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Available Callsigns facility suspended
28/
12/
2015
The ACMA Spectra system currently appears to be experiencing a technical fault, as a result the available callsign listing on the WIA website has been temporarily suspended.
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Amateur Licence Conditions – latest moves
27/
12/
2015
The WIA is responding to a request by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to update the initial submission on the amateur licence conditions put to it last year.
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Busy time for the WIA Exam Service
26/
12/
2015
The month of December before the WIA national office closed for the summer holidays has seen the processing of many assessments and the issue of callsign recommendations.
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ANZAC Gallipoli Centenary callsigns end
26/
12/
2015
What a respectful conclusion reached by the ANZAC-suffixed callsigns on December 20 - the day in 1915 that ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) left Gallipoli.
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Pico balloon detected circumnavigating the earth
23/
12/
2015
The Aussie solar powered pico balloon PS-56 that had a catastrophic GPS tracking failure, has been tracked by its weak CW signal, having encircled the southern hemisphere.
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No 60m operation possible in VK
22/
12/
2015
While the Amateur Service gained a new band at 5 MHz at the World Radiocommunication Conference last November, it won’t be available in Australia and many other countries for quite a while.
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WIA ANZAC 100 closing address
21/
12/
2015
The Wireless Institute of Australia ran its ANZAC 100 campaign for eight months. This speech was given on December 20, through VK1WIA broadcast outlets.
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ANZAC callsigns all-out in final days
18/
12/
2015
To commemorate the Century of ANZAC, more than 50 ANZAC-suffixed callsign events have been held over the last eight months - but that all ends on this weekend.
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ANZAC 100 'last hurrah' in full swing
15/
12/
2015
The WIA ANZAC 100 'last hurrah' began at the weekend with commemorative ANZAC-suffixed callsigns in Victoria, Queensland, Perth and Darwin.
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Space Weather Services Review – Outcome
15/
12/
2015
The suggested withdrawal or reduction to a user-pays commercial operation of the Ionospheric Prediction Service (IPS) has been found to be ill-advised, and it will stay as a core function of the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Centenary of ANZAC on air ends soon
12/
12/
2015
The WIA ANZAC 100 program commemorating a century of that part of WW1 has entered its ‘last hurrah’ phase, with the ANZAC-suffixed callsigns on air for the next two weeks.
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Flood disaster in India - hams provide help
05/
12/
2015
When the torrential rain feel for several days in South India, numerous areas were flooded. Authorities, hundreds of houses submerged, and the death toll was at about 300 and rising.
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The WIA reviewing the WRC-15 outcomes
04/
12/
2015
The ITU World Radiocommunications Conference recently held in Geneva Switzerland has resulted in modified Radio Regulations that will become an international treaty in January 2017.
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Chris Platt VK5CP sworn in as a Commissioner of the Fair Work Commission, and resigns as a WIA Director
04/
12/
2015
At a ceremonial sitting in Adelaide on Friday 27 November 2015, presided over by the President of the Fair Work Commission, His Honour Justice Ian Ross, Mr Christopher Platt, VK5CP was formally sworn in as a Commissioner.
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Call for nominations
03/
12/
2015
This is an important notice concerning the call for nominations for the position of WIA Director.
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Callbook 2016 is now available
02/
12/
2015
This annual publication which contains a list of VK callsigns including those assigned to repeaters, packet systems and propagation beacons, is now available.
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