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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin

Sunday June 3rd 2007
______________________________________________

International Museums Weekend

The International Museums Weekend takes place on the
16th and 17th of June. This amateur radio special
event has grown in popularity since the first event
was held in 2002.

Among past participants are The Tower of London, HMS
Belfast and the US battleship New Jersey. The Howth
Martello Radio Group will be participating again this
year, operating from the Vintage Radio Museum in Howth.
Visitors are welcome to call and operate the station
over the weekend. The museum web site is
www.qsl.net/ei5em/museum.html. A full list of
participating museums and further information of the
event is available from the organiser's web site
www.ukradioamateur.co.uk/imw.
______________________________________________

Tipperary Amateur Radio Group

The next monthly meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio
Group will take place in Raheen House Hotel Clonmel on
Thursday next the 7th of June at 8.00 p.m.
______________________________________________

South Eastern Amateur Radio Group

Two theory revision classes will take place prior to
the theory exam in June. The date of the first class is
this coming Tuesday the 5th of June. The following
revision class will take place two weeks later on
Tuesday the 19th of June. Classes start at 7.30 p.m.
and will be held at the usual venue of the Roanmore
Centre, Waterford.

A committee meeting will take place on Monday the
4th of June at 8.00 p.m. Committee members are asked
to attend.
______________________________________________

Rallies

Bangor & District Amateur Radio Society Rally will take
place on Sunday the 17th of June in the Crawfordsburn
Country Park, Helen's Bay, Co. Down. The Cork Radio
Club Rally will take place on Sunday the 23rd of
September in the Blarney Park Hotel, Blarney, Co. Cork
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 rallys is available on
www.irts.ie.
______________________________________________

Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph in Ireland,
“Alpha/Omega Tour”

In 1907, Guglielmo Marconi’s dream of fixed
point-to-point wireless telegraph stations linking
North America and Europe became a reality. Derrygimla
near Clifden, County Galway served as the site of his
wireless station. Over the next 15 years, spark-induced
blue flashes generated by the station’s massive 20 kV
generators sent tens of thousands of wireless messages
across the Atlantic, linking to its North American
counterpart at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

2007 marks the centennial of those first sparks
generated from Marconi’s historic Clifden station. To
commemorate this significant event, as well as radio’s
first-ever commercial venture at Ballycastle-Rathlin,
Hal W8HC announces a special amateur radio operation
from both locations central to Marconi’s fame and
success as a pioneer in wireless technology.
Ballycastle-Rathlin was his first wireless telegraph
station and the Clifden station would be his last,
ceasing operation in 1922.

On Saturday and Sunday, August the 4th and 5th. Hal
will operate from Ballycastle as GI/W8HC/p. He will be
also taking part in the annual Marconi Festival at
Ballycastle with the Marconi Radio Group’s MNØMRG
special event station on Sunday the 5th of August. On
Monday the 6th of August, he will ferry over to Rathlin
Island (EU-122) and operate from East Lighthouse (ARLS
designator NTI 011).

He will arrive in Clifden on Wednesday the 8th of
August where he will operate as EI/W8HC/p at the
Derrygimla site on Thursday and Friday the 9th and 10th
of August. It is hoped that some operating time can
also occur from nearby Letterfrack, site of an
ancillary receive station built in 1912 to allow for
full duplex operation of the transatlantic signals.

All QSOs will be confirmed via LOTW and special QSLs
from each of these historic Marconi locations will be
printed and sent via GlobalQSL www.globalqsl.com. In
addition, a specially designed certificate will be
issued to those stations making contact with both GI
and EI operations from either Ballycastle or Rathlin
and Derrygimla or Letterfrack. In keeping with the
historic connection, all QSOs from these locations will
be CW only. Limited mobile phone operation will take
place during transit in both GI and EI.
______________________________________________

Contests

The CW field day will take place in two weeks time on
the 2nd and 3rd of June and the VHF/UHF field day will
take place on the weekend of the 7th and 8th of July.

The RSGB IOTA contest will be held on the 28th and
29th of July.
______________________________________________

Ladies Mini Marathon

The 2007 Flora Ladies Mini Marathon takes place on Bank
Holiday Monday the 4th of June at 3.00 pm. It starts
from Fitzwilliam Square, and finishes in Stephens Green
Dublin 2. Sadly this year’s event will happen without
the familiar voice of Donnchadh O’Shea who
traditionally operated the net control station. This
year’s public service event will be dedicated to his
memory. The co-ordinator for the event again this year
will be George Adjaye who may be contacted by phone on
086 2586103 or Fax 01 4908546 or email “george_adjayeg
at dcu.ie”.
______________________________________________

Theory Examination

The next Theory Examination for the Experimenters
Licence will be held on Thursday the 28th of June next.
Places for the examination are limited and will be
allocated on a “first come first served” basis.
Intending candidates should forward the appropriate fee
to Seán Nolan EI7CD, 12 Little Meadow, Pottery Road
Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin. The fee is 50 Euro or 25 Euro
for full time registered students, those who are
retired, are unemployed or have a disability. In
addition to the exam centre at the ComReg offices in
Dublin an examination will be held on the same date and
with the same paper at the Community Centre,
Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork.

The closing date for the examination is the 16th of
June and it will be strictly adhered to. Sean's e-mail
address for further enquiries is "ei7cd at gofree dot
indigo dot ie".
______________________________________________

EI75IRTS

Just a reminder that as part of the Society’s Jubilee
Celebrations, the IRTS has been allocated the call sign
EI75IRTS for the duration of 2007. The licence holder
is Finbarr Buckley EI1CS, and with his agreement, the
call sign may be used by individual and club members
holding a current Radio Experimenter’s licence.

Individual and club members of the IRTS can apply to
use the call sign EI75IRTS during the rest of the year.
More information 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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