Evening NEWS 22nd of June 2008 Good evening listeners, thank you for tuning in. For emergencies the phone number here at the Dural transmitting site is 02 9651 1489. Our office number is 02 9651 1490 which goes to message bank. IPS Weekly Solar and Geophysical Report for the 13th to the 19th of June, issued on the 20th by the IPS Radio and Space Services. SUMMARY Dates across the columns are 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th of June10cm flux 67 67 67 65 66 65 65Fredericksburg Index (Afr) 1 16 14 10 8 8 (5 estimated)Australian Index (Aaus) 1 12 14 11 10 8 (5 estimated)T index 0 -3 10 3 6 6 9Geomagnetic activity observed for the Australian Region was quiet on the 13th and 19th; quiet to minor storm on the 14th; quiet to active on the 15th; mostly quiet to active with an isolated active period on the 16th; quiet to unsettled with an isolated active period on the 17th; and quiet to unsettled on the 18th. Southern Australian Ionospheric F2 critical frequencies were near predicted to 30 per cent enhanced on the 13th; near predicted to 35 per cent enhanced on the 14th; near predicted to 20 per cent enhanced on the 15th; near predicted to 15 per cent enhanced on the 16th; and near predicted for the rest of the period. Forecast for 20th to 26th June Solar activity should be low. Geomagnetic activity should see quiet to unsettled conditions. Frequencies should be near predicted monthly values. Courtesy of the IPS Radio and Space Services Summary by Pat VK2JPA ARNSW Renewals. Would ARNSW members returning the current batch of membership renewal forms. Do not fax the form in its present colour. The fax machine is having problems with the colour contrast. If you wish to use the fax facilities, it is best to download a new form from the ARNSW web site on light coloured paper. Alternatively just list the relevant details on a new sheet of paper. Thanks, from Tim VK2ZTM. Help Wanted. Malcolm Sinclair VK2BMS lives in the Willoughby area of Sydney. Malcolm is looking for someone to erect his Nally Tower. He tells us the support post is already in the ground. If anyone can help Malcolm he can be reached on 02 9958 1114. This was advised by Malcolm VK2BMS. Broadcast Team. The broadcast roster for next quarter is going to be drawn up soon. If you have been considering joining the team, now is the time to speak up. The roster is very flexible, you may choose to do just announcing or engineering or both. You may do just mornings or evenings or both. If you let us know which days are either convenient or inconvenient we will accommodate that when we draw up the roster. All instruction is provided. Foundation licence holders are most welcome. If you are interested you can email us at arnews@tpg.com.au or phone John VK2JJV on 02 94845869. Advised by John VK2JJV. VK2 WICEN News, 22nd June, 2008 The Acting Secretary/Treasurer has stepped down from that role, due to other pressures. As a result, it is now more important than ever for someone to step forward. The position comes with a laptop, a multi-function printer, and a photocopier. The Nav Shield will be held over the weekend of 5-6th July. The actual location will be publicised a week before the event, but we are able to say that it will be 3-4 hours south of Sydney. Volunteers are still required, as so far we have the bare minimum. Please contact either Mal Alexander VK2YVA or Julian Dryden VK2TED for further information. The Shahzada 400km Horse Enduro is on again over the week of 25-29th August. Operators for the full week or even just one day are required, with food, fuel, and floor-space being provided, along with long hours, missed meals, and lots of fun. Other events confirmed for this year include the Barrington Tops SAREX (Search and Rescue exercise) over the weekend of 18-19th October (unfortunately the same weekend as JOTA), and the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic over the weekend of 1st-2nd November. WICEN is always looking for volunteers to help the community with communications assistance. Write to WICEN NSW at PO Box 126, Gosford 2250; send email to "operations@nsw.wicen.org.au"; telephone 0408-397-217; or visit "www.nsw.wicen.org.au". -- Dave Horsfall VK2KFU, Publicity Officer, WICEN (NSW) Inc. ARRL DX news for the 19th of June MONACO, 3A. Slavo, SP2JMB will be QRV as 3A/homecall from June 23 to 27. Activity will be on all bands using mostly CW. QSL to home call. CYPRUS, 5B. Colin, G3VCQ will be QRV as 5B/homecall from Paphos, IOTA AS-004, from June 24 to July 5 while on holiday. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. MALDIVES, 8Q. Paulo, CT2IVH is QRV as 8Q7VH from Meeru Island, IOTA AS-013, until June 23. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL to home call. CROATIA, 9A. Operators 9A/HA3HP, 9A5AN and 9A2AA are QRV from Dugi Otok, IOTA EU-170, until June 25. They hope to be active from many other islands in the vicinity as well. QSL to home calls. SABLE ISLAND, CY0. A small group of operators will be QRV as CY0X from June 25 to July 7. They will concentrate their activity on 6 meters, but will also be QRV on 40, 20 and 2 meters using CW and SSB. They may also try to be active as CY0RA from grid square GN03. QSL direct via VE3IKV. LIECHTENSTEIN, HB0. Look for HB0/HA0HW, HB0/HA4DX and HB0/HG4GBE to be QRV from June 23 to 29. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters using CW, SSB and possibly digital modes. QSL to home calls. HONDURAS, HR. The Radio Club de Honduras will be QRV as HQ50RCH in celebration of its 50th anniversary from June 21 to July 31. QSL direct. THAILAND, HS. Special event station HS91LIONS will be QRV from June 23 to 27 during the Lions Clubs International 91st convention in Bangkok. QSL via HS1CHB. JAPAN, JA. Look for 7L3ATQ/8 to be QRV from Teuri Island, IOTA AS-147, from June 21 to 24. Activity will be on all bands. QSL to home call. ALAND ISLANDS, OH0. Martti, OH2BH and Leena, OH2BE are QRV as OH0B until June 22. Activity is mostly on 20 meters using SSB. QSL via OH2BH. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, UA. Special event station R45VT is QRV until June 20 from Yaroslavl to commemorate the June 16, 1963 flight into space of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6. QSL via RD3MA. BELIZE, V3. Dennis, K7BV is QRV as V36M from Caye Caulker, IOTA NA-073, until June 26. Activity is only on 6 meters. QSL via W1JJ. TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, VP5. Joe, W8GEX is QRV as VP5/homecall until June 28. Activity is on 20 to 6 meters, including 60 meters. QSL to home call. HONG KONG, VR2. Tomas, LY1F is QRV as VR2/VK2CCC until June 21. He is using mainly CW on the higher bands. QSL via operator's instructions. LAOS, XW. Bruce, XW1B has been QRV using RTTY on 20 meters from 1420 to 1520z. QSL via E21EIC. VENEZUELA, YV. Members of the Radio Club Venezolano are QRV as YW2AJ until June 24 from Barinas State. Activity is on all HF bands, including 6 meters, using all modes. QSL via YV5AJ. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Operators K4BI and K2ZD are QRV as ZF2BI and ZF2ZD, respectively, until July 6. Activity is mostly on 6 meters. They have a beacon active on 50095 kHz. This includes possible activity from Lighthouse WLOTA LH-1042. QSL to home calls. UNITED STATES, W. Randy, WS4C, and Ben, AI4SK will be QRV with their own call signs with two stations from Middle Hooper Island, MD (NA-140) from June 26 to 29. This is a father-son expedition celebrating Ben's graduation from high school. Activity will be on SSB and CW on 40 to 17 meters and perhaps other HF bands as conditions warrant. QSL as specified on QRZ.com. QSL INFORMATION UPDATE. As reported in DX news bulletin ARLD025 for Minami Torishima, QSL via JD1BMM, NOT direct via JA6GXK. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The All Asian DX CW Contest, NCCC Sprint CW Ladder, Digital Pentathlon, SMIRK 6-Meter Contest, Feld Hell Sprint, AGCW VHF/UHF CW Contest and Kid's Day Contest are all on tap for this weekend. The SKCC CW Sprint and BCC QSO Party are scheduled for June 25. Thanks to Pat VK2JPA for downloading the DX news. New news Segment Starting this evening will be a new regular evening news segment. It will consist of either a technical or historical item. This evenings tape is first in a series about the amateur exam requirements in the year 1948. Now for Club news. The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group. “Plan Ahead. Attention all radio groups and clubs ! The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group will be running the Radio Expo in Coffs Harbour NSW on Sunday 18th January 2009. The group invites all interested groups and clubs to come to the Expo and mount a display. This is the ideal venue to showcase your groups activity and get to meet hundreds of amateurs from the Mid North Coast region of NSW under one roof. Why not use this Expo to display your group or clubs home brew skills, latest projects or perhaps inform all amateurs of the services your group or club have to offer. You are also welcome to sell kits as a fund raiser or to invite amateurs to join your group or club on the day. The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group offer under cover display areas, full canteen facilities, clean amenities, disable access and loads of free parking. Also on offer and encouraged is the large outdoor display area next to the venue to display large antennas, satellite dishes, microwave antennas, towers or to set up a tent for your display. All this is free, that's right FREE, free display space, power, advertising via various media outlets, inclusion on our groups web site of your attendance and more.... Interested ? Call Gary Ryan on 02 66552990 to book your space for this premier event on the Mid North Cost of NSW in Coffs Harbour. More information is available on the groups comprehensive web site at www.mncarg.org The date to mark in your calendar is :- Sunday 18th January 2009. General admission to the show will be $5.00 per person. This includes free tea, coffee, and yummy bickies as well as entry in the 6 lucky door prizes drawn every hour from 9.30 onwards ! All proceeds go directly to providing effective repeater systems for the Mid North Coast Region for the use of ALL amateurs. Submitted by Gary Ryan VK2ZKT, Radio Expo Organiser.” Manly-Warringah Radio Society   Last Wednesday was lecture night at the Manly-Warringah Radio Society, and the club was privileged to host a vist from the intrepid Dick Smith VK2DIK. Dick held the packed club room spellbound, as he recounted many of his adventures around the world, one or two of which were assisted by members of the Society.   The club would like to thank Dick for a splendid evening's entertainment, and remind him that he's welcome any time! More details on his visit, including photos, will be put up on the club web site in the next week or so.   Members are reminded that the Society's Anual General Meeting is fast approaching on the 9th of July, so please consider nominating for positions on the committee.   Also, next month's usual lecture night will be replaced by a field trip to Macquarie University on Friday 18 July. More details as they come to hand.   The Manly-Warringah Radio Society meets every Wednesday at the Warringah Volunteer Services Centre at Terrey Hills. As usual, doors open at 7.30pm for an 8pm start, and visitors are most welcome.   For more information, visit the society web site at  www.mwrs.org.au. You can also phone 02-9450-1746 on Wednesday evenings, or call in on the club two metre repeater on 146.875 MHz.   73 Richard VK2SKY, Publicity Officer Taree and District Amateur Radio Club inc. The next Club Meeting of the Taree and District Amateur Radio Club, is on the Tuesday the 1st of July starting at 1930hours and will be held at Banyula Village, Old Bar. Please note the change of venue for this meeting to Banyula Village, Old Bar. All Amateurs and interested visitors are most welcome. It will be great to see everyone there. Taree and District Amateur Radio Club Inc, has a club net each Monday night at 1930hrs on its two metre repeaters, which are permanently linked. The net controller uses the Club call sign VK2FRE. All Licensed Amateurs are most welcome to join in. The Club also maintains a 70cm repeater which is in the process of an upgrade. Taree and District Amateur Radio Club is also able to provide Amateur Exams on request. Contact Mark VK2AMS via E-mail: vk2fre@wia.org.au or on 02 6551 0126. Advised by Terry VK2KDK for the Taree and District Amateur Radio Club. The Illawarra Amateur Radio Society. The Birthday celebrations continue at the Illawarra amateur Radio Society. Sixty years ago on the 10th June 1948 The Wollongong Amateur Radio Society was issued experimenters licence VK2AMW. To commemorate this historic milestone, the ACMA has granted special call sign VI2AMW60 for use by the club for the month of June. Club members will be manning all bands from 160 metres through to 10 Metres. Why not tune around 7.095 MHz this evening and give Bob VK2NRB a call. QSL contacts are fast reaching the 1000 mark.. Catch up with one of the operators and score yourself a limited edition QSL card. Stand by for the fun, the dog pile has begun. A most successful technical workshop was held last Sunday where more than a dozen ‘Differential Time of Arrival Fox Hunting receivers’ were made. The third and final workshop for this series will be held in July with the construction project being a CTCSS encoder to install in your rig. This week is the final week to secure tickets for the anniversary dinner. Telephone VK2HUG, Mavea [pronounced may var ] on 02 4297 6065. Anyone wishing to attend the fox hunt day at Blackbutt Reserve on the 29th June needs to also contact Mavea with numbers. At the conclusion of the fox hunt there will be a mini auction of electronic devices and components. We have dozens of digital multimeters, thousands of electronic components, Lab bench power supplies, electronic project kits, speakers, car radios, battery chargers, panel meters, and a whole lot more. Club members please be advised that club membership fees are due from the first June. Stay financial and support your club. Not a member ?, why not consider joining. Membership has many advantages, including access to the clubs fee technical book and video library, which now totals over a hundred publications. Support for twelve amateur repeaters, 3 digipeaters, and several packet gateways. Access to our ongoing technical workshop program, interesting informative club meetings, Contest, DX and foxhunting outings, the list goes on and on.For information on all these items, log onto www.iars.org.au The Illawarra Amateur Radio Society, the Progressive Amateur Radio Club. St. George Amateur Radio Society The next meeting of the St. George Amateur Radio Society will be held on Wednesday 2nd July. As well as all the usual friendly chat that goes on at these meeting there will be a special talk by Dave Nelson VK2TDN. Dave's talk is entitled "Microwaves 101". This will be an introduction into voice and ATV modes in the microwave bands from 1GHz to 24GHz. During this presentation Dave will look at ways of generating microwave signals, measuring frequency and determining power levels. He will also present notes on path loss calculations and how signal bandwidth affects received signal strengths. For those who went to the Central Coast Field Day at Wyong this year, Dave was one was the group of amateurs who had a range of microwave equipment on display. Also, the club has obtained a number of brand new commercial ground independent 70cm mobile antennas. These will be available at a "friend of the family" price and the profits will go towards the Mt. Bindo Repeater Fund. Those members who have put in an order for the pie drive, remember to come also and pick up your pies - or they will be eaten by the rest of the members! The meeting is held at the normal location - 1st Kyle Bay Scout Hall, in Donnelly Park, Kyle Parade Connells Point, starting at 7:30pm. Come along all are welcome. Peter O'Connell VK2EMU Publicity Officer St. George Amateur Radio Society The Hornsby and Districts Amateur Radio Club. The next meeting of HADARC will be on this Tuesday the 24th of June, at 8:00pm at the Mt Colah Community Centre, Pierre Close, Mt Colah. There will be two short talks, brought to us by Barry VK2AAB and Bob VK2ZRM. Barry’s topic is an update on his previous talks on Peak Oil. Bob’s talk is about his new acquisition – the Elecraft K3. This issue of QUA has an article written by Bob on his purchase and assembly of his K3: Bob will expand on this with a photo presentation which will provide a much better appreciation of the kit, its assembly and commissioning. The next Foundation Licence course is on the weekend of 28th and 29th June in Baulkham Hills. Exams for Standard and Advanced licences will also be available. If you are interested, call Tony, VK2BTL on (02) 9487 3383, or use the form on the website at, www.hadarc.org.au From Julian Sortland, VK2YJS, publicity Officer, Hornsby and Districts Amateur Radio Club, incorporated. Some regular activities Gladesville Television Broadcast Sunday 7 PM and Wednesday 7.30 PM VK2BWI live operator Morse Practice Broadcasts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Alan VK2ADB and Ross VK2ER, at 8PM local time, on 3550 kHz.. Hornsby and Districts Amateur Radio club has nets on Mondays at 8pm on the clubs linked repeaters. Wednesdays at 8 pm on 3608.5 kHz 80m LSB. Beginners CW net on Thursdays at 8 PM around 3525 kHz. And Fridays at 9am on 7104 Khz 40m LSB Westlakes RTTY/ SSTV net on Thursday nights at 7:30 PM on the Clubs local repeater (146.775). Blue Mountains 6m/VHF net on 50.200 usb & 144.200 usb 8:30 Pm on Mondays. Illawarra Amateur Radio Society weekly news bulletin on the coast link 2m repeaters and the Maddens Plains 6m and 70cm repeaters. 7:30 pm each Tuesday except for club meeting nights. Illawarra F-call net on Friday’s at 8:00pm Mid South Coast Lyrebird net Wednesday’s at 8:30pm. Taree & District club net Mondays at 7:30 pm on their linked 2m Repeaters. Manly-Warringah Radio Society meeting each Wednesday, doors open 7:30 Pm. Snowy Mountains Amateur Club weekly net on Saturdays at 8:30 Pm on 3695 kHz. Summary of Coming Events June Special call sign, VI2AMW60 will be used by members of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society to celebrate the club’s 60th birthday. Summerland Committee meeting Today the 22nd. Hornsby monthly meeting on the 24th. Manly Warringah meeting on the 25th. Oxley Region gathering on the 27th. Illawarra anniversary dinner on the 28th. HADARC Foundation course at Baulkham Hills on the 28th & 29th. Illawarra BBQ and fox hunt day on the 29th. July Taree and District Meeting on the 1st. St George meeting on the 2nd. Nav Shield exercise on the 5th & 6th. Manly Warringah AGM on the 9th. Waverly annual auction on the 12th. Manly-Warringah Radio Society visit to Macquarie Uni Observatory on the18th. Q60 Enduro on the 19th & 20th. Summerland HF antenna day on the 27th. August SARCFEST, at Richmond Hill on the 10th. International Lighthouse / Lightship Weekend and the VK Remembrance Day Contest on the 16th & 17th. Shahzada Horse Enduro from the 25th to 29th. ALARA contest on the 30th and 31st. October Barrington Tops SAREX (Search and Rescue exercise) and Jota on the 18th & 19th November Hawkesbury Canoe Classic on the 1st & 2nd. Spring VHF/UHF Field Day (Weekend) on the 15th & 16th. Submitting News items Please get your news submissions in by the Friday night before the broadcast. Preferably no more than one page in the Arial size 14 font. Please specify if you want the item to run for more than one week. It may not be necessary for items to run continuously as all events will be included in the summary of upcoming events. Submission of news items should be sent to arnews@tpg.com.au. Broadcast Roster Next week the announcer in the morning will be Tim VK2ZTM with Jeff VK2BYY as engineer. For the evening broadcast we have Terry VK2UX as announcer with Mathew VK2YAP as engineering support. That concludes our evening news. All the best from the broadcast team at VK2WI. Have a great week. Thank you for listening.