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VK7 Amateur Radio News 15Mar26
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS
SUNDAY 15th March 2026
Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News for the 15th day of March 2026, your gateway to whatâ€Ös happening across the airwaves in Tasmania and beyond.
Coming to you from the Tasmanian Amateur Radio News Desk is Peter, VK7PD with the latest updates, stories, and insights from our amateur radio community.
Weâ€Öre broadcasting far and wide thanks to our dedicated team:
DMR Talk Group 5 & D-Star Reflector 91C via the Digital Group
HF relays:
1.862 MHz – Graham, VK7GS
3.670 MHz – Dale, VK7DG
7.140 MHz – Ross, VK7ALH
14.130 MHz – Garry, VK7JGD
28.525 MHz – Tony, VK7VKT
And locally in Hobart on UHF CB Ch.24 and HF CB Ch.24 (11m) with Mark VK7FMAC.
Missed it live? Catch the replay Tuesday 8pm on repeaters VK7RAA (North), VK7RHT, and on UHFCB24/HFCB24 (South).
Stay tuned, and enjoy the news!
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Why consider membership of the Wireless Institute of Australia?
The Wireless Institute of Australia, or WIA, is the peak body for amateur radio in Australia and has been since 1910, making it the oldest amateur-radio organisation in the world. That history matters, because it represents more than a century of continuous advocacy, expertise and representation for Australian radio amateurs.
The WIA is the only Australian amateur-radio organisation recognised internationally. It represents Australia through the International Amateur Radio Union and is the only amateur-radio body recognised by the International Telecommunication Union. When spectrum access, international regulation and the future of the amateur service are discussed globally, the WIA is the organisation speaking on behalf of Australian amateurs.
Closer to home, the WIA creates and maintains the Australian Amateur Radio Band Plan and regularly liaises with and advocates to the regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority. This ongoing technical and regulatory work protects amateur access to spectrum and ensures our service remains viable, relevant and respected.
Membership also delivers practical benefits. The WIA operates the Australian QSL Bureau, publishes Amateur Radio Magazine every two months in both print and digital formats, provides affordable public-liability insurance for affiliated clubs, and runs regular club update sessions to keep clubs informed and supported.
The WIA also supports the future of the hobby through education services for Amateur Radio trainers and assessors, helping ensure consistent, high-quality training and assessment across Australia.
In short, WIA membership isnâ€Öt just about what you receive, itâ€Ös about what gets protected and strengthened on your behalf. Representation, advocacy, education and services all rely on a strong national body.
In Australia, that body is the Wireless Institute of Australia.
https://www.wia.org.au/
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Contest News
John Moyle Memorial Field Day
The John Moyle Memorial Field Day is next weekend, running from 01:00 UTC on Saturday 21 March 2026 to 00:59 UTC on Sunday 22 March 2026. The aim of the contest is to encourage and provide familiarization with portable and field operation,and provide training for emergency situations. The rules are therefore specifically designed and focused to encourage maximum participation. The contest is structured into eight three-hour blocks, with stations able to be worked again in each block. Following rule changes introduced on 18 January 2026, the event now includes all amateur bands up to 241 GHz, excluding the WARC bands. Phone contacts are worth one point, CW contacts two points, and multipliers apply for each call area in every three-hour period. With distance-based scoring removed, only serial numbers are exchanged, starting at 001 and incrementing for each contact.
For logging, N1MM has effectively become the standard platform for VK contests, with configuration details and custom UDC files available from the website on the email edition of the broadcast. vk4sn.com
vklogchecker.com.
VKCL can also be used, although scoring and Cabrillo formatting may require manual correction. Accurate log formatting is essential, and the contest manager should be contacted if assistance is needed. There are multiple entry categories across bands, modes, and operating durations, whether single or multi-operator, home or portable. With favourable weather still on our side, itâ€Ös an ideal opportunity to head portable, boost VK7 participation, and make sure a few more Tasmanian callsigns appear in the logs.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/johnmoyle/
73, Richard, VK7ZBX
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Tassie Statewide Events
Meet the Voice
The Meet the Voice, will be on Sunday 29th March 2026 commencing at 11am in Ross
The Meet the Voice trophy will be awarded.
Car boot sale, bring any items you want to sell
Itâ€Ös a BYO everything event, bring your barby, your food and drinks and socialise, meet the voices you talk to on the radio.
Any queries contact Al, VK7AN on 0417 354 410.
73, Al, VK7AN
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Tassie Ham-E-Con Radio Conference - Save the Date
Our ambitious banner is Hack the Ether: Education, Ingenuity, Connection.
The theme celebrates the experimental spirit of amateur radio, where learning, invention, and community all come together. Over one and a half days the conference will feature keynotes, workshops, talks and hands-on activities designed to connect experimenters, educators and communicators. And yes, it will again be fully catered, so nobody has to survive on packet radio and optimism alone.
The program will explore four focus areas:
Hack the Mind for education and learning,
Hack the System for experimentation and innovation,
Hack the Culture for engagement and community, and
Hack the Future looking at leadership and the direction of the hobby.
After all the brilliant thinking from the theme team, the dangerous next step has arrived. Someone now has to actually make it happen. So if you have a talent for organising chaos, managing volunteers, raising just the right amount of havoc, planning the unplannable, interpreting vague ideas, managing time that no one else seems to possess, filling gaps nobody admitted existed, and doing the occasional risk assessment when things get exciting, then do we have an opportunity for you. Step right up. If you prove your worth and perform exactly as magnificently as your AI-generated CV promised, we might even offer a generous pay rise of 20% of $0. Try getting that kind of deal in the private sector! Interested parties should report in at tassiehamconference@gmail.com before we start assigning jobs randomly.
One of the strong themes from the 2024 Conference feedback was that interstate attendees really wanted pre and post-conference activities so, we will be planning these as well.
Tassie Ham-E-Con 2026 will be held Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November in the Sir Stanley Burbury Theatre on the UTAS Sandy Bay campus.
The conference website is being updated regularly so, keep an eye out as updates are posted:
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference/
73 from the Conference Organising Group.
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Statewide SSTV Nights
A busy net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – AX, KT, ZGK, ZAB, HHS and ZCF, all sharing over sixty photos.
The main themes were:
The iconic Tasmanian locations of Cradle Mt, Dove Lake, Wineglass Bay and the Gordon Dam
The 2026 Steam Fest at Sheffield with stationary and traction engines, tractors and kids peddle tractor
Prime movers and dump trucks
Motorcycles and a trike
And other highlights were:
The first image to be sent on a Cellular Phone. This was on 11 June 1997 by French software engineer Philippe Kahn and was a photo of his baby daughter
An early experimental video phone
Flocks of birds in the garden
A ham radio shack and matching QSL card
A Dr Who Dalek being attacked by a monster and shower facilities for a Dalek
And a water cruising moped
Again Tony VK7AX interconnected VK7RJG to his SSTV International Gateway and VK7s exchanged photos with PE1NMM and PA3EKI in the Netherlands. Please remember to leave a 30 second break between transmissions to allow the European countries a chance to send photos.
Note - Ken VK7KRJâ€Ös and Steve VK7OOâ€Ös fully automatic 24/7 monitoring sites that allows anyone testing, to send a picture and the ability to check their transmission on these pages almost immediately, any time, both South and North Tasmania.
If you missed the net there are archives of these SSTV nights on Kenâ€Ös and Steveâ€Ös websites or on NTARCâ€Ös website under blogs.
https://vk7oo.tasme.com/vhfsstv/
https://sstv.vk7krj.com/scrolling%20web%20gallery.html
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
https://www.qsl.net/vk7ax/sstvgate/index.html
73 from Andreâ€Ö VK7ZAB
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WWFF, SOTA, POTA and IOTA Weekly Wrap Up
The Parks and Peaks spotti/news-events/upcoming-events/
Do you need to secure your spot or ask a question - email: reast.assessor(at)gmail.com and your inquiry will go directly to the Learning Organiser, who be in contact.
We have learning resources availablensmission, remember you can always catch the rebroadcast Tuesday at 8:00pm on VK7RAA in the North, VK7RHT, and UHFCB24/HFCB24 in the South.
Got news, stories, or updates to share? Weâ€Öd love to hear from you! Send them to vk7arnews(at)gmail.com by Friday 9pm. You can also join the conversation on our VK7 Amateur Radio News Groups.io page.
groups.io/g/vk7arnews
Stay tuned now for callbacks on this frequency, with each relay station using their own callsign.
On behalf of the VK7 News Team, this is Peter, VK7PD, wishing you good DX, and a great week ahead!
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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