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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 14th June 2009
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Bereavement
We wish to extend our sincerest sympathies to Eddie
EI3FFB on the recent death of his mother. May she rest
in peace
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Amateur Station Licence Regulations and the Theory
Examination
Candidates sitting the examination on 30th June should
note that the question paper for this examination will be
based on the regulations in force prior to 1st June 2009.
This has been agreed with ComReg in the interest of
fairness to the candidates concerned.
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80m Counties Contest
The Summer 80m Counties Contest takes place on
Sunday 21st June from 1400 to1700utc (note 1500 to 1800
local time). As part of a demonstration exercise AREN
will locate a station at the new Civil Defence
Headquarters in Roscrea for the duration of the contest.
The station will demonstrate to various government
Departments and Agencies our ability to establish a
nationwide HF radio network.
Operators are encouraged to participate in the contest in
the normal fashion, if not for all then at least for part
of the afternoon. Stations working the Roscrea station
will score contest points in the normal way, though we
would ask that you give your nearest town as well as your
county. The call sign of the Roscrea station will be
EI0RTS.
It would assist with the evaluation of the exercise
if some stations could call Roscrea at the end of the
contest and give their claimed QSO numbers and number of
counties. Note that the Roscrea station will not submit
an entry to the contest but will provide a check log to
the contest manager.
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IRTS VHF/UHF Field Day
The IRTS VHF/UHV Field Day is nearly upon us again. The
Committee in trying to improve the contest has decided to
add extra bands in the restricted section.
Up to now the Restricted Section was 144MHz only. Now you
can use any single band of the VHF/UHF bands.
Rule 5.2 will be changed to read:
Restricted Section
A. 50MHz
B. 70MHz
C. 144MHz
D. 432MHz
E. 1296MHz
There is still only one single band permitted in this
section but now you have a choice of which band you want
to try in the contest.
We do hope this will spur some more activity from the
clubs and individuals in the VHF/UHF Field Day.
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RSGB elects a new President
At the May meeting of the RSGB National Council, the
council elected David Wilson, M0OBW to serve as RSGB
President for 2010 and 2011.
David currently holds the Emerging Technologies and RSGB
Convention portfolio on the RSGB Board. He is also very
active in the Train the Trainer programme.
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Mayo Radio Experimenters
Members of the Mayo Radio experimenters are anxious to
make radio contact with as many stations in Connaught as
possible, during the month of June, as part of their
monthly, members-only contest. Operators will be on HF
on Sundays after the IRTS 80mt news, on or around
3.680MHz SSB.
The club operates a net on Sunday evenings after the 8pm
news service form the county. Frequencies are 145.6 - the
Mayo repeater, 50.450MHz, 70.375MHz, and 433.450MHz - all
FM. The May Competition was won by Brendan Minish, EI6IZ,
runner-up was John Corless, EI7IQ, with John McAndrew,
EI3JM in third.
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Dundalk Amateur Radio Society
Dundalk Amateur Radio Society celebrates its 40th
anniversary this year as part of the celebrations the
club will have 48 hours activity on all bands in
Clogherhead on the 20th and 21st June. If you are in the
area call in and say hi, if you are on on the bands give
the Society a call. There is also an article about the
club in the local paper and also a video, the link is
available at.
www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/
As part of their anniversary, Dundalk Amateur
Radio Society, will be activating their Club call EI7DAR
on the weekend June 21/22nd. They will also be taking
part in the IRTS 80M Counties Contest (summer) 2009, as
EI7DAR/P (on Sunday afternoon) including, as an
exercise, the testing of emergency comms country wide,
in co-operation with AREN on 80 M.
ATV video of the events will be relayed to the web site
www.ei7dar.com. If things go well, the group hope to
have 'live streaming' of the activity, as much as
possible. This will be a test of comms for ATV
enthusiasts, on both weekends.
For more info see www.ei7dar.com
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Rallies
Bangor and District ARS - Radio and Computer Rally
The 2009 rally is to be held on Sunday 14th June 2009,At
12 Noon in "The Country Club", Crawfordsburn. ADMISSION
œ2 INCLUDING 2 RAFFLE TICKETS ! The all new RSGB GB4FUN !
Trade Stands ,Bring and Buy ,BDARS Slide Show
A good selection of radio and computer traders will be in
attendance Special interest groups will have their own
stands .The ever popular FREE bring and buy will be
running as normal
Contact Bill GI4AAM for further details: Tel: 028 9181
6707
Website www.bdars.com
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History This Week
1869 I.W. McGaffey, Chicago, IL patents the suction
vacuum cleaner.
1902 Colour TV patented by Otto von Bronk, Germany.
1943 Laslo Biro, Hungary, patents the ball point pen.
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Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be
forwarded to Charlie EI8JB, preferably 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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