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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday January 7th 2007
Dick Craig EI9ET - Silent Key
We are very saddened to announce that Dick Craig EI9ET became a silent key
on the 2nd of January 2007 after a short illness. Dick was a native of
Glasgow, where he had the callsign GM3NIF, and he held degrees from several
universities.
He developed a liking for West Cork as a result of a radio friendship, which
he had with the late amateur Rex of Bantry who extolled the beauty of that
area. Dick decided to move to West Cork and first lived in Durrus for a
number of years before moving to Skibbereen.
Dick was well known by the Amateur Radio Community and was very active in
the nineties. His voice would often be heard on R6 chatting not only to the
old regulars but also to the new and the young amateurs to whom he gave much
encouragement. He regularly attended the Cork Radio Club Rally in Blarney.
Dick was also very active on HF and was especially fond of 80 metres. It
was on this band that he would chat to old mates in Scotland. In more
recent years he used to take part in an early morning net on 40 metres
regularly without fail.
In spite of being blind Dick had a very inquisitive mind and was a mine of
knowledge. There was very little about anything about which he did not know
and he had a hunger and a thirst for knowledge. Dick will be sadly missed
by all the amateur radio community. Our deepest sympathy to June, Pamela,
Irene, Marina and Rikki on their sad loss. He shall never be forgotten.
****************
80 metre Counties Contest
The Jubilee 80 metre contest took place on New Years day and was a great
success with a big participation. Some stations had very high scores. Some
stations achieved the required numbers for the Jubilee WEIC award. Counties
heard were Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan,, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal,
Down, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick,
Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary, Waterford,
Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow.
A welcome feature this year was a high level of support from across the
water, with English, Scottish, Welsh and Isle of Man stations appearing in
the logs. No doubt many participants were aiming at the Special Jubilee Year
Worked EI Counties Award, and many will have qualified for this award on the
first day of the year.
It was also the first time that the special call EI75IRTS was used, operated
by IRTS president, Rev Finbarr Buckley EI1CS in Cork.
The IRTS would like to thank all stations for taking part, and would
encourage the sending in of all logs to "contests at irts dot ie" or direct
to EI8IU at QTHR as a special Certificate of participation will be sent to
each station who sends in a log.
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Limerick Radio Club
The January meeting of Limerick Radio Club will take place on the third
Thursday i.e.18 January 2007 and not the second Thursday of January as
previously announced. The venue will be the Limerick Institute of
Technology, Moylish and the commencement time is 19:30 as usual.
****************
MRG VHF/UHF Challenge
The results of the MRG VHF/UHF Challenge 2006, which was held last
September, are as follows. In the fixed section, first place was achieved
by EI2JD with 26 QSO's on 2 metres giving 6150 points. Second place in the
fixed section went to EI3ENB with 9 QSO's on 2 metres and 2 on 70
centimetres giving 1558 points. Third place in the section went to EI3GRB
with 6 QSO's on 2 metres giving 761 points.
The portable section was won by EI7FAB/P with 7 QSO's on 2 metres and one
QSO on 70 centimetres totalling 1615 points. Check logs were received from
EI3JD. The best distances worked during the Challenge were 524 kilometres
on 2 metres between EI2JD and G6HIE. On 70 centimetres the greatest
distance achieved was between EI7FAB/P and EI7FJ/P with a distance of 233
kilometres. The 2007 Challenge will be held on Sunday, Sept 9th of this
year.
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IRTS 75th Jubilee
As part of the 75th Jubilee celebrations, the sub committee is putting
together a short audio visual presentation about the history of the Society.
They are particularly anxious to receive copies of any audio or
videotapes, including old 8mm cine clips of radio activities. They will take
them in any format, copy same and return. However if you have some such
material and can transfer it to digital files that will grately assist their
work. Contact Seamus 8BP or Paul 2CA if you can help.
****************
Cork Radio Club
With immediate effect, Cork Radio Club will move to new premises for their
weekly meetings. The new venue is in the premises of the Cork Youth Film &
Video Group located in the new bungalow behind the Cork Forum building on
Assumption Road, Blackpool. Meetings are held every Monday night starting
at 8.00 pm and new members and visitors are always very welcome. Enquiries
about the club should be directed to Dick Bermingham EI6HH on 021-4545154.
****************
Region 5 Theory Classes
Theory classes will commence in the Cork area on Tuesday January 16th at the
Resource Centre, Main Street, Carrigtwohill. The Class tutor will be Mick
Lee EI4HF and the course administrator is the IRTS Region 5 representative
Dave EI4BZ.
If you are interested in attending these classes, please contact Dave on
087-6290574 as soon as possible. The classes will finish in time for the
next theory examination which will be held in June.
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IRTS 4 metre and 6 metre Shields
The 4 Metre & 6 Meter shields will be presented to the leading 4 & 6 Metre
operators at this years I.R.T.S. AGM. This competition is run on a calendar
year basis, 1st of January to the 31st of December 2006. The scoring will be
calculated as follows: Unique contacts multiplied by Maidenhead locator
squares by DXCC. All modes count. Could anyone interested in this
competition please send their 2006 logs to the Contest Manager, Brian
Canning "brianei8iu at eircom dot net". If you make contact with a
particular station, say 5 times during the year, you can only claim this as
1 QSO. Squares mean IO51, JO63 KM78 etc. It is hoped that everyone can and
will send in a log, it is easier for those that have computer logs as it
takes all the hard work out of counting squares & unique QSOs.
****************
Squares table 2006
Could everyone who supported the VHF/UHF squares table during the past year
. send in their final updates for 2006 to the VHF Manager "joe underscore
fadden at yahoo dot com" before the end of January. Some good square scores
were achieved on 6 meters this year even though conditions were poor. If you
have not sent in a score for any of the VHF/UHF bands during 2006, you can
still do so.
****************
South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
The first SEARG Committee Meeting of 2007 will take place on Wednesday the
31st of January at 8.00 p.m. in the Roanmore Centre, Waterford. Committee
members are asked to attend. As this meeting replaces the general meeting,
which normally takes place on the last Wednesday of each month, there will
be no general meeting for January.
****************
Theory Examination
The next Theory Examination for the Experimenter's Licence will be held on
Thursday the 18th of January next at 2 p.m. in the ComReg Offices, Abbey
Court, Irish Life Centre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin. Those at present
studying for an Experimenter's Licence may wish to obtain a copy of the CD
course Guide produced by the Society. These are available from Sean EI7CD
at a cost of 5 Euro to cover registration, postage and packaging.
****************
Phoenix Rally
The Phoenix rally takes place on the 4th of February 2007 in the Coolmine
Community School, Blanchardstown. Admission is 4 Euro and doors open at
11.00 a.m. Doors are open at 8.30 a.m. for traders. The emphasis of this
rally is on the "Bring and Buy" aspect and radio amateurs are encouraged
bring along any items that they would like to part with as it is felt by the
organisers that many of those who attend rallies do so with the intention of
acquiring parts and second hand equipment.
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Rallies
In addition to the Phoenix Rally, four other radio rallies are scheduled to
take place during February, March and April 2007. First comes the Limerick
Rally, which is in the Greenhills Hotel on Sunday the 11th of March. Later
that month, on Saturday 24th of March, the Lagan Valley Amateur Radio Society
holds its rally in Lisburn, while on Sunday the 15th of April the Lough Erne
Amateur Radio Show takes place in a new venue, the Share Centre at
Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh.
The IRTS AGM and Rally takes place on Sunday the 22nd of April in the Vienna
Woods Hotel, Cork, with the AGM Dinner on the previous night. More details
of these events are in the current issue of Echo Ireland and on the "Rallies
and Events" page of www.irts.ie.
****************
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 Friday in order to be guaranteed
inclusion in the following Sunday's bulletin.
Best 73 from John, Sysop @ EI3DIB.#TIPP.IRL.EU
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