Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 16th October 2011

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IRTS AGM and Rally 2012

The IRTS AGM and Rally will take place April 21st and April 22nd 2012.
Dundalk Amateur Radio Society ,EI7DAR, will host the event at the
Fairways Hotel, Dundalk. Amateur Radio Clubs requiring a table/stand at
the event is requested to contact Dundalk Amateur Radio Society on
www.ei7dar.com. All enquiries are welcome.

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Foyle and District Amateur Radio Rally

The Foyle and District Amateur Radio Club Rally takes place November
6th 2011 at the White Horse Hotel, 68 Clooney Road, Derry, BT47 3PA.
Doors open at 12 noon. The usual traders will be present and IRTS will
have a stand also on display. Further details from www.mn0aku.co.uk .

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Limerick Radio Club

Limerick Radio Club have started their club meetings for the current
season. We had a very good turnout of members and started with a talk
on the recent IARU conference by Ger EI4GXB. The club repeater which
developed a fault in the last few weeks has been repaired by Simon
EI7ALB and is now QRV. Tom EI5CA will conduct CW classes for club
members on Tuesday nights at 7.30pm at the Tait Business Centre,
Dominic Street. Limerick.
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Shannon Basin Radio Club

The Shannon Basin Radio Club will be having a meeting on Friday the
28th October in Hannons Hotel, Roscommon at 20:30. All members are
asked to attend and non-members are welcome. Please see
www.shannonbasinradioclub.com for details.

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EI8GNB /at/ CQ WW DX SSB Contest

David EI8GNB will be part of the PJ2T team for the upcoming CQ WW DX
SSB Contest, 29th-30th October. David currently resides in Canada using
the call VA7DXC, but as an Irish national uses his EI call when abroad.
In the days running up to the contest keep an ear out for PJ2/EI8GNB
from Curacao.

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EI8GQB aka ON4EI

Benneshill October 24th-31st 2011

Oliver will again be QRV from Ireland near Fethard (IO62EL) on top of
Benneshill (170m ASL) with his Irish callsign EI8GQB. He will enter the
CQ WW DX SSB CONTEST as SOAB Low Power Non Assisted (October 29-30).

During the week before the contest Oliver will set up 5 antennas to
support SO2R operation. Reference frequency is 7.100 MHz +/- QRM.

Equipment: -18m top loaded vertical monopole for 160-80m bands + 32
radials. -2 Spiderbeam antennas for 20/15/10m bands. -200m long
beverage East-West. -3 elements East-West bi-directional inverted V
beam for 40m band. -Rigs are Elecraft K3 & Kenwood TS2000.

Olivier will hold a daily blog on www.qrz.com/db/EI8GQB

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DX News

A group of amateurs from Germany and Poland will be active from Guinea
in West Africa from 18 October until 1 November. The callsign in use
will be 3XY1D and they will be found on all bands 160-6m. The QSL
Manager is DL7DF

Following on from the TX3T activity mentioned last week the team will
travel on to the Marquesas Islands from 19 October to 1 November where
the callsign TX7M will be used. During the CQ WW DX SSB Contest on
29-30 October the call will change to TX5A. The Marquesas Islands are
quite a rare DXCC entity so this is a good chance to log it.

A not too common prefix for the island of Malta will be aired by a
group of German operators when they sign 9H9OP during the period 14-22
October. QSL Manager is DH7WW.

The well-known husband and wife team of DXers Lot DJ7ZG and Babs DL7AFS
will be on the Cocos Keeling Islands from 19 October until 9 November
using the callsign VK9CX. They will operate on all bands 80-6m.

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East Kiribati (T32) DXpedition

The T32C DXpedition now has over 120,000 QSOs in the log. Over the past
week, propagation to Europe has improved somewhat; there are now more
than 50 EI stations and 20 GI stations in the log. So far, top band has
eluded most Irish stations - at the time of writing, Dick GI3OQR is the
only Irish station with a 160 metre QSO in the T32C log.

There is still plenty of time to work T32C; the group plans to be on
the air for another 10 days.

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CEPT proposes frequency allocation for amateur radio

A small allocation of about 15 kHz in parts of the 500 kHz band to the
amateur radio service on a secondary basis - this proposal has been
made by a project team of about 50 representatives of European
governments and other stakeholders in preparation for the next World
Radiocommunication Conference WRC12. They followed an invitation of the
Federal Network Agency in Germany and met by the end of September in
Mainz. The discussion led to a compromise in the size of the amateur
radio band, namely 480 kHz - 472 kHz, with a maximum power of 5 W EIRP.
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30th anniversary of UoSAT-1 (OSCAR-9)

On October 6, 1981 the United Kingdom's first Amateur Radio Satellite
UoSAT-OSCAR-9 was launched. Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
celebrated the 30th anniversary of the launch of Surrey's first
satellite, UoSAT-1. Launched into orbit on 6th October 1981, UoSAT-1
was designed and built by a team from the University of Surrey led by
SSTL founder Sir Martin Sweeting, G3YJO.
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