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This Week's News

IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday March 23rd, 2025
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IRTS Award Nominations

   With the 2025 IRTS AGM weekend taking place over the weekend of April
   12th and 13th, the IRTS Awards committee is seeking nominations for
   "Awards for Services to the Society or to Amateur Radio" and "Awards to
   IRTS members for Other Achievements". Details of these awards are
   available at www.irts.ie under the awards section. The deadline for
   receipt of nominations is today Sunday, March 23rd. Nominations should
   be sent to the IRTS awards committee by email to awards /at/ irts.ie.
     __________________________________________________________________

IRTS Exam Board Announces the next HAREC exam

   The IRTS Exam Board is pleased to advise that the next HAREC exam will
   take place on the 17th of May 2025. The location of the exam is the
   Clayton Hotel Dublin Airport, Stockhole Lane, Clonshagh, Co Dublin, K67
   X3H5.

   Due to expected high numbers, there will be a morning exam and an
   afternoon exam. The morning exam will commence at 11 a.m. till 1p.m.
   and the afternoon exam will commence from 2 p.m. till 4p.m. Candidates
   are advised to state which time suits when making their application.

   Please see the licensing section of the IRTS website or contact Mick
   EI6IKB at IRTS_exams /at/ irts.ie if you need any further information.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC

   The March meeting of the EI2WRC group will take place on Monday, March
   31st at 8 p.m. sharp at the South East Technological University.
   Netlabs Research and Innovation Building, SETU West Campus,
   Carriganore, Waterford. The Eircode is X91 WR86. New members or anyone
   that has an interest in amateur radio or communications in general are
   very welcome to come along. SWLs are in particular very welcome to
   attend.

   With regards to the IRTS Gala Dinner on April 12th, EI2WRC would like
   to inform people that unless you have a dinner ticket you will be
   unable to attend. All dinner tickets must be booked and paid for before
   4 p.m. on April 8th, 2025. In previous years people could turn up on
   the day or let the club know the day before they wanted a dinner ticket
   but due to a change in hotel protocol this is no longer the case.

   Whatever number is given to the hotel at close of business on April 8th
   is the number of people the club is then required to pay for whether or
   not that amount of people may be in seated for dinner. Likewise, anyone
   that might have purchased a dinner ticket and needs to get a refund a
   full refund will be given if you request it before 4 p.m. on April 8th.
   Unfortunately, requests for refunds cannot be catered for after that
   deadline.

   For more information about EI2WRC, their activities, and for contact
   details please see www.searg.ie
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South Dublin Radio Club AGM

   South Dublin Radio Club's AGM will take place at 8 p.m. on Tuesday 29th
   of April 2025 at Ballyroan community centre on the Marian Road in
   Rathfarnham. All members are asked to attend.
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VHF/Microwave News

   The next 145 Alive event is taking place on Saturday, the 12th of April
   2025. The coordinators for EI are the IRTS VHF/microwave managers,
   Keith EI5IN and Denis EI4KH. It is noted that this is the same weekend
   as the IRTS AGM Weekend. Any further operators interested and available
   to act as net control stations for the three-hour event on that
   Saturday are most welcome. You can contact the 145 Alive coordinators
   for EI via email to vhf_manager /at/ irts.ie.

   According to the DX Info Centre, moderate to high tropospheric
   propagation is expected over Tuesday and Wednesday next and possibly
   later into the week for EI operators. It is forecast that ducts will
   extend from Ireland over to continental Europe for several hours. This
   may provide very interesting DX opportunities for VHF and above
   operators. For SHF operators, this should hopefully provide favourable
   conditions for a UK Activity Contest using the 2.3 GHz to 10 GHz bands
   on Tuesday evening. The event will be held from 19:30 to 22:30 UTC.

   Several VHF nets are active each week in EI. Details of these are
   available on the VHF/UHF/SHF page on irts.ie which is being updated
   regularly as new information comes in. If you have any input or ideas
   for the IRTS VHF/microwave management team, you are very welcome to
   contact them via email to vhf_manager /at/ irts.ie.
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February Edition of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Newsletter

   The February edition of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System newsletter
   of 2025 starts with addressing new signals detected in the amateur
   radio HF bands during the month. These include over the horizon radar
   signals that according to the report, represent the greatest threat to
   our allocated spectrum. The free monthly newsletters contain links to
   recordings of the intruder signals. This is a great resource especially
   for anyone new to radio and curious about the wide array of signals
   involved. The newsletters can be downloaded from the monitoring system
   section at iaru-r1.org.
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World Amateur Radio Day 2025

   World Amateur Radio Day will occur on April 18th, 2025. It was on this
   day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in
   Paris. This year is therefore a special 100th anniversary of the
   International Amateur Radio Union. Since 1925, the IARU has grown to
   include 160 member-societies in three regions across the world. Amateur
   radio operators across the world will take to the airwaves in
   celebration of the 100th anniversary.
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Contest Updates

   The next event in the current series of UKIECC 80m contests takes place
   on Wednesday next, the 26th of March 2025 at 20:00 UTC using CW.
   The EI5G bonus station will be operated by Tom EI3ER and
   the G5GEI bonus station will be operated by Mike G4IZZ.

   In partnership with the IRTS, RSGB, and the GMDX group, the 2025 UK/EI
   DX CW contest will take place over the 26th and 27th April 2025. This
   contest will run for twenty-four hours from 12:00 UTC on the 26th until
   12:00 UTC on the 27th. The mode used will be CW on the 80 to 10 metre
   bands. Further information about both events may be found at
   www.ukeicc.com

   The 2025 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest commences next Saturday, March 29th
   from 00:00 UTC and ends at 23:59 UTC on Sunday the 30th. The mode used
   is SSB on the 160m, 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, and 10m bands only.
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Items for Inclusion in Next Week's Radio News

   That is the news for this week. Thanks to everyone for sending items
   into the weekly IRTS radio news. They are very much appreciated and are
   a great way to update the rest of the community about activities. If
   you have any club events, activities, meetings, or other items of
   interest, you are very welcome to email newsteam /at/ irts.ie with the
   details. These will be automatically forwarded to the IRTS radio and
   printed news services. The deadline each week is midnight on Thursdays.

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