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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday March 30th 2003
Tipperary Amateur Radio Group
Members of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will provide emergency
communications support for up to 300 walkers expected to take part
in the Aherlow Hillwalking Festival over the Galty Mountains next
weekend, the 5th and 6th of April. Members will activate Galtymore
SOTA reference no IS004 from time to time on S18 on both days.
The next meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will take
place next Thursday the 3rd of April in Raheen House Hotel.
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North Dublin Radio Club
A talk will be given by Dave EI3IO and Hugh EI6CPB on Packet Radio
and the Packet Radio Network in Ireland. There will be practical on
air demonstrations of equipment and procedures. This event will be
of interest to Radio Amateurs with little or no experience with the
Packet Radio mode and those who want to brush up on the finer points
and new developments.
The talk will take place in the North Dublin Radio Club, Chanel
College, Coolock, on Saturday the 12th of April at 8.00 p.m. All
Radio Amateurs are welcome.
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JOTA
The 2002 world JOTA report has recently been published and is
available for download from the website of the World JOTA Organiser,
Richard Middelkoop PA3BAR. The report is divided in three parts of
1.2 Megabytes each and the links are available on the news page of
the IRTS website.
The 46th Jamboree on the Air will take place on the 18th and 19th of
October 2003. Anyone seeking information regarding JOTA can contact
Sean O'Sullivan EI3IP, National JOTA Organiser of Scouting Ireland -
CSI by phone at
087 232 6994, or by snail mail at QTHR. E-mail address is available
on the news page of the IRTS website.
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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.
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Shannon Basin Radio Club
The club will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday next, the 2nd of
April in the Royal Hotel, Roscommon town at 8.30 p.m.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group
The next committee meeting of the club will take place at 8.00 p.m.
in the Roanmore Centre on Wednesday the 2nd of April. Committee
members are requested to attend.
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Enniskillen Rally
For over 20 years past, Fermanagh has been venue for Aprils annual
gathering of Amateur Radio Enthusiasts from all over Ireland, North
and South.
The 22nd Enniskillen Radio Show will be next Sunday, the 6th of
April, opening at 12 noon in the Killyhevlin hotel. Over 250 radio
amateurs and short wave listeners will gather to meet friends of
like interest to see and talk about the very latest and some vintage
wireless technology, new and second hand radio transmitters and
receivers and in all sorts of other electronic and computer
components and equipment.
The annual event is hosted by the Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club, one
of a dozen radio clubs in Northern Ireland. These are good times
for amateur radio with a big influx of new enthusiasts. Across the
UK, over 5000 of the new M3 prefix licences have been issued in the
past year by the Radiocommunications Agency. Alongside the
traditional full licence, the new M3 licence, conditional on basic
training and a practical competence test allows low power
transmission on all the radio bands, perhaps world wide when
conditions are right.
Radio amateurs or Experimenters practice a hobby that began over a
century ago when Marconi did his historic amateur experiments, two
of which took place in Ireland, the first wireless message across
water to Rathlin and the first wireless sports news report in CW
from afloat to shore at a Dublin Bay sailing regatta.
Information about the Enniskillen Rally can be had from Herbie,
GI6JPO on 028-6638-7761. E-mail address is available on the news
page of the IRTS website.
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EI8GT on battleship New Jersey
On Saturday last, the 22nd Joe EI8GT was on the battleship New Jersey
NJ2BB and worked into Europe. On the Sunday he worked a few EI's
and on March the 24th worked 20 stations, all EI and GI.
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DX News
VP8ROT is active from Rothera base on Adelaide Island, Antarctica.
The island counts as AN-001 for the RSGB IOTA awards. The station
has been active on 20 metres between 0200 and 0500 UTC.
Les, 7Q7LA, is active from Malawi till middle of April.
8Q7VR is active from the Maldives from now until May this year. QSL
information is via UR9IDX.
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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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