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National Field Day – 23 October - initial reports
27/
10/
2010
The Maryborough Electronics and Radio Group (MERG) had bright sunlight and a gentle breeze for its portable station on The Green, Chifley Place, Adelaide Street, Maryborough.
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Time running out for VK100WIA and WIA Centenary Award
27/
10/
2010
The Westlakes Amateur Radio Club, operating from its club rooms at Teralba, New South Wales, will close VK100WIA forever this Sunday, the 31st of October. That's also the final day to make qualifying contacts for the limited issue WIA Centenary Award.
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Examination and Callsign Fee Changes
23/
10/
2010
In December 2008 the WIA announced that the cost of a WIA examination would be $67.00 including GST from 2 February 2009, except for candidates aged under 18 on the day of assessment, which remained at $35.00.
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Registrations remain open for WIA National Field Day
20/
10/
2010
The inaugural Tune-In To The World, amateur radio gets people talking, is a public relations event on Saturday 23 October welcomes four more radio clubs who have now registered online via the WIA website.
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Balloon repeater launching
20/
10/
2010
This weekend Saturday 23 October at 0130 UTC a cross band talk through repeater and APRS beacon is to be launched from Mt Barker in South Australia and should be heard in both VK5 and VK3.
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The IARU Region 2 General Assembly ends
14/
10/
2010
The XVII IARU Region 2 General Assembly held at Salinitas, Sonsonate, El Salvador came to an end on 8 October 2010.
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In time of need, amateur radio backs up Chile mine rescue
14/
10/
2010
As the world watched via television the rescue 33 trapped miners at San Jose in Chile, giving its support was the Radio Club de Chile (RCCH) to boost the availability of communications in the area.
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2010 Jota/Joti Address to Scouts and Guides
14/
10/
2010
Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of Australia, Chief Scout and Patron of Girl Guides Australia will address Scouts and Guides in a message to be broadcast at 1300 hours local time during the annual Jamboree On The Air and Jamboree On The Internet (JOTA-JOTI).
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Radio buffs share skills
13/
10/
2010
AMATEUR radio buffs got to show off the technicalities of their hobby last weekend and even got some new toys to play with.
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Prahran Mechanics Institute - History Week 2010
07/
10/
2010
The Melbourne based Prahran Mechanics Institute, together with many Victorian history groups, will celebrate ‘History Week' during October. It will feature a WIA Centenary display prepared by well known WIA historian Peter Wolfenden VK3RV.
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To Interested DXers 10/10/10
07/
10/
2010
Due to the unprecedented number of potential new DXCC entities and numerous planned DXpeditions commencing 10-10-10, we felt it was prudent to establish a Band Plan to try to minimize interference between DXpeditions and their pileups.
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