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The Board has determined that the election of directors shall be
conducted by ballot. Nominations opened on 1st November 2024.

Four directors retire at the conclusion of the next Annual General
Meeting which will be held in May 2025, namely Scott Williams VK3KJ,
Peter Clee VK8ZZ, Giles Kirby VK5GK and Peter Schrader VK4EA.
Each retiring director is eligible for re-election.

Nominations are called for from persons seeking election as a director
of the WIA.

A director must be a voting member of the WIA, must hold an Australian
amateur radio license and a Company Director Identification Number.
Any person wishing to nominate as a candidate for election as director
of the WIA must deliver or cause to be delivered to the Returning
Officer a WIA nomination form by not later than 2.30pm on 16th
December 2024. The forms are available on the WIA web site or you may
telephone the national office to receive a nomination form.

tinyurl.com/mr4cabfv

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.

Nominations received by facsimile or by electronic means cannot be
accepted.

This has been Pete Cherry VK2LP
WIA Returning Officer
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS is with thanks to ARRL, DX-WORLD, eHam, Hackaday,
IARU, ICQPodcast, IRTS, NEWSLINE, NZART, RAC, Radioworld.com, RSGB,
SARL and the World Wide sources of the WIA.

3 STRIKES AND THEY'RE DOWN.

A tower broadcasting a Missouri AM station is the third to be
destroyed in October, after the 75-year-old structure collapsed
on October 24. A snapped guy wire caused the tower for Joplins
KRMO-AM 990 to fall to the northwest, narrowly missing the
transmitter hut.

According to the Lawrence County Record, Eagle Broadcasting co-owner
Dewayne Gandy was mowing near the site when he witnessed the towers
sudden fall. The structure, built in 1949, had recently undergone
maintenance.

The Gandys say they will rebuild the tower on the same site.

The collapse is the latest in a string of incidents leading to the
destruction of broadcast towers in the USA.

A helicopter crash near downtown Houston on October 20 resulted in
four fatalities and caused the collapse of a tower broadcasting two
TelevisaUnivision stations. They were struck off air when the private
touring helicopter made contact with the structure.

A hot-air balloon participating in the Albuquerque International
Balloon Fiesta collided with and destroyed a 650-foot AM radio tower
October 11. The Bernalillo County Sheriffs Office reported that the
balloon, carrying three passengers, landed safely in a nearby field.

FELIX VK4FUQ told you about it, and that special event DX has now come
and gone.

October 18 the RSGB, Mill Hill School and a team of radio amateurs in
New Zealand marked the centenary of the first successful two-way
trans-global communication between radio amateurs in the UK and
New Zealand.

The original contact between Frank Bell, 4AA in New Zealand and
Cecil Goyder, 2SZ in Mill Hill School in North London was re-enacted
at the school on a wavelength as close as possible to the original.

Members of 2SZ's family watched the re-enactment and chatted to
pupils. As part of wider celebrations for the day, the school put on
activities including a build-a-radio workshop.

RSGB Life Vice-President Don Beattie, G3BJ said that he was delighted
by the success of the event and that it had given pupils the
opportunity to learn how ground-breaking that first radio contact was
with New Zealand.

Call sign G2SZ was operational for four days surrounding the
centenary, during which operators achieved approximately 1,250
contacts.
A CONTEST A LIL DIFFERENT

SWL Contest 2025

For SWLs interested in medium and shortwave broadcast DX, you may be
interested to learn about a dedicated SWL contest taking place next
year. The contest will start on the 1st of January 2025 and finish on
the 28th of February 2025.

The categories include the 522 to 1710 kHz medium wave band only,
the 2.300 MHz to 26.100 MHz shortwave bands, or a combined
medium and shortwave band category.

You can use a real radio or a web-based software-defined receiver.

Further information may be found via a web search for
"SWL Contest 2025".

swling.com/blog/2024/10/frank-provides-swl-contest-2025-updated-rules/

Administration Eases Restrictions On Space-Related Exports

The Biden administration has eased export restrictions on U.S.
commercial space companies to ship certain satellite and
spacecraft-related items to allies and partners.
The changes are intended to make it easier for the growing U.S.
commercial space industry to expand sales while also protecting
national security and foreign policy interests.

Certain items involving remote sensing spacecraft or space-based
logistics assembly, and servicing spacecraft will no longer need
licenses for shipment to Australia, as an example, the Commerce
Department said.

Some less sensitive satellite and spacecraft parts and components will
no longer require licenses for shipment to over 40 countries. The
countries include Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea and most of
the European Union.

Singapores 4300 km Undersea Transmission Line With Australia
Clears Regulatory Hurdle.

Recently Singapores Energy Market Authority (EMA)  granted Sun Cable
conditional approval for its transmission line with Australia.
Singapore has been faced for years now with the dilemma that its
populations energy needs keep increasing year-over-year, while it has
very little space to build out its energy-producing infrastructure,
least of all renewables with their massive footprints. This has left
Singapore virtually completely dependent on natural gas-burning
thermal plants.

With no nearby countries to obtain excess power from as is common in
e.g. the EUs integrated energy market, an idea was floated in 2020
by Australian company Sun Cable for the project, called the
Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPL). This would entail two transmission
lines:

The 800 km long DarwinLink to a yet-to-be-built multi-GW, 12,400
hectares solar farm in the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory.
This link would be rated for 4 GW of transmission capacity.

The 4300 km long SingaporeLink HVDC line from Darwin to Singapore,
rated for 2 GW (1.75 GW after losses).

The current planning for the whole Sun Cable project is set for
completion by 2035, with construction yet to begin on all components.
There are still many uncertainties to be resolved, as the 1.75 GW that
would be provided 24/7 to Singapore would have to be backed up by
significant grid-level storage on both sides, which is not an easy
problem to solve.

If completed, it would be the worlds longest electricity transmission
line.

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OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION

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NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2024
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THIS WEEKEND NOVEMBER 2-3

The International Police Association Radio Club has invited all radio
amateurs around the world to take part in its contest which takes
place every year on the first complete weekend in November.

This year, the CW section Saturday 2 November from 0600 to 1800UTC.
The SSB section Sunday 3 November from 0600 to 1800UTC.


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