IRTS Radio News Bulletin, Sunday 14th February 2010.Doors open from 9am to
news at irts dot ie
Sunday 13th December 2009
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Bereavement We wish to extend our sincerest sympathies
to Breda EI0DJ and Tony EI2AW on the death of Breda's
mother Mrs. Kitty O'Flynn who passed away peacefully on
10 December. May she rest in peace.
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IRTS Radio News via ATV The IRTS radio news which
is normally broadcast by South Eastern Amateur Radio
Group at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday nights via the Southern
Ireland Repeater Network is now available live via the
EI8WDT, ATV (television) repeater from Dungarvan, Co.
Waterford. A live video feed is available each
Tuesday night at www.ei8ffb.com (details and link to
EI8FFB are available on the SEARG web site at
www.searg.com).
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Christmas Island VK9XX Christmas Island VK9XX completed
there expedition last weekend with almost 23,000 QSO
confirmed in the log, Congratulations to the 16 EI
stations that made it through the Hugh pile ups.
Top of the EI List were EI7BA with 7 bands worked,
EI9JF & EI9O with 4 bands worked Congratulations
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Wicklow Town Club Formation Lain EI5GN has received
lots of interest in starting up a radio club in Wicklow
Town. There is a premises confirmed which is virtually
free of charge & it looks like the first meeting is
scheduled for January 14th at 20.00pm 2010. More
details will be available soon; Lain can be contacted
at ei5gniain /at/ gmail.com or at QTHR.
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Dublin Radio Club This year's South Dublin Radio Club
Christmas Party will take place next Tuesday the 15th
of December. The venue will be the same as last year,
"The Morgue", Tempelogue Village from 8.00 pm until
late. Members of other clubs and visitors are as usual
very welcome to this social event. Limited free food
will be available for paid-up members; visitors can
choose from the bar menu until 9.00 pm.
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Club Christmas Dinner The North Dublin Radio Club,
Fingal Radio Club and the Howth Martello Radio Group
are having a joint Christmas dinner on Saturday 19th
December. The restaurant in the Coachman's Inn near
Dublin Airport is the venue and the meal will start at
8:30pm. This is the second year that this joint
dinner has been organized. Last year's dinner was a
great success and so this year it has been decided to
invite other amateurs, SWLs and friends. Lapsed members
of both clubs would be particularly welcome. Places
are limited and early booking is recommended. If
interested please email tony /at/ ei0mar.org as soon as
possible to make a reservation.
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Industry News Scott Robbins, W4PA, of Knoxville,
Tennessee, has signed an agreement to purchase The
Vibroplex Company, Inc from present owner Felton
'Mitch' Mitchell, W4OA, effective December 21, 2009.
Vibroplex will move from its present location in
Mobile, Alabama to Knoxville, Tenn Robbins - who has
been employed with Ten-Tec Inc since 1995 (he has been
Product Manager for Ten-Tec's Amateur Radio equipment
line since 1997) - will leave his position in
mid-December to take over full-time management and
ownership of Vibroplex during the last two weeks of
December, with a planned opening date of January 5,
2010. Phone numbers email & contact addresses will
remain in continuous operation under the new ownership
of Vibroplex
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Desecheo K5D DVD available The 'KP1-5 Project' have
announced that the long anticipated Desecheo K5D DVD
entitled "so rare, so near, yet so far" is now
available. This DVD has been five months in production.
For more information go to http://www.kp5.us
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3W6C CW OP Required Experienced CW op needed for rare
IOTA DXpedition An international group of operators
will be active as 3W6C from Con Co Island (AS-185),
Vietnam, between April 10-18th, 2010. The DXpedition
has an opening for one additional experienced CW
operator; German language is not required as this in an
International group. Full details about the DXpedition
are available at: http://www.3w6c.qrv.ch Interested
operators are requested to send details about
background and DXing experience to Hans-Peter at:
hb9bxe /at/ 3w6c.qrv.ch Hans-Peter can likewise give further
details about expenses, travel, etc
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Rallies Phoenix A.R.C The Rally will be held as usual
at Coolmine Community School near Blanchardstown on
Sunday 14th February 2010.Doors open from 9am to
2.30pm. Usual traders will be present and to
encourage a real Amateur Radio orientated Rally
bring and buy tables will be free of charge. For tables
contact Tony 087-2349997 or Tom 01-8211043 This is the
first rally of the New Year and usually a very
enjoyable occasion. Refreshments and plenty of car
parking available.
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This Week in History
1896 Preece and Marconi first public demo of radio at
Toynbee Hall, London.
1901 Marconi received the first transatlantic
communication, letter S. On 10 December 1909 Braun and
Marconi were given the Nobel Prize for physics for
their efforts in wireless communication. 1961 The first
amateur satellite, OSCAR I was launched.
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