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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday 16 April 2023
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News from the IRTS

Following a very productive IRTS committee meeting which was held at
the Maldron Hotel, Portlaoise on Saturday April 15th the IRTS wish to
make the following announcements. Mark Condon EI6JK has been appointed
as the new IRTS contest manager with immediate effect. Mark takes over
the position from Jeremy Sheehan EI5GM. Also, the role of COMREG
liaison officer has been taking over by Enda Broderick EI2II. Enda
takes over the role from Jim Houlihan EI4HH. The IRTS wish to thank
both Jeremy and Jim for all the hard work both have done during their
time in both their respective roles. With the IRTS 90th Gala Dinner
taking place on the 29th of April the IRTS Awards Committee will be
presenting the service awards to winners after the dinner has finished.
The competition awards will be presented the following day after the
AGM has concluded. A list of the competition award winners will be
included in next week's news bulletin.
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IRTS AGM and Rally

Keith EI5IN sends an updated report about activities organised by
Shannon Basin Radio Club during the 90th IRTS AGM Weekend on April 29th
and 30th in Ballinasloe. The club has been working very hard over the
past several months to make this weekend the best possible for everyone
attending. With that in mind, we are delighted to announce a second
raffle. This raffle will take place during the IRTS Gala Dinner on
Saturday April 29th. The prizes on offer are thanks to our superb new
sponsors Ballinasloe Credit Union. This will be in addition to our
monster raffle on Sunday April 30th which features over EUR1500 worth
of prizes. We kindly remind everyone that tickets are required for the
IRTS Gala Dinner. The gala dinner starts at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday April
29th in the Marina Suite. Tickets cost 35 euro and will need to be
purchased at least two days prior to the event. Purchasing information
as well as all the latest event information may be found at
www.sbrc.ie/agmweekend .

The IRTS news team are delighted to announce that both the 40m and the
80m IRTS news bulletins will be read live from the Shannon Basin Radio
Club's radio rally on Sunday the 30th April from the Shearwater Hotel
in Ballinasloe. Both bulletins will be read at the usual times. The
reader on the 40m bulletin will be Rafal EI6LA and Stefan EI4KU will
read the 80m bulletin. Members of the news team will be on hand on the
day to answer any questions that any prospective news readers may have.
The IRTS wish to thank the Shannon Basin Radio Club for all the hard
work they undertook in having a working station available on the day to
do both news bulletins from.
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NSWLC Report

As of today, NSWLC has 105 members, all of whom are current IRTS
members. Foxtrot classes are continuing one week ahead of schedule.
However, the course will still end on 4 May, as a live, mock exam
session has been added to give the attendees some experience of what it
might feel like on their important day, coming up very soon, in May.
The Club has continued to meet every Sunday, except the bank holiday
weekend. Attendance has been 34-42 each Sunday, via Zoom. The main
themes of the most recent meetings covered Disaster Emergency
Communications at the United Nations, an Exam Postmortem, First
Stations and their Antennas, Radio-based Navigation Systems, a CQ WPX
SSB Live Demo of Contest QSOs, and Logging on Paper, PC, Mac, and
Linux, using Day-to-Day Logging Software and Contest Loggers. To get in
touch with the National Shortwave Listeners Club please visit
www.swl.ie .
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IRTS.GROUPS.IO

Just over one year has passed since the new IRTS email reflector and
forum was launched on the groups.io platform, on 25 Feb 2022. All
messages posted on irts.groups.io have been archived and can be found
by any public search engines, but only the IRTS members have the
privilege to post. There are 256 IRTS members registered and the system
has been reliable and is in daily use. Over 470 wide-ranging yet
radio-focused topics have been started, and approximately 1700 messages
posted. Importantly, the topics allowed a long-form, public discussion
among IRTS members following various IRTS announcements, something that
has not been previously possible online. The moderate annual cost of
the reflector of 200 Euro has been settled on 25 March. The moderators
would like to thank all the IRTS members for their civil online
conduct, for keeping the discourse on topic, and above all, for their
helpful comments and messages. This was an exert from the report
written by Rafal EI6LA, the full report can be viewed on the forum
website at irts.groups.io .
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KARG Monthly Meeting

Declan EI9FVB announces the next monthly meeting of the Kerry Amateur
Radio Group has been pulled forward by one week to Saturday 22nd April,
at the Ballyseedy Cafe, Tralee at the usual time of 11 a.m. This is due
to the IRTS AGM on the last Saturday of the month. Licensed amateurs,
short wave listeners, or anybody with an interest in Amateur Radio are
very welcome to attend.
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TARG AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will be
held at The Talbot Hotel, formerly known as the Clomnel Park Hotel, on
Wednesday the 19th of April 2023 at 8pm. The meeting is open to all and
Short Wave Listeners are in particular very welcome to attend. For more
information about Tipperary Amateur Radio Group go to their group
website www.ei7trg.ie Thank you to Hugh EI2HI for sending this
invitation.
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SDR AGM

South Dublin Radio Club AGM will take place at 8pm on Tuesday 2nd of
May 2023 at Ballyroan community centre on the Marian Road in
Rathfarnham. All members are asked to attend.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group

The April meeting of the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC will
take place on Monday the 24th of April 2023 at 8 p.m. sharp at the New
Community Men's Shed, Ozanam Centre, Coffee House Lane, Waterford. New
members, or anyone interested in learning more about amateur radio or
the group are as always very welcome to attend. The South Eastern
Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC will be in attendance at the Shannon Basin
Radio Club rally in Ballinasloe. For anyone that wishes to find out
more about the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group and their activities
you can drop them an email to southeasternarg /at/ gmail.com or please
feel free to go along to any of their meetings. You can check their
website www.searg.ie and you can find EI2WRC on Facebook and Twitter
/at/ seargnews .
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YOTA activity

This weekend, the 10th Kilternan scout group are having their annual
group camp. They are back at their home QTH - Powerscourt, Co. Dublin.
As part of their scouting activities, they will have a station on the
air at various times over the weekend. They also have a radio based
treasure hunt and capture the flag. Please listen out for EI10JOTA and
support them in anyway you can. Marty EI2IAB thanks John EI3ISB, Neil
EI9IWB and Albert EI6KO for making this happen.
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International Marconi Day

It's twenty years since the late Pat Herbert founded Ye Olde Hurdy
Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth. EI0MAR was established there
that same year. In conjunction with International Marconi Day, which
takes next Saturday, Pat's son Simon plans a day of celebration at the
museum. The Mayor of Fingal will also be in attendance. EI0MAR has
always taken part in IMD so why not come along and celebrate with us
this special year? Guest operators are especially welcome. The Martello
tower, in which the museum is located, is where Lee deForrest, inventor
of the triode valve, demonstrated his wireless telegraphy system to
engineers of the British Post Office in 1903. Two years later The
Marconi Company set up an experimental wireless receiving station in
the tower to monitor transmissions from a vessel sailing to different
locations in the Irish Sea. Engineers from the BPO also observed these
tests. This is a wonderful opportunity to operate from this historic
location. We hope to see you there.

Collective Communication will be active as EI3IMD on the 22nd April
from the old coastguard centre, Tramore Co Waterford. Operating
primarily on the HF bands the clubs' newly rebuilt communications
trailer will be used to make as many contacts as possible with other
amateurs around the world from this location where Guglielmo Marconi
used to holiday. The old coastguard station has great views of Tramore
Bay and today houses a Cultural Centre with a cafe and amenities.
Please drop by for a chat, have a go at making radio contacts, enjoy
the views, and look around the Centre. If you are a newbie to ham radio
this would be a good chance to see an amateur radio station in action,
or better still, have a go on air yourself, under supervision of
course. Whatever your situation a trip to the sunny south east of
Ireland and to the town of Tramore would make a delightful break. So
put the date in your diary. Saturday 22nd of April. We'll see you
there! That was an invitation posted by Keith EI5KJ .

EI2WRC will be active on Saturday when members of the group will be QRV
as EI2IMD for International Marconi Day 2023. The station will be
active from the Burrows Car Park, Tramore, Co. Waterford with thanks to
Waterford City and County Council. For more info please see the EI2IMD
QRZ page.

Sean G7NJX sends the following: "With the kind permission on the
National Trust, Weston super Mare Radio society will be operating
GB0IMD from the Old Fort, Brean Down as part of the International
Marconi Day celebrations next Saturday" We look forward to once again
working lots of EI and GI stations!
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The Propagation Horoscope

Our VHF Microwave Manager Roger Greengrass EI8KN alerts us that the
next meteor shower is the `Lyrids' which should be active between
approximately the 16th to the 25th April with a peak expected on the 22
and 23rd of April. The source is from the constellation Hercules and
should be visibly and usable for meteor scatter during the hours of
darkness. And with a large high pressure system building over the
British Isles VHF and UHF operators can also expect good tropo openings
towards next weekend. The Australia New Zealand and Africa DX Net ANZA
runs on 14.183 daily, with check-ins from 0500 UTC, the net then starts
at 0515 UTC. Propagation conditions presently often allow this net to
be worked from EI and GI until breakfast time. The average daytime
F2-layer MUF is slowly decreasing as the days are getting longer, most
dx activity will move towards 20 to 40m. The Planetary K index barely
reached three on Saturday evening. For next week NOAA predicts the
Solar Flux Index to increase somewhat, perhaps peaking at 160.
Unsettled geomagnetic conditions are forecast for Tuesday, the Kp index
may rise to to four. The forecast for International Marconi Day next
weekend is for a Solar Flux of 155 and a DX friendly Kp index of three.

That is the news for this week. Items for inclusion in next week's
radio news bulletin should be emailed to newsteam /at/ irts.ie no later
than Saturday afternoon.

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