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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday May 21st 2006
AREN News
The AREN Spring training program concluded with a field exercise on the
evening of the 4th of May. The exercise was based on a Major emergency
plan activation on the Cork-Waterford border near the town of Youghal.
Nine Aren members from counties Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick
took an active part in the exercise with a number of others remaining
on standby.
Messages were passed for third parties to destinations as far west as
Cork city and as far east as Waterford. This was achieved through
simplex relays as repeaters and phones were assumed to be inoperable
for the exercise. The event was a great opportunity for members to put
the training material into practice and was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
The Munster AREN coordinator Conor O'Neill would like to thank all
those who took part in the spring training and remind members to keep
their kit in a state of readiness as we face into the Summer.
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Tory Island Activation
Sean EI4GK and Joe EI7GY were on Tory Island, County Donegal, during
the week, investigating possible sites for this year's IOTA contest.
While there, they put Tory Island EU-121 on the air, and were in great
demand, mainly on 20 metres and 40 metres, SSB and CW. Tory Island is
also a rare Worked All Island square Bravo-84-Donegal. Sean, Joe and
friends expect to be back on Tory in July for the IOTA contest.
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Shannon Basin Radio Club
The Shannon Basin Radio Club meetings are held in the Royal Hotel
Roscommon on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 8.30 p.m.
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Limerick Radio Club
Members of the Limerick Radio Club are QRV as EI60LRC until the end of
the year to mark 60 years of the club. Activity is on 80 to 10 metres.
QSL is via EI8EM.
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South Dublin Radio
South Dublin Radio Club are carrying out Theory classes every Tuesday
between 8.00 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. in the Marian Community Centre, Marian
Road, Tempelogue. It is planned to run the classes on an ongoing basis
with an informal structure and anyone interested in radio are welcome
to drop in at any time.
For information contact Michael EI2GKB or Paul EI2GSB.
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Mayo Radio Experimenters Network
The Mayo Radio Experimenters Network have commenced theory classes in
Stensons of Ballyvary on the N5 on Saturday mornings. For information,
contact Terry Ebdon, EI5IW on 087 130 8560 as soon as possible.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Club
The next general meeting of South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will take
place on Wednesday the 31st of May at 8.00 p.m. in the Roanmore Centre,
Cleaboy Road, Waterford.
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Radio Theory Examination
The next Radio Theory Examination has now been scheduled for Wednesday
the 28th of June 2006. It will take place in the ComReg offices at
Abbey Court, Irish Life Centre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1 commencing
at 2 p.m.
Candidates wishing to sit this examination should apply to Sean Nolan
EI7CD, 12 Little Meadow, Pottery Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin as
soon as possible. The closing date for applications is the 16th of
June.
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SWL News
The 7th annual Night of Nights will take place in the USA on the 12th of
July. This is when KPH, KSM and other costal maratime stations and
ships return to the air to commemorate the last day of commercial Morse
Code in the US. These stations operate in the MF band and should
provide good listening opportunities.
The World Radio TV Handbook, WRTH has published it's summer schedule
for free on their web site. The schedule is in PDF format and contains
broadcast schedules from international broadcasters and includes
longwave, mediumwave and shortwave listings. The file is in the same
format as the WRTH book. Visit www.wrth.com and follow the
instructions to download the file which is approximately 450 kilobites
in size.
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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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