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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 11th October 2009
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THEORY CLASSES IN REGION 4
Plans are being put in place to run radio theory
classes in the Limerick area by IRTS Region 4
representative Ger McNamara EI4GXB, with the hope that
the theory examination can be held in Limerick which
will be dependant on numbers.
Those interested in attending the theory classes can
contact Ger via email at ei4gxb /at/ gmail.com or 087
2532512 or QTHR
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CQ CQ calling news items
As is common through the year we have occasional lulls
in news from EI. If your group or club are involved in
anything that you would like to share with or
listeners or readers please pass on the information to
our editor.
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4U1UN ACTIVITY Operating Schedule
4U1UN, the United Nations Headquarters station in New
York City will make a rare appearance on the air from
October 19th to the 25th . This, with an all star
line-up of top gun DX'ers and contester's at the
controls of the famed station.
Its operating schedule is going to be restricted from
12"00 to 04:00 UTC each day. All-night activity is
planned for Friday the 23rd and Saturday the 24th of
October. The 24th is United Nations Day.
Logs for 4U1UN will be uploaded to Logbook to the World
after the operation is completed. All QSL requests go
via HB9BOU.
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MIDWAY ISLAND K4M
A multi-national team of 18 operators are currently
activating Midway Island, they are expected to continue
through October 19th. They are signing K4M and will
operate from Sand Island.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has authorized this
amateur radio operation from this rare U.S. entity for
only a 10 day period. This is the first amateur radio
activity from Midway in almost 10 years.
Midway Island ranks number 24 worldwide and number 13
in Europe on the DX Magazine's "Most Wanted List".
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QRZ.COM New features
The giant QRZ dot com callsign website has expanded its
callsign database. This, with added fields that take
into account the emergence of electronic confirmations
of on the air contacts as well as those who only use
cards sent via the mail.
The newly added fields are Mail QSL that indicates
whether this person will QSL by Postal Mail, eQSL says
that an Amateur is using eQSL.cc, LOTW indicates
whether this person uses LOTW. Another new field is
IOTA which permits the insertion of an Islands on the
Air designator.
Stations with QRZ listings who would like to display
the above information are asked to activate those
options in their management page.
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AMSAT Supports JOTA with AO-51 Satellite
Turning to radio space related news, word from
AMSAT-North America says that it is supporting the 52nd
Jamboree on the Air Scouting event by dedicating AO-51
operation to it.
On October 17th and 18th the AO-51 QRP repeater will be
set to crossband FM mode and allocated for the scouts
to use. The mode change should occur at 00:00 UTC on
the 17th and run for approximately 48 hours.
The frequencies to be used for the Jamboree weekend
will be 145.880 FM uplink, and 435.150 FM Downlink. No
tone access is required. All satellite users are
requested to give priority to Jamboree stations and to
hold QSO's with them.
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International Reply Coupon Deadlines
Operators who use IRC’s in the QSL exchange process are
advised to check the expiry dates of their current
stock as stock batches expire on 31 December 2009.
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Radio Related Blog
You are invited to post notes, articles, papers, and
other radio related materials on TheDrumSay.com blog.
No advertisements, always free, simple to use.
http://TheDrumSay.com
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Bangor & District ARS
Bangor and District Amateur Radio Society meet on the
1st Thursday of every month in "The Boathouse",
Groomsport at 8pm.
At 8pm on Thursday 3rd December 2009 they are hosting a
talk from Dave GI3OBO on “old timersö. This should be a
great evening!
As always, visitors and new members are most welcome.
More information from Mike GI4XSF on 028 4277 2383, or
club website :
http://www.bdars.com
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Rallies
Sunday 1st November 2009 Foyle and District ARC Rally
Venue: White Horse Hotel, 68 Clooney Road, Derry, BT47
3PA (same hotel as last year)
Sunday 22nd November 2009 Mayo Radio Rally Venue:
Welcome Inn, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
The rally organiser and main contact is Padraic Baynes
EI9JA mobile 087 - 695 7154 or email pbaynes1 at
eircom dot net Special Accommodation Rates are also
available please check the full details on the
www.ei7mre.org website
For more information on Rallies please check the
IRTS website.
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This week in History
1897 Slaby sends wireless a distance of 21 Kms with
balloon antennae, Berlin.
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Items mentioned in the IRTS Radio news are of a
general, educational or informative nature, there
is no guarantee that stations mentioned can be
heard or worked
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 comö Or by phone to
087-6265418 News can also be submitted via e-mail to
“newsteam at irts dot ieö 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.
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