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IN WIA NATIONAL NEWS THIS WEEK:-

DOES YOUR CLUB NEED $10,000? WIA GRANTS SCHEME COULKD BE THE ANSWER. -

Albury and Wodonga radio club are hosting the WIA AGM it along with
VK Summit, a radio exhibition being held over the weekend of
May 2 and 3 in Albury. -

A long time in the pipeline but it could be a VK call book is getting
nearer. - That and more news from the WIA when newly re-elected WIA
Director VK3GK Lee joins us.

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA AND IT'S FOR WEEK COMMENCING
SUNDAY MARCH 22 2026

I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB
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JOIN THE WIA
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This is WIA Director, Lee Moyle VK3GK

With only 6 weeks to go for the WIA AGM in early May, have you registered to attend?

This year the Albury and Wodonga radio club are hosting it along with VK Summit, a radio exhibition being held over the weekend of May 2nd and 3rd in Albury. Several commercial exhibits along with presentations will be
happening. Even a wine tour is available for those partners that may prefer a little less amateur radio of a weekend.

Please register at www.vksummit.au and there are a couple of options
including the WIA AGM, the exhibition and the Saturday evening dinner with a key note guest speaker.


The WIA is forming a working group to compile and produce a comprehensive online Callbook with many features and resources. Already there are number of participants but the group is looking for a couple more helpers to contribute and share the workload. Please email the WIA office with a quick note if this is something that interests you.


Has your club got a worthy project that needs some extra funding?
The WIA Grants Scheme is for providing funding assistance to worthwhile projects that are judged to be of benefit to the amateur community and are consistent with, or advance, the aims and objectives of the WIA.

The WIA Board has allocated up to $10,000 for this round of grants.
A number of WIA affiliated clubs have had their WIA Grants approved in recent times. One example was to rebuild a repeater to give extended coverage to
their local community.

More information can be found on the WIA webpage at www.wia.org under the members drop down tab.


This weekend is also the John Moyle Field Day, which is held over the 3rd
full weekend in March and runs from 0100 UTC Saturday 21st until 0059 on Sunday and is open to all amateurs.

The rules have been simplified and they can be found on the WIA website in
the contest section. Alan Shannon VK4SN and the contest committee have contributed to make using N1MM logging software more suitable this year and
log uploading has been streamlined also.


For now, 73 from WIA Director, Lee Moyle, VK3GK.
AUSTRALIANA

Hams in VK2 are worried that they will no longer be able to afford their
vital repeater sites. Faced with fee hikes on state-owned land, known as
Crown Land, they say they simply arent budgeted for the extra expense.


WIA's International reporter Jason Daniels VK2LAW turns his eyes, and ears,
to Australia for this report first aired on NewsLine.


The President of the Goulburn & Southern Highlands Amateur Radio Society has written a letter to ham clubs around the state, urging members to contact
their members of Parliament.


In his open letter to the clubs, Pete Chatwin, VK2PET, the radio societys president, noted that new or continued access to elevated Crown Land sites
for repeaters and towers could cost clubs as much as AU$20,000 per annum.
Pete said that hams need to substantiate their own clubs financial hardship
by forwarding examples to Steph Cooke, member for Cootamundra and Shadow Minister for Crown Lands.


Pete wrote: [quote] It is important that we provide genuine, practical
examples of how these costs are affecting clubs across NSW. [Endquote] He
said that groups in rural areas as well as those providing emergency communications and training, rely on robust functioning networks that include these sites.


This is Jason Daniels VK2LAW.

Australian company Advanced Navigation has successfully demonstrated its inertial-centric intelligent navigation as part of the US Armys All-Domain Persistent Experiment (APEX), showing the companys technology has the ability to provide reliable, high-accuracy navigation in GNSS-degraded and -denied conditions.


Unlike conventional systems reliant on GNSS or magnetic compasses, Boreas D90 determines true north through gyro compassing, using ultra-sensitive fibre-optic gyroscopes to detect the Earths rotation. This enables
independent, high-confidence navigation, even when external GNSS signals are compromised.


In todays contested environment, the adversary will deny, degrade and spoof GNSS signals. Relying on a single technology for navigation is a
mission-ending vulnerability, said Chris Shaw, Advanced Navigation CEO,
Assured PNT is non-negotiable. The only path to operational advantage is an intelligent, multi-sensor fusion anchored by a resilient inertial core. We deliver this with our sophisticated Australian AdNav Intelligence software.


Advanced Navigation said the next experiment will include partners within the United States Air Forces 746th Test Squadron and the Joint Navigation Warfare Centre, US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, and the Army Test
and Evaluation Command. Advanced Navigation looks forward to returning in
2026.


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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.

Ham radio enthusiasts could be partly responsible for 'landing' U.S. airlines with an 8 million dollar bill to fix faulty equipment on Boeing 787
Dreamliner airplanes after it was discovered that simple radio signals can knock out a faulty transponder on the popular wide body plane used by many an Airline.


The issue came to light after the Federal Aviation Administration reported "multiple instances of loss of transponder for airplanes entering airspace in the presence of CW interference." CW interference refers to continuous-wave radio signals like Morse code, military transmitters, and even amateur ham radio signals, which have been found to interfere with the transponder on
some Boeing 787s.


One of the mysteries that has occupied radio amateurs in many countries for years are the so-called numbers stations.


The first stations of this type began to be received during the First World War, yes the FIRST ww, but undoubtedly the most famous of them all is UVB-76, known as "The Buzzer," a Russian shortwave radio station broadcasting on the frequency of 4625 kHz, whose signals began to be received in the 1970s. Generally, this station emitted a buzzing sound, but sometimes numbers and words in Russian could be heard.


Numbers stations are often associated with intelligence services and possible communications with spy networks.


Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has released a video of a numbers station captured on February 28, at the start of Operation Epic Fury, the joint US-Israeli attack against Iran. This shortwave station broadcasts the voice
of a man repeating numbers in Persian, and according to amateur radio operators, it appears to be transmitting from somewhere in Western Europe.
The video shows a map stretching from north-western Italy to the Netherlands:


youtube.com/watch?v=NlcIEmYfTmc

Now to a "good tower story"

Climbing High and Never Looking Back

For tower climber Denny Todd, KC7RVK, there is only one required tool...fear! Denny, now 86 years old, has been climbing towers for 70 years. His first was in South Dakota when he was 16, to put up an antenna so residents could
receive stations from Omaha, Nebraska, 90 miles away.


His climbing career was influenced by an interest in science and radio. His father was an engineer at a local AM station. Once he was up in the air,
Denny never looked back...or down!

And the "fear tool"?

The fear, to me, meant I had to do everything, take every precaution, to
climb safely, said Denny. He also was involved in helicopter-assisted work on high towers. You climb up a section of tower while a chopper flies in with either another section or an antenna that needs to be attached, he said. Its
a little scary trying to insert the bolts and tighten the nuts at the same
time the aircraft is hovering above!


So, when does he plan to stop climbing? When I lay down for my dirt nap, he chuckled.


The Hamvention Award winners have been announced -- and Kevin Trotman N5PRE from NewsLine joins me to tell us who they are.


Four influential US amateurs and a well-known club based in New York State
have been chosen to receive this year's Hamvention Awards.


The Technical Achievement Award is being given to Robert Famiglio K3RF, whose six decades as a ham radio operator are followed by more than four decades of providing volunteer legal counsel and regulatory literacy to his fellow amateurs on a variety of issues. In addition to being a lawyer, Bob has used his ham and electrical-engineering background to provide technical expertise. He has previously been involved in leadership roles in the Radio Club of America and, formerly, the ARRL.


Dr. Jose Otis Vicens NP4G has been named Amateur of the Year. An
orthodontist, he has also been involved in DXpeditions at various locations globally, including Bouvet Island. His most recent DXpedition took him to Desecheo Island where he operated as part of the KP5/NP3VI team. Otis' leadership role in emergency communication provided vital coordination during the 2017 Puerto Rico hurricanes as well as follow-up.


Special Achievement Award has been given to Martha Fell N3QBE and Joe Fell W3GMS for their long time mentorship of students of all ages and interests through a program they have organized and a weekly technical net that
welcomes newcomer


Congratulations everyone!

This is Newlines Kevin Trotman N5PRE

Hamvention is also recognizing the Long Island CW Club as Club of the Year
and we'll have news of this during Operational News


UK Regulator ComReg has been in contact with the IRTS to let them know
that they sent an email to all Irish radio amateurs on the 16th of March.

This contained an invitation to participate in a survey and provides
a link to that survey. The link is personalised so make sure your email on
the ComReg eLicensing account is still valid.


A general link to the survey will also be made available on ComRegs website,
on the Radio Amateurs page.


The survey will be open until 5 p.m. on the 30th of March.

This survey is looking at the health of our hobby seeking to understand how radio amateurs are using the bands, the type of equipment being used, demographics of radio amateurs in Ireland, and other information.


ComReg will speak on the Saturday afternoon of the IRTS AGM weekend. The intention is to have all the high-level information from this survey aggregated, analysed, and presented at that talk. All the results of the
survey will be published at a later date as part of ComRegs consultation process on reviewing the amateur station licensing regime.


Attention yalls amateur radio!

The Western Carolina Amateur Radio Society, an ARRL Special Service Club, now has its own HamFest theme song! Its a bluegrass tune composed for the Waynesville HamFest by Zach Thompson, KM4BLG, and the up-and-coming bluegrass band, CQ DX and the 73s.


You can listen to this unique amateur radio composition at the link we boot scoot to,


youtube.com/watch?v=gxUAwN9Wme8&list=RDgxUAwN9Wme8&start_radio=1

Icom UK has equipped the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) with the IC-905 All-Mode Transceiver as part of its ongoing support for the RSGB and the amateur radio community. This latest addition ensures that volunteers and visitors at the prestigious Bletchley Park facility have access to the latest VHF, UHF and SHF technology.


The IC-905 is an industry-first providing seamless multimode coverage across the 144, 430, 1200, 2400, 5600 MHz and 10 GHz bands.


The arrival of the IC-905 opens up new avenues for the NRC, from linking
local repeaters to monitoring radio beacons for the study of microwave propagation.


NRC Volunteers were keen to see first-hand the IC-905 and operate the industry-first multimode VHF/UHF/SHF transceiver.


With no previous microwave capable transceiver at the NRC, volunteers are particularly interested to see how the radio functions and what is possible.


This support highlights Icoms ongoing mission to support amateur radio and
the educational work carried out by the RSGB. By supplying cutting-edge hardware, Icom UK helps ensure the NRC remains a world-class hub for radio amateurs and newcomers alike.


Call Book 2026 - NO NOT VK BUT ZL.

By now all current financial members of NZART would have received this year's centennial edition of Call book.


For our New Zealand viewers and listeners, if your address details are
not correct in this publication, then perhaps you have not advised your regulator, Radio Spectrum Management.


Amateur Radio Register of call signs is owned by RSM therefore it is up to
you to contact them directly, this also applies to anyone not wanting their details to be publicly available, you MUST request in writing to the
Registrar at RSM to have your address details withheld.

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OPERATIONAL NEWS -
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Symbols of national pride - and national identity - are not being permitted
at this year's World Radiosport Team Championship.


Spectators and participants can expect to see plenty of things at the World Radiosport Team Championship event in the UK this coming July. There will be antennas, rigs, cables, microphones and keys -- and plenty of spectators to cheer on the hams using them.


What will not be evident anywhere are any emblems, flags or other symbols of national identity.


The Organising Committee of WRTC 2026 has reaffirmed the approach that was
used during the WRTC event held in 2023 in Bologna, Italy. That means that,
as before, this year's teams will avoid national symbols of any kind. This is especially significant because it is consistent with the competition's qualification process which identifies all participants by qualification area and not by their DXCC.


Like the Olympics, the WRTC is held every four years with different host countries each time. They have included Brazil, Finland, Germany, Russia, Slovenia and, in the US, San Francisco, Boston and Seattle.

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NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2026
WIA contest page :- wia.org.au/members/contests/about/
MARCH 21 and 22 JOHN MOYLE MEMORIAL FIELD DAY on this weekend. ---------------------

MAY:- HARRY ANGEL MEMORIAL SPRINT May 2nd.

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JUNE 6 -7 VK SHIRES CONTEST
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JUNE 20-21 VHF UHF FIELD DAY
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JULY 4-5 NZART MEMORIAL CONTEST
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JULY 11-12 IARU HF CHAMPIONSHIP
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JULY 18 VK TRANS TASMAN CONTEST
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JULY 25-26 RSGB IOTA CONTEST
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AUGUST 15-16 RD CONTEST
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AUGUST 29 - 30 ALARA CONTEST
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SEPTEMBER 19-20 VHF UHF FIELD DAY
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OCTOBER 3-4 OCEANA SSB CONTEST
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OCEANA CW CONTEST is OCTOBER 10 - 11
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OCTOBER 24-25 CQWW SSB
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NOVEMBER 28-29 CQWW CW CONTEST
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DECEMBER 12-13 ARRL 10 METER CONTEST

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The Radio Amateur Association of Western Greece, SZ1A is active with special callsign SZ40A to celebrate 40 years of continuous presence, service, and contribution to amateur radio.


Look for activity across multiple HF bands and modes until the 31st of May.

QSL via ON3UN. Visit awards.sz1a.org to access awards that are available for working the station.

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Tom VK2TBC is active as VK 0 TBC from Casey Station, Antarctica
until December. He will operate SSB and FT8.
vk2tbc.com
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Central African Republic.

Operating is TL 8 BNW until June on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres using SSB
and digital with a dipole.
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WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF

IARU Region 3 ARDF Championship

WIA National News has yet to be informed if any VKers are planning on participating BUT here is a follow up information on IARU Region 3 ARDF Championship to be held on 9-14 Nov. 2026 in Japan.


The deadline for submitting the Letter of Intent to participate is March 31, 2026.


The IARU Region 3 ARDF Championship Bulletin No.1 has been posted on the ARDF Championship website.


jarl.com/2026reg3ardf/book/2026r3_bulletin_1.pdf --
(sourced to nzart)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ASTRONOMY (and Wireless Weather)

Recently on a Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz.


One of the largest known chunks put a soccer-ball-sized hole in someones
roof, landing in their bedroom. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. But given the apparent size of the explosion, there must be many more pieces out there for the finding, and a wave of hopeful meteorite hunters has descended upon the region.


But if you wanted a piece of the action, where exactly would you start
looking? How do scientists find meteorites anyway? And what should you do if you happen to see a similar fireball in the night sky?


In the age of always-on dashboard cameras, ubiquitous smartphones, and other video recording devices, its hard for a shy meteorite to find a quiet spot
out of the public eye. That makes them a lot easier to find than they were in the past. Indeed, the International Meteor Organization, which aggregates amateur meteor observations, received more than 3,200 reports of this one.


fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_video/view_video?video_id=21143

If the meteorite fell through our roof and chunks were scattered all around
our bedroom, wed count ourselves lucky. But would we get to keep it? Of
course, it depends on the local laws, and in Germany, you can keep the meteorites in most cases, unless the state decides that its of special value for whatever reason, and then they get first dibs.


Apparently, the going rate for meteorites is between 1 and 5,000 Euros per gram, so were not entirely sure that it will cover the damage.


While very big fireballs like this are rare, NASA estimates that around
44,000 kg of meteoritic material falls on the Earth every day.

FORTY FOUR THOUSAND!!

Most of this burns up in the atmosphere, but some falls to the ground. (HACKADAY)

WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS
SUMMITS ON THE AIR, WORLD WIDE FLORA, FAUNA PROGRAM,
PARKS ON THE AIR and other ADVENTURE GROUPS.

hema.org.uk/index.jsp
minesontheair.com/about-mota
parksontheair.com/
sota.org.uk
sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/
facebook.com/SotaAustralia/
wwffaustralia.com/

WHEN WILL IT EVER END.

Last week we told you of the new group TOWERS ON THE AIR, TOTA nowcomes news
of LLOTA


Thats LLOTA not LoLita.

Lakes and Lagoons on the Air

The relatively new radio activity program Lakes and Lagoons on the Air

www.llota.app is where you can also find more information about the program. (sourced to irts)

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

IARU Coordinates Two New Amateur Satellites

The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Satellite Frequency Coordination Committee has recently completed frequency coordination for two CubeSat missions:


Taiwans Lilium-4 and Montenegros Luca-01.

Lilium-4, a 6U CubeSat developed by National Formosa University is set to enhance amateur radio connectivity and optical experimentation in space.


The satellite, with callsign BN0YCA, will feature a 1200 bps AX.25 APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz for global intercommunication among radio enthusiasts. It also includes UHF telemetry downlink at 437.850 MHz and a high-bandwidth S-band downlink at 2405.0 MHz for monitoring an onboard
optical payload. Additional capabilities involve a V/U repeater with uplink
at 145.980 MHz and downlink at 435.250 MHz, plus GNSS positioning using the
L1 signal at 1575.42 MHz.


The mission focuses on student-led studies of space-to-ground optical signal acquisition, with unencrypted telemetry encouraging public participation in decoding and link-budget validation. The satellite is slated for launch no earlier than mid-March 2026 aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space
Force Base, targeting a 510 km polar orbit.


Luca-01 represents Montenegros entry into amateur satellite technology, spearheaded by Montenegro Space Research. This 1U CubeSat is designed for educational outreach, equipped with a charged particle sensor and a miniature camera to capture Earths surface images.


It will transmit special Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images and telemetry
data to engage radio amateurs, students, and schoolchildren, using an open protocol for easy reception with affordable equipment. The mission aims to inspire young people in amateur radio and space science, including efforts to image various orbital objects.


Downlinks have been coordinated on UHF frequencies: 437.180 MHz primary and 436.150 MHz spare, employing GMSK modulation at rates between 2.4 kbps and
19.2 kbps.


Luca-01 is planned for a Roscosmos launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome into
a 500-600 km Sun-synchronous orbit.


These coordinations ensure that the satellites can operate without
interfering with other space-based communications, paving the way for their upcoming launches and contributions to scientific research, education, and
ham radio communities worldwide.

(ans)

Fuji-OSCAR 29 (FO-29), also known as JAS-2, the Japanese amateur radio satellite launched in August 1996, has entered a new operational phase as of early March 2026. Now approaching its 30th anniversary in orbit, the satellitelong limited by failed batteriesrelies entirely on solar panel illumination for power, meaning it only functions during sunlight periods and shuts down in eclipse.


In February 2026, the FO-29 control team (operated from Japan) continued scheduled activations of the linear transponder, with commands sent on
specific dates to turn it on for limited windows. Operators noted the
unstable situation due to the satellites age, with activations sometimes failing if the onboard voltage didnt respond quickly enough.


The transponder operates in Mode V/u (inverting SSB/CW):
uplink LSB 145.900146.000 MHz,
downlink USB 435.800435.900 MHz, with a CW beacon on 435.795 MHz.

Around March 9, 2026, FO-29 transitioned into a full-sunlight orbit
this eliminates periodic eclipses, allowing continuous operation as long as solar panels receive light. AMSAT

(ans)

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTAiota-world.org/

Special callsign GB 0 OH will be active from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides for around six days from the 11th of April.


This is an opportunity for award chasers to log IOTA reference EU-010 and Worked All Britain square NB53.


The station will be operating on several bands from 40 to 10m mainly using
SSB, but there may also be some FT8 activity. QSL via QRZ.com


Again that's IOTA EU-O10
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Listen for Aki operating as YJ1JXZ from Port Vila, IOTA Number OC-035,
Vanuatu now through to the 3rd of April on 80-6 metres,

(newsline 2524)
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OC REMINDERS
IOTA NUMBER OC-031

On air is C 21 TS from Nauru, IOTA Number OC-031, until sometime in July
FT8 maybe some SSB. See stations C 21 TS on QRZ.com for QSL information
and other operating details.

(sourced to newsline 2519)

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OC-047 - H44MS - Malaita Island in the Solomons.

Bernard, H44MS will be active from Manakwai village, nearby Maluu
(northern Malaita island) UNTIL April 10.

(dx-world)

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OC-66 - TX9XG - Rangiroa Atoll.

Haru, JA1XGI has announced that he will be active from Rangiroa Atoll,
French Polynesia (OC-066) as TX9XG during April 1-8, 2026. He plans to
QRV on 40-10m; CW, SSB, RTTY & FT8 using the new IC-7300 MK2.

QSL TX9XG via Haru's home call, JA1XGI using OQRS Club Log.

(dx-world)
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OC-073

Take, JG8NQJ/JD1 expects to be back to the weather station on
Minami Torishima (OC-073) until mid-May.
He will operate mainly CW with some FT8.

QSL via JG8NQJ (bureau) and LoTW.
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OC-095

The rarest of the rare.

Jacek, SP5APW will be active as 3D2JK from Lakeba Island OC-095 on
the days 17-22 April. 3D2JK will operate FT8 and SSB on 20-10 metres,
and on 6 metres mainly FT8.

Last activated in 2004, OC-095 remains the rarest IOTA group in Fiji.

QSL via Club Log's OQRS (preferred), or direct to SP5APW.
3d2jk.blogspot.com
(425DXNEWS)
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WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ---- MEDICAL.

Dutch special call signs:-

PA26WAAD, PB26WAAD, PC26WAAD, PD26WAAD, PE26WAAD, PG26WAAD and PH26WAAD

These 7 stations whose suffixes are all W A A D are in use between
20 March and 5 April for World Autism Awareness Day.

QSLs via LoTW and eQSL. See QRZ.com for PA26WAAD for the award.

In 2007 the United Nations General Assembly declared 2 April as World
Autism Awareness Day to highlight the need to help improve the quality of
life of autistic individuals so they can lead full and meaningful lives
as an integral part of society.

(sarl)

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS - YOTA
(Youngsters On The Air)
WIA committee:- Steve VK6SJ, Alec VK2MV and Pete VK2LP. ham-yota.com/category/yota-region-3/
facebook.com/groups/YOTAOC/
youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA
2026 Skywarn Youth Severe Weather Awareness Special Event

Special event station N 0 A is on the wireless now until March 29 promoting Severe Weather Awareness 2026.


Sponsored by Skywarn Youth, this event is designed to promote severe weather awareness across the world.


Look for N 0 A across multiple HF bands on SSB and FT8.

Skywarn have a Youth Net (or on-air meeting) weekly.

This Net provides valuable training for young amateur radio operators by helping us learn how to handle on-air traffic, by introducing us to

different geographic locations and names not only in the United States but throughout the world, and by encouraging awareness about basic weather facts and current and upcoming weather conditions.


The net takes place every Sunday evening at 7:30 PM central time. (Because US is in Daylight saving that time is 00.30 UTC MONDAY.


More information is available on the Skywarn Youth Net website.
skywarnyouth DOT net
(ARD)

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IT'S A DATE

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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 - Redfest - Deception Bay North State School 9am April 11. (vk4ble)

VK - WIA AGM May 2 at 2pm Albury VK2 couples with VK SUMMIT 2026
also in Albury May 2 and 3. (wiacal/ARMAG )

VK2 - Picton HamFest May 31 at Showground 8am (vk2ts)

VK2 - Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Field Day 6 and 7 June
Wauchope Showground hall. (vk2zhe)

VK5 - Sth Est Radio Group Convention & Australian Fox Hunting
Championship Mt Gambier June 6/7 (vk5dj)

VK3 - Bendigo Amateur Radio & Electronics Club RadioFest.
Sunday 11 October, Bendigo East Hall, Lansell Street (vk3gtv)
VK7 - Tassie Ham-E-Con Radio Conference Nov 7 and 8 UTAS Sandy Bay
Campus. reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference/

VK5 - Adelaide Amateur Radio & Electronics Car Boot Sale Dogs SA
Showground, Cromwell Road, Kilburn 10.00am. November 21. (wiacal)
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Promote your local rebroadcast; details on wia.org.au/members/broadcast/contribute/
The purpose of "WIANews" is to rapidly provide news of
interest to WIA affiliated clubs and active amateurs residing
in Australia and the globe.

We strongly encourage membership in the Wireless Institute of
Australia and participation in the activities of local clubs.
Opinions expressed in "WIANews" are those of the writers who
submit material and do not necessarily reflect those of the
rebroadcasters, nor the National WIA, but IF broadcast, are
done so in the spirit in which they were submitted."

If you would like to see the call-backs reported each
broadcast, OR have call-backs to contribute to the National
News call back tally then please send through your call-backs
to callbacks@wia.org.au

How do I join this REBROADCASTERS List?
(subscribe for an automatic feed.)
Email to vk1wia-broadcasters-join@lists.wia.org.au
from the email account that you wish the emails to go to.

How do I join this National News List?
(subscribe for an automatic weekly feed.)
Email to vk1wia-news-join@lists.wia.org.au
from the email account that you wish the emails to go to.
How do I leave this National News List? (unsubscribe your
weekly feed)
Open mail program which sends mail from the address you want
to unsubscribe from. Send unsubscribe to the list
unsubscribe address vk1wia-news-leave@lists.wia.org.au
You will be sent a confirmation mail and must follow the
instructions given in that mail to complete the
unsubscription.

Once your unsubscription has been processed, you will
probably receive a message confirming your unsubscription
from the list and at that point you should stop receiving
messages.

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