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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday March 9th 2003
IRTS AGM
The Irish Radio Transmitter Society Annual General Meeting will take
place on Sun April the 27th at 2.30 p.m. in Jury's Green Isle Hotel,
Naas Road, Dublin 22.
Nominations for all trophies must be with the awards committee on or
before April the 5th. Entries for the construction trophies must
present their equipment to the awards committee before 12 noon on the
day. Entries for the Ian Morris Trophy must also be submitted before
April the 5th. Enquiries to Sean Donelan EI4GK.
There will be no rally or dinner dance associated with this years AGM.
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EI0TEN 28 MHz Beacon
Because of repeated reliability problems with EI0TEN at its present
location, the beacon is to be moved shortly. Service interruptions will
continue for the next 3 weeks or so. Apologies for any inconvenience
caused. The new location is also beside the sea and should hopefully
result in an equally good signal and vastly improved reliability. For
further information, e-mail details are on the news page of the IRTS
website.
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Northern Ireland ARDF Championships
The Northern Ireland ARDF Championships will take place on Saturday the
14th of June 2003 at The Crawfordsburn Scout Centre, which is in County
Down, between Belfast and Bangor.
Persons wishing to take part in this event will need to build an 80m
Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) receiver and use it on the day.
More details will be available later. You have 4 months to prepare.
If you require any further information please contact David GI4FUM.
URLs and e-mail details are on the news page of the IRTS website.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
A new Alinco repeater is currently in operation on a trial basis at the
repeater site on Mt. Leinster. The repeater was put in place on Sunday
the 2nd of March last by John EI8JA and Eoin EI7FXB and performance so
far has been good. Reports are welcome. Please send reports to EI8JA
or e-mail the club. E-mail details are on the news page of the IRTS
website.
The next general meeting of the club will take place at 8.00 p.m. in
the Roanmore Centre on Wednesday the 26th of March. All are welcome.
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Cork Radio Club
The Annual General Meeting of Cork Radio Club will be held on Monday
night, March 10th at Wilton Park House, Bishopstown in Cork City. All
existing members are asked to attend. New members will be very welcome.
The club meets every Monday night in Wilton Park house.
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Dublin WAN Group
The next monthly meeting of the Dublin WAN group, who are part of the
Irishwan wireless computer network, will take place on Saturday 29th of
March at 2 p.m. It will be held upstairs in the Clarendon Pub on
Clarendon Street. Clarendon Street is near the Gaiety Theatre and Saint
Stephens Green in Dublin City Centre.
The meeting is open to members of the public that have questions about
connecting to the City-wide Greater Dublin Wireless licence exempt
computer network. For more details see the latest issue of Echo
Ireland.
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DX News
FO5RK is planning to be active from Rapa Island until the 20th of March.
Rapa Island is located in the Australs group, which counts as a
separate DXCC entity from French Polynesia. For the RSGB IOTA awards
program, its reference is OC-051 for the RSGB IOTA awards program.
PJ7/W8EB will be active on 160 to 10 metres SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK-31
from Saint Maarten until the 23rd of March and F5PAC will be active from
Panama until the 24th of March.
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Enniskillen Rally
The 22nd Enniskillen Amateur Radio Show, hosted by Lough Erne ARC, will
be held in the Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh on Sunday
6th of April 2003.
Information from Herbie, GI6JPO on 028-6638-7761.
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EI Activity Day 2003
All EI stations are asked to make a special effort to get on the air
for the annual EI Activity Day which this year is a three-day event, to
be held from Saturday Match 15th to Monday 17th inclusive. EI stations
are still in great demand by stations trying to complete their Worked
EI Counties Award and many overseas stations are also collecting Worked
All Ireland Squares. Some years ago, clubs were very active in getting
the rarer counties on the air. Maybe this effort could be repeated
again this year.
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Mayo REN
The Mayo Radio Experimenters Network is pleased to announce that on
Sunday April 13th the group will host "An Afternoon With Declan Craig
EI6FR", commencing at
2.30 p.m. The event will take place in the Linenhall Arts Centre,
Linenhall Street Castlebar.
The afternoon will commence with a short introduction to the hobby
presented by John Corless, EI7IQ, followed by the main event, where
Declan will give an insight on life at the other end of the pile-up as
a rare one is activated.
The event is open to all, and admission is free. After the
presentation, one of the many DXPedition videos featuring Declan, will
be shown on the large screen in the Centre which can seat 150 people.
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Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be forwarded Mark
Wall EI7IS. He can be contacted on 087-6302026. News can also be
submitted via e-mail to news@irts.ie for automatic forwarding to both
the radio and printed news services.
Best 73 from John, Sysop @ EI3DIB.#TIPP.IRL.EU
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