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Default IRTS Radio News Bulletin, Sunday July 15th 2007




Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin

Sunday July 15th 2007
______________________________________________

Church Broadcasts

You will recall that in June of last year we informed
you that ComReg had introduced a Wireless Public
Address licensing Scheme. This scheme allows religious
and community organisations to be licensed to transmit
services or events from their public address systems
for the benefit of people in local communities. Two
bands of 40 channels each 10 kHz wide between 27.6 and
27.995 MHz were allocated for this purpose. Base
station ERP is 0dBW (1 watt AM) or 6dBW (4 watts FM)
with a vertically polarised antenna. Many churches
throughout the country are using this scheme and if
licensed and operating within the terms of the licence
these transmissions are legal.

However, we have been notified by the national
coordinator of Intruder Watch for the German National
Society DARC that transmissions of church services,
which seem to be originating from Ireland, have been
taking place in the 28 MHz amateur band. WAV files have
been provided of such transmissions on 28.105 MHz. We
would ask members to listen out on this frequency and
on the lower portion of the 28 MHz band generally at
appropriate times for their local areas, particularly
on Sundays to see if unauthorised stations in the
10-metre band can be identified. Ground wave
propagation would be fairly short at these frequencies
so specific identification of stations may be possible
from some reference in notices to local events. If you
cannot identify the station and you have a beam antenna
you could take a bearing on the station, which in
conjunction with bearings taken by other stations could
help identify the general area from which the
transmission originates.

If you hear anything worth reporting you should send a
report to Thos Caffrey EI2JD the IRTS Intruder Watch
coordinator at QTHR or to “thoscaffrey at hotmail dot
com” with a copy to Sean Nolan EI7CD at QTHR or to
“ei7cd at gofree dot indigo dot ie”. The report should
include date, time, frequency, possible location of the
station if identified, beam heading and other relevant
information. If the station is identified from an
announcement of local events, details should be given.
It is in our own interests to identify these stations
to preserve the exclusive nature of the 28 MHz
allocation. The matter has already been reported to
ComReg who will act on the matter if we can provide
locational information.
______________________________________________

ComReg Meeting

On Tuesday last, representatives of the Society had a
lengthy meeting with representatives of ComReg on a
range of issues. The meeting was very useful and
productive. Certain matters decided at the meeting need
a little more work and we will give a full report of
the meeting as soon as we can.
______________________________________________

WRC-07

Prior to the CEPT Preparatory Group Meeting for WRC-07
held in Gothenburg in the early days of last week, the
IRTS had submitted to ComReg documentation about the
requirements of the amateur service from WRC-07 as well
as items for inclusion on the agenda of WRC-11. Among
the documents was a detailed paper prepared by Dave
EI3IO setting out options for regularising the position
of the 70 MHz band in the ITU Radio Regulations and/or
the European Common Allocation Table. Such
regularisation would for the band internationally
and/or in Europe and would allow and encourage other
administrations to make amateur allocations at 70 MHz.
Permission has been sought by Ole LA2RR, Chairman
Region 1 IARU to use this document in their further
work on this matter.
______________________________________________

Theory Examination

Recently forty-five candidates sat the theory
examination for the experimenters licence at centres in
Dublin and Carrigtwohill. The examination papers have
been checked and the results were delivered to ComReg
on Tuesday last. ComReg have been very efficient in
sending out the results but it takes time as each
candidate gets a breakdown of their results in each of
the three sections of the paper. We appeal to
candidates not to contact ComReg about the results, as
results will not be given over the phone or by e-mail.
The official letters will issue in due course. There is
also no point in contacting the IRTS about results. The
papers are checked by IRTS but the issue of results and
the HAREC certificate to successful candidates is a
matter exclusively for ComReg.
______________________________________________

Limerick Radio Club

Limerick Radio Club participated in the Foynes Flying
Boat Festival last weekend. As part of the festival, a
re-enactment of the original 1937 flying boat flight
from Botwood Newfoundland to Foynes was planned, using
a Canso A C-FPQM flying boat. However because of
mechanical problems with one of the engines the flight
had to be postponed at the last minute. The pilots did
travel to Foynes for the festival and assured everyone
that the re-enactment flight will be completed at a
later date, once the aircraft is repaired.

Limerick Radio Club operated two HF stations and one
VHF Station over the three-day festival, using the
special call sign EI7ØFOY. Despite band conditions a
large number of stations were worked, mainly on 20
metres. The transceivers in use were an Icom 756 Pro 2
and a TenTec Jupiter and the antennae a Cushcraft A4S
beam at 60 ft and a G5RV.

The following participated in the event:
EI2GT,EI8EM,EI2AW,EI0DJ,EI2IX,EI6IW,EI7ALB,EI9IY,E I3AL,
EI0CZ,EI8GY,EI9AL,EI9CI and SWL’S Breada Cronin EI896
and Damien Brown. The QSL Manager for the special event
is Alan Cronin EI8EM at QTHR.

The Club would like to thank Ms Margaret O’Shaughnessy,
Museum Curator, for the invitation to participate in
the festival and for providing the necessary facilities
to the Club members.

______________________________________________

Rally’s

The Cork Radio Club Rally will take place on Sunday the
23rd of September in the Blarney Park Hotel, Blarney,
Co. Cork, the Waterford Rally will take place on the
21st of October 2007 in the Woodlands Hotel, Waterford
and the Mayo Radio Rally will be on Sunday the 18th of
November in the Belmont Hotel, Knock, Co. Mayo.

A full listing of upcoming rally’s is available on
www.irts.ie.
______________________________________________

Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be
forwarded to Mark Wall, EI7IS at QTHR or by phone to
051-853806 or 087-6302026. Items for the radio news can
also be faxed to 087 5 6302026. News should be
submitted via e-mail to “news 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 Friday
in order to be guaranteed inclusion in the following
Sunday’s bulletin.

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