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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 8th November 2009
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GlobalSET 2009
Global Simulated Emergency Test
IARU Region 1 invites the HQ-Stations of all IARU member
societies and stations of Emergency Communications Groups
to participate in a Global Simulated Emergency Test on
Saturday November 14th, 2009 18.00 - 22.00 UTC.
The operation will take place on and near the emergency
Centre-of-Activity (CoA) frequencies on 80, 40, 20, 17
and 15 metres (+-QRM ).
The details of the exercise will be published on the IARU
Region 1 website (www.iaru-r1.org)
****
Galway VHF Group 24 hour Radio Operation from
RNLI Stations
Using the callsign EI 185 RNLI, The first operation will
take place from the Galway Lifeboat Station over this
weekend. The following weekend, 14th and 15th of November
will see an operation from the Aran Island Lifeboat
station at Kilronan, Inishmore.
The final operation will take place from Clifden
Lifeboat Station, Ballyconneely, over the weekend of the
28th and 29th of November. The callsign will be EI 185 RNLI
All operation will take place on the HF bands with two
stations in operation at all times. There will be
operation on Phone and Digital Modes with some operation
on SSTV also possible. There will be a special QSL card
for all contacts made and SWL reports will also be
welcomed. Varying types of antenna construction will be
used including a Kite antenna for the LF bands.
****
Amateur Wins Nobel Prize
Radio Amateur George Smith, AA2EJ, was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for the invention of an imaging
semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor.
Around 5:30 on the morning of October 6 2009, George E.
Smith, AA2EJ, of Barnegat, New Jersey, got a phone call
that changed his life: He had just found out he had won
the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 "for the invention of
an imaging semiconductor circuit -- the CCD sensor."
Smith will share the prize money with two other
recipients: Charles K. Kao, of Standard Telecommunication
Laboratories in the United Kingdom and Chinese University
of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, and Willard S. Boyle,
of Bell Laboratories.
****
Updated PC-ALE now available
The latest version of the HF Automatic Link Establishment
software PC-ALE is now available.
PC-ALE was devised by former Chelmsford radio amateur
Charles Brain G4GUO.
The latest version of this popular digital mode software
can now be downloaded from the website of N2CKH.
It can be downloaded from
www.n2ckh.com
****
Students - Send you School Work to space!!
ARISSat-1 is a small satellite which will be launched
from International Space Station in 2010, in a way
comparable to the popular SuitSat-1.
Students are asked to send some of their work in relation
to a paper in science, technology, engineering, schematic
or math in jpg or pdf format to the e mail address below
so that it can be placed on a USB memory stick that will
be deployed in Space.
Having the student's work be a part of ARISSat means the
student is a part of the satellite project and along for
the space walk and deployment of ARISSat-1.
Dave Jordan, AA4KN, will take delivery of these files and
copy them onto a memory stick, plus make them available
on the web for anyone to see. The quantity of files of
reasonable size is not limited, since memory sticks
provide for a very large amount of file space.
Files should be either .JPG or .PDF -- No Word documents,
please.
Please send files to Dave Jordan's address :
aa4kn@amsat.org
The deadline to send the email with attachment is 15th
November 2009
****
4U1AIDS - Awareness about HIV/AIDS through Amateur Radio
A special amateur radio station will be operating at
UNAIDS HQ in Geneva, Switzerland, from December 1-7th,
2009, with the special event callsign 4U1AIDS. They
invite people to observe the "World AIDS Day" and
demonstrate global HIV awareness.
More Info on www.qrz.com/4u1aids
****
SOTA Day
The North American 'Summits on the Air' (SOTA) activation
day, is Saturday, November 14th.
The four North American associations of 'Summits on the
Air' are planning a multi-summit activation spanning the
North American continent.
Portable, mountain top stations will be operating from
the VE2, W1, W2, and W6 call areas. Seasoned "summit
chasers" all over Europe will have the opportunity to
work expeditions on SOTA's western frontier, and a new
group of North American chasers will get a chance to work
multiple summits.
To join in the fun, visit the SOTA Web site at
http://www.sota.org.uk/
****
Canadian experiments at 500 kHz authorized
After months of negotiations between Radio Amateurs of
Canada and Industry Canada over the details of the
licence applications and reporting conditions, the first
two licences granted to Canadians for experiments at 504
- 509 kHz in preparation for WRC-12 have been issued by
Industry Canada.
Jack Leahy, VE1ZZ, has been assigned call sign VX9PSO in
the Developmental Service for his experimental
transmissions.
Joe Craig, VO1NA, has been assigned call sign VX9MRC. Joe
was mentioned in last weeks bulletin after having the
first QSO with Finbar O'Connor EI0CF between Ireland and
Canada on this band.
Both of these Canadian stations have been on the air
already, with VX9PSO having been reported at 504.6 kHz
and VX9MRC at 507.77 kHz. Signal reports can be addressed
to the operators at their call book addresses.
Two more authorizations, in Ontario and British Columbia,
are expected soon.
****
Falkland Islands DXpedition
Members of the CRAM and the Uruguay DX Group will be
active from Port Stanley between November 14-21st.
They hope to start operations at their local sunset on
the 14th, starting on 40 meters, depending on
transportation matters.
The group will sign VP8BUH on SSB and VP8BUG on
CW/Digital modes. Their activity will focus on the lower
bands, Digital modes and the 30/17/12 meter bands.
QSL Manager is David, EB7DX.
For more details, see:
http://www.qsl.net/vp8bug
****
Limerick Radio Club Meeting
The next meeting of the Club takes place on Thursday 12th
November at the Limerick Institute of Technology
Moylish, Limerick. Meeting commences at 19:30.
****
Special Event Station
The Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club will be transmitting
from Brownlow House in Lurgan, Co Armagh on Wednesday
11th November from 10am for Armistice Day, using the
special event callsign GB2AD.
This location was chosen as it has been used in both
World Wars as a Battalion HQ in WW1 and American HQ in
WW2. The club will be operating all bands and
modes throughout the day.
****
Rallies / Events
Dxpedition and IOTA Talk by Declan Craig EI6FR
The Mayo Club has organised Declan Craig EI6FR to give a
talk the evening before the Mayo Radio Rally, Saturday
21st November.
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.
****
This week in History
1893 Tesla patents radio-controlled vehicle.
1895 Roentgen discovers of x-rays
.1920 First broadcast station, KDKA Pittsburg, USA.
1936 BBC broadcasts TV from Alexandria Palace, London.
****
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