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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday December 5th 2021
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Shannon Basin Radio Club

Brian, Ei8IU reports that the Shannon Basin Radio Club AGM which was
planned for Friday, the 10th of December has been postponed due to the
present Covid situation. The new Date for the AGM will be announced on
the Club website and in the IRTS news. The club would like to take the
opportunity to wish all its members and everyone involved in our
wonderful hobby a very happy Christmas and peaceful new year with lots
of DX..
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Hungarian Initiative

The presidency of the Hungarian Amateur Radio Association announces a
tender for the lease of radio equipment. The aim of the tender is to
provide young beginners who do not have an independent income with
radio equipment. To bridge the period until they have their own
equipment for HF and VHF and associated equipment, for a period of half
a year, which can be extended by a maximum of two and a half years,
taking into account the activities carried out in the previous period.
To be eligible, young operators must be members of the Hungarian MRASZ,
hold a valid license and be able to install antennas. Supported
applicants are expected to participate in club events and contests, and
also report on their activities.
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Annexed

The Russian Amateur Radio Society issued the following statement
regards the occupied Crimean, internationally recognized as part of the
Ukraine. A translated statement on their website reads: "In accordance
with the Order of the Ministry of Sports of the Republic of Crimea
dated November 15, 2021 in the Republic of Crimea, it is accredited as
a regional sports federation for the sport "radio sports" for four
years. We congratulate our colleagues from the Republic of Crimea and
wish them success in the development of radio sports in the region!" No
further details, apart from a facsimile of an official looking decree
was published in that article. In light of the paramilitary
associations of Russian amateur radio clubs, as with other sports, this
move ties in with the de-facto integration of Crimea into Russia.
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Amsat-HB

The Swiss Amateur Radio Society USKA announce the founding of AMSAT-HB.
On their webpage they write that with QO-100, the interest in the
amateur radio service via satellites has strongly increased also in
Switzerland. But not only the geostationary satellite fascinates the
radio amateurs: Also the ARISS project on the space station ISS,
low-flying satellites, tracking of scientific deep space missions, are
getting more attention. Radio amateurs now felt that it is time to join
forces in Switzerland. For this reason the AMSAT-HB was founded on
Friday 26 November 2021 in Nottwil, Lucerne. The association has set
itself the goal to promote the amateur radio service via satellites in
Switzerland, but also internationally.
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Hoovers and Handhelds

The German Bundesnetz Agentur has banned the sale of TESVOR model6
robotic vacuum cleaners, because it not only used lasers to chase your
cat or dog, it also sported a wireless link, complete with a networked
remote control. It came into circulation without CE mark or any
appropriate paperwork regards the wireless parts, so the TESVOR model
S6 does no longer makes its rounds. While we could smile about that,
the same Bundesnetz Agentur struck closer to home, and also banned the
import, sale and use of the popular Baofeng UV5R dualband handhelds.
Several Amateur Radio news outlets reported speculations that this may
lead to a ban across Europe. Informed postings on the Ei7Gl blogspot
confirmed what Polish authorities found out in tests conducted on
imported UV5R radios: Their transmitted spectrum is not clean enough,
so the Polish authorities informed their German colleagues, who in turn
quickly announced this ban.
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OnAir

The Finnish Amateur Radio League SRAL is celebrating its 100th
anniversary. To earn the OH Northern Light 100-year Certificate,
contact fifty OH and fifty OF stations until the end of the year. There
are three special multiplier call signs on the air this week, OI3AX,
OF2YOTA and OF9X. Anssi, OH9SCL is once again active from Finnish
Lapland "Santa Claus Land", and so is OF9X, and also boarding Puk's
sled this years is OF2YOTA, the Federation's youth team. There are
english language pages with more info at www.sral.fi/en/ Another
Finnish prefix will be heard on Monday. Military radio amateurs will
celebrate Finland's Independence Day, when stations are identified by
the rarely heard heard prefix OI.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the historic transatlantic
tests of December 1921, when the ARRL's representative Paul Godley, 2ZE
set up his listening station in Ardrossan, Scotland and received the
signals of more than two dozen US amateur radio stations. Those
transmissions will be recreated by W2AN/1BCG from the Vintage Radio and
Communications Museum of Connecticut, using a replica transmitter
constructed by volunteers at the Antique Wireless Association.
Transmissions will start next Saturday on 1820 kHz CW at 2300 UTC, then
every 15 minutes until 03.45 UTC next Sunday. Transmissions from
W2AN/1BCG will be one-way, just like the original transatlantic tests.
You can get a SWL certificate by sending a copy of the transmitted
message to 1BCG /at/ AntiqueWireless.org

Until the end of this year, the special call sign of the Austrian DX
Board, OE50ADXB can be heard on all HF bands, marking the 50th
anniversary of the Austrian SWL Club ADBX. All contacts and SWL reports
will be confirmed with a special QSL card via the Austrian bureau.

The VX3INSULIN event station will be active in December on the occasion
of the 100th anniversary of the work of scientists at the University of
Toronto on insulin. QSL via VE3NOO.

The Signal Hill National Historic Site is the location where Guglielmo
Marconi received the very first wireless transatlantic message on the
12th of December 1901. Commemorating the 120th anniversary of that
event, the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs will operate the
special call sign MVD through the month of December. QL via Club Log's
OARS, or direct to VOCOID.

Until Saturday, the 4U1A team will broadcast on HF from Vienna,
Austria, with the special call 4Y1A to mark the International Civil
Aviation Day. QSL via UA3DX, ClubLog OQRS.

The S21DX operation from IOTA AS-140 has been brought forward to the
10th in accordance with the operating permission granted. S21AM and
S21RC will be on Manpura island, located in south coastal belt of
Bangladesh for one week. A 2KW petrol generator charges batteries for
two 100W SSB stations and laptops. They have various antennas for
10-20m, and will occasionally use 40m, depending on propagation.
Current details can be found on www.s21dx.org
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Contesting

The ARRL 10m contest starts on Saturday 0000UTC and ends 48 hours later
on Sunday. It's hardly a realistic proposition to make a competitive
entry, but one may be able to score a few 10m CW or SSB contacts across
the Atlantic, The following contests may also help to fill in a few
missing locators.

On Tuesday the 144MHz FM UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 1955UTC.
It is followed by the all-mode 144Hz UK Activity Contest from 2000 to
2230UTC. The exchange for both is signal report, serial number and
locator.

The all-mode 50MHz UK Activity Contest take place on Thursday from 2000
to 2230UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

The official results from the IARU HF Championship are in, with the EI
Headquarters team coming in 28th place with a combined 5143 contacts
and 289 multipliers, resulting in over 4.4 million points. The French
HQ team TM0HQ won this years' Championship with over 25.6 million
points, thanks to 17378 contacts and 486 multipliers from nearly every
inhabited place on earth. Detailed scores are logged at
contests.arrl.org
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The Master Clock

VLF SWL will be familiar with the steadily pulsed signal on 77.5 kHz.
DCF77 is a German longwave time signal and standard-frequency radio
station. It started service as a standard-frequency station on 1
January 1959. In June 1973 date and time information was added. Its
primary and backup transmitter are located in Mainflingen, about 25 km
south-east of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The transmitter generates a
nominal power of 50 kW, of which about 30 to 35 kW can be radiated via
a T-antenna, making it a very efficient antenna system - most of our HF
antennas would not achive such low losses. Most European radio clocks
and watches, and many industrial applications rely on its accurate time
signals. Its official range is 2,000 km, making in an interesting
propagation tool. Last week it has been announced that the service will
remain on air until at least 2031.
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The Propagation Horoscope

This weekend's geomagnetic disturbances, triggered by two large central
coronal holes will subside shortly. The remaining two active regions of
solar spots will turn out of view on Monday, therefore the X-ray flux
and proton flux will be in the low numbers for a few days. But it's the
calm before the next storms, for several active regions will come into
view again next weekend. Apart from a pronounced nightly dead zone on
the lower bands, all bands from 160 to 17m offer good DX, but 21Mhz and
up will only have occasional daytime openings.
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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 Friday.

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