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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday June 25th, 2023
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North Dublin Radio Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year

The North Dublin Radio Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary this
year. To celebrate, club members will be QRV during the year with the
special callsign, EI50NDR. On June 17th, the club held its AGM,
electing a new committee and making plans for the coming year. The
Chairman, Tony EI5EM, welcomed the members and in his address, outlined
the history of the club. He noted how membership of the club has
increased greatly over the past few years by the influx of new
enthusiastic members. The Treasurer, Tony EI6K, reported that the club
is in a healthy financial position. The Willie Barron Memorial Trophy
was awarded to Brendan Kelly EI4EPB for his great work and support of
the club over many years. It was well merited and congratulations to
Brendan. The outgoing secretary Brendan was unfortunately unable to
attend the meeting. However, he addressed the meeting by telephone.
Annard EI4IQB is leaving EI to return to the Netherlands. Tony EI5EM
wished him well and told him that his EI4IQB maritime mobile call from
Poolbeg Marina will be missed. With that, the meeting concluded for
photographs to mark this special year for the club.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC

The June meeting of the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC will
take place tomorrow night, Monday June 26th at 8 p.m. sharp at the New
Community Men's Shed, Ozanam Centre, Coffee House Lane, Waterford. New
members, or anyone interested in learning more about amateur radio or
the group are as always very welcome to attend. Information about the
South Eastern Amateur Radio Group can be found on their website
www.searg.ie, via email to southeasternarg /at/ gmail.com, and their
social media channels.
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Collective Communication

On Saturday July 1st, a Midsummer Madness Meeting of Collective
Communication members and their partners is planned at Jack Meades'
Gastro Bar & Beer Garden in Waterford. Intended not so much as a radio
club meeting but more of a family social gathering, it's a chance for
club members and their partners to have a get together over a drink and
some food in the hopefully warm summer environment of County Waterford
from around 2pm onwards. EI3CC is a collective club not an exclusive
one. The event is open to all radio amateurs, SWLs, their partners, and
family. They welcome you to join them on Saturday 1st July from 2pm
onwards for a little midsummer madness at Jack Meades, Waterford,
Eircode X91 NY64
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CW Field Day Results

Results of the IRTS CW Field Day, held over the first weekend of June
have now been published. Three EI field day stations submitted logs;
Jim EI4HH, who set up his station in Kilternan, Co. Dublin, Avondhu
Radio Club, station operator Gerard EI5KF, from a site north of Clonmel
Co. Tipperary, and Joe EI7GY who was on the slopes of Round Hill, Co.
Wicklow. Full results for this contest may be seen at
www.irts.ie/results

This field day coincided with the IARU Region 1 CW Field Day organised
by DARC, the German National Society and with separate CW Field Days
organised by UK and Swiss national societies. As a result, there was
plenty of activity around Europe with more than 100 portable stations
operating under field day conditions.
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Contest and Events

A reminder that the 2023 IRTS VHF/UHF Field Day takes place over the
weekend of Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of July, from 1400 UTC
Saturday until 1400 UTC Sunday. There will be five separate contests
covering the 6m, 4m, 2m, 70m, and 23m bands. Stations may enter a
contest on one or more bands. A 24-hour section and a restricted 6-hour
section are available. More details and a full list of rules can be
found at www.irts.ie/rules

For digital mode fans, a RSGB FT4 contest takes place Monday 26th June
from 1900 to 2030 UTC. Six sections are available for entrants and the
contest will take place on the 80, 40, and 20 metre bands. Further
information may be found at www.rsgbcc.org
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Solar Cycle 25 Update

The sun has been particularly energetic over recent days. Active
regions can lead to flares which are classified according to their
strength in a similar fashion as the Richter scale is for earthquakes.
The most intense flares are classified as X-class. A strong X1 flare
occurred on June 20th resulting in a short-term HF radio blackout in
the sunlight parts of Earth which included Ireland at the time. This
was the first X-class flare since March of this year. Overall, the
number of sunspots recorded over recent months is trending higher than
what was predicted. The probability of further flare activity is
increased as a result.
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New AMSAT-UK Award

As the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of the earth becomes warmer and
expands due to the increased solar activity, it can increase the drag
on low earth orbit satellites. One of the expected casualties of this
will be the Nayif-1 EO88 amateur satellite. AMSAT-UK is offering two
awards for the station that submits the last telemetry from the
satellite and to whomever guesses the re-entry time and date most
accurately. You can find more information about this at amsat-uk.org.
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Ofcom UK planning to updating their amateur radio licensing framework

Ofcom UK, the UK's communications services regulator, published a
consultation document regarding proposed changes to amateur radio
licences. It has sparked a lot of interest and discussion. They are
proposing changes to their amateur radio licences and policies to help
meet the needs of their current and future amateur radio users. The
proposals include maintaining their current three-tier licence
framework, an increase to 1000 Watts peak envelope power for full
licensees in bands where amateur radio has a primary allocation, and
permit the deployment of repeaters, beacons, and gateways without
requiring a notice of variation in most cases. You can find the
document at www.ofcom.org.uk
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HF Newsreaders Urgently Required

HF newsreaders are urgently required for the weekly Sunday morning 40m
and 80m IRTS news bulletin rota. The rota is to share the news reading
duties amongst the entire panel of newsreaders and it ensures that the
workload is evenly spread out. The more people that volunteer the less
often each individual reader will have to do the reading. There is very
little involved in the reading and no experience is necessary. If any
licensed IRTS member living in EI feels like that they would be
interested in becoming part of the IRTS News Readers panel, please get
in touch with the IRTS News Coordinator Seany EI2HZB directly on 083
4713001 or by email to irts_PRO /at/ irts.ie.
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Items for Inclusion in Next Week's Radio News

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/dot/ie for
automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. The
deadline is midnight on Thursday.

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