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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 14th March 2010
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Theory Examination
The next theory examination for the Amateur Station
Licence will be held on Wednesday, 7th July at 2pm in the
ComReg Offices in Dublin and at other centres if
warranted by the numbers.
Information on examination fees and other details please
see 'Theory Examination' in the 'Information' section of
the IRTS website at www.irts.ie
Intending candidates are also referred to 'Studying for
the Amateur Radio Examination' in the 'Downloads' section
of the website.
The latest date for receipt of applications to sit the
examination is Wednesday, 23 June next but it is
important to note that places at the exam are allocated
on a first come first served basis.
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IRTS 78th AGM
Dundalk Amateur Radio Society shall be hosting the 78th
Irish Radio Transmitters Society A.G.M over the weekend
of Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th April 2010.
Further details for booking trader's tables or any other
info please e-mail the following Thos EI2JD at email
address chairman@ei7dar.com or Peter EI4HX at email
address secretary@ei7dar.com
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Brendan Trophy Attempt 2010
Fred, DM8MM, plans another activity from VO1 (grid GN37)
in June / July 2010. He will be well equipped on 2m and
looks for possible sked partners from Ireland.
He would be happy if someone could consider a portable
operation from the EI west coast.Please contact Fred via
email if you are interested
flichtenthaeler@gmx.de
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St. Patrick's Day Special Event Station.
The Foyle and District ARC, situated 5 miles south of
Derry, have been allocated the callsign GB5SPD to
celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The callsign will be used
over several days, from March 15th until March 17th.
While most of the contacts will be ssb, it is hoped to
use digimode this year for the first time. A special QSL
card has been printed for the occasion and reports from
SWL's will also be most welcome. More details may be
found on the qrz.com page, GB5SPD.
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Dromineer Castle Activation
Members of the Galway VHF Group will be heading to
Dromineer to activate Dromineer Castle on Wednesday the
17th of March. The designated number for this Castle will
be EI-04-C. The Callsign for this operation will be
EI4ALE/P.
These numbers are obtained from Steve, EI5DD, and are
essential for claiming the CASHOTA-Ireland and UK awards.
Operation will be on 80, 40 and 20 metres from 10 AM
until around 3 - 4 pm.
Dromineer Castle is situated next to the Harbour on the
banks of the Shannon, a popular mooring spot for the
boating fraternity and an excellent spot for a picnic.
Galway VHF Group member, Declan EI2GE, owns the Hostel
next to the Castle and will be preparing a fine feast at
the end of the day before the group heads back to Galway.
This is the first in a series of activations planned for
this year.
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Bere Isl EU-121 Activation
Olivier ON4EI will be activating BERE ISLAND EU-121 as
EJ8GQB, his new Irish callsign (EI8GQB).
This solo expedition is planned from 21st-29th March
2010.
Activity will be 160-10m SSB/RTTY.
HB: Spiderbeam beam LB: 18m vertical mast top loaded +
30*radials Rig: K3 100W
He will also make part to the CQ WPX SSB CONTEST March
27th-28th 2010.
For more details about the trip, see
http://www.qrz.com/db/ej8gqb
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Holiday Dxpedition
Once again, Madeira (AF-014) is the holiday destination
of the two DXpeditioners Rosel, CT9/DL3KWR, and Hardy,
CT9/DL3KWF, for four weeks.
From March 11-25 they are staying in their first QTH and
will then move to a second QTH with worse possibilities
for antennas.
After every 10th unreplied CQ call in RTTY or PSK31 they
will QSY to CW. Activities will take place every day
until 1000 UTC and from 1600 UTC until midnight.
They prefer working on the WARC bands and in CW, RTTY or
PSK31.Requests for paper QSLs can be sent via
dl3kwr@darc.de or dl3kwf@darc.de or via homecalls.
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Wicklow Radio Club
The Club would like to thank Paul EI5DI for the Demo on
his logging software at last Week's meeting and it has
been decided to enter the CW field day contest on June
5/6 so those of you interested please come forward.
Even if you don't know or operate cw it will be great to
get involved in other activities, logging, antenna
erection etc. The Next meeting is confirmed for wed 14th
of April at 19:30 All are welcome to attend.
****
ECHOLINK AT LOUGH ERNE RALLY
Echolink allows licenses radio amateurs to communicate
with one and other over the Internet using a mobile or
static FM transceiver. Ian Morrow Mi1CCU will have his
interesting stand at the Lough Erne Rally, on Sunday 11
April in the arena at the SHARE centre near Lisnaskea,
County Fermanagh, which is WiFi enabled.
Ian's Echolink station, with a home brew VOIP interface,
is near Sixmilecross in County Tyrone. Via MB7ICC, local
amateurs with ordinary two meter rigs can make worldwide
contacts. For more details see Ian's website
www.mi1ccu.co.uk.
There have been enquiries about accommodation near the
Rally. SHARE is the largest residential activity centre
in Ireland and has a guesthouse on site. B&B costs
22.50. For details and bookings contact
celia@sharevillage.org or phone 048-6772-2122.
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Rallies
Lagan Valley ARS Rally 20th March
The Lagan Valley ARS Rally will be held at 11.30am in
The Village Centre, Hillsborough, Co Down.
Contact: Jim Henry, GI0DVU on 048 9266 2270
For further Rally info and contact details please check
out the IRTS Website at
http://www.irts.ie/cgi/rallies.cgi
****
History this week
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1910 Wireless Institute of Australia founded, world's
first Amateur Radio society.
1917 Members of 1st Anzac Wireless Signal Squadron occupy
Baghdad.
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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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