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Irish Radio Transmitter Society Radio News Bulletin Sunday 12 March 2023
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HAREC Exam date

The next HAREC examination is scheduled for Saturday, the 13th of May
2023. There will be two examinations held in Dublin. The location will
be the Belville Suite in the Radisson Blu hotel, Stillorgan, Co.
Dublin. Registration for the morning session will commence at 10 a.m.
and the examination will run from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Registration for the afternoon examination will commence at 1.30 p.m.
and the examination will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Details of the hotel
can be found at www.radissonhotels.com . There will be one examination
held in Cork, the location will be the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel,
Tivoli, Cork. This will be on the morning of the 13th. Registration
will commence 10 a.m. and the examination will run from 10.30 a.m. to
12.30 p.m. Details of this hotel can be found at
www.claytonhotelsilvers prings.com . For those who have previously
applied but have not yet indicated their intention to sit this exam
please contact irts.exams /at/ gmail.com with confirmation of their
preferred venue and their preference regarding the morning or the
afternoon session, if you choose Dublin. There should be plenty of
capacity for all those wishing to attend, however demand will increase
as we get closer to the date so we suggest you get your preference in
as early as possible. If you have not previously applied to sit the
HAREC examination, full details can be found on the IRTS website,
including the application form. This can be completed and sent
to irts.exams /at/ gmail.com if you wish to get on the list for the
13th of May.

Please also note that there is a concessionary fee of EUR25 for those
who qualify, including those candidates who wish to resit an
examination. All queries in regard to this examination should be sent
to irts.exams /at/ irts.ie .
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YOTA Camp in Spain

The IARU Region-1 Youth Working Group has announced its next YOTA
Subregional Camp. This will be from the 30th of April to the 2nd of May
in the city of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, near Madrid, in cooperation
with the Spanish Amateur Radio Association URE. The Spanish Team will
be able to host around thirty participants overall, with a preference
given to applications from neighbouring countries. The original report
and application form can be found on the IARU Region-1 website.
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St Patricks Day Activities

Collective Communications will be flying the flag of EI3CC at Tramore
in County Waterford on the 17th of March where our new mobile shack
will have its inaugural outing while participating in the St. Partick's
Day parade. The parade will start at 1.30pm local time and afterwards
we will be setting up the shack to operate on HF and VHF at the main
entrance to the amusement park. The high footfall will enable the
public to witness and experience Amateur Radio first hand. In addition
we will be passing out information flyers about Collective
Communication and the IRTS. Anyone interested in radio as a hobby will
be able to see for themselves what is involved and chat to our club
members. We would love to meet other amateurs, yet to be amateurs, SWLs
and yet to be SWLs. All are welcome. So take a trip to Tramore this
Friday and drop by for a chat and a cuppa while enjoying the merriment
of our National Day on the sunny south coast of County Waterford. For
more information please phone John, EI3HQB on 086 870 9265

Philip, Mi0MSO/Ei8GPB invites us to register for the St Patrick's Day
Award event, taking place over a 48-hour period from 12 noon UTC on the
16th March to 12 noon UTC on the 18th March. The St Patrick's Day Award
is 48 hours of non-competitive fun. Anyone worldwide can participate,
licensed operators and SWLs can take part in this fun event. You can
register to be a participating station for the St Patrick's Day award
by completing a short registration form online at stpatricksaward.com

The second EI Flora and Fauna St. Patrick's Activity Weekend runs from
the 17th to the 19th. If you can get out over the weekend and activate
a park that would be great. Please advise Jer EI3HGB or Declan EI9HQ by
email at eifflogs /at/ gmail.com of the areas you plan to activate,
avoiding duplication. The EIFF webpage is at eifirl.wordpress.com .
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IMD at the Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth

It is 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 place on the 22nd of April, Pat's son Simon plans a day of
celebration at the museum. The Mayor of Howth will be 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, the 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!
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HAM & JAM! - Bringing Amateur Radio, STEM enthusiasts & educators together!

The South Dublin Radio Club brings Amateur Radio, STEM enthusiasts and
educators together at their event on Tuesday, the 18th of April, from
19:30 to 21:30. Ham & Jam is a free informal meet-up opportunity for
radio enthusiasts and those from the digital maker and education
communities. The idea is to encourage conversations, learning and new
friendships between like-minded people. The event features a "Show and
Tell" area with radio-related projects made with various types of
micro-controllers and computers, a live FT8 digital modes radio station
sending and receiving signals worldwide, and Software-defined radio
projects showing how to decode weather satellites and receive AIS live
data from ships. There will be talks and demos on "Ham-Pi" Raspberry Pi
applications for Ham Radio, on "TinyGS" Ground Stations that receive
and operate LoRa satellites and other flying objects, plus an
Information stand on ARISS, the group that arranges special amateur
radio contacts between students and the International Space Station. If
you're a STEM enthusiast or educator you will find many ideas on how
radio can bring key learning to life, with plenty of friendly 'radio
heads' present to answer your questions. If you're a radio amateur, SWL
or hobbyist and want to know more about the world of Arduino,
Raspberry-Pi, BBC micro:bit and such, come along too! For Contact
details and directions, please see our website at www.sout
hdublinradioclub.weebly.com/contact.html .
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Locator Square IO37DO

Rockall, IOTA EU-189 has been visited by 110 people during the past two
centuries, and only 5 of them are known to have spent the night on the
rock. Led by Cam Cameron, using the call-sign MM0UKI intrepid serial
activators Nobby Styles G0VJG on SSB, and Emil Bergmann DL8JJ/LZ2EN on
CW will take a pair of FT857, a spare KX2, Spiderbeams, verticals and a
generator atop the 784 square meter rock, barely 17 meters above the
water at its highest point. Nobby and Emil will leave from Scotland for
Rockall on the 26th of May, and plan to operate on 40m and up, also on
2m SSB and CW from the platform the size of a balcony while secured
with climbing gear. Full details can be found on www.rockallexped.com .
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ARDC Grant for FreeDV

The FreeDV Project, an open-source software initiative created by an
international team of hams, has received $420,000 from ARDC, short for
Amateur Radio Digital Communications. With the help of digital signal
processing developers, working alongside FreeDV volunteers the aim is
to improve the readability of digital voice carried over SSB under poor
HF conditions, improve low signal-to-noise ratio operation and improve
speech quality. A special version of FreeDV is already in use over the
QO-100 geostationary satellite. FreeDV is also being employed to
overcome poor propagation through experimental combinations of internet
and HF radio.
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The Propagation Horoscope

Tom, DF5JLThe IARU writes on the IARU website that the current solar
cycle 25 far exceeds the predictions of the international panel
convened for this purpose in 2019. The average number of sunspots in
this cycle is nearly as high as those observed during the highest peak
in the last cycle, and the 10.7 GHZ flux has already exceeded the 2014
values. Last week the solar flux index hovered around 150 to 165, the
MUF stayed above 28MHz most of the time, occasionally dropping somewhat
during several geomagnetic storms. No significant geomagnetic
disturbances are expected until Wednesday evening, promising good DX on
all bands above 30m. Early Thursday morning the kP index will rise to 5
due to a moderate CME glancing the ionosphere. 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.

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