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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday April 1st 2007
IRTS 75th Annual General Meeting
The Society's 75th Annual General Meeting is to be held at the
Vienna Woods Hotel in Cork on Sunday April 22nd. The weekend
celebrations will follow the usual format with the 75th Jubilee
Dinner being held on the Saturday night. Tickets prices have been
maintained at last years level and are great value at only 30 Euro.
Several high profile international guests will attend the dinner and
AGM and included are Dave Sumner K1ZZ, Secretary of the
International Amateur Radio Union and C.E.O. of the ARRL, the
American National Society. Also joining us will be the Chairman of
Region 1 IARU Ole Garpestad LA2RR and the Presidents of several
other sister national societies in Region 1.
The Committee is obliged by rule to nominate members for the
positions of President, Vice President and eleven committee
positions. These nominations will be carried in the upcoming issue
of Echo Ireland. This does not preclude other nominations for any
of the positions and further nominations must be made to the
Secretary within fourteen days of receiving the committee's lists of
nominations. Members should read rule 23 covering nominations for
office.
The Society has several awards for honouring members who have
excelled in some aspect of the hobby. Nominations for these awards
are now being sought and should be forwarded to the Awards Manager,
Peter Grant EI4HX. Members in possession of trophies since last
years AGM are requested to arrange for their return to EI4HX or any
committee member as soon as possible. The AGM rally will be held on
Sunday April the 22nd at the Vienna Woods Hotel and requests for
tables should be directed to Dave EI4BZ on 087-6290574. There will
be no charge for tables, which will be allocated on a first come
first served basis.
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Rallies
The date of the Lough Erne Amateur Radio Show has been changed to
Sunday the 22nd of April at the Share Centre Lisnaskea Co.
Fermanagh. The Bangor Rally will take place on the 17th of June and
the Friedrichshafen Hamfest will take place over the weekend of the
22nd to the 24th of June.
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EI APRS Users Mailing List
John Ronan, EI7IG has set up a mailing list for APRS users in
Ireland. The purpose of which is to help new APRS users getting on
the air and to give them advice.
Subscription details are available at the following address;
ei7ig.org/mailman/listinfo/aprsusers_ei7ig.org
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80 Metre Counties Contest Results
Winner of Mixed Mode was EI5FK. The SSB section was won by EI9HX
and the Portable section went to EI2MRG/P. The Outside EI/GI Mixed
Mode section was won by GM4FAM and the Outside EI/GI SSB section
went to G3ZVW. Also thanks go to SWL EI299 for his log.
Congratulations to all the winners and the IRTS would again like to
thank all the stations that participated and helped to make it such
an enjoyable event. The Certificates of participation will shortly
be sent to all participants who sent in their logs on time. The
full results are now on the Contests page of the IRTS web site.
Would anyone interested in the 4 and 6 metre awards please send
their applications not later than next Saturday to "contests at irts
dot ie". The spring 2 metre counties contest is once again nearly
upon us and hopefully will be as successful as the 80 metre contest
so get out there and try to activate all our counties!
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Theory Examination
The next Theory Examination for the Experimenters Licence will be
held on Thursday the 28th of June next. Places for the examination
are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served
basis. In order to reserve a place for the exam, intending
candidates should forward the appropriate fee to Se n Nolan EI7CD,
12 Little Meadow, Pottery Road Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin. The fee is
50 Euro or 25 Euro for full time registered students, those who are
retired, are unemployed or have a disability. In addition to the
exam centre at the ComReg offices in Dublin, it has now been decided
with the agreement of ComReg that an examination should be held on
the same date and with the same paper at the Community Centre,
Carrigtwohill, Co.Cork. This is to facilitate those at present
attending classes for the experimenter licence examination in Cork
and Waterford."
The closing date for the examination is the 16th of June and it will
be strictly adhered to. Sean EI7CD's address again is 12 Little
Meadow, Pottery Road, Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin and it can be found
in the call book section of the IRTS website at www.irts.ie Sean's
e-mail address for further enquiries is
"ei7cd at gofree dot indigo dot ie".
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AFRI 75
The Irish Radio Transmitters Society celebrate their 75th Aniversary
this year and they sent a team of EIs and GIs to Swaziland to put
Ireland and Swaziland on the ham radio map. They were joined by a
number of South African and Swazi hams to enter a Multi Two station
in the CQ WPX SSB contest. Considering that we are at the bottom of
the sun spot cycle I think the group more than achieved that. In
total the group made over 15,000 contacts in the 10 days in
Swaziland. In the CQ WPX SSB contest over 3000 contacts were made in
48 hours and over 9,000,000 points notched up.
The team are indebted to the help, direction and equipment provided
by African DX Safaris under the directorship of Daniel Hubbard
ZS6JR.
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Group
The monthly meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will be
held on Thursday next, the 5th of April at 8.00 pm in Raheen House
Hotel, Raheen Road, Clonmel.
All are welcome.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
The members draw took place on Wednesday the 28th of March 2007 in
the Roanmore Centre, Waterford. Congratulations to Jim Cullinan
(EI4DT) who won a pair of tickets to the IRTS AGM Dinner including
overnight accomodation for two in the Vienna Woods Hotel. The draw
was conducted independently by Michael Wadding (Centre Manager,
Roanmore Centre).
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Time Signals
With the recent switch to summertime, the change at 0100 GMT was the
last one ever to be signalled from Rugby, in Warwickshire, which
transmitted the time signal since 1927.
Since the 31st of March, the long-wave signal, used to keep the
"pips" heard on BBC radio being broadcast from Anthorn, Cumbria.
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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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