AM25FEDIEA for the 25th anniversary of FEDI-EA

Federación Digital EA (FEDI-EA) is celebrating twenty-five years since its founding (25th July 1992-2017)  with a special event callsign AM25FEDIEA that will be active on the from 1st to 31st July 2017, to be used in multi-club mode through its usual booking system.

In addition, the PTT also has authorised all Spanish licence holders (who wish) to use, on the same dates, their callsign as special in the following format.

More information - http://www.fediea.org/news/?news=20170701&lang=en

US Ham Possible Oldest Active Radio Amateur

ARRL member 105-year-old Cliff Kayhart, W4KKP, of White Rock, South Carolina, is claiming the title of “World’s Oldest Operating Ham.” 
 
No official record of such milestones exists, but ARRL is not aware of any radio amateurs senior to Kayhart, and he is now quite likely the oldest active ham at least in the US.
Early this year, Charlie Hellman, W2RP, died at 106; he also may have been the longest licensed. Hellman outlived the former “oldest US ham,” Harry Wolf, W6NKT, by 8 days. Wolf was a couple of weeks shy of turning 108. Kayhart now lives at The Heritage at Lowman Home.
 
“I have had to get help getting set up after moving here from Tennessee,” he said in his QRZ.com profile. “Two local clubs, Dutch Fork Amateur Radio Group and Columbia Amateur Radio Club, have been there to help. It has been slow going. They tell me I may be the oldest operating ham.” Kayhart is active on 80 meters.
 
Born in 1911, Kayhart was first licensed in 1937 as W2LFE in New Jersey. He then was W9GNQ before becoming W4KKP.
 
ARRL Story - http://www.arrl.org/news/centenarian-arrl-member-claiming-oldest-active-radio-amateur-crown

WIA consults - Increased Foundation Power

The Wireless Institute of Australia is holding a consultation about increasing the Foundation power level to 50 watts and removing some of the restrictions
 
When Foundation was introduced into Australia in 2005/6 holders were given a very low power level, were banned from using Digital Modes or doing DIY and could only use a limited number of bands. They were also given unusually long 7 character callsigns in the format VKnFxxx.
 
The WIA is now seeking to remove these restrictions.  ‘
 
The Institute also wishes to increase the power of the Standard license, which is equivalent to UK Intermediate, to 200 watts output and to remove the bandwidth restrictions. 
 
For Advanced they want 1 kW output and additional frequencies.
 
The WIA License Consultation - https://www.wia.org.au/joinwia/wia/FutureLicenceConditionsConsultationPhase2/