ANZAC 100 program due to have VI0ANZAC Due on air this weekend August 29-30 is the postponed commemoration by VI0ANZAC. Operator Doug VK0DMV is proud to be able to use VI0ANZAC from a very cold Casey Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory. This event will go ahead provided the Antarctic weather permits. A commemorative program of ANZAC-suffixed callsigns by the Wireless Institute of Australia is marking the 100th anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or the ANZAC battle at Gallopili, Turkey, in WW1. During this week it has been windy at Casey and a webcam had the temperature at minus 22 degrees, expected in this polar climate. Hopefully weather won’t get in the way again, having already postponed the event. WIA Vice President and ANZAC 100 Coordinator, Fred Swanston VK3DAC, reports that brief tests of equipment and propagation have been made recently in preparation for VI0ANZAC. The tests between Australia and Antarctica proved both the gear and propagation are working well. Suggest you make a late check of expected times and frequencies, with these on the website wia.org.au Looking ahead in the ANZAC 100 program, there’s worldwide expectation building around that on September 11-12, the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group of Adelaide will use VK100ANZAC, on the digital voice mode FreeDV. Among them will be David Rowe VK5DGR, an architect of FreeDV who was awarded the WIA Technical Innovation Award for the achievement. A digital voice VK100ANZAC commemorates the 26th Infantry Battalion arrival at Gallipoli and its deployment to Taylor's Hollow. See more details of the FreeDV QSO Party Weekend on the AREG website Also in September - we have Operation Jaywick that sunk seven enemy ships in Singapore 1943, the 11th Light Horse Regiment WWI Battle of Samakh in Palestine, the Victoria Cross medal that ended up in the Adelaide City Council Chamber, and HMAS Stirling facility in Perth on the air. All ANZAC 100 commemorations issue eQSLing and are listed on the WIA website www.wia.org.au Jim Linton VK3PC
