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Special callsign HB 50 VC is active until 31 December celebrating the
50th anniversary of the Swissair Amateur Radio Club, HB 9 VC.

A growing trend these days is that QSL cards will not be provided
but QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World.

You can also download a certificate for working this special event
station from the link we like in the text editions of
WIA National News

tinyurl.com/HB50VC-24.

(rsgb)

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Listen throughout the rest of the year for the special callsign
9 A 1 RKZ marking the 100th anniversary of the Radioklub Zagreb
which was founded the 24th of March 1924 in Croatia

QSL via 9A1ADE.

(ARNewsLine 2410)
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REPEATING>

VK2's Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club say the VK2RPM repeaters at
Middle Brother remain off-air, following damage to the host sites
power distribution system. The damage was caused by lightning during
severe storms mid November and these VK2RPM repeaters will be off air
for a further week or so, or until site works are carried out restoring
power supply to the site.

(vk2wi)

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WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - BALLOONS

SOUTH AFRICA

BACAR-12... WHAT AN ADVENTURE.

BACAR-12 was the prelude to 2025, the SARL centenary BACAR event and
whilst some gremlins managed to sneak on board, it was an awesome event
with three balloons being launched successfully.

Unfortunately, the gremlins did prevent the delivery of certain
payloads to the launch site, switched off the VHF live image SSTV
transmitter during flight, stopped the BACAR parachute from opening
and somehow forced the WSPR beacon to go silent. But the gremlins were
simply overwhelmed by the successes.

Lots of South African clubs and participants got involved, lots of
payloads worked flawlessly and reached 31,7 km in altitude, lots of fun
was had by all, lots of knowledge shared and gained, and the Hamnet
team tracked and recovered the balloons and payloads.

Remember that there was also a prize up for grabs?

The first person to correctly identify the quotation that was embedded
in the UHF SSTV images and to gets its author correct, stood to win a
R250 Takealot voucher.

The prize goes to Jeets, ZS6JKN.

Congratulations Jeets, you were first to communicate the complete
answer which was Explore. Dream. Discover.

(sarl)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - DIGITAL

Mandatory ransomware reporting will now form part of legislative
toolbox.

Australias first cyber security legislation has been passed by
parliament after being approved by the senate earlier through the week.

Now businesses that pay ransomware hackers will be compelled to report
it to the government. There is also a limited use obligation for the
National Cyber Security Coordinator and the Australian Signals
Directorate to share information from a victim during an incident.
Agencies had found themselves being cut out of the information loop
by the private sector as they responded to an attack.

The laws also create mandatory security standards for smart devices.

In a statement, Minister for Cyber Security Tony Burke said the law is
a key pillar in [the governments] mission to protect Australians from
cyber threats.

(itnews)

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

Air Leak on ISS Russian Module Is Getting Worse

For the past five years, air has been escaping through a Russian
section of the International Space Station at an increasing rate.
NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, are still in disagreement
over the root cause of the leak, as well as the severity of the
consequences.

While the Russian team continues to search for and seal the leaks,
it does not believe catastrophic disintegration of the PrK is
realistic, Bob Cabana, a former NASA astronaut who now chairs the
ISS Advisory Committee, said during a meeting on Wednesday, SpaceNews
reported. NASA has expressed concerns about the structural integrity
of the PrK and the possibility of a catastrophic failure.

The Russians believe that continued operations are safe but they cant
prove to our satisfaction that they are, and the U.S. believes that
its not safe but we cant prove to the Russians satisfaction that
thats the case, he added.

Russian teams believe the air leak was likely caused by high cyclic
fatigue from micro vibrations, while teams at NASA think pressure and
mechanical stress, residual stress, material properties of the module,
and environmental exposure are all at play, according to SpaceNews.

As the two space agencies continue to discuss the potential risk,
the aging space station is inching closer to retirement within the
next six years and its hardware may finally be giving in to the
wear and tear of the harsh space environment.

NOT ONLY BUT ALSO- Space Station Raises Orbit Avoiding Orbital
Debris.

The Progress 89 thrusters were fired Tuesday, November 19 for
5 minutes, 31 seconds, to raise the orbit of the International Space
Station to provide an extra margin of distance from a piece of orbital
debris from a defunct defence meteorological satellite.

The Pre-determined Debris Avoidance Manoeuvre was conducted in
coordination with NASA, Roscosmos and the other space station partners.
Without the manoeuvre, ballistics officials estimated that the fragment
could have come within around 2.5 miles of the station.

[ANS]

PARUS-T1A Satellite

The satellite frequency coordination committee of the International
Amateur Radio Union has updated information regarding the approved
frequency requests from the National Formosa University for satellite
PARUS-T1A.

The satellite is tentatively scheduled for launch in January.

PARUS-T1A, a 3U CubeSat will provide essential services to the
global amateur radio community with its Primary Mission, an FM Voice
Cross-Band Repeater to facilitate real-time voice communication between
amateur radio operators on 145.980 MHz (Uplink tone 67Hz) and
435.250 MHz (Downlink).

The satellite will also carry an APRS Digipeater to enable the
transmission of real-time position and status information from
APRS equipped devices on 145.825 MHz.

A telemetry beacon downlink on 437.850 MHz has also been coordinated,
with unencrypted telemetry packets accessible to the public through
online dashboards like SatNOGS, promoting transparency and community
collaboration.

Anticipating a launch from Florida in January, 2025.

(ANA)

WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - MARITIME

IOWAs NEPM Military-Amateur Cross-Band Activation for Pearl Harbor
Remembrance

The Battleship IOWA Amateur Radio Association (BIARA) and the IOWAs
Innovation, Engineering and Technology Team (IET) will activate the
ships original N.E.P.M. Navy call sign on December 7 and 8, 2024.
Hours of operation both days are expected to be from 1500 UTC to
0100 UTC.

This activation will be in memory of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
and all the radio amateurs and aficionados who answered the call taking
their skills into the military and civilian war efforts.

The ARRL and their legal team worked with the Federal Communications
Commission to obtain a waiver to allow licensed amateur radio
operators to work NEPM for this limited event.
Amateurs are reminded that they may NOT transmit on the military

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