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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

EI22WAW in the log

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From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each ca...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

World Handball Championships in Jan 2017...TM57A, TM57D, TM57H & TM57N

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The 25th World Handball Championships are being held in France from 11th to 29th January 2017 and there are four special event stations on t...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Presentation by John EI7IG at the TAPR Digital Conference in the USA

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In 2016, John Ronan EI7IG traveled to the ARRL-TAPR Digital Communication Conference in the US where he gave a presentation on using APRS (A...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

EI33WAW in the log

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From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each ca...
Friday, January 20, 2017

EI77WAW in the log

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From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each ca...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Rough guide to activity levels for the Wild Atlantic Way callsigns

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The Wild Atlantic Way award has been running since the 1st of January 2017 and already, a number of overseas stations have worked all 9 c...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Results of the 2017 IRTS 80m Counties Contest on New Year's Day

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The annual IRTS 80 metre contest was held on the 1st of January 2017 and the full results are now available HERE The chart above shows ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Slim Jim Vertical Half-Wave for 27 MHz & 28 MHz

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Another one from an old magazine article. This design is for a basic folded half-wave vertical for the 11m CB band on 27MHz but it can also ...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

EI44WAW in the log

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From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each cal...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Ideas for radio clubs...

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It's pretty obvious that a lot of radio clubs in Ireland and in the UK have a declining membership and many are not attractive to newc...
Monday, January 2, 2017

New website for the Duhallow Repeater Group

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The Duhallow Repeater Group operates the 70cms repeater EI7SMR and the 4 metre Simplexer EI4SMR on Seefin in County Cork. I have put tog...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

2017 Wild Atlantic Way Award

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From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each ca...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Old IRTS Newsletters now available...

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The Irish Radio Transmitters Society is the national body representing radio amateurs in Ireland and they produce several newsletters for m...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Good tropo conditions on 2m & 70cms...Wed 28th Dec 2016

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The current high pressure system over the country resulted in some fine conditions on the VHF bands on Wed 28th December 2016. The local ...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Irish radio amateurs gain secondary allocation at 5.3MHz

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The Irish Radio Transmitters Society have just announced that Irish radio amateurs can use the WRC-15 band of 5.3515 MHz to 5.3665 MHz ...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

UK Radio Spectrum Review Shows Increased Noise on VHF Bands

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Ofcom is the organisation that is responsible for radio regulation in the UK and they have just released a document for a review of the U...
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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Time to brush up on the CW...

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Opening to the Indian Ocean on 28 MHz...Wed 14th Dec 2016

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Wednesday the 24th of December was another one of those days where the 28 MHz band seemed completely dead but early in the morning, I rec...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

Proposed changes to the 70 MHz Band in Ireland

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This is the current IARU Region 1 band plan for 70 MHz band... The Irish allocation is from 70.125 to 70.450 MHz while the British on...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Opening on 28 MHz...Sun 11th Dec 2016

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With the ARRL 10 metre contest on this weekend, there was always going to be a chance that something would pop up. Even if there was a weak ...