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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday January 29th 2006
IRTS AGM 2006
Preparations are well advanced for this years IRTS AGM, which is being held
on Sunday April 23rd at the Vienna Woods Hotel in Cork and is being hosted
by Cork Radio Club. The weekend will follow the usual format with a dinner
on the Saturday night, a rally on Sunday and the Annual General Meeting
will be held on Sunday afternoon. The Vienna Woods Hotel is located on the
eastern side of Cork City just off the Glanmire roundabout at the city side
of Glanmire village.
For those wishing to stay in the hotel overnight, only double rooms are
available and these can only be booked through Dave EI4BZ on 087-6290574 at
a cost of ?110.00 per room with breakfast. Please note that there are only
a few rooms left at the Vienna Woods.
However, rooms are also available at the neighbouring Ibis Hotel at a cost
of 59 Euro for a single room and 69 Euro for a double room. Breakfast costs
Euro 8.50. The telephone number for the Ibis Hotel is 021-4354354. Rooms
are also available at the nearby John Barleycorn Hotel at a cost of 45 Euro
for a single and 85.00 Euro for a double room including a full Irish
Breakfast. The telephone number here is 021-4821499. Enquiries to Finbarr
EI1CS on 021-4346622 or Dave EI4BZ on 087-6290574.
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Coolmine Rally
The annual Phoenix Radio Club Rally will be held on Sunday February 26th at
the Coolmine Community School in Blanchardstown and not as originally
planned on the 12th of February. All enquiries to Tony on 01-8252074 or
087-2439997
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Limerick Rally
The Limerick Radio Club would like to remind all of their upcoming Rally.
It will be held in the Greenhills Hotel, Ennis Rd, Limerick on Sunday 12th
March. Icom UK have confirmed attendance and will have the IC7000 ,
IC756Pro3 and IC7800 on display. The club is presently in negotiation with
several other suppliers. The first of the raffle prizes has already been
secured and it is a DSP Speaker from BHI UK. Anybody interested in a table
or simply needing further information feel free to contact Paul EI6FE on
061 360122.
Further news will be forthcoming as soon as we have it. Members of LRC are
looking forward to a successful rally and meeting all our old friends
again.
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Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club
The Lough Erne Amateur Radio Clubs 25th Annual Radio Show will take place in
the Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen, on Sunday the 23rd of April 2006. Doors
open at 12 Noon and Admission is œ3.00 or 5.00 Euro. There is generous car
parking space and refreshments on site. There is a Bring & Buy stand with
no fees. There will be traders big & small selling Amateur Radio gear,
components, electronics, computer components and various new, surplus and
second-hand equipment. UK traders are expected. Usual large attendance
from North and South is expected as the club returns to the familiar venue.
For information on accommodation or trade stand space contact Alan Gault
GI6PYP on 07771 811484\028 6634 1108, "alan dot r dot gault at homecall dot
co dot uk" or Herbie Graham GI6JPO on 028 6638 7761. Call early to avoid
disappointment.
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South Dublin Radio Club
South Dublin Radio Club will hold its AGM on Tuesday the 21st of February at
8 p.m. Also the club will be running the annual Spring challenge during the
month of February starting on the 1st of February at 00:00 hours and
finishing on the 28th of February at 00.00 hours. The rules are published in
the IRTS Handbook or may be obtained from the Club Chairman or committee.
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Limerick Radio Club
The Annual General Meeting of the Limerick Radio Club will be held on the
23rd of February 2006. It will start at 2000 hours sharp in the limerick
Institute of Technology, Moylish, Limerick. All members are requested to
attend.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
The Annual General Meeting of South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will take
place at 8.00 p.m. in the Roanmore Centre, Cleaboy Road, Waterford on
Wednesday the 22nd of February. All members are asked to attend and
visitors are welcome.
A committee meeting will take place this coming Wednesday the 1st of
February at 8.00 p.m. in the Roanmore Centre. All committee members are
asked to attend.
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Club
The next meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will be held on
Thursday next the 2nd of February in Raheen House Hotel Clonmel at 8.00 p.m.
sharp all are welcome.
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Theory Classes in Mayo
Theory classes will commence in Co. Mayo in the next few weeks. The
classes will be held in Ballyvary on Saturdays. Anyone wishing to
participate should contact Terry Ebdon on 087 130 8560 immediately. The
classes are organised by The Mayo Radio Experimenters Network.
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AREN Training
2006 AREN training will begin in February and it will be organised by
distributing material on e-mail and in the post, and by using a directed
net to go through it using the format set out in the manual.
The net will take place on Saturday mornings once a month at 0930 for 1.5
hours local as this will leave the rest of the day free. This will continue
on the third Saturday of each month.
The next NET will take place on February the 25th and it will consist of an
introduction to emergency situations.
These exercises have been prepared by Munster Coordinator Conor O'Neill,
EI4JN.
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Theory Examination
Those who sat the theory examination on the 18th of January last will be
glad to know that the Society has delivered the results to ComReg on
Tuesday the 24th of January. It is expected that ComReg will issue the
results in the near future.
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80m Counties Contest
Listeners are reminded that the closing date for receipt of entries to the
inaugural 80m Counties Contest is Friday the 3rd of February 2006. Due to
the large number of entries already received, late entries will not be
accepted under any circumstances. Logs should be emailed to "contests at
irts dot ie". All logs received by email are acknowledged within 24 hours
of receipt, if you have not received an acknowledgement, please contact the
contest manager - Noel EI2JC by email at "contests at irts dot ie". Paper
logs may be sent IRTS PO Box 462 Dublin 9 or directly to EI2JC at QTHR,
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EI DXpedition to Southern Africa 2007
The December issue of Echo Ireland carried a request for expressions of
interest from members who would like to take part in a DXpedition to
various countries in Southern Africa in 2007. If there is sufficient
interest then initial planning will commence next month with a view to the
expedition taking place in Spring 2007 as part of the IRTS 75th Jubilee
celebrations. Contact Paul EI2CA if you wish to be put on the list for
further information by emailing him to "paul at comma dot ie" or telephone
087-2523908.
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Morse Proficiency Assessments
Morse Proficiency assessments will be held in Greystone Community Centre,
Ballycraigy Road, Antrim on Saturday the 29th of April 2006 commencing at
1:30 p.m.
These assessments are open to anyone with an interest in Morse and will be
offered at various speeds. If you are interested in taking a proficiency
assessment please contact Jim Henry, GI0DVU no later than Wednesday the 19th
of April 2006 by telephone on 048 9266 2270 or by e-mail to "jim dot henry
at ntlworld dot com".
Two certificates are awarded to those who successfully complete the
assessment.
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SuitSat
SuitSat will be deployed during a Russian EVA scheduled to take place on
Friday, February 3 at approximately 22:20 UTC. Once activated, those who
hear SuitSat transmissions are asked to enter their realtime data on the
SuitSat website, www.suitsat.org so that participants around the world can
track the satellite.
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Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be forwarded to Mark
Wall, EI7IS at QTHR or by phone to 051 853806 or 087 6302026. 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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