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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday January 28th 2007
AFRI 75
The web page of the IRTS expedition travelling to Swaziland, 3DA0, in March
is now available on the IRTS website. Plans are well advanced and the team
have announced that in addition to all band activity on St Patrick's day,
they will be concentrating on the WARC bands and LF frequencies at other
times. There is also a possibility of some 2-metre EME activity. It is
intended that during the expedition there will be daily updates from the
site to the web page as well as on online log check so that you can confirm
that you are in their log. We will be carrying regular updates on this
bulletin between now and the start of operations.
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IRTS QSL Service
A reminder to members that the outwards and inwards QSL service is available
free to IRTS individuals and club members for their own call and for special
event stations licensed to them. The service is also available free to JOTA
stations, irrespective of whether an IRTS member is the licence holder.
Please note in particular that operators of Special Event stations should
supply details of their Special Event call to the relevant incoming QSL
Manager.
Contact details for the outwards and inwards QSL managers and sub-managers
are on the IRTS web site.
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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.
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.
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Cork Rally
Preparations (even at this early stage) are underway for the Cork Radio
Rally which will take place at the same venue, Blarney Park Hotel. This
will be the 16th year that the Cork Radio Club have run this very successful
rally. Blarney is a wonderful venue for this event and many bring their
families along to experience the shopping in Blarney.
So make a note for this event in your dairy. The Blarney Rally will take
place on Sunday the 23rd of September.
The Cork Radio meets every Monday night at the "Cork Foyer" Assumption Road
Cork at 8:30 p.m. Enquiries about the club should be directed to Dick
Birmingham EI6HH on 021-4545154.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
The first SEARG Committee Meeting of 2007 will take place this coming
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.
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Radio Frequency Time Signal Service
In the UK, the Radio Frequency and Time Signal service which was until now
provided by the National Physical Labortatory will be provided by an
external company from the 1st of April 2007. The service is transmitted on
60 kHz and provides time and frequency standard. VT communications will
build new infrastructure to deliver the signal from it's facility in
Cumbria. The new infrastructure will include time code generation
equipment, remote control and monitoring system and a new Low Frequency
Transmitter.
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Space News
Since the 14th of January AO-27 is once again recovered and returned to
operation through the dedicated work of the Command Team.
It is reported that after working on several problems with the AFSK modem,
they were able to upload the flight code. AO-27 is now sending good
telemetry and the Analogue repeater has been switched back on.
Initially there is 20 seconds of telemetry data followed by 5 minutes of
analogue repeater operation. Then an additional 60 seconds of telemetry data
is sent before the satellite transmitter turns off. Keep in mind that AO-27
is 13 years-old and takes some work to keep going. Additional information
is available at www.ao27.org.
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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 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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