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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 26th September 2010
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WAI Activity Day
Today the 26th of September IRTS are going relaunch the
Worked All Ireland Award with an Activity Day. IRTS want
to encourage operators with mobile and portable
facilities to activate squares and everybody is asked to
work out their WAI square to boost activity.
The W.A.I. awards are open to all amateurs and short wave
listeners throughout, the world, who wish to participate.
Membership of any specific organisation is not pre-
requisite.
The aim of the awards scheme is to expand the
geographical knowledge of Ireland and its offshore
islands.
1) To encourage activity in general and promote mobile
and portable expedition activity on both LF and VHF
bands.
2) To encourage amateurs and Shortwave Listeners to
improve their operating skills by participating in or
running nets.
The worked all Ireland awards were inspired by the WAB
awards scheme devised by the late John Morris G3ABG and
are based on extensive work carried out by David Jones
GI3KVD and the late Paddy McGill GM3MTH.
Tom Rea, EI2GP, and Steve Wright, EI5DD, took the
original work, checked the areas, made additions and
compiled the book to its present day format which is now
printed and distributed by the IRTS.
The Galway VHF Group sponsors the Certificates and
manages the awards.
Stations calling into the radio news on the 26th
are encouraged to give their WAI square as well as the
report.
More details on the Worked All Ireland program is
available in the current issue of Echo Ireland
The following Clubs have indicated there participation by
holding an activity day to celebrate the re launch
Limerick Radio Club will be operating today from WAI
square R46 at Bunratty Castle Folk Park. The club will
also be QRV for CASHOTA reference EI008/C. We look
forward to working as many stations as possible on SSB &
CW, QSL is VIA EI4GXB.
Amateur Portable Group will be QRV from Slane Castle
CASHOTA Reference EI007/C & WAI Square N97 QSL via EI8JB.
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DAR Theory Classes & Live Morse Tuition
Anyone interested in attending Theory Classes at Dundalk
Amateur Radio Society Please contact Tony EI4DIB at
ei4dib@ei7dar.com or via text to 086 4066660
DAR has also begun live Morse tuition on Tuesday nights
commencing at 20:40 on 145.400 FM DAR have decided to use
this frequency as it is used by a lot of Hams and SWL's
locally in the North East. If the tuition nights a
success DAR may eventually QSY to the Dundalk 2m
repeater, giving National and International coverage with
the Repeater linked for live streaming on the Internet.
The idea is to send some Morse at a slow and easy pace
with good gaps between words. It is hoped to help those
of you who are just starting out and those that want to
sharpen up. So please tune in to 145.400 with pen and
paper at the ready.
More info is available on the DAR website at
www.ei7dar.com
****
Amateur Radio Licence Study Group
Michael EI2GKB is starting a study group in the Naas
Newbridge and Kildare area, for further details Michael
can be contacted by mobile on 087 2481970 or via email
miklef@oceanfree.net
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North Cork Radio Group-Thank You
North Cork Radio Group wishes to thank everyone who
attended the first annual rally on Sun last. The rally
was a great success and the support for the group shown
was very much appreciated.
Raffle winners were:
Steven O'Connell EI1275, Limerick
Mich‚al O'Choimea¡n SWL, Cork City
J Sheehan, Mount Collins, Limerick
Special thanks to all the traders, IRTS and
Ger McNamara EI4GXB who made time for an informal study
class for candidates sitting the next examination, also
thank you to Gary of South East Communications for
the raffle prizes and extended thanks to Liam EI7GTB for
his hard work and planning for the event.
****
Good News on 500 kHz fro the USA
The Federal Communications Commission and the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
-- the spectrum regulators for United States private
sector and government users, respectively -- have agreed
to support a secondary MF allocation to the Amateur Radio
Service at 461-469 kHz and 471-478 kHz at the 2012 World
Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), to be held in
Geneva, Switzerland from January 23-February 17, 2012.
FCC and NTIA officials formally presented the proposal at
a meeting of the Second Permanent Consultative Committee
(PCC.II) of the Inter-American Telecommunication
Commission (CITEL), held August 30-September 3 in
Fortaleza, Brazil.
****
Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference
The 2010 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
Conference (GAREC) - supported by the ARRL, the IARU and
all three IARU Regions, is scheduled for October 11-12 in
Curacao.
With its theme of Learning through Practicing, this
year's conference is an opportunity for emergency
communicators to discuss recent events, discover
technical solutions to problems and how to cooperate with
professional partners.
One of the highlights of the 2010 conference will be an
actual EmComm exercise during the conference, exploring
how information sharing across borders can be improved.
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Netherlands Antillies
ARRL Awards Committee Statement on Dissolution of the
Netherlands Antillies: To clarify the administrative
process by which the anticipated changes to the two
existing Netherlands Antilles DXCC entities will be made,
the ARRL Awards Committee has determined that at 0400Z
(12:00 AM local time in the islands) on 10 October 2010,
the two Netherland Antilles DXCC entities will be
deleted.
Commencing at 0400Z (12:00 AM local time) on 10 October,
2010, operation from the islands of Curacao, Bonaire,
Saint Maarten, Saba, and St Eustatius will count for a
yet-to-be-determined number of new entities under the
DXCC List Criteria, and Political Entities, Rule 1 and/or
Rule 2 Geographic Separation Entities. When the Awards
Committee determines what Rule 1 or Rule 2 actions apply,
it will announce the final disposition of the entities on
the DXCC list.
The DXCC desk will not accept confirmations for these new
entities until after 1 January, 2011.
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Rallies
The date for the 30th Lough Erne ARC Rally is set for
Sunday 17 April 2011
For further details on Rallies please see
www.irts.ie/rallies
****
History this Week
1956 First Trans Atlantic telephone cable, Scotland to
Newfoundland, Canada.
1918 First direct radio message, UK to Aust. received by
E Fisk, Sydney.
****
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"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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