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2026 JUNE 7 WIA NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA ------------------------------------------------------------*

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IN WIA NATIONAL NEWS THIS WEEK:-

NEWS FROM WIA DIRECTOR JUSTIN, VK7TW, FROM VK2SKY WICEN, VK2ZRH AND
AMATEUR RADIO MAGAZINE, VK4GED VEMCOMMS, VK2NWT ARISS, VK4UH AND THE
HARRY ANGEL MEMORIAL RESULTS.

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 JUNE 7 2026

I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB

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Hello, this is your newly minted WIA Director Justin VK7 Tangled Whiskers
with this weeks WIA Directors update.


It never ceases to amaze me how many volunteers we have doing things in the WIA. At the last count there are well over 100 people who undertake different roles across the organisation and keep the Institute going.


A few weeks ago it was National Volunteers Week which is a week set aside to acknowledge and celebrate all those volunteers in our community who
tirelessly do a job - not wanting payment - but undertaking an important role within the organisation and the community. Its really the glue that makes our community work.


A huge thank you to all our volunteers and your effort and dedication is very much appreciated.


Back in January 2026 President Scott quietly announced a significant collaboration between the WIA and the Radio and Electronics School (RES).
What has been quietly happening in the background is the documentation and a progressive handover of the administration of the RES to the WIA.


The intention is very much BAU or business as usual as the transition takes place and we are hoping that students and facilitators are not seeing much change at all. Once the operational handover is complete there will be a
staged transition where material will start to be updated and WIA branding
will slowly appear on documents and the website.


There will be an initial focus on making training material across all licence levels easily available to affiliated clubs for the local trainers and assessors to deliver within their clubs. We have heard the feedback loud and clear that clubs are looking for structured training material to deliver all licence levels locally. So, watch this space for more info over the coming months.


I am not sure if too many people realise that the RES has been training amateurs since 1997 when Ron Bertrand VK2DQ set up the school. This means
that we will be celebrating RES 30th birthday next year! Since 2012 the
school has put through nearly 7000 students - thats an average of nearly 500 students per year.


Ron and his huge team of facilitators and IT Support have achieved an absolutely outstanding feat of creating, helping and supporting the community to become amateur radio operators, to upgrade and help them enjoy this hobby
of ours.


A special thank you to Ron and his team at RES - we welcome you all to the
next chapter of the RES.


OK Ive banged on for long enough, this has been Justin VK7TW for the WIA
Board - back to Mr four baker baker


A QUICK NOTE FROM ROGER HARRISON VK2ZRH, THE EDITOR IN CHIEF OF AMATEUR RADIO MAGAZINE.


Roger informs us that Issue 3 of Amateur Radio magazine is reported to have been landing in members' mail boxes since Friday 29th May. If you are still waiting for yours to arrive, stop worrying and think of the situation this
way - the longer you wait, the quicker it will be until AR magazine arrives!


Roger also informs us that the article titled {quote} Need proof of Amateur Licence Documentation from the ACMA (end quote) can be downloaded from the Amateur Radio magazine page on the WIA website, look under the link for the May-June issue.

(VK2ZRH)
This is Angelo, VK2NWT with some ARISS news.

The next upcoming ARISS contact is scheduled for next Tuesday the 9th of June at 08:28:24 UTC or (18:28:24 AEST). The contact will be between students from the Geneva Christian College, Latrobe, Tasmania, and Astronaut Chris Williams KJ5GEW on board the International Space Station.


The ground station for this contact will be none other than our very own
ARISS Australia Coordinator, Shane Lynd operating as VK4ISS from his home in Mackay, Queensland.


You can listen to this contact live from anywhere in the world via EchoLink Node 69556, IRLP Node 9556 as well as several other VoIP modes. For a full
list of all the VoIP Modes and their respective Talk group numbers, head on over to the anzel.radio website. Call-backs, as usual, will be taken immediately after the contact by John, VK3HJQ for reporting back to NASA.


The audio for this contact can also be received directly on 145.800 MHz FM (plus or minus adjustments for Doppler) over a large portion of Eastern Australia as it passes over.


Please note, if you wish to join the ARISS email list and be directly
notified of upcoming ARISS contacts, dont hesitate to send your request to
John using the following email address: vk3hjq@hotmail.com


This is Angelo, VK2NWT for WIA National News ------------------------------------------------------------*
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.

Electromagnetism is a force of nature that is fundamental to ham radio. It
also has the power of attraction that draws artists, tinkerers, hackers and others who are perpetually curious - and takes them this northern

summer to a field in England.

Already the scientists, engineers, blacksmiths and crafters have been making their plans.


So too have the amateur radio operators in the field and on the air
throughout the event as special event station GB26EMF based in the AMSAT-UK/British Amateur Television Club Village. Among the 4,000 on site,
all licensed hams will be welcome to get on the air.


Organisers still have room for adventurous presenters wanting to provide entertainment by singing, showing films or providing music on their own homemade instruments. Clever installations are also welcome. Previous years have featured a robotic spider, a radioactive xylophone and an upside-down campfire.

emfcamp.org/cfp
emfcamp.org/villages/2026/30
ARE YOU SITTING DOWN?

First words uttered by Evan Adkins, director of engineering, asked
Mike Kirtner, the president of Kindred Communications, last Thursday
just prior to lunchtime.

Kirtner, 75, has seen a lot in his time as a broadcast owner in the tristate area of Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio along the Ohio River.


But an FM transmission line being snapped and cleared in broad daylight? He couldnt quite believe what he was hearing.


The alleged perpetrator had severed the main transmission line leading up to the broadcast tower of 93.7 a 100,000-watt country-formatted FM station

which goes by the moniker The Dawg.

Kirtner isnt sure how the suspect is still alive.

He was lucky in that he didnt die, he was unlucky that he got caught, Kirtner said.


The cable crosses a bridge from the transmitter building and then runs up the tower and the thief cut all of it.


According to Kirtner, the suspect , now in custody, dragged the heavy cable down to his house, only a few hundred yards over a hill from the tower site, and had already cut it into smaller sections, presumably in an attempt to
scrap the copper out of the wire.


It would seem that nothing could be more stable than the length of a day on Earth. For many generations, 24 hours has remained an unchanging constant in life. However, modern science is forcing us to rethink this assumption.
Recent studies by experts at the University of Vienna and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich show that our planet is gradually slowing down its rotation. One of the factors of this process is climate change, specifically global warming, which is steadily melting the polar ice caps. Although the changes are not yet noticeable to humans and are measured in milliseconds, researchers emphasize that the rate of this process is the fastest it has been in the last 3.6 million years.

AND SPEAKING OF TIME - WHILST WE HAVE TIME -

Time has run out - literally - in Canada.

Barely three months after silencing its national Weather Radio forecast
service on VHF, Canada is shutting down shortwave station CHU, its official time service. Kent Peterson KCDGY from NewsLine tells us what's ticking.


"Canadian shortwave station CHU is scheduled to go off the air on the 22nd of June. The station delivers the nation's official time from a transmitter site southwest of Ottawa, broadcasting on 3.33, 7.85 and 14.67 MHz, allowing listeners in Canada and around the world to synchronize their clocks on Coordinated Universal Time. The service is run by the National Research
Council and transmits the time via digital voice in English and French.


The time-signal radio station makes use of atomic clocks on the premises,
which are checked against atomic clocks based at the council headquarters.


Canada first began transmitting the time under the CHU callsign in 1938. The station began its transmissions earlier in the decade as VE9OB. Its announcements are in Coordinated Universal Time, a change made in 1990 after decades of transmitting in Eastern Standard Time.


This is Kent Peterson KCDGY."

In making the announcement of the station's shutdown, the NRC said that official time-keeping will be delivered instead by three more modern methods
- via its telephone talking clock and, using the Internet via its Network
Time Protocol and its web clock.


GOAL
2026 FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup is the quadrennial international mens football
championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of
the Federation Internationale de Football Association.


Jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada, the 2026 "World
Soccer Tournament" will take place from 11 June to 19 July and amateur radio operators from the sixteen host cities will be active to celebrate the event:


Soccer may not be big on the "dinky dye Aussie calendar" BUT information, including detailed operating schedules and certificates, can be foundon wc2026ses.org

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE.

Not with the sound of music BUT the sound of many kid qso's, well next month they will be.


The RSGB Youth Committee has announced their team for this years Youngsters
on the Air 'summer' camp in Austria will be team leader

Tom, M1TJM and members Filip, M7SZW and Milo, M9ILO.

They will be going to the Austrian Alps at the end of July 2026 for a week of exciting activities and challenges designed to allow youth members to push their skills within amateur radio, while meeting other amateurs from across
the world.


We look forward to hearing what they get up to in Austria! and we look
forward to our own Alan VK2COD a little further down the log in this your WIA NATIONAL NEWS.

SILENT KEY:

Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) Vice President Brent Taylor, VY2HF, became a Silent Key on May 21 at the age of 66.


RAC President Allan Boyd, VE3AJB/VE3EM, said the sudden loss of Taylor has deeply shocked the organization and the amateur radio community across Canada and beyond.


Taylor was first licensed in 1984 as VE1APG and received his partial HF privileges six months later after demonstrating successful CW operation. One year later, he passed his Advanced examination and obtained the call sign VE1JH, a call he used for more than 20 years. After moving from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island in 2007, he acquired the call sign VY2HF.


VY2HF was widely respected for his dedication to amateur radio and his strong belief in supporting amateur radio organizations. He helped grow the amateur radio community in Charlottetown, the capital and largest city of the
province of Prince Edward Island. In addition to the Radio Amateurs of
Canada, Taylor was a member of the Charlottetown Amateur Radio Club, the International Repeater Group (NB), ARRL, the Radio Society of Great Britain, AMSAT, the National Radio Club, and the Canadian International DX Club.


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NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2026
WIA contest page :- wia.org.au/members/contests/about/

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This is Kevin VK4UH and with Glenn VK4GMI I am the manager for the Harry
Angel Memorial 80m Sprint.


The Harry Angel is an annual 80m contest event, first established in 1999, to commemorate the life of Harry VK4HA who at the time of his becoming a Silent Key, at the age of 106, was the oldest licensed amateur in Australia.

The contest has three sections, Phone, CW and Mixed. Certificates are
awarded to the three top-scoring entries in each section. Place winners are also eligible to claim points towards the WIA Peter Brown Contest Champion Trophy.

This year 36 logs were received which represents a consistent participation rate over recent years. This is particularly gratifying as this years
contest clashed with the WIA AGM and Conference in Albury and a number of
other significant sporting events on the same weekend..


I am delighted today to announce the winners for the 2026 contest.

In the Phone section:-
First place, with a score of 47 points was awarded to VK4EK
Second place to the VK3BEZ team, Third place to VK2FO
In the CW section:-
First place, with a score of 36 points, was awarded to VK5IG,
Second place to VK3HY and third place to VK5GG

In the Mixed section:-
First place, with a score of 71 points, for the second year in a row, was awarded to VK4M,

Second place to the VK4IZ team, and third to VK2EZF

The full breakdown of all the scores and entries is available in the text version of this news item and on the Contest section of the main WIA Contest website.


The Harry Angel Sprint has been held on the first Saturday in May each year since its inception 27 years ago. This would make the date of next years HA Contest Saturday the 3rd May. The date clash with the WIA AGM however is likely to be a recurring issue on this same weekend. As managers we believe that this would not be ideal and could force some participants to choose between these conflicting events. While acknowledging that there are only a fixed number of weekends each year we intend to investigate if a date change
to an alternative weekend could be viable. This will be advised in good
time.


On behalf of Glenn and I as managers, the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club and the WIA as sponsors, I would like to thank everyone who participated in
the Harry Angel this year and offer our congratulations to the place holders.


This is Kevin VK4UH in Brisbane, Contest Manager for the Harry Angel Memorial 80m Sprint


Harry Angel 80m Memorial Sprint Results 2026Phone Section
Callsign Operators Score1 VK4EK 47 **
2 VK3BEZ VK3DMP, VK3WRE, VK3DHF, VK3AGW 41 **3 VK2FO 35 ** 4 VK7ZBX 325 VK6Y VK6EY 30
6 VK4IKZ 297 VK4MRH 27
8 VK3TZT 268 ZL4RO 26
10 VK4GRM 2211 VK3PCC 21
12 VK4HAA 2013 VK2XI 19
13 VK3KK 1915 VK4TAA 18
16 VK4KM 1717 VK5DT 13
18 VK4CGQ 919 VK2RA 7
20 VK3ARD 621 VK7EV 4

Morse Section
Callsign Operators Score1 VK2IG 36 **
2 VK3HY 28 **3 VK5GG 22 **
4 VK3KEV 185 VK5KDO 2

Mixed Section
Callsign Operators Score1 VK4M VK4SN 71 **
2 VK4IZ VK4TFN, VK4BZ, VK4NA, VK4GU, VK4NU, 49 **3 VK2EZF 39 **
4 VK7TO 365 VK3DA 27
6 VK4AMG 247 ZL4UC 22
8 VK3GZY 169 VK4DRK 11
10 VK6DDX 7
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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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
NOW LET'S OPEN THE DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD ------------

If you are one of the over 103,000 contacts made by the CYS team in March
from Canada's Sable Island and you're waiting for your QSL card, your wait is almost over.


Team member Murray WA4DAN announced on the DX World website that printing is about to begin on the elaborate double-fold, six-panel cards. Mailings are expected to begin sometime this month, June.

(NewsLine 2535)

A new feature has been added to DXLook that allows amateur radio operators to visualize DXpedition activity on a world map using live reception reports
from multiple amateur radio networks.


The new DXpeditions View combines data from PSK Reporter, Reverse Beacon Network (RBN), WSPRnet, and DX Clusters to display where DXpedition signals
are being received in near real time. Rather than presenting reports as individual spots or entries in a cluster feed, the system plots activity geographically, providing operators with a broader view of how a DXpedition signal is propagating around the world.


The DXpeditions View is available immediately and can be accessed from the
Maps section of DXLook. For operators interested in learning more about how
the feature works, a detailed guide is available on the DXLook blog.


DXLook is a free amateur radio platform.
dxlook.com
(ARD)
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Nobu will be on the air again from Palau as T 88 PB from the 20th through to the 22nd of June.

(newsline 2533)
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JUNE 21-27

The Radio Society of Great Britain and the BBC Amateur Radio Group,
G 8 BBC, will be activating four special calls to mark the shutdown of
British Broadcasting Companys long wave transmissions on 1500 meters
(198 kHz) after more than 90 years.

The long wave transmitters in Worcestershire, Westerglen and Burghead
will be turned off June 27, 2026.

GB 1500 M will be active for one week from 21 - 27 June and may be activated from G, GM, GW, GI, GJ, GD and GU, by RSGB and BBCARG members over the
period.


GB 198 LW will be activated by Cray Valley Radio Society in England,

GB 198 END by Moray Firth ARS (Scotland) and

GB 198 KHZ by Stirling and District ARS (Scotland) during the week 21 - 27
June with full details on the RSGB website rsgb.org
search for BBC Long Wave Shutdown.
(arrl)

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AUGUST 8 WILL BE ONE "PURRFECT DAY"

Cat Pix on the Air (CPOTA) 2026 will celebrate International Cat Day by transmitting images of cats via SSTV.


The internet was made for sharing funny cat pictures and movies. On August
8th, International cat day, so will the radio waves! Ham radio amateurs will celebrate this day with a special SSTV event using cat pictures only.


This contest will score the number of QSOs made by each operator. Special callsigns PD6MEOW (Netherlands) and N1C (US) are already registered.
Additional special callsigns may be registered with the event.

cpota.app/
(ARD)

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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/
SOUTH AFRICA

The Winter ZS SOTA Activity Weekend

This is a fun event to encourage radio amateurs to participate in the
Summits on the Air (SOTA) programme. This fun activity is open to all radio amateurs. The weekend of 13 and 14 June, runs with the Queens of the Mountain event.


All activations must be according to the SOTA rules: Activators must carry their station, mast and antenna to the summit and may not operate from a building or vehicle. Chasers may operate from any station anywhere in the world.


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

RADIANT, short for Radio Amateur Delay-tolerant Interplanetary Networking Testbed, is an open-source project seeking to bring NASA-inspired Delay-Tolerant Networking concepts to amateur radio.


The effort aims to create communication systems capable of handling intermittent, disrupted, or long-delay links ranging from terrestrial amateur radio networks to future cislunar communication systems. Project developers describe RADIANT as a stepping stone toward Earth-Moon networking experiments using technologies and operating practices accessible to the amateur radio community.


The initiative is supported by AMSAT-UK, AMSAT-DL, and Goonhilly Earth
Station, and is actively seeking collaborators.


Project organizers emphasize that amateur operators possess unique experience relevant to difficult communications environments, including weak-signal
work, scheduled links, and operation over challenging propagation paths. RADIANT developers are seeking participation from amateur radio clubs, universities, CubeSat teams, microwave experimenters, and packet radio operators interested in contributing to future testing and development.


Users registering through the project website can also access additional information and requirements associated with each development phase.
Additional information and project details are available on the RADIANT
website at radiant.amsat-uk.org

(twiar)

The Expedition 74 crew kicked off June with a busy schedule of microgravity research harvesting stem cells, installing physics hardware, and watering plants aboard the International Space Station. Spacesuit work and life
support maintenance rounded out the day for the orbital residents.


Manufacturing blood stem cells in space is a key objective of a new biotechnology investigation taking place aboard the orbiting lab. NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir harvested stem cell samples growing inside the Kibo laboratory module and placed them inside the KERMIT fluorescent microscope
for observation on Monday. Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European
Space Agency) assisted Meir with the research operations collecting the
samples for processing then stowing them in a science freezer for
preservation and later analysis. Doctors are exploring how the stem cells self-replicate in weightlessness with an eye toward using the space
environment to develop treatments for cancer and blood diseases.

(nasa)

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR YOUNG TIMERS - YOTA
(Youngsters On The Air)
ham-yota.com/category/yota-region-3/
facebook.com/groups/YOTAOC/
youtube.com/channel/UClAapljf0VQ751sOgu2IzaA

The Garden School Amateur Radio Club in Jackson Heights, New York, K2GSG, was started in September 2016 as a way to implement the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) standard at the school.


Currently, the Club has 13 members ranging from 4th graders to 12th graders
and is an Affiliated Club of ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio.


Well, the other day they got a big surprise...they were on television...in Chicago!!


CBS News in Chicago aired a short feature that showed the students using amateur radio to make contacts and then transmitting weather reports on the
air to a SKYWARN training net!


You can watch the video attinyurl.com/ye23u4ra

Their reaction to seeing the video, They loved it! said their teacher, John Hale, KD2LPM.


John Hale said students are learning more than just how to push
buttons...they are learning how to talk on and off the air!


One student said he really did not know how to speak correctly but amateur radio was helping him improve his speaking, reading the station IDs and
reading those weather reports.

(arrl)

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIOwicen.org.au facebook.com/WICENNSWx.com/wicennsw
groups.io/g/vk4-emcomms

Hi, Im Richard VK2SKY.

A couple of weeks ago, Col VK3GTV challenged WICEN members around Australia
to share news of their local activities. Challenge accepted!


WICEN NSW operates as a specialist support squad of VRA Rescue NSW. Our speciality of course is tactical radio communications!


Over the years, we have been activated to provide communications support
during high-level emergencies, and to assist the other emergency services for less critical operations such as land searches and remote area training exercises.


In between activations, WICEN supports community events, both in NSW and interstate. For example, this morning we have a team on the Gold Coast, and will be in Brisbane next Sunday, for Dementia Australias Memory Walk and Jog events.


Using the communication skills we have developed as Radio Amateurs in such events is a great way to give back to the wider community. It serves as
useful training for real-life emergency communications. And its also a lot of fun!


WICEN home page: https://wicen.org.au/

WICEN NSW on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WICENNSW

WICEN NSW on X (Twitter): https://x.com/wicennsw

VK4 WICEN/EmComms: https://groups.io/g/vk4-emcomms
National WICEN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/124735400158
I'm Richard VK2SKY for WICEN NSW, and now let's check in to Maroon Land and Gareth VK4GED with an update on the Queensland scene.


Hi, I'm Gareth VK4GED and I've been thinking about WICEN.

We don't have a statewide WICEN in Queensland - we did away with that
20 years ago - which begs the question:

Have we been missing out,
or instead

Are we ahead of the pack?

When it comes to emergency communications, or "EmComms" as you may hear it referred to, it is one of the reasons why our hobby exists. Many of us
enjoy Amateur Radio not just because it's experimental and fun, it has also enabled us to give something back to our community if what we do can benefit others in times of need.


Having a statewide WICEN is one way of providing EmComms.

Another way is what we do in Queensland.

1. Individual radioamateurs - knowing we are prone to annual weather
events such as cyclones, substantial rainfall with flooding, or severe tornado-like thunderstorms - have set up their stations for resilience. Resilience comes in many forms, such as standby power, backup radios
and portable go-kits.

2. Queensland also has the dedication of the many Amateur Radio Clubs
around the state that have an EmComms focus and keep their members
engaged through meetings, exercises and community service events.

If you'd like to know more about what is happening in the Queensland
EmComms space, please check out our Groups.io page by Googling
"vk4 emcomms" or by clicking on https://groups.io/g/vk4-emcomms .

This is Gareth VK4GED with an update on the Queensland EmComms scene.
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Italian ARA Wins the Award for Alternative Emergency Radio Communications:

On May 26th, at the Prefecture of Varese, the National Institute of
Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) received official recognition by the
Italian Radio Amateurs Association (ARI).


The recognition, awarded within the framework of the 500th National Tuning
Test of the National Emergency Alternative Radiocommunications Network, Known as "Zamberletti Network", is linked to the contribution that INGV has been providing for decades to the activities of the Zamberletti Network through
the production of Prediction tables for ionospheric radio propagation in the Mediterranean area, used to support HF band radio communications during link tests and emergency activities.

(eHam)

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IT'S A DATE

Clubs are welcome to email text with audio for this section, nationalnews@wia.org.au

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

--------------------- SOCIAL SCENE 2026 ------------------

VK6 - WARG Ham Radio Junk Sale 13 of June at 1st Midland Scout Hall.
Helen St. Bellevue 10am. (vk6brg)

VK - WIA Affiliated Clubs Webinar Sunday June 14 (vk2nwt)

WW June 26 - 28 HAM RADIO, International Amateur Radio Exhibition, Friedrichshafen, Germany (arrl)

VK3 - Gippsland Gate Radio & Electronics Club HamFest Sale
Longwarry Community Hall 10am on July 4. (vk3iu)

VK5 - Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society BIG ANNUAL BUY AND SELL
Marion RSL Norfolk Road 9.30am July 11th.

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, Kil burn 10.00am. November 21. (wiacal)

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