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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 18th July 2010
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World Radiosport Team Championship
The "Olympics" of amateur radio contesting is the World
Radiosport Team Championship. This year's games took
place, outside Moscow, during the IARU HF Contest, held
last weekend. 48 teams of top contesters from around the
world were in Moscow for the event. They operated under
field-day conditions, with identical antennas and were
limited to 100 watts output.
Each team consisted of two operators; call signs were
allocated just before the contest and were not publicised
until afterwards so that other radio amateurs would not
be tempted to confine their contacts to their fellow
nationals.
Following log-checking, the results of the championship
have now been published. They show a team from Russia in
first place, followed closely by an Estonian team, with a
USA team in third place. The winning team had over 3,400
QSOs in the 24 hours of the contest - a good indication
of what two good operators can achieve on just 100 watts!
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70MHz band in Spain
The Spanish PTT has temporarily authorized the use of the
70.150 - 70.200 MHz. This segment can be used by all EA
until July 1st, 2011.
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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.
AREN have SSB Nets on the 7th and 21st of each month on
3.660 +-
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WAI Squares Activation
Peter EI4GZB Declan EI9HQ will be out activating Squares
Today 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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EJ3Z activate EU-121 Inishbofin 24th, 25th July IOTA
Contest
Members of the Galway radio Experimenters Club (EI4GRC)
and Shannon Basin Radio Club (EI2SBC) will be on air from
Inishbofin Island for IOTA 2010 contest using the call
EJ3Z. Inishbofin is a small island 9KM off the west cost
(53.37 North - 10.14 West) with the IOTA Ref EU-121. On
the days leading up members will be active using their
own call signs on HF & VHF also watch out for EJ4GRC.
Inishbofin Grid Sq is IO43vo. More information on the
island is available on http://www.inishbofin.com/
Contest Team include
Pat ei9hx, Nial ei4cf, Anthony ei6ggb, Mike ei2eo, Tony
ei3ha, Fergus ei6ib, Ronan ei8ih, Mark ei6jk, Des ei5gt,
Tom ei3er, Adrian ei7dmb, Michael ei4al, Enda ei2ii.
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Saltee Islands EU-103
EI4II and Olivier, ON4EI will be active from the
uninhabited SALTEE Islands, EU-103 between July 23-25
2010, taking in the IOTA contest.
Callsign that will be used will be: EJ4II.
QRV from 160-10m, CW & SSB. QSL via EI4II.
Expedition blog http://www.qrz.com/db/ej4ii
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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
1912 Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo.
1914 Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, MA, patented liquid
rocket fuel.
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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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