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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday April 14th, 2024
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IRTS Examination Board Update

The IRTS Examination Board would like to advise that the closing date
for the upcoming HAREC exam is April 27th, 2024. At the time of
compiling the news, it was reported that there are seven places
remaining for the Dublin sitting and three places available for the
Kerry sitting. The exam takes place on May 11th, 2024. Registration for
both exams begins at 10.30 a.m. and the exam commences at 11 a.m. with
a duration of two hours. The location for the Dublin exam centre is the
Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, Dublin 24, and the Kerry exam centre is The
Rose Hotel, Tralee, Co Kerry.

Applicants who wish to sit the next exam but have not yet applied,
should download, and complete the exam application form from the
downloads section of the IRTS website. Applicants are also advised to
consult the "Applying for an Exam" section on the IRTS website for
instructions on how to proceed with the application or contact Mick
EI6IKB via email at irts_exams /at/ irts.ie.
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IRTS 2m/70cm Counties Contest Update

If you took part in the recent IRTS 2m and 70cm Counties Contest,
please note that the deadline to submit your logs is tomorrow, Monday
April 15th. You send your logs by email to contestmanager /at/ irts.ie.
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EI0MAR Award Station for International Marconi Day

EI0MAR will be an award station during International Marconi Day, on
Saturday the 27th of April from Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage
Radio in the Martello tower in Howth. The Martello was used in 1905 by
the Marconi Company, as a receiving station while the RMS Monarch
transmitted radio telegraphy signals from various locations in the
Irish Sea, demonstrating the Marconi system to engineers from the
British Post Office. Visitors are very welcome to come along to EI0MAR
on the day, and even see a spark transmitter, like the one used on the
RMS Monarch, back in 1905.
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC - Special Event Station

EI2WRC will be active with the special event call EI150IMD from
Rosslare, Co. Wexford, Ireland on International Marconi Day, April
27th. The EI150IMD special event call is to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the birth of Marconi. Marconi established a wireless
transmitting station on the site where Marconi House now stands in
Rosslare in 1901.

A special QSL card is available for anyone that makes contact with the
EI150IMD call. Special thanks to the Cornish Radio Amateur Club G4CRC
and also to the Rosslare Development Association, Wexford Co. Co.,
Eleanor White, and EI2WRC's own Steve Kelly EI2JLB. For more details
about EI150IMD please see qrz.com. For more information about EI2WRC,
their activities, and for contact details, please see www.searg.ie
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Spanish Radio Amateur Authorisation for the 8 Meter Band

The Spanish national ham radio society URE shares good news during the
celebration of their 75th anniversary. URE reports that Spanish license
holders can now operate on the eight-meter band from fixed stations
with a maximum of 25-Watt PEP in the frequency range of 40.650 to
40.750 MHz. For now, the use of the eight-meter band is limited to an
eighteen-month period, and operators must notify their provincial
telecoms authority about their intention to transmit for the first
time.
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March Edition of the IARU Monitoring System Region 1 Newsletter

The March edition of the IARU Monitoring System Region 1 newsletter has
been published. Of note this time is a Coastal Ocean Dynamics
Applications Radar reportedly interfering with almost all of the
twelve-meter band. The IARU Monitoring System Region 1 has started an
action about this radar. You can learn more about this in addition to
the wide array of strange and unidentified signals impacting our
amateur radio bands at www.iaru-r1.org
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World Amateur Radio Day

World Amateur Radio Day will be celebrated next Thursday, Monday April
18th. It is a global event and not a contest covering all the
International Amateur Radio Union regions. It spans two days from
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 0000 UTC to Friday, April 19, 2024, 0000 UTC.
All radio amateurs and clubs are invited to take to the airwaves and to
use the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and capabilities to the
public.
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Trans Equatorial Propagation Observed Between Africa and Europe

Trans Equatorial Propagation (TEP) between Africa and Europe on 144 MHz
band has been observed several times in recent weeks. On March 31st,
V51WW in Namibia received SV8PEX from Greece over 6532km away. On April
1st, QSOs between Namibia to Greece, Italy, and Malta were made with
SV8PEX, 9H1TA, and 9H1PA. On April 2nd, SSB QSOs were possible.
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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.ie for
automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. The
deadline is midnight on Thursday.

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