Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday 16th February 2014

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IRTS 82nd AGM Dinner & Rally March 22nd, 23rd 2014

The IRTS AGM is almost upon us. Tickets for the AGM dinner are selling
fast and are available on a first come first served basis.

The venue this year is the sumptuous surroundings of the Galway Bay
Hotel, Salthill, on Saturday March 22nd. You may purchase your tickets
for 35 from Steve EI5DD on 087 2451218 or QTHR. You may also get your
tickets from John EI1EM on 086 8154979 at QTHR. This promises to be a
very special AGM dinner.

The usual radio rally takes place on Sunday March 23rd and all of the
major traders including Maplin Electronics with their catalogue
available. WESCOM will also be a trader at the rally. There will be a
bring and buy stand which will be manned for those wishing to sell
second hand gear. A room will be available for CW (Morse) test.

Accommodation is available from The Galway Bay Hotel at a special rate
when you mention the IRTS AGM. You may contact the hotel on 091 520520.
The Rockbarton Park Hotel also offers special rates, 49Euro for a
single room and 35Euro per person sharing. The Rockbarton can be
contacted on 091 522286. You must mention IRTS when booking your room.
For complete details please refer to www.irts.ie/cgi/agm.cgi .
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Amateur Station Licence Examination

The next Amateur Station Licence Examination will be held on Thursday
22nd May in the ComReg Offices in Dublin. Places for the examination
are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis so
you are advised to apply early. Some applications for this exam have
already been received. If warranted by the number of candidates, a
morning session will be held in addition to the usual afternoon
session.

Full details, including entry procedure, examination fee and how to pay
the fee on line are available at www.irts.ie/exam . Please note that it
is necessary to download the application form from the web page and
forward the completed form and the appropriate fee so as to secure a
place for the examination. If you pay the fee on line you must still
complete and forward the application form. The closing date for receipt
of completed applications is Wednesday 30th April.
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IRTS Awards

Entries and nominations for all awards for Service to the Society or to
Amateur Radio and the awards for Other Achievements should be submitted
by post or e-mail, and can be forwarded to Jim Holohan, EI4HH, Chairman
Awards Committee, QTHR, or email awards /at/ irts.ie. Closing date for
entries and nominations is 28th February 2014. Awards for Service to
the Society or to Amateur Radio may be made to members or non-members.
See www.irts.ie/awards for more information on all IRTS awards.

Finally, on the subject of awards, Peter EI4HX, the Awards Curator,
reminds us that recipients of awards and cups given out at last year's
IRTS AGM in Athlone are requested to return their Trophies and Cups in
good time to allow for engraving for the forthcoming IRTS AGM 2014.
Trophies and Cups maybe returned to the IRTS stand at the Coolmine
Rally on 16th February or to any IRTS Committee member before 28th
February.
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EI6IJ Fund in support of Affiliated Clubs

Annually, the IRTS Committee will consider the awarding of a number of
grants to Affiliated Clubs. The grants will be of around 300 and
usually not exceeding a total of 1000 in any one year. These grants
will assist with the holding of public special event stations by clubs
affiliated to IRTS. The stations should have significant public
exposure with the specific intention of demonstrating Amateur Radio to
members of the public.

Further information and terms and conditions are on the IRTS website at
www.irts.ie/EI6IJ
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IRTS News now on EI2MOG

Dundalk Amateur Radio Society have announced that for the foreseeable
future the IRTS news will be transmitted from EI2MOG on 145.2125MHz,
CTCSS tone 88.5Hz, on Monday nights at 20.00. Essential maintenance is
being carried out on the Dundalk 2M VHF EI2CCR repeater.
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The Winter 2013-4 Edition - 09 - of The 5 MHz Newsletter is now
available.

It's a new year with new allocations and a bumper 5-page issue ! As
well as latest news there's also an article on the Supremacy of 5 MHz
as a Communication Bridge, Beacon Spot features the new South African
ZS6KTS Beacon plus items on Digital Voice and another new webSDR on
60m, together with the latest update of the Worldwide 5 MHz Amateur
Allocations Chart - now with a total of 31 countries.

The publication is available on http://tinyurl.com/o26huzb
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Group

The next meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will be held at
The Park Hotel, Clonmel on Thursday the 20th of February 2014 at 8pm.
This meeting is open to all and Short Wave Listeners are in particular
very welcome to attend. A number of radio related topics are up for
discussion as well as plans for participation in up coming events. For
more information about Tipperary Amateur Radio Group go to
http://www.ei7trg.org
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Limerick Radio Club AGM

Due to bad weather during the week the postponed AGM of Limerick Radio
Club will now take place this Wednesday evening 19th February, at
7.30pm in the Limerick Institute of Limerick. All members are requested
to attend.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group

The 2014 AGM of the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will take place
in the Roanmore Social and Sports Centre, Cleaboy Road, Waterford on
Monday 24th of February at 8.00 p.m. All members are asked to attend
and new members or anyone wishing to learn more about our group and
amateur radio are very welcome to come along also. For up-to-date news
about the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group and it's actives you can
check our website www.searg.com and you can also follow us on Facebook
and Twitter.
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DX News

Yoshi JE2EHP will be active as FK/K1HP from New Caledonia from 18 - 23
February. He plans to use CW, SSB and RTTY. QSLs go via his Japanese
call.

Michael G7VJR will operate from Bermuda from 19 - 27 February. He will
use the callsign VP9/G7VJR. Michael is well-known in the DX fraternity
as the author of the very popular ClubLog. QSLs for the Bermuda trip go
via M0OXO.

Brian K1LI will be on the Caribbean island of Dominica from 21 February
until 10 March. He will be QRV as J7Y. He will mainly take part in the
ARRL DX Contest but will focus on the low bands outside the contest.
QSLs go via his home call.

Another Caribbean station to be active until 25 March is V47JA from the
island of St Kitts. The operator is John W5JON who spends his time
between his home in Texas and his home on St Kitts. QSLs go direct to
W5JON and he also uploads his logs to Logbook of the World.
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Items for inclusion in next week's Radio News can be submitted via
e-mail to "newsteam /at/ irts / dot / ie" for automatic forwarding to
both the radio and printed news services. Urgent news items for the
radio news maybe telephoned to the radio news editor, Aidan, EI7JC on
085 7100511.

Please note that items for the radio news should reach the editor no
later than midday on Thursday in order to be guaranteed inclusion in
the following Sunday's bulletin.