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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday 25th September 2016
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Silent Key - Terry Barnes GI3USS / EI8BH

The death has occurred of Terry Barnes GI3USS & EI8BH, peacefully, in
Bangor County Down, in his 85th year. Terry was a Past President of
RSGB, and a founder member of the Bangor and District Amateur Radio
Society in 1967. He served as treasurer of the Society continuously for
some forty-five years.

There will be a Service of Thanksgiving for his life on Tuesday next,
27th September, at 1pm in Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church, Bangor -
followed by cremation at 4pm in Roselawn Crematorium.

May he rest in peace.
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Contest News

Results of the SSB Field Day Contest, held over the weekend of 3rd &
4th September, have been published. The Contest Results page at
www.irts.ie/results has links to these results. Five EI stations
participated in the contest, with some reporting reasonable conditions
on most bands, except 10 metres, which offered only brief openings
towards the end of the contest.

The next IRTS contest is the 40 metres counties contest on Sunday 9th
October, at 12:00 UTC, for 3 hours. This contest has fixed and portable
sections, for SSB only and for SSB/CW mixed mode entries. See
www.irts.ie/contests for more details.
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Licence Examination Report

The IRTS Examination Board publishes reports from time to time, which
include observations on the standard of answering in the HAREC exams,
along with advice for those studying for future exams or tutoring exam
candidates. The latest examination report was included in the September
issue of Echo Ireland. This report, along with previous reports
published in 2007, 2010 and 2014, respectively, is included in an
updated version of the document "Studying for Harmonised Amateur Radio
Examination Certificate" available at www.irts.ie/downloads - the IRTS
web site's downloads page. As well as the examination report, this
document includes the exam syllabus, notes for candidates, four pages
of annexes containing key information very relevant to the exam
questions and a sample paper.
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South Dublin Radio Club

Dah dit dah dit , Dah dah dit dah, Morse classes will continue at South
Dublin Radio Club. Run by Joe EI7GY, anyone attending is asked to bring
a pen and paper.

Passing the Morse test allows existing Radio Experimenters to move from
a 3 letter call to a 2 letter call.

It may also allow operating in countries where Morse is still a
requirement. Classes will take place in a separate room allowing the
usual tea drinking and chat to continue for everyone else. It starts
8.30pm sharp every Tuesday at the Community Centre at the Marian Road
in Rathfarnham. All welcome. Booking not required.
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Award for Dave Deane EI9FBB

Congratulations to Dave Deane EI9FBB who was recently presented with
the prestigious Clipperton award of Distinction.

This was awarded for exceptional services to the hobby after organising
3 Brand New IOTA activations along with several other rarer IOTA
groups. The award was presented during Clipperton's 38th convention in
Brest, Brittany last weekend where Dave was also one of the guest
speakers.

He was nominated for this award after giving a remarkable IOTA
presentation during the Ham Radio fair in Friedrichshafen earlier this
year.
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International Space Station

Daniel Cussen of the South Dublin Radio Club will give a talk on
"Amateur Radio Satellites and receiving live video from the orbiting
International Space Station" next Monday, September 26th at 8pm. The
venue is Ely House, 8 Ely Place, Dublin 2. This is a free event.
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JOTA

The Scout Jamboree on the Air, JOTA, takes place next month on the
weekend of 15th and 16th October. Scouting Ireland and IRTS are making
a special effort to increase activity and a number of radio clubs and
individual operators have already indicated their intention to take
part.

Activity can be for the whole weekend, just one day or even a few
hours. This is a really worthwhile activity for both Scouting and
Amateur Radio and will help promote the hobby particularly amongst
teenagers and young adults.

If you can help out either by hosting some scouts at your station or
giving a hand at the local club station please contact Paul EI2CA QTHR
or mobile 087 2523908. There is a particularly active and enthusiastic
scout group in Ashbourne County Meath who want to team up with a club
or individual operators. They are well resourced and have a premises in
the town complete with a mobile antenna tower. Let us know if you can
help.
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DX News

Several Polish operators will be QRV from Central Kiribati from around
4th October for about 4 weeks. The callsign will be T31T and they will
be on all bands 80m to 6m. Their main purpose is to train some of the
locals in the use of Emergency Radio Commumication systems. QSLs go via
Club Log OQRS.

Stan LZ1GC and Emil DL8JJ will operate as H44GC from the Solomon
Islands until 3rd October. Look for them on all bands 160m to 10m on
CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL Manager is LZ1GC.

The ongoing DXpedition by Tom KC0W next moves to Western Kiribati where
he will operate as T30COW from 25th September until 24th October. As
before this is a CW only operation and QSLs go directly to KC0W.

A group of 5 New Zealanders will be active from Norfolk Island as VK9NZ
until 8th October. They hope to have 3 stations operating
simultaneously. QSL to ZL3PAH and logs will also be uploaded to Logbook
of The World.
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Cavan EI2LLX Crossband Repeater

Ronnie EI9ED is testing a digital radio, DMR - repeater from EI2LLX
site in Cavan. The repeater will beacon a digital audio transmission
every 10 minutes, to facilitate signal and audio quality checks.

The DMR radio will further be connected to the 2meter Cross Band
Repeater at a later stage. The DMR beacon transmit frequency is
430.975. Reports please, to Ronnie on the Dublin and Cavan repeaters.
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