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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday July 17th 2005
Limerick Radio Club 70cm Repeater
The new repeater has completed its testing phase and was installed on site
in Co. Limerick on the 13th of July. The site is not Keeper Hill. Paul
EI6FE, President of Limerick Radio club had the first QSO with the
installers on site while mobile near Shannon. This was more by chance than
an inaugural ceremony!
Good 70 centimetre coverage is expected in West Clare, most of Limerick and
parts of East Kerry, Tipperary South Riding and North Cork. Low power
"rubber duck" handheld access should be available in Shannon Town and
Limerick city. The repeater is permanently linked to Limerick R5 2 metre
only. There may be mobile or base station access in Mallow, Blarney,
Tralee and Tipperary Town. Please send reports to Mike "ei9feb at eircom
dot net".
Within minutes of operation Hugh EI2HI in Bandon was Q5 on 5 Watts base
station and EI5HE good signal mobile in Mallow area. John EI5FOB gave
59+40 from Shannon / Limerick road and Jackie EI3FU had coverage in 2 metre
blackspots near Castletownroache. Don't forget to wait for the 3rd pip from
the 2 metre Repeater when operating on 70 cm or the 2 metre repeater will
timeout.
Mike EI9FEB, Brendan EI0CZ and Albert EI9IY assisted the commercial aerial
rigger who did an excellent job mounting the Watson 50 about 90 feet up the
mast. Fitting the compression N-Connector on the cable end at the repeater
took a few minutes and the repeater worked perfectly on first "switch on".
WX was smashing with no wind and sharp sunshine. The actual location will
be announced in a few weeks, so have fun guessing the QTH and trying to
access it! The site is of course a hill top and has both Seefin and Mt.
Lienster 70 cm signals S9 on a handheld with rubber duck.
The settings are 433.125 for your receiver and 434.725 MHz on your
transmitter (standard RB5, 1.6 MHz plus split) with CTCSS or PLTone of
103.5 Hz. The RB5 repeater is permanently linked to Limerick R5 repeater,
which uses a 1750 Hz tone burst to open.
Listening on 2 metres you can tell if a QSO is with a 70cm user as a
distinctive "tuning fork" mechanical tone burst will preface every 70cm
transmission. 2m to 2m QSO sound as before. Listening on 70cm, a 70cm QSO
has no preface, but a tail of three beeps, the first is the 70cm "pip", the
second indicates the 2m link is active and the 3rd is the pip from the 2m
repeater. It is after a slight pause (in the 2m repeater controller), so
wait for it or 2m will "time out". A 2m QSO heard on 70cm simply has the
2m pip at the end of each over, no 70cm pips.
On "70cm RB5" any DTMF tones are "blanked" by the controller. If you need
to send DTMF via the controller prefix it by "5". If you want to test your
DTMF keypad on 70cm, press "# 5" and you will hear the ident in CW. To
echo any keypad DTMF, press "# 8" and it will echo in CW. This feature
turns off after about 45 seconds of no carrier. If emailing a report
indicate aerial type, power, QTH and if handheld, mobile or base station.
****************
Cork Repeater Group
The Cork Repeater Group is at present in the process of upgrading both the
2 metre and 70 centimetre repeaters, and wishes to apologise for the
interruption of service, it is hoped to have both back in full service
soon.
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Worked HQ Stations Award
The Polish Telegraphy Club and the Polish Radio Amateur's Journal are
sponsoring the 2005 Worked HQ Stations award for working HQ stations during
the upcoming IARU HF Contest. The basic W-HQ-S is earned for 10 QSOs with
HQ stations representing all three IARU Regions. Special endorsements are
available for each 10 additional QSOs / Heards. Rules and picture of the
W-HQ-S Award are available on the Web at whqs2005award.prv.pl.
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Mayo Radio Experimenters Network
Members of the Mayo Radio Experimenters Network put on a public display of
the hobby at the Annual Vintage Tractor and Steam Rally in Hollybrook, Co.
Mayo on Sunday Last July the 3rd. During the display the club operated CW
and phone modes QRP on a number of HF Bands using the Club Callsign EI7MRE.
There was tremendous public interest in the club stand with young and old
alike.
The MREN will hold theory classes from September and anyone interested in
taking part should contact Brendan EI6IZ. The Club's rally will be held in
The Belmont Hotel Knock on Sunday November 20th.
The results of the Club' May/June Members competition were as follows:
1st. John McAndrew, EI3JM; 2nd, John Browne, EI7FAB; 3rd, Mike Hayes,
EI2EO; and 4th, Jimmy Kelly, EI2GCB.
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Rally News
The Cork Radio Rally will be held in the Blarney Park Hotel on the 25th of
September. Doors open at 11 a.m. Free parking plenty of things to do in
Blarney this year as this year celebrates the Cork Capital of Culture. All
enquiries about tables trading etc. should be made to Con on 086 1071312
or 021 4270136 email conmac@engineer.com.
The Mayo Radio Experimenters Network Rally will be held on Sunday November
the 20th at the usual venue, the Belmont Hotel, Knock. Doors open at 11:00
a.m. Bookings for accommodation should be made directly with the hotel.
The rate is 50 Euro per person with a special all-in rate of 70 Euro for
Bed & Breakfast and evening meal. Traders should contact Padraic Baynes
EI9JA for exhibition space.
The Waterford Rally will take place on the 16th of October 2005 in the
McEniff, Ard Ri Hotel, Waterford. Traders confirmed to date are; Long
Communications, South East Communications and Tetra Communications.
Special room rates are available for those attending the rally; Bed and
Breakfast for 2 nights plus one dinner is 89 Euro per person sharing. Bed
and Breakfast for one night plus 1 dinner is 55 Euro per person sharing. A
19 Euro single supplement applies. For information or to reserve stalls
contact Michael Hoban, EI5DCB on 051-873310.
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Slievenamon Trophy
The Slievenamon Trophy is awaiting the station who can work the most 70
centimetres stations simplex on FM or SSB during the full month of July,
please give a listen on the band especially at the weekends.
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Solar Activity
A sudden increase in solar activity has been recently observed. In the
past week there has been a series of explosions from sunspot number 786
with an X1-class flare observed on July the 14th. Because the sunspot is
near the sun's western limb, none of the blasts was Earth directed.
However, coronal mass ejections hurled into space by these explosions could
impact Earth's magnetic field possibly sparking geomagnetic storms and
affecting propagation on the HF bands. There is also an increased chance
of Aurora at Northern latitudes.
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Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be forwarded to Mark
EI7IS at QTHR or by phone to 051-853806 (evenings or weekends) or 087
6302026 (daytime). Items for the radio news can also be faxed to 087 5
6302026. News should be submitted via e-mail to "news at irts dot ie" for
automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. Please
note that items for the radio news should reach the editor no later than
midday on Fridays.
Best 73 from John, Sysop @ EI3DIB.#TIPP.IRL.EU
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