• WIANEWS for WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 15 2024

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    NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 15 2024
    IN OUR 29th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

    THIS WEEK:-

    WIA President, Scott Williams VK3KJ
    NOW WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
    WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.

    I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB

    WIA

    JOIN THE WIA
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    This is WIA President, Scott Williams (VK3KJ) and welcome to all
    listeners to the WIA National News Broadcast this week.

    What a week of crazy weather we had across the East Coast of Australia
    and in particular, Victoria and New South Wales. There were reported
    wind gusts in Victoria of 146km/h in Wilsons Promontory and 132km/h
    recorded in many Alpine areas. In fact, in my own town just outside of
    Warragul in Victoria, we recorded wind gusts of 124km/h which caused significant damage to the area. Not the mention over 3 days with
    no power. I am aware some Amateur Radio operators lost antennas and
    suffered damage across Victoria. For me it was nothing more than a
    bent mast out the top of the tower, but I did hear of one person
    losing several large, sizeable antennas and another that lost a tower,
    which is most unfortunate indeed.

    I want to talk to you now about communications with Directors on the
    WIA Board.

    In a recent WIA Board meeting, it was decided to formally appoint
    Directors responsible for various Board Committees. It is acknowledged
    this is an area that the Board needed to do better and by having a
    director as a single point of contact related to activity within that
    Committee would improve dramatically communications.

    We acknowledge that some communications from working groups or
    external committees and even just some clubs enquiring on a particular
    matter, did not necessarily find its way to the board.

    The Board sets an agenda for each meeting in advance and in the
    future, we will have these committees as a standing agenda item
    and the Director responsible for that committee will report to the
    Board on all committee activity. The appropriate Director will
    regularly liaise with committee chairs and ensure there is a good
    flow of information.

    The Board has decided for the moment to have nine committees.
    The committees and the appointed Director are:

    1. Representation (Scott Williams) covering IARU, ITU, ACMA,
    International member organisations.

    2. Education (Lee Moyle & Giles Kirby) covering the Syllabi, Assessments.

    3. Technical (Peter Shrader) covering, TAC, Spectrum Strategy

    4. Publications (Lee Moyle) covering AR Magazine, Foundation
    Manual, News Broadcast

    5. Digital (Steve Green) coving Social Media, YouTube,
    Website

    6. Contesting (Chris Dimitrijevic) covering Contesting / Awards
    / QSL

    7. Systems (Peter Clee) covering Memnet, Office staff,
    Office365

    8. Finance / Corporate Services / Governance / Strategy
    (Scott Williams & Peter Clee)

    9. Membership (Peter Clee) covering promotion, retention,
    structure, benefits, reports.

    This listing is not an exhaustive list of every committee activity
    however, this structure will greatly assist with improving
    communications internally and externally. The WIA will shortly place
    this list of Board Committees and the appropriate Director that is
    appointed on our website, wia.org.au
    This will be placed under WIA Information and then under a new tab
    that will be named Board Committees. All contact details and the
    responsibility of the Board Committee will be listed.

    Thats it for me this week and this has been Scott Williams,
    WIA President on behalf of the WIA Board.

    Best Wishes.
    AUSTRALIANA

    Traffic increased "four-fold" during Paris games.

    Nine Entertainment blocked up to 96 million web requests from bots
    and potentially malicious traffic during this years Paris Olympics.

    The media organisation's "Fastly" web application firewall filters
    1.2 billion daily web and application requests, including on its
    brands the Australian Financial Review and Nine News.
    However, during the Olympics, this daily number of requests increased
    four-fold with some peaks even higher on days such as swimming,
    Nine technology director of publishing and enterprise practices
    Andre Lackmann said.

    Andre also touched on Nines challenges with preventing artificial
    intelligence bots from lifting its brands content, this is especially
    important for Nines subscription-based brands like the AFR,
    The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

    "AI services are increasingly able to summarise that content for
    these brands so we're taking a more strict stance, Lackmann said.
    We just updated our robots.txt to be able to enable blocking as much
    as robots.txt blocks anything.

    Beyond that, its about scraping at a rate-limiting level, but
    theres challenges in being able to do it at a more granular level."

    tinyurl.com/yzurmhkj

    (itnews)
    LEAF LETTER! IT'S HOW WE COMMUNICATE.

    Trees in Melbourne have been receiving fan mail from around the world,
    YES TREES.

    The city councils project to assign an email address to each one
    back some 11 years ago and it's still going strong.

    The trees are mapped in a project called Urban Forest Visual, with
    each tree assigned an identification number.

    Officials in Melbourne, originally assigned email addresses to
    specific trees so that locals could report issues and damages.
    Instead, being received daily are thousands of love letters to the
    trees. One of the letters read, "As I was leaving St. Mary's College
    today I was struck, not by a branch, but by your radiant beauty.
    You must get these messages all the time.
    You're such an attractive tree."

    The emails have come from as far afield as Russia, Germany, the US,
    Britain, Hungary, Moldova, Singapore, Brazil, Denmark and Perth.

    melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/

    (calm/abc/web)

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    INTERNATIONAL NEWS 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.

    Phil A. McBride, VA3QR/HP3QR Radio Amateurs of Canada President
    and Chair resigns.

    In an announcement to the hams of Canada Phil said, and I quote.

    It is with mixed feelings that I announce my resignation as President
    of Radio Amateurs of Canada, effective November 1, 2024.

    While leading Canadas national organization has been the pinnacle of
    my time as a Radio Amateur, my family has moved full-time to Panama
    and I have secured operating privileges as well as the call sign
    HP 3 QR.

    There is a Parks On The Air (POTA) entity about an hour from our
    house that has never been activated and I plan to fix that! I also
    plan to become involved with the communitys educational program
    and show youth in my area the wonders of Amateur Radio.

    I would like to thank the RAC Board, Executive and volunteers for
    their support during my time as President and previously as a Regional Director. I would also like to thank you, the member, for the support
    youve given and continue to give to Radio Amateurs of Canada."

    Well done and congratulations Phil McBride, RAC President and Chair.

    Amazon is poised to unveil a significant overhaul of its Alexa virtual assistant, incorporating advanced AI capabilities to create a more
    personalized and conversational experience. According to reporting
    by Caroline O'Donovan of The Washington Post and discussed on
    Tech News Weekly, the new AI-powered Alexa is slated for a
    mid-October release.

    Key features of the upgraded Alexa include:

    Conversational AI:
    The new Alexa aims to be more "likable" and "charismatic," engaging in
    natural conversations and remembering user preferences.

    Personalization:
    Alexa will ask questions about users and their families, using this
    information to tailor responses and recommendations.

    Enhanced shopping features:
    Alexa will monitor prices for items users express interest in
    and alert them to price drops.

    Unlike the current free version, the AI-powered Alexa will be a
    paid product.

    While the new features show promise, concerns remain about privacy,
    especially regarding children's interactions with AI. Additionally,
    the launch's proximity to the U.S. election raises questions about how
    Amazon will handle potential misinformation risks.

    As Amazon prepares to roll out this major update, it remains to be
    seen how consumers will respond to a paid, AI-enhanced Alexa and
    whether it can compete effectively in the rapidly evolving
    AI assistant market.

    Interestingly when we first came across this story, top of page the
    disclaimer "AI created, human edited."

    Yes a rapidly changing world we live in don't we.

    twit.tv/posts/tech/amazons-alexa-set-major-ai-upgrade-fall

    YOU NEVER NEVER KNOW - TILL YOU GIVE IT A TRY.

    A great way to encourage new members to ham radio and their National
    Society was shown by the IRTS, Irish Radio Transmitters Society at a
    very successful and fun participation in the Dublin Maker 2024
    festival.

    Over two days, the IRTS stand proved very popular and had massive
    crowds on both days.

    Tony EI5EM's homebrew equipment was a big hit with everyone who
    stopped by the stall. To encourage the kids to try some CW any kid
    who sent their name by Morse got to design a badge which they took
    away with them. Also, on both days a free raffle was held for a chance
    to win an SDR dongle.

    Nokia and Axiom Space have announced a partnership to integrate
    advanced 4G/LTE communication capabilities into the next-generation
    spacesuits that will be used for the Artemis III lunar mission.

    Axiom Spaces spacesuits will provide astronauts with advanced
    capabilities while providing NASA with commercially developed
    human systems needed to access, live and work on and around the Moon.

    Nokia, meanwhile, plans to deploy the first cellular network on the
    Moon as part of Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, which is scheduled
    to be delivered to the launch site in 2024.

    During the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, ensuring robust and reliable communication for public safety forces was a top priority.

    One of the critical tools that proved integral to this effort was the
    M.D.R. (Mic Dual Radio). This innovative device played a crucial role
    not only during the Olympic Torch Relay but also throughout the entire
    duration of the Games, maintaining secure and seamless communication
    across various public safety units.

    French Police and Gendarmerie equipped over 28,000 officers with the
    MDR. This large-scale deployment underscored the importance of the
    MDR in ensuring that all units, regardless of their location or the communication network they were using, remained connected. The MDR
    provided dual connectivity, allowing simultaneous communication over
    both legacy professional mobile radio (PMR) systems and mobile
    networks through smartphones

    tinyurl.com/36bnrm94

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    OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION

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    NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2024
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    Oceania DX Contest
    Dates/Times:

    PH - The first full weekend in October each year from 0600 UTC
    Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday

    CW - The second full weekend in October each year from 0600 UTC
    Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday

    Log deadline for PH and CW logs - 31 October.

    This years contest will be held on October 5th and 12th
    respectively.

    oceaniadxcontest.com

    wia.org.au/members/contests/oceania/

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    INTERNATIONAL EARTH - MOON - EARTH CONTEST

    0000 Zulu, November 16 - 2359 Zulu , November 17

    Work as many amateur stations as possible via the earth-moon-earth
    path on any authorized amateur frequency above 50 MHz.

    EME Logs due back to the ARRL December 17.

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    VHF UHF Field Day

    Upcoming Contest Date & Time

    Spring 2024 - 0100 UTC Saturday 23 November through 0059 UTC Sunday
    24 November (0400 / 0359 in VK6).

    wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/

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    YOTA CONTEST

    Youth on the air test 3 of 3 will be from 10:00 to 21:59 UTC on
    29 December on the five classic bands CW and SSB.

    (yota)

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    DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD.

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    MALAYSIA

    To celebrate Malaysia Day, special callsign 9M61S has been active
    until the 16th of September. Operators are working on the HF bands
    using SSB, CW and digital modes. For more information see QRZ.com

    (rsgb)
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    Be listening for the Zurich City Police Radio Amateur Club throughout
    the year, operating as HB 2 SP the club is marking its 20th
    anniversary. Unfortunately no Bureau QSL's but you
    can use Logbook Of The World, and HB20SP runs until December 31.

    (sourced to ARNewsLine 2410)

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    Listen throughout the year for the special callsign 9 A 1 RKZ
    marking the 100th anniversary of the Radioklub Zagreb which was
    founded the 24th of March 1924 in Croatia

    QSL via 9A1ADE.
    (ARNewsLine 2410)
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    DXpedition to Namibia.

    This DXpedition will run from the end of October through the first
    week of November.

    Call-Sign will be V 55 LA.

    With their QTH already secured, the team is now working on the antenna
    farm layout and exploring options to make the most of their ideal
    location.

    M0OXO is QSL Manager for V55LA.

    ( m0oxo.com/ )
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    AUSTRIA

    OE100RADIO [OSCAR-ECHO-ONE-HUNDRED-ROMEO-ALPHA-DELTA-INDIA-OSCAR] is
    active until the 31st of December celebrating the 100th anniversary
    of the beginning of regular radio transmissions in Austria in 1924.

    The station has heard recently on the 40m band using CW.

    QSL via the Bureau.

    (gb2rs)

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    BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.

    E 7 100 RADIO is the special call sign for the Bosnia and Herzegovina
    IARU member society to celebrate 100 years of amateur radio
    innovation, community, and advocacy.

    QSL via operators' instructions.

    (eHam)

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    Listen for TM 24 JPO until the 8th of September for the Paralympic
    Games, QSL TM24JPO by the operators home station F 8 GGZ

    (dx net)

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    AUSTRALIA

    VI7POL

    For 2024 National Police Week in Australia, a special event call of
    VI 7 POL will be on air. The call will be active between 14th
    September an 29th September to celebrate the 7th annual National
    Police Week, a celebration of our nations police.

    National Police Week includes the 15th annual Wall to Wall Ride For
    Remembrance and National Police Remembrance Day on 27th September.

    National Police Remembrance Day is a time to pause to honour the
    826 Australian police officers whose lives have been lost while
    performing their duty. It is a time to remember police officers who
    have lost their lives through illness or other circumstances.

    VI7POL will be active on 10, 15, 20, 40, & 80m SSB, FT8, and FT4.

    More information on VI7POL including QSL information can be found on
    QRZ.com.

    73 Paul VK5PAS.
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    K4A

    The Alabama Contest Group will be operating the 9-11 Remembering Our
    Heroes special event September 8-11. The K4A special event station
    will be on the air to honour the victims of 9-11.

    This year a new special QSL and certificate "Honouring Our Heroes"
    theme will be available. To those who contact K4A on 3 bands using
    any combination of bands/modes the group will offer a full colour
    glossy certificate on heavy paper which will be mailed in a full size
    Manila envelope all postage paid by the Alabama Contest Group, EVEN if
    here in Australia. (or any DX).

    (ard)

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    SOUTH COOK.

    Thomas, N2WLG is active as E 51 WLG until September 8 from 40 to 10
    meters using CW and digital.

    QSL E51WLG via LoTW, home call (N2WLG), direct or bureau.

    (dx-world)

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    HB0, LIECHTENSTEIN

    Leo, DL2COM and Roman, DL3TU will be active (CW only) from the
    Principality of Liechtenstein the end of September or early October.

    Weather permitting they will operate Field Day style for two days from
    the summit of Augstenberg which is 2359 meters A.S.L. using just
    50-100 watts and directional antennas.

    The location has been carefully chosen to allow a good take off to
    VK. Both ops say they are happy to log as many callers as possible
    but will focus on VK/ZL/JA during UTC morning.

    Updates, such as the exact dates, will be published on their QRZ.com
    pages.

    QSL via their home callsigns DL2COM and DL3TU in LoTW, direct or
    via the bureau.

    (dx world)
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    NEW ZEALAND

    NZART has a special event call sign for the upcoming America's Cup to
    be held in Spain later this year. ZL 6 AMCUP has been allocated to
    celebrate this event with Phil Garside ZL2RO as the trustee of the
    callsign. November 30 is when ZLCAMCUP goes off air.

    (NZART)

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    OL 80 C.A.R.B.O.N. is active until the 30th of November to mark the
    80th anniversary of Operation Carbon during World War Two. This
    operation involved the dropping of paratroopers in the Protectorate of
    Bohemia and Moravia.

    The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexed
    territory of Nazi Germany that was established in 1939 after the
    German occupation of the Czech lands

    A team of operators is active using call OL 80 CARBON on CW, SSB and
    digital modes on the HF bands.

    More information is available on QRZ.com

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    Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Radio Belgrade, the Belgrade
    Amateur Radio Club is active as YT 100 RB and YU 1924 RB until
    November 30. For details of a certificate that is available, see
    yu1ano.org

    (rsgb)

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    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - BALLOONS

    What activity entails playing with hydrogen gas, sending a fox to
    105,000 feet in altitude, ingesting large plates of comfort food,
    hiking through dense brush, wading through creeks and running from the
    bulls?

    A recent West Georgia (USA) Amateur Radio Society high-altitude
    balloon launch included all these things and more.

    True to form, predictions based on the last known coordinates of the
    balloon -- from the Automatic Packet Reporting System onboard- brought
    the clubs hunters very close to its landing zone. Brian, WX4BK is the
    payload specialist BUT, Murphy was following Brian and the payload
    around for a week, WX4BK's persistence finally won out. The payload
    including a raspberry pi, GPS, APRS transmitter to send out
    coordinates and altitude, a cross-band repeater, pressure and
    temperature sensors (gets pretty cold up there) digital cameras and
    "The RF Fox" was found.

    (eHam)

    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- DEFENSE

    Captain John Konrad (gCaptain author)

    Could future naval battles be waged using Morse code flashed between
    ships?

    One admiral believes so.

    At the 3rd Indo-Pacific Security Conference 2024, held at the
    Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg, Germany,
    a question arose about the ability of navies to protect tankers and replenishment oilers in the event of war in the Western Pacific.

    In a gCaptain article Captain Steve Carmel, a former Vice President
    for Maersk LLP said the United States Merchant Marine is at least
    100 tankers short of meeting basic energy needs in the event of war
    in the Pacific, it will therefore be incredibly important to protect
    the few tankers and oilers they do have in the Pacific.

    Communication poses a significant challenge too.

    The flag officer noted that even sophisticated communication systems
    on advanced warships can be jammed by equipment on enemy facilities
    and ships. As a result, convoys and even battle groups might have to
    rely on Morse code via blinker lights. Although seemingly old
    fashioned, this method provides a dependable way to communicate,
    less prone to electronic warfare. Blinker lights transmitting Morse
    code would allow vital information to be sent even during intense
    jamming.

    This highlights the need to maintain traditional communication skills
    alongside modern technology.

    (eHam)

    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER
    AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org

    JAXA has officially ended the mission of SLIM, Japan's first
    Moon lander. Originally only expected to operate for a single lunar
    day and then feared to be doomed after it landed in the incorrect
    orientation after losing an engine bell, the mission managed to
    survive THREE (3) lunar nights and complete All pre-mission success
    criteria.

    SLIM is the only lunar lander to successfully perform a pinpoint
    landing, arriving within 10 meters of its selected landing site.

    [ANS]

    The average age of a GPS satellite is now 13 years, with half of them
    exceeding their designed lifespan.

    The USA-132 satellite broke the record for the oldest GPS satellite in
    history, having completed 27+ years in operation. While the record is
    an indicator of the reliability and robust engineering of the GPS
    satellite, it also means that the service still relies on hardware
    built in the 1990s. 31 GPS satellites are in operation today,
    down from 36 in 2016.

    The GPS system was primarily designed for military purposes but was
    opened up to wide-scale civilian use in 1983. Since then, GPS has
    grown into one of the most widely used services in the world, with
    billions of people using GPS on a daily basis today. The overall GPS
    network still works well. But the aging satellites, coupled with the
    delays in the launch schedule for new satellites, threaten its
    competitive edge as international rivals bring into service their own
    GNSS systems and private companies develop alternatives.

    (ANS)

    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - MILITARY
    Recordings of military transmissions can be found on the
    Signal Identification Guide Wiki at
    sigidwiki.com/wiki/Category:Military

    Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the
    Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands.

    Its objective was to create a 103 km salient into German territory
    with a bridgehead over the Lower Rhine River, creating an Allied
    invasion route into northern Germany.

    A BRIDGE TOO FAR was a movie of this operation and the taking of the
    bridge at Arnhem.

    This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: MARKET and GARDEN.

    Combined US and British airborne forces (Market) followed by
    British land forces swiftly following over the bridges (Garden).
    It was the largest airborne operation of the war up to that point,
    perhaps the most famous, after D-Day, in the entire history of the
    Second World War.

    Special event station in the region commemorating 80 years of freedom
    is PA 80 OMG back again for the fourth consecutive time and will take
    place from 13 September up to 19 September 2024.

    radioclublimburg.nl/pa80omg/

    (eHam)

    WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO

    INDIA

    In a recent meeting with Kolkata health department officials,
    amateur radio operators proposed a small device which can be used
    like a panic button' by doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers
    in hospitals in case of an emergency.

    Using Ultra High Frequency, this device will be portable and can also
    be connected with the nearest phone system.

    These panic buttons will be useful in connecting anyone within a three-kilometre radius, especially in areas which are known as
    'voice shadow zones' since a lot of hospitals in Kolkata have trouble
    with network coverage on their premises.

    timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/113175480.cms

    (eHam)
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    2024 IT'S A DATE

    Clubs are welcome to email text with audio for this section

    Details of all WIA affiliated clubs and societies can be found
    on the WIA website, including email addresses and website links.

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    VK4 - SUNFEST was Saturday 14th at Coolum Civic Centre. (vk4vp)

    VK6 - PerthTech 2024 Sept 21 for 2 days at Gidgegannup (vk6pop)

    VK4 - GOLD COAST HAMFEST OCTOBER 13 at Nerang Country Paradise
    Parklands 231 Beaudesert-Nerang Road Nerang. (vk4DMH)

    VK5 - Amateur Radio Experiments Group Radio & Electronics Sale
    Saturday 26th October 10AM David Roche Park Kilburn (vk5qi)

    VK7 - Tasmanian Ham Conference November 2 and 3 Hobart. (vk7news)
    Held at the Sandy Bay Campus of UTAS.

    VK3 - SPARC Rosebud RadioFest November 17 at Eastbourne Primary
    School, Allambi Ave. Rosebud. (vk3pdg)

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