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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday April 8th 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. Ticket prices have been maintained at last year's 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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West Tyrone Amateur Radio Club
The West Tyrone Amateur Radio Club will Be Holding a Meeting on the 26th of
April at 8.00 p.m. in the Omagh Leisure Centre.
All amateur radio operators and Short Wave Listeners welcome to attend.
It is intended to reform the club that had existed in the West Tyrone area
for many years. Ultimately it is the intention to raise the profile of
the hobby and provide a learning environment for existing Amateurs and
those wishing to find out more about the hobby.
For more information, E-mail; "westtyrone_arc at yahoo.co.uk". Leave your
details with Eddie GI7FHZ, Billy GI3NVW or Charlie GI6DCC
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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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International Marconi Day
The 28th of April is International Marconi Day and the Cornish Amateur
Radio Club sponsors a radio event and presents awards for working the
special event stations. All IMD special event stations have historic
connections with Marconi. The Howth Martello Radio Group will be
activating EI0MAR as a special event award station on the 28th.
In 1905 Marconi carried our wireless telegraphy reception experiments at
the Martello Tower. The HMS Monarch steamed to various locations in the
Irish Sea and sent test transmissions back to Howth. Various antennas and
earthing methods were tried at the Martello Tower and comparisons made.
The Howth Group is justifiably proud of its association with the tower,
which now houses a vintage radio museum. The museum opens from 11 till 4
on weekends until the end of April and from May until October every day.
The museum website is ei5em.110mb.com/museum.html. Visitors will be most
welcome to visit and operate the station on International Marconi Day.
EI0MAR is QRV most Sundays until 3 p.m. For more details you can email
"ei0mar at eircom.net". Access to the tower is up a steep pathway opposite
the Abbey Tavern.
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Amateur Satellite Beginners article
The March 2007 issue of the RSGB magazine RadCom features an article
entitled 'Getting Started on Amateur Radio Satellites' by John Heath
G7HIA. It is an excellent introduction to the exciting world of Amateur
Satellite Communications. The Radio Society of Great Britain and the
author have generously agreed to allow AMSAT-UK to put the PDF of the
article on the web and it can be seen at www.uk.amsat.org. Click on "How
Do I Start" on the left hand side of the home page then click on "Getting
Started on Amateur Satellites (RSGB article)".
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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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