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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 21st December 2008
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New issue of Echo Ireland
The December 2008 issue of Echo Ireland, which was posted
to members during the week, contains numerous articles on
the practical aspect of the radio experimenters' hobby as
well as some interesting historical articles.
The contents include a section on Amateur Television & a
piece on HF propagation and Dxing. There is also
an update on the activities of the International Amateur
Radio Union Monitoring System, with a very useful summary
of the issues discussed and conclusions reached at the
recent IARU Region 1 Conference. There is also a report
on the Global Simulated Emergency Test that took place in
November and an article on Logbook Of The World.
On the historical side, we have a detailed description of
early experimental radio in EI as well as an article
about George Francis Fitzgerald, described as one of the
early "Irish Experimenters".
Echo Ireland 80m Contest typo
On page 26 of Echo Ireland the 80m Contest start time is
incorrect, please note the start time is 14.00 UTC
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Webmaster Wanted
The role of the IRTS web site includes keeping members
informed about local and international amateur radio
activities, encouraging members to continue their
membership and motivating potential members to join,
promoting the activities of radio experimenters and the
hobby of amateur radio.
Being a single source of information on matters of
interest to Irish radio experimenters which would
include, for example, club activities, contest results,
repeater frequencies, band plans and forthcoming rallies.
The job of the Webmaster is to maintain and develop the
web site so that it fulfils this role in an interesting
and accessible way. IRTS is looking for applications for
the position of Webmaster. Like all of the society's
officer positions, this is a voluntary position.
Members interested in being appointed Webmaster should
indicate their interest to the society's president
Finbarr Buckley EI1CS (buckleyf1@eircom.net) and
demonstrate their web skills by supplying links to web
sites or web pages which they have developed.
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AREN net
It is envisaged that tonight's net will be a digital mode
training net. Members without email access should contact
John, EI7IG at 0868167310 for more details.
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Switzerland to allocate 6m
Swiss telecommunications authorities will allocate the 50
MHz band to amateur radio on a secondary basis beginning
January 1, 2009.
Swiss and foreign CEPT class licensees will be permitted
to transmit with up to 100 watts PEP on 50 to 52 MHz
without any antenna restrictions. The one caveat is that
primary users may not be disturbed. This includes some
TV stations active on the VHF band I in Northern Italy.
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Canada's official time broadcast, frequency change
After seventy years of broadcasting Canada's official
time, shortwave station CHU will move the transmission
frequency for the 7335 kHz transmitter to 7850 kHz. This,
to avoid interference to its operations as the result of
band allocation changes approved by the International
Telecommunications Union back in April 2007.
CHU is a part of Canada's National Research Council's
system for disseminating official time throughout that
nation. It broadcasts 24 hours a day from a location
approximately 20 kilometres south-west of Ottawa.
Transmissions include tones to mark the seconds, voice to
announce the time in French and English, and digital data
to interface with computers.
The frequency change to CHU change will occur on January
1st, 2009 at 0000 UTC. More is on-line at www.nrc-
cnrc.gc.ca
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2009 International Space Station Calendar
As part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary of
the International Space Station, the agency is offering a
special 2009 calendar. The calendar can be downloaded
from the link www.nasa.gov/station
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L-BAND EXPERIMENT ON THE ISS
Another experiment using the ham station on board the
International Space Station. From December 28th through
January 3rd ARISS plans to reconfigure the on-orbit
crossband repeater for test of its L-Band uplink
capability, which, to date, has not been proven out.
Plans call for an uplink of 1269.65 MHz and downlink on
the standard frequency 145.80 MHz. The system will be in
low power transmit. Given the substantial cable losses of
the L-band system, ARISS hopes that some big gun stations
on the ground will be able to penetrate through, keep up
with Doppler, and make a contact.
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Limerick Radio Club
Limerick Radio Club would like to take this opportunity
to wish all its members and supporters a very Happy and
Peaceful Christmas.
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Group
The Tipperary Amateur Radio Group would like to wish all
Radio Experimenters and shortwave listeners a happy and
peaceful Christmas,a word of thanks to members who helped
out in all the different events, and in particular thanks
to the newsreaders for the service they provided during
the year.
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Santa DX
Santa Claus Land active
(Special Event - this one for the kids!)
Once again OH9SCL will be active from Santa Claus Land
(SCL) in the Arctic Circle, during the month of December.
Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and the
Digital modes. There has been plenty of activity over the
past week on 40/20/30 meters, some SSB, RTTY and PSK31.
QSL via OH9UV
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DXCC End of year approaching
In order to appear in the printed 'Annual and Honour
Roll' listings your submission must be postmarked on or
by Wednesday, December 31, 2008.
For the 2008 calendar year the minimum requirement to
appear in the Honour Roll list is 329 current entities.
Direct comments or questions to dxcc@arrl.org ....
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Rallies
15th Feburary 2009 Coolmine Radio Rally,
The Coolmine Radio Rally, run by the Phoenix Radio Club
will be held in the Coolmine Community School, Clonsilla
Dublin 15 on Sunday 15th February 2009. Doors open 9.30 am
for table bookings and information please contact Tony
087-2439997 or Tom 01-8211043
See map on www.coolminecs.ie/locationmap.php
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This week in History
1879 Edison demos his incandescant light at Menlo Park,
NJ. USA.
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Season's Greetings
There are many Individuals and Clubs who support and
provide material for our radio news, without that
material and the participation of our News Readers &
stations providing signal reports, this news would not be
possible. Season's Greetings to all involved.
Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be
forwarded to Charlie EI8JB, via e-mail to "charlie dot
Carolan at gmail dot com" Or by phone to 087-6265418
News can also be submitted via e-mail to "newsteam 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 Thursday 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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