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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday 05 June 2022
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EI90IRTS

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society was founded in 1932 and this year
the society celebrates its 90th birthday. To mark the occasion the
society has secured the special call-sign EI90IRTS. Since its initial
use the call-sign has attracted multiple pile-ups on all bands and
modes it has been used on. This call is available to activate for any
EI IRTS licensed member that's interested in activating it. The special
call can be activated on all bands and modes and the duration of any
activation is entirely up to the operator. It can be for an hour or
even a day! All logs must be submitted electronically in ADIF format.
To make sure that the call-sign is not used on the same bands or modes
at the same time, the use of the call-sign is being coordinated by
Declan, EI9FVB. A special WhatsApp group is in use to help with the
coordination. If any fully licensed EI IRTS member would like to
activate the EI90IRTS call-sign you are please asked to get in touch
with Declan EI9FVB by email to horandx /at/ gmail.com . A special QSL
card will be made available, once printed. Direct QSLs can be sent to
Dave, EI6AL. For more information including QSL details please see
www.qrz.com/db/EI90IRTS
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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Readers

The IRTS are currently trying to coordinate the weekly Sunday morning
40m and 80m news bulletins and form a panel of newsreaders as to make
sure that there is always someone available to read each bulletin and,
most importantly, to spread the workload evenly among the newsreaders.
As the old saying goes "Many hands make light work". We have a small
list of those who are currently reading the 80m and 40m bulletins.
Ideally, if we had a list of 6 to 8, or more people who would be
willing to read one of the bulletins it would spread out the workload
considerably. Any of the current newsreaders will tell you that there
is very little involved in reading the bulletins. If any fully licensed
EI feels like that they would be interested in becoming part of the
IRTS News Readers panel, can they please get in touch with the IRTS
Public Relations Officer Sean EI2HZB directly on 083 4713001 or by
email to irts_pro /at/ irts.ie . Likewise, if anyone has any further
questions please get in touch also. Once a list of those interested has
been compiled, we will set about getting a rota in place for both the
40m and 80m Sunday bulletins.

The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club, ELARC has continued the portable
nature of the station and has transmitted this week's news on 4m from
the Ben of Howth, SOTA Reference: EI/IE-072 this morning at 10:30 local
time on 70.400 MHz FM. This was their first time broadcasting the news
from this location. [END OF NEW section]
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Public Libraries

Irish public libraries provide all users with a wide range of free
online services including eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, online
courses and online newspapers. Many books and periodicals on
radio-related topics are available. Of particular interest to radio
operators are the availabilty of the copies of "CQ Amateur Radio" and
"Practical Wireless". Registration with www.library.ie is free of
charge, but subject to a visit to any of the public libraries to
confirm the registration.
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The Weinheim VHF Conference

The Weinheim VHF Conference has been organized by committed radio
amateurs on a non-profit basis and on a voluntary basis since 1956. It
sees itself in its tradition as a meeting place for everyone who is
interested in radio technology and electronics. Amateurs from all over
Europe present their experiences at this forum, provide information
about innovative developments and share their know-how. The organizers
would like to put together a varied program of lectures again this year
and call on you to contribute with a presentation. The lectures are not
limited to VHF topics, but cover everything that is of interest to the
technology-loving amateur. Lecture topics from all areas of amateur
radio are welcome - from long-wave to gigahertz applications. A growing
focus of interest are topics from the field of micro-controllers,
computer applications in amateur radio, SDR, HamNet and digital
processes. In a call for papers to be presented at the convention the
organizers ask for interested hams to send the title and approximately
300 word abstract by July 19th at the latest. The upcoming 67th VHF
conference Weinheim will take place from the 9th to the 11th of
September 2022. More information about this event can be found at
www.ukw-tagung.org
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EQSL

The eQSL service reports reaching the milestone of one billion recorded
QSOs. The system currently has 342,700 users with over 438,000 unique
call-signs. eQSL not only allows one to electronically confirm a QSO,
but one can also send pictures cards in the format of JPEG and PNG,
obtain diplomas, and interactively correct errors made by operators
when logging QSOs.
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1944 Normandy Landing

On the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the Allied landing in
Normandy, members of the Caen Radio Club, will activate the special
call-sign TM6J from Monday until next Sunday from the Merville
batteries site near the landing beaches. The frequencies used will be
3.5 to 50 MHz, in CW, SSB and digital modes. They will also give CW
transmissions demonstrations on 40m with a copy of a resistance
suitcase, the Paraset MK VII. QSL via F6KCZ, the Caen Radio Club
website is www.f6kcz.free.fr .
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Contests

The German DRCG WW RTTY Contest takes place on the second full weekend
of June, this year falling on the 11th and 12th. There are three eight
hour contest periods, starting at 00:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC on Saturday,
followed by the third leg, starting at 08:00 UTC on Sunday. Bands in
use are 80-10m, the international beacon frequency 14100 kHz +/- 500 Hz
must be kept free of contest traffic. Info at www.drcg.de .

Next weekend will also see the Portugal Day Contest, from Saturday noon
until Sunday noon UTC, on 80 to 10m SSB and CW. Details for this
contest can be found on www.rep.pt

And a third international contest on the same weekend will make sure
the bands will be busy. From 15:00 UTC on Saturday till 15:00 UTC on
Sunday the WW South America CW Contest, organized in Argentina will
take to the 80 to 10m bands with A1A. According to their QRZnow page
they will still accept paper logs.

The South African Radio League runs their SARL Top Band QSO Party,
starting at 22:01 UTC next Friday, running till 21:59 UTC on Sunday
next. The SARL Handbook explains that each QSO claimed for competition
credit must include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator
on both sides of the contact. Initiation of a contact may be locally or
by remote. Contemporaneous means: existing at or occurring in the same
period of time and the operator must be in control of all the
processes. In plain English - a live, air breathing radio amateur must
be at both ends of the QSO. See www.sarl.org.za for details on how to
submit your log in the form of a spreadsheet.
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Space News

Spain's amateur satellite organisation AMSAT-EA has released the
English language PDF version of their newsletter for May 2022 for free
download from their website at www.amsat-ea.org . It features
information about the URESAT-1 Satellite Modules, how to calculate the
doppler shifted frequency for a sked via a linear transponder in a low
earth-orbit, a report from AMSAT-UK at the EMFCamp 2022, and a list of
satellite frequencies currently in use.

Last week, cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev installed a new Kenwood TM-D710GA
transceiver on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
The transceiver was delivered on the 17th of February by a Progress
MS-19 cargo ship. Artemyev successfully dismantled the old amateur
radio equipment and installed the new kit, soon to be used for
transmitting Slow Scan TV images on 145.800 MHz FM, probably using the
SSTV mode PD-120. Listen for SSTV signals from the ISS on Wednesday
from about 09:45 to 15:00 GMT, and again on Thursday from about 08:35
GMT to about about 16:15 GMT, dates and times may be subject to change.
The signal should be receivable on a handheld with a 1/4 wave whip. If
your rig has selectable FM filters try the wider filter for 25 kHz
channel spacing. You can get predictions for the ISS pass times at
www.amsat.org/track/

Kurt, DJ0ABR has developed a new "Amsat-DL High Speed Multimedia Modem"
for the QO-100 Narrow-Band Transponder. This modem allows for a
transmission speed of a maximum of 7200 bit/s in 8 APSK or 4800 bit/s
in QPSK, both within the maximum permitted bandwidth of 2.7 kHz. It is
therefore considerably more efficient than conventional methods on the
QO-100 transponder. It can also be used to send all data and speech in
full-duplex. The software is open source and available for free. Kurt's
website with an English language section is at www.dj0abr.de .
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Amateur Radio on the BBC

The GB2RS News Team reports amateur radio, and portable operating in
particular, will receive some television coverage today, Sunday the 5th
of June. The long-running BBC Countryfile programme airs at 6 p.m. on
BBC 1, and features Flat Holm island in the Bristol Channel, the site
of Marconi's first radio transmissions over sea. Presenters Ellie
Harrison and Matt Baker will be with leading Summits on the Air (SOTA)
operator Ben Lloyd, GW4BML as he sets up a portable station on the
island in order to contact SOTA activators on hill and mountain summits
around the UK.
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The Propagation Horoscope

We can expect excellent propagation conditions on all bands above 40m
and a high MUF2 frequency reaching above 30 MHz, thanks to a Solar wind
speed of around 500 km per second, a low to moderate proton count, no
major active regions coming into view until later in the week, and no
predicted flare activities or solar storms. Sporadic E will provide
more frequent openings on 10, 8 and 6 meters. The large, yet somewhat
unstable high pressure zone over Ireland extending into France will
give ample Tropo-DX opportunities on all VHF bands.

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 Friday noon.

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