has been under Russian control since the annexation of the   
   Crimean peninsula in 2014.   
      
      
   According to Defence Express, Russians carried out major upgrades to the   
   5,000 metric ton structure to use it for military communications.   
      
      
   space.com/astronomy/drone-destroyes-rt-70-radio-telescope-crimea   
      
   DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL.   
      
   The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission will no   
   longer require broadcast radio stations to renew their licences, as part of a   
   rule it said it has adopted to help stations save money and shrink   
   administrative burdens. The commission said it was hoping the action would   
   amount to a boost for terrestrial broadcasting which, while facing challenges   
   recently, nonetheless remains a vital source of news, information and   
   culture.   
      
      
   Since 1863 only 3,511 men and 1 woman have been awarded US Medal of Honour   
      
   Today there are only 60 living Medal of Honour Recipients.   
      
   The average American has a 0.000018% chance of ever meeting a Medal of   
   Honour Recipient in person, BUT, EVERYONE who attends HamCation 2026   
   will have the honour to meet a living Medal of Honour recipient!   
      
   FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER A LIVING MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT WILL BE   
   ATTENDING HAMCATION AND HE HAS PASSED THE EXAM TO BECOME A LICENSED   
   AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR AND WILL MAKE HIS FIRST HAM RADIO CONTACT AT   
   HAMCATION.   
      
      
   Colonel Don Doc Ballard MoH USA RETIRED, he earned his Medal in Vietnam.   
      
   His ham  Instructor Sam McGlynn NM 5 N Lt. COL. USAF RET along with   
   Donna Snow King W 5 SML, Former Star of the Hit TV Show Texas Flip N   
   Move and author of 3 books along with her OM Rex W 5 EAK Lt Commander  USN   
   RET will be together in their booth.   
      
      
   As part of a much larger overhaul focused on deleting almost 400 obsolete   
   wireless regulations, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has   
   announced plans to delete or modify four minor provisions of Part 97.   
      
      
   ARRLs Washington Counsel has reviewed the proposal and agrees that the   
   deletions are to obsolete rules and will have no impact on todays modern   
   Amateur Radio Service. One of the deletions was suggested by ARRL as part of   
   an earlier FCC request for public input on rules ripe for deletion.   
      
      
   Keeping a long story short, proposed regulatory changes are:   
   1   
   The provision relating to the FCCs right to modify station licenses.   
   Its deletion will result in no substantive change to the right of the FCC to   
   modify a station license.   
      
   2.   
   This provision specified the procedure to replace paper licenses. The FCC   
   stopped producing paper licenses at the end of 2020.The ARRL proposed   
   deleting this section in comments filed earlier this year.   
      
   3.   
   Delete the provision grandfathered HF amplifiers purchased before   
   April 28, 1978 by an amateur radio operator for use at that operator's   
   station and also grandfathered those manufactured before April 28, 1978 for   
   which a marketing waiver was issued. The applicability of this rule has long   
   passed.   
      
      
   4.   
   The rule and appendix relating to VEC regions, which were based on the   
   traditional amateur call sign areas. The FCC no longer limits VECs to regions   
   and there is no reason for doing so given the nature of remote exams.   
      
      
   WEIRD AND WONDERFUL   
      
   The chances of anything coming from Mars   
   are a million to one he said   
   The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one   
   but still they come !   
      
   W 0 W Amateur Radio Station Marks 'Mars Invasion' at Grovers Mill USA:   
      
   To commemorate the anniversary of Orson Welles infamous 1938 War of the   
   Worlds Halloween broadcast, members of the Delaware Valley Radio   
   Association gathered at Grovers Mill, site of the fictional Martian   
   landing, and set up temporary radio station W0W and communicated with   
   other ham radio operators around the world, this last Sunday, October 26.   
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   OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION   
      
   YOTA Contests December   
      
   The Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club are hosting the inaugural   
   VK YOTA CONTEST, the entire month of December.   
   yota.fgarc.org.au/   
      
      
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