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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 11th July 2010
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DX Century Club (DXCC)
The DXCC award, issued by the ARRL, is one of the most sought-after
awards for amateur radio activity. The award is available to radio
amateurs who can confirm contacts with at least 100 entities.
Endorsements are available for individual bands and modes.
There is plenty of interest in this award in EI, with 50 EI amateurs
currently participating in the DXCC programme. Have a look at
www.irts.ie/dxcc to see the current standing of the EI call signs in
the DXCC listings.
Note in particular some remarkable jumps in the rankings over the past
month!
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Aren News
ComReg has issued a new set of callsigns for use by the Amateur Radio
Emergency Network. The callsigns are available for use during training
and emergency nets as directed by the National Coordinator. The three
callsigns are EI0AC, EI0EC, and EI0NC and supersede any callsigns
issued in the past.
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Limerick Radio Club
Limerick Radio Club's 70cm repeater has been taken off site for
updating & maintenance and it is hoped to have it back on air soon
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Increased Power for Contests
The Society is continuing to pursue with ComReg the question of
securing increased power for the duration of contests on a list of
international HF and VHF contests still to be finalised. In order to
take this matter further, ComReg wish to have submitted a list of
licensed amateurs who would be interested in getting permission to
operate with increased power for the contests concerned. Anyone who
wishes to have their name included on this list should e mail the
contest manager Thos Caffrey EI2JD at contestmanager /at/ irts.ie or to
thoscaffrey /at/ hotmail.com
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Major Castles on the Air activation in Northern Ireland
On Friday 16th July 2010 callsign GN4KPT/P will be active from Stormont
Castle and Parliament Buildings the home of the NI Assembly in Belfast.
Bobby MI0RYL will be activating this for Cashota-NI and hopes to use as
many of the hf bands as propagation allows. A special QSL card will be
sent to all contacts made on the day.
The station should be up on air by 10am till evening, with the castle
activation number GI022 and WAB No J37 Information can be found at
www.Cashota-NI.org or by emailing lamph121 /at/ o2.co.uk.
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WAI Squares Activation
Peter EI4GZB Declan EI9HQ will be out activating Squares on the 18th
July
Planned squares to be worked are Oscar 33 34 35 36 County Dublin. All
squares will be activated /MM from the boat it is planned that the
above squares will be activated both times during the day, on the
outward and return journeys.
Bands to be used will be 20m 40m & 80m 14.268 7.068 &
3.680/760KHz SSB only + - QRM.
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EJ1DD QRV from Clare Island for IOTA Contest
Members of the Dalkey Island Contest Group are again travelling to
Clare Island this year for the IOTA Contest which is scheduled for the
weekend of 24-25 July. The callsign will be EJ1DD and the operators are
Paul EI2CA, Peter EI7CC, Sean EI7CD, Seamus EI8BP, Ger EI8CC and Aiden
EI8CE.
QSL Manager is EI7CC. For the IOTA Award the reference Number is EU-121
and for the Lighthouse enthusiasts the WLOTA reference is 1935.
There may be some activity by individual team members either side of
the contest using their own calls with the EJ prefix. All contacts will
be very welcome Whether you are a contester or not.
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SEARG Visit to EI0MAR Museum
Members of South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will visit the Radio
Museum at Howth Martello Tower on Saturday the 17th of July. If anyone
would like to join us, please drop a line to Francis EI5GOB at "ei5gob
at gmail dot com". Francis can also be contacted on his mobile at
087-7709388
Please note, this is open to non-members. For further information,
visit www.searg.com
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Bush valley Amateur Radio Club special event
Bush valley Amateur Radio Club will be on the air on July 24th from its
home village of Dervock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
They will be running a Special Event Station from the Village Fun Day,
commemorating the birth of Kennedy Kane McArthur, a son of the village,
who immigrated to South Africa, competed in the Olympics of 1912 at
Stockholm, and won the marathon.
The club will be using the special event callsign GB0KKM for the day. A
special QSL card will beavailable.
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OSCAR News archive CD
OSCAR News is the official journal of the Amateur Radio satellite
organization AMSAT-UK, all 47 issues published from 2000-2009 are now
available on CD.
Containing more than 2000 pages of information about amateur satellites
ranging from homebrew electronics projects to scientific papers, this
archive offers an intriguing insight into the development of amateur
radio satellites during a fast moving decade.
More details can be found on the Amsat UK website, including a link for
purchasing the CD
AMSAT-UK http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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FUNcube Frequencies Announced
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube CubeSat project is intended for launch into a Low
Earth Orbit (LEO). In addition to the satellite, the project includes
the development of simple receivers and display software for use in
schools.
FUNcube is designed to carry a 70cm to 2m linear transponder for SSB/CW
communications along with a beacon carrying telemetry and data for
educational demonstrations from space. It is expected to be completed
by Autumn 2010. A submission for frequencies was made to the IARU
Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination panel who has announced these
coordinated frequencies for FUNcube.
Inverting linear transponder: Uplink 435.080 - 435.060 MHz Downlink
145.960 - 145.980 MHz Beacon: 145.955 MHzCW and BPSK
Further information on this exciting UK Amateur satellite project can
be found on the FUNcube website.
FUNcube http://www.funcube.org.uk/
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CQ CQ calling news items
As is common through the year we have occasional lulls in news. If your
group or club are involved in anything that you would like to share
with our Listeners or readers please pass on the information to our
editor.
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Rallies
For further details on Rallies please see www.irts.ie/rallies
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History this Week
1910 The first airplane to fly a mile piloted by W.R. Brookins of
Atlantic City, NJ.
1920 Radio compass used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane.
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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.
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