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WIA ANZAC 100 commemoration in the news
Date : 16 / 08 / 2015
Author : Jim Linton - VK3PC
The Western Australian Amateur Radio News team commemorated the August
Offensive at Gallipoli 1915, by activating the VK100ANZAC callsign over
six days from different significant locations, and scored some media
publicity along the way.
It was preceded by a special news broadcast on Wednesday August 5.
The Mount Hawthorn Progress Association eagerly supported the event that
included the ANZAC Cottage.
That cottage built in February 1916 by the community was home for a returned
wounded soldier and his family, and a memorial for those who lost their lives
in the Gallipoli landing.
Among the other locations used were Blackboy Hill, a training camp set up a
short time after the outbreak of WWI.
There news photographers and reporters showed up resulting in stories
in two papers.
Glynn Davies VK6FVGD of the West Australian Repeater Group told the
journalists that this VK100ANZAC event on behalf of the Wireless Institute
of Australia, commemorated all ANZAC battles, especially those of
August 6-10, 1915.
The August Offensive held then was the last major attempt made by the
Allied forces at Gallipoli to break the stalemate that had persisted
since the landings on April 25, 1915.
West Australia Amateur Radio News Treasurer, Onno Benschop VK6FLAB,
was then interviewed by ABC South West Radio, giving the event activities
and Amateur Radio publicity.
VK100ANZAC was also at the Mandurah War Memorial and King’s Park,
with a team of 15 volunteers setting up, operating and pulling down the station.
Onno VK6FLAB said visitors to the station were put behind a microphone.
VK100ANZAC made contacts throughout Australia, Europe, the Middle East,
Asia and the USA.
(Sourced from the WIA Website)
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2015/20150816-1/index.php
(Posted to the Packet Radio Network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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