
IRTS RADIO NEWS BULLETIN 

Sunday April 14th 1996

VHF Field Day Results

South Dublin Radio Club, EI2SDR/P operating from their usual site 
on Kippure, were the runaway winners of the open section of the 
1995 VHF/UHF Field Day held over the first weekend in July. 

They set a record score of 8,699 points, one that will probably 
stand for many years. Conditions were the best that anyone 
remembered for Field Day and SDR operated on three bands, with 
bonus points on both 432 and 1296 MHz. Congratulations to the 
South Dublin team who will collect the Thomond Tropy at the AGM in 
Ballsbridge. 
The team was EI2DNB, EI3IA, EI3GV, EI7GY, EI7HT, EI9HW and EI9HZ.

Runners-up were the East Cork Group EI7M who travelled to Slieve 
Bui in County Wexford for the event.

Congratuations also to the Cork Radio Club EI5CRC/P winners of the 
restricted section from Bweing Mountain in County Cork. The team 
was as usual, EI2HY, EI2IB and EI6ETB.

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IRTS 2 Metres Counties Contest
     
Excellent weather conditions and better than average propagation 
conditions contributed to a very successful 2 Metres Counties 
Contest last Sunday afternoon.

All the regular participants seem to have improved scores and new 
records seem likely.

Thanks to all who participated, especially those hardy individuals 
who took the trouble to get to elevated sites.

All logs should be sent to the Contest Manager, Paul O'Kane EI5DI 
at QTHR.

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GI Packet Working Group


The GI-Packet Working Group will hold an OPEN MEETING in the 
Cohannon Inn, which is near Dungannon, on Tuesday next 16th April 
at 8.00 p.m. 

Anyone involved in packet radio or interested in getting involved 
is invited to attend.
Further details may be had from Hugh, GI3TLT QTHR, Telephone:- 
012477-38756.

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Enniskillen Rally

Next Sunday will see the usual pilgrimage North, as many EI 
amateurs head to Enniskillen for the annual rally promoted by the 
Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club.

This is one of the best rallies on the island, held in excellent 
surroundings and is well worth a visit.

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International Marconi Day

The 9th International Marconi Day will be held over 24 hours on
Saturday next April 20th. The event is run by the Cornish Amateur 
Radio Club and there will be up to forty special event stations on 
the air world wide.
There are seven different award categories available this year as 
follows:
1. Transmitting amateur, mixed modes, work 15 stations.
2. Transmitting amateur, mixed modes, mobile, work 12 stations.
3. Transmitting amateur, CW only, work 15 stations.
4. Transmitting amateur, digital modes, work 15 stations.
5. Transmitting amateur, mixed modes, multi operator, work 20  
   stations. Also available for CW only or Digital only.
6. Shortwave Listeners, Log 15 station, mixed modes.
7. Shortwave listeners, Log 10 stations, CW only.

The following five EI stations with their contact persons are 
listed as taking part:
EI5IMD - EI2HY,Cork;        EI6YXQ - EI6AH, Ballybunion;            
EI3IMD - EI2GS,Dublin;      EI4JAM - EI4DJB, Dublin and        
EI4IMD - EI4FT,Clifden.

Claims for the awards should be a log extract and should be sent 
to Sue Thomas G0PGX, Cornish Radio Amateur Club, P.O. Box 100, 
Truro, Cornwall TR1 1RX. The cost for each award is 10 US Dollars, 
four pounds sterling or 12 IRCs.

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New Galway Packet Bulletin Board

The new Galway Packet Bulletin Board is now operational on 144.600 
MHz, 1200 baud.
The callsign of the BBS is EI4GRC and users who can't hear the BBS 
direct can connect to it via the LRC digi-peater in Limerick .
The sysop, EI2IE, would like to express his gratitude to Ken 
EI7DKB, who helped a lot with the setting up problems. Setting up 
a BBS is not easy, and having an experienced sysop at hand helped 
a lot.This new BBS has filled a gap in the West of Ireland as 
users up to now had to connect to either Cork, Tipperary or 
Waterford for a BBS service.
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Talk on Packet and Amateur Radio at UCC.

On a recent Saturday morning, Sean EI5HE, and Tony EI9HK gave a 
talk on packet and on amateur radio to a group called SCUL in 
Univesity College Cork. They are a group organised by school 
students for school students and they operate under the auspices 
of the Computer Department of UCC. They meet in UCC on Saturday 
mornings and their main interest is computers. 

The talk last Saturday was about packet radio and the use of 
computers in general in our hobby. Areas covered were, packet, 
amtor, pactor, rtty, the tnc, the modem and winpack.

The students found it very intersting and at least two of them 
have shown a strong interest in doing the exam and becoming future 
amateur operators.
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IRTS AGM & Dinner

Tickets for the IRTS Annual Dinner to be held in Jurys Hotel in 
Ballsbridge on Saturday week, April 27th are selling well, priced 
at twenty two pounds. They are still available from Brendan O'Kane 
EI4CYB at 01-8463865.

Guests at the dinner will include the usual representatives from 
the Department of Communications as well as the Presidents of the 
German National Society, DARC and the British National Society 
RSGB.

The Annual General meeting will be held on the Sunday at the same 
venue starting at 1430 local.
Fingal Radio Club. who are hosting the weekends activities will 
also be running a Radio and Electronics exhibition on the Sunday, 
also in Jurys Hotel in Ballsbridge.

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Shannon River Run


Hopefully by now most of you will have already worked one or more 
of the Shannon River Run stations. Operation will conclude at 1800 
local time this evening so there is still time to work those last 
few stations needed for the award. A total of five stations with 
the SRR suffix in the callsign must be worked to qualify, though 
any particular station can be counted more than once provided it 
is worked on a different band or mode. A special effort will be 
made by the SRR stations to call in after all the IRTS news 
bulletins today, after which they will QSY to their usual 
frequencies. Look out for them on 3670, 7070 and 14270. Some CW 
operation will also take place on 3570, 7007 and 14070. 
2m operation is on S21.

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Items for inclusion in both the Radio News and Newsletter can be 
faxed to 021-632730.
The Radio News Editor, John EI7DNB, can be contacted at 021-353988 
in the evening and the Newsletter Editor, Dave EI4BZ is at 021- 
632444 during the day and 021-883555 in the evening. 

Mail can be sent on packet to either EI7DNB or EI4BZ on cluster or 
at the EI7DKB BBS or on Internet to jbarry@curia.ucc.ie 

