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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday June 3rd 2007
CW Field Day (Sundays News only!)
The CW field day is taking place over this weekend. Members of South
Dublin Radio Club, which won the restricted section of CW Field day in
2006, are defending their title this weekend.
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International Museums Weekend
The International Museums Weekend takes place on the 16th and 17th of June.
This amateur radio special event has grown in popularity since the first
event was held in 2002.
Among past participants are The Tower of London, HMS Belfast and the US
battleship New Jersey. The Howth Martello Radio Group will be
participating again this year, operating from the Vintage Radio Museum in
Howth. Visitors are welcome to call and operate the station over the
weekend. The museum web site is www.qsl.net/ei5em/museum.html. A full
list of participating museums and further information of the event is
available from the organiser's web site www.ukradioamateur.co.uk/imw.
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Group
The next monthly meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will take
place in Raheen House Hotel Clonmel on Thursday next the 7th of June at
8.00 p.m.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
Two theory revision classes will take place prior to the theory exam in
June. The date of the first class is this coming Tuesday the 5th of June.
The following revision class will take place two weeks later on Tuesday
the 19th of June. Classes start at 7.30 p.m. and will be held at the usual
venue of the Roanmore Centre, Waterford.
A committee meeting will take place on Monday the 4th of June at 8.00 p.m.
Committee members are asked to attend.
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Rallys
Bangor & District Amateur Radio Society Rally will take place on Sunday
the 17th of June in the Crawfordsburn Country Park, Helen's Bay, Co. Down.
The Cork Radio Club Rally will take place on Sunday the 23rd of September
in the Blarney Park Hotel, Blarney, Co. Cork and the Mayo Radio Rally will
be on Sunday the 18th of November in the Belmont Hotel, Knock, Co. Mayo.
A full listing of upcoming rallys is available on www.irts.ie.
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Marconi's Wireless Telegraph in Ireland, "Alpha/Omega Tour"
In 1907, Guglielmo Marconi's dream of fixed point-to-point wireless
telegraph stations linking North America and Europe became a reality.
Derrygimla near Clifden, County Galway served as the site of his wireless
station. Over the next 15 years, spark-induced blue flashes generated by
the station's massive 20 kV generators sent tens of thousands of wireless
messages across the Atlantic, linking to its North American counterpart at
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
2007 marks the centennial of those first sparks generated from Marconi's
historic Clifden station. To commemorate this significant event, as well
as radio's first-ever commercial venture at Ballycastle-Rathlin, Hal W8HC
announces a special amateur radio operation from both locations central to
Marconi's fame and success as a pioneer in wireless technology.
Ballycastle-Rathlin was his first wireless telegraph station and the
Clifden station would be his last, ceasing operation in 1922.
On Saturday and Sunday, August the 4th and 5th. Hal will operate from
Ballycastle as GI/W8HC/p. He will be also taking part in the annual
Marconi Festival at Ballycastle with the Marconi Radio Group's MNMRG
special event station on Sunday the 5th of August. On Monday the 6th of
August, he will ferry over to Rathlin Island (EU-122) and operate from
East Lighthouse (ARLS designator NTI 011).
He will arrive in Clifden on Wednesday the 8th of August where he will
operate as EI/W8HC/p at the Derrygimla site on Thursday and Friday the 9th
and 10th of August. It is hoped that some operating time can also occur
from nearby Letterfrack, site of an ancillary receive station built in
1912 to allow for full duplex operation of the transatlantic signals.
All QSOs will be confirmed via LOTW and special QSLs from each of these
historic Marconi locations will be printed and sent via GlobalQSL
www.globalqsl.com. In addition, a specially designed certificate will be
issued to those stations making contact with both GI and EI operations
from either Ballycastle or Rathlin and Derrygimla or Letterfrack. In
keeping with the historic connection, all QSOs from these locations will
be CW only. Limited mobile phone operation will take place during transit
in both GI and EI.
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Contests
The CW field day will take place in two weeks time on the 2nd and 3rd of
June and the VHF/UHF field day will take place on the weekend of the 7th
and 8th of July.
The RSGB IOTA contest will be held on the 28th and 29th of July.
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Ladies Mini Marathon
The 2007 Flora Ladies Mini Marathon takes place on Bank Holiday Monday the
4th of June at 3.00 pm. It starts from Fitzwilliam Square, and finishes in
Stephens Green Dublin 2. Sadly this year's event will happen without the
familiar voice of Donnchadh O'Shea who traditionally operated the net
control station. This year's public service event will be dedicated to his
memory. The co-ordinator for the event again this year will be George
Adjaye who may be contacted by phone on 086 2586103 or Fax 01 4908546 or
email "george_adjayeg at dcu.ie".
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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. Intending
candidates should forward the appropriate fee to Sen 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 an examination will be held on the same date and
with the same paper at the Community Centre, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork.
The closing date for the examination is the 16th of June and it will be
strictly adhered to. Sean's e-mail address for further enquiries is
"ei7cd at gofree dot indigo dot ie".
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EI75IRTS
Just a reminder that as part of the Society's Jubilee Celebrations, the
IRTS has been allocated the call sign EI75IRTS for the duration of 2007.
The licence holder is Finbarr Buckley EI1CS, and with his agreement, the
call sign may be used by individual and club members holding a current
Radio Experimenter's licence.
Individual and club members of the IRTS can apply to use the call sign
EI75IRTS during the rest of the year. More information is available on
www.irts.ie.
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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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