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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday 20th March 2022
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Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio

Tony, Ei5EM informs us that Contrary to what was erroneously stated on
a recent radio programme, the museum is not closing down and, in fact,
will be reopening at weekends starting in April. It was also
erroneously stated that the contents of the museum were being auctioned
off. While the private collection of the late Pat Herbert was auctioned
recently, nothing from the display in the museum was affected, as this
separate collection is Pat's legacy to us. The Howth Martello Radio
Group will be taking part in International Marconi Day on the 23rd of
April, using the call-sign EI0MAR and visitors are very welcome to come
along and operate the club station. In preparation for International
Marconi Day, Tony, EI5EM and Joe EI2JZ, installed a new HF X80 antenna
on the roof of the Martello in Howth last Monday. This was purchased
with the help of a grant from the IRTS PAR fund. Antennas at this
exposed location suffer from extreme weather conditions and need to be
replaced every few years. The museum will never be the same again
without Pat, but we'll keep it going in his honour and I know that his
spirit will always be present within the Martello Tower, along with
that of Lee DeForest who demonstrated his wireless telegraphy system
there in 1903.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC

The March meeting of the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC will
take place on Monday the 28th of March 2022 at 8.00 p.m. sharp at The
Sweep Bar, Adamstown, Kilmeaden, Co. Waterford, Eircode X91 H588. New
members or anyone interested in learning more about amateur radio or
the group are as always very welcome to attend. With less than a month
to go to the 89th IRTS AGM Weekend which will be held on Saturday and
Sunday the 9th and 10th of April at the Woodford Dolmen Hotel, Carlow,
people are reminded to please prebook your dinner tickets. Dinner
tickets for the Gala Dinner on the Saturday evening can be prebooked
from John EI7IG. Tickets cost 35 Euro and must be prebooked before the
4th of April. The SEARG radio rally will take place on Sunday the 10th
of April, starting at 10:30 a.m. sharp and closing at 2:00 p.m. There
will be no admittance to the rally to the public until 10:30 a.m. The
rally promises to be a great day with Ireland???s main radio dealers
and equipment suppliers in attendance. There will also be many
individual traders in attendance so come early to grab a bargain! Entry
to the rally will be 5 Euro. The Irish Radio Transmitters Society 2022
Annual General Meeting will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday 10th of
April 2022 in the Morrison Suite at the Woodford Dolmen Hotel. Entry to
the AGM will only be permitted to fully paid-up IRTS members and in
line with previous practice membership will be checked prior to entry.
EI2WRC are looking forward to welcoming everyone to Carlow over the
weekend for the event. For more information about the event please see
www.irtsagm2022cw.blogspot .com 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 also join them on Facebook and follow them on
Twitter.
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Shannon Basin Radio Club

The Shannon Basin Radio Club AGM was held in Hannon's Hotel Roscommon
on the evening of the 4th March. This was the first physical meeting in
a while. There was a great attendance, including some members who have
become recently licensed, and we welcomed a veteran SWL. Pat EI9HX
chaired the meeting, and as there were new members present who may not
have attended a meeting, asked everyone to do a quick introduction. A
minutes silence was observed for recent Silent Keys. The usual AGM
business then commenced. Election of officers and committee took place,
with some changes. A great helping of finger food, sandwiches and
refreshments was enjoyed by all, followed by discussion of many topics
including the club's event plans for the year, planned contest
participation, the continuing club nets, and a repeater update,
followed by 'Any Other Business'. The meeting was then closed and group
photo's were taken by Anthony EI6GGB who also maintains great
photography skills. The club wishes to thank all those who attended and
also Hannon's??Hotel as we look forward to many more meetings going
forward. The club also recently met up with one of its more recent
members Peter Carty on a visit back to EI. Peter is currently resident
in California and licensed as KM6MJC there. He is hoping soon to return
to the Sligo/Leitrim area and become licensed in EI and we wish him all
the best in this endevour. Hopefully, Peter can find a high spot as
good as his local Mt. Diablo at 4000 feet with its 200W repeater.
Anyone wishing to find out more about the Shannon Basin Radio Club can
always go to our website www.sbrc.ie, email us at admin /at/ sbrc.ie or
follow us on facebook and indeed feel free to join us at any of our
meetings or field day events.
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Engineers Ireland Presentation

Jeffrey, EI7IRB informs us that the Fire and Safety division of
Engineers Ireland is presenting a talk by Engineer Diarmuid Moran,
titled 'Radio Frequency Safety including 5G rooftop base stations'.
This talk might be of interest to radio amateurs as the presentation
reviews and explores the safety requirements and standards applicable
to rooftop base stations and antenna structures. Examples of hazard
identification and risk controls for occupational and public exposure
to Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) and RF safety will also be discussed.
The Presentation will take place on the Zoom Platform, and is scheduled
for Thursday, the 24th March 2022 at 7:00 p.m. To book a place at this
free event visit the website at www.engineersir
eland.ie/Events/event/7969
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Newsletters

EME operators and interested SWLs can now download the latest issue of
the '432 and Above EME Newsletter' for February and March 2022. The
link for the free PDF download, and up to date information about
current EME operations can be found on the Nitehawk website at
www.nitehawk.com/rasmit

The Winter??issue for 2022 of the Tuscan Amateur Packet Radio group
quarterly newsletter is now available??from the TAPR website Library.
This issue covers their new 80m and 160m WSPR Transmitter, thoughts on
APRS, and an article on the use of Starlink groundstations in Ukraine.
Please visit www.tapr.org

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released its World
Radio Conference 2023 (WRC-23) booklet. It provides easy access to the
WRC-23 agenda and pertinent resolutions. It can be freely downloaded
from their website at www.itu.int

The IARU Monitoring System also issued their latest newsletter, giving
a detailed report on band intrusions reported by the volunteers who
keep an eye on the interferences caused by over-the-horizon radars and
pirate station within our allocations. The report can be found on the
informative website at www.iaru-r1.org
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Helgoland

Over twenty operators will activate the German island of Helgoland for
two weeks, starting next Friday, the 25th of March. The group will be
using two callsigns. DA0HEL will be used on the main island, located in
the German Bight. The second callsign DL0IH will be used during daytime
from the uninhabited dune island next to Helgoland, limited by the
tides and the ferry timetables. The youth hostel on the island will
provide accomodation and serve as the shack for operations on all
bands, on all modes. Contacts with the team on Helgoland will count
towards the RSGB-IOTA diploma, Helgoland and the neighbouring dune
share the IOTA number EU-127.
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Contests

The IRTS 80m evening contest will be held on Tuesday next, the 22nd of
March, running for one hour from 20:00 UTC on both CW and SSB. Logs
must be with the contest Manager by the 5th of April and should be sent
by email to IRTS.contests /at/ gmail.com. Last years event attracted
112 entries from 27 counties and 12 DXCC entities with the top scoring
station making 79 QSOs with 22 counties and 7 DXCCs. Please have a look
at the 'Contest' section of the irts website.

Many contest organizers either cancelled or changed their contest
rules, due to the invasion of the Ukraine by Russian forces. In line
with this, the CQ WPX Contest Blog states that CQ Communications Inc.,
publishers of CQ Amateur Radio magazine and sponsor of the CQ World
Wide DX and WPX Contests, announced on the 17th of March: 'In light of
the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and Belarus, it will not accept
competitive entries in any of its sponsored contests by amateur radio
stations in Russia, Belarus or the separatist Donbas region of Ukraine,
with the unofficial D1 prefix. Logs submitted by these stations will be
accepted only as checklogs. In addition, contacts with these stations
by other participants will have zero point value and will not count as
multipliers. The CQ policy will take effect with the 2022 CQ WPX SSB
Contest scheduled for the 26th and 27th of March.'
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The Propagation Horoscope

The stable high pressure zone over the Northern Sea will not only bring
sunny spring weather, but also good tropospheric propagation into most
parts of Europe. Combined with sporadic-E, tropo should bring some
interesting openings on 8 meters and above. The large sunspot group
2965 continues to spew flares, more M-flares are likely. The effects of
Friday's CME is making itsself felt since Sunday morning, increasing
the solar wind speed to above 600 km/s this weekend. Much calmer
conditions will prevail for the coming week, so we will continue to
enjoy strong openings until late into the night up the 20 meter band,
with a daytime MUF2 over 3000km easily reaching 30 MHz.

That is the news for this week. Items for inclusion in next week???s
radio news can be submitted by email to newsteam /at/ irts.ie for
automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. The
deadline is midnight on Friday.

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