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2023 OCTOBER 29 VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA
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THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK

THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN
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NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING OCT 29 2023
IN OUR 28th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

THIS WEEK:-

NOMINATE TODAY AS A WIA DIRECTOR

NOW NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.
I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB
WIA

JOIN THE WIA
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Election of Directors Call for Nominations

A notice will be published in the November / December edition of the
Institute's magazine "Amateur Radio" calling for nominations from members for
election to join the Board of Directors of the WIA.

Three directors retire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting
which will be held in May 2024, namely Lee Moyle VK3GK, Chris Dimitrijevic
VK3FY and Steven Green VK2TSG. Each retiring director is eligible for
re-election.

A director must be a voting member of the WIA and must hold an Australian
amateur radio license and a Company Director Identification Number.

A nomination form is available on the WIA web site and at the link in the
text version of this broadcast.

Candidate information will be posted online and emailed to members.
Members are requested to ensure that their email address is correctly
recorded on the WIA membership register to ensure emails are not delivered to
incorrect addresses.

Delivery to the Returning Officer may be made by hand when the WIA national
office is open or by mail to the Returning Officer. Detailed delivery
information is available in the text version of this broadcast.

Delivery to the Returning Officer may be made by hand when the WIA national
office is open at:

Wireless Institute of Australia National Office Unit 2011-13 Havelock Road
BayswaterVictoria 3153
or by mail to:
The Returning Officer
Wireless Institute of AustraliaPO Box 2042
BayswaterVictoria 3153
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Nominations received by facsimile, email or by other electronic means cannot
be accepted.

This communique is Authorised by:John Marshall
WIA Returning Officer

ALARA

ALARAmeet 2023 only ONE week away!

Indriz VK7ZIR joins us

We will soon be welcoming many ALARA members and their partners into
VK7 for the national meeting of ALARA that occurs every three years.
The last time it was in VK7 was in 2008 in Ulverstone.

It is centred on the Woolstore Motel in downtown Hobart and starts
Friday the 3rd of November with some optional activities including
a pre-conference cruise to Peppermint Bay for lunch and opportunity
to attend the Tasmanian Symphony concert in the evening.

On Saturday the 4th of November there is a welcome and trip to
Salamanca Market. In the afternoon there is an afternoon of sharing
and meeting for the Ladies and the OMs head off on a Mystery History
Radio tour. There is a dinner with a wonderful guest speaker on the
Saturday night.

On Sunday the 5th of November there is a visit to the Female Factory
in the morning then a visit to REAST, along with an EchoLink net,
fox (or native animal) hunt, operating the club station with the
special event callsign and BBQ. In the afternoon there is a visit to
historic Richmond, finishing with a Dinner and another great guest
speaker and awards.

There are also a range of optional post conference tours on the
Monday.

A huge weekend of activities for ALARA participants.
alara.org.au/alarameet/index.html

Linda VK7QP from ALARA will join us a little 'further down the log'
in todays National News from your WIA

(VK7WI NEWS)

WIRELESS WEATHER

Earth was hit by the largest-ever detected solar storm 14,300 years
ago, ancient tree rings reveal.

If a storm of a similar magnitude hit our planet today, it could
have potentially catastrophic effects on our modern technological
society.

This powerful solar storm was identified by an international team of
scientists studying ancient tree rings preserved in the eroded banks
of the Drouzet River, near Gap, in the Southern French Alps.

Extreme solar storms known as Miyake Events are very rare. As
far as we know, only nine have occurred in the last 15,000 years.
The most recent confirmed Miyake Events occurred in 993 AD and
774 AD, but this newly identified 14,300-year-old storm is the
largest-ever recorded approximately twice as powerful as these
two and 10 times more powerful than the famous Carrington Event
in 1859.

(space.com)
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, RAC,
ARRL, NZART, eHam, AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, eHam,
Radioworld.com Hackaday and the World Wide sources of the WIA.

REGION ONE

The RSGB 2023 Convention brought together hundreds in person and as
well as many more across the world who watched the livestream.

RSGB General Manager and Convention Chair, Steve Thomas, M1ACB said:

We saw presentations about taking amateur radio into schools, young radio
amateurs travelling to YOTA camp, as well as the usual mix of fascinating
technical talks about many aspects of amateur radio today.

The Society will share a small number of Convention presentations on YouTube
over the coming weeks and will provide many more for members to view as part
of the benefit of RSGB membership.

In addition, you will be able to watch a series of special interviews that
were recorded over the weekend. The interview with the RSGB and IRTS
Presidents has been released and you can see it on the RSGB YouTube channel
and also on the RSGB Convention web page

IRELAND

Over the years weve reported on the passing of a few broadcasting
technologies of yesteryear, such as analogue TV in Australia, or
AM radio in Europe. Now its the turn of an early digital contender,
as one of the few remaining holdouts of old-style teletext is to
shut down its service.

The Irish broadcaster RT is to turn off its teletext service
which has been live in some form continuously since 1986.

In an internet-connected world it seems quaint that a limited set of
curated pages could once have been such a big deal, but its easy to
forget that for many the teletext system provided their first ever
taste of online information.

As it shuffles away almost unnoticed we wont miss counting through
the page numbers cycling by in the top corner as we waited for our
page to load, but its worth marking its final passing from one of
the few places it could still be found, Ireland.

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REGION TWO

The AMSAT Board of Directors met Oct. 19 in Dallas, Texas in
advance of their annual meeting and Symposium.

Since Board members whose terms were expiring were all re-elected,
the Board was as previously constituted. Frank Karnauskas was
welcomed as the new Alternate Board member.

All officers were re-appointed by acclamation:

President Robert Bankston gave his President's Report. His focus
was on improving transparency and accountability between AMSAT
leadership and membership. This would include better reporting of
finances, better standards for publishing accomplishments,
more attention to Member Services for member satisfaction,
and redesign of the AMSAT website.
AI-Based Weather Service to cover USA.

The use of AI-based content tools in radio broadcasting applications
continues to proliferate. Westwood One and cloud-based technology
supplier Super Hi-Fi announced an agreement under which Westwood One
will market Super Hi-Fis recently introduced AI-generated
weather service.

Super Hi-Fi describes Weathercaster as the only AI-powered audio
based weather report service for radio. Its content creation and
audio production are automated.

Weathercaster saves radio companies significant time and money,
and allows for incredibly high-quality localized weather reports
to be included with every linear radio broadcast, the company says.

Westwood Ones syndicated content is heard on 9,400 affiliated
broadcast radio stations as well as streaming and digital platforms.

WEIRD AND WONDERFULL

Strange anomaly in sun's solar cycle discovered in centuries-old
texts from Korea.

Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the
'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 and 1715, the sun's solar cycles
became several years shorter than they are today.

This new study, published October 3 in the journal AGU Advances,
researchers analysed historic auroral records from Korea and found
that solar cycles during the Maunder Minimum were only eight years
long on average three years shorter than modern 11 year cycles.

These aurora records were part of three separate books, chronicles,
written on behalf of Korean Kings that contained detailed daily
reports of royal business, state affairs, weather AND astronomical
phenomena that occurred within the Korean peninsula for close on a
thousand years, between 918 and 1910

(eHam - livescience.com)

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