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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday September 14th, 2025
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IRTS Hamfest 2025

We wish to thank all the clubs, operators, traders, and members of the
public that travelled from far and wide to Mullingar for IRTS Hamfest
2025. Over the two days of this highly successful and enjoyable event,
a very wide range of amateur radio-related topics and expertise were
available to try out. Spread across the large parkland site, activities
included antenna construction and contesting, low power and high-power
operation, low-earth orbit and geostationary satellite operation,
Earth-Moon-Earth communications, packet radio, emergency
communications, soldering and construction, radio programming and
problem solving, a car boot sale, and many more.

We were delighted to welcome the large number of participants from all
parts of Ireland as well as those that travelled especially for it from
other parts of Europe. We hope everyone enjoyed all the activities on
offer. Feedback and ideas about how to make the next event even better
are welcome via email to hamfest /at/ irts.ie
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DX Foile 2025

The EIDX group is hosting this year's DX Foile on Saturday October
12th.It will be held in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. This year's
convention will see presentations from some of the biggest DXpeditions
throughout 2025 and include VU4AX, VK9C, VK9X, V73WW, and of course not
forgetting EIDXG's own 6Y7EI activity from Jamaica earlier this year.

Day tickets need to be pre-booked in advance. For further information
please contact David,ei9fbb /at/ gmail.com or by telephone at 087
7444777 to make your reservation. This promises to be another sell-out
event, so you are advised to secure your tickets as soon as possible.
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VHF/Microwave News

The next 145 Alive event will run on the September 27th, 2025. If
interested in taking part as a net control station, please email
145aliveuk /at/ gmail.com

The RSGB s LoRa balloon challenge takes place next Saturday, the 20th
of September. A balloon equipped with a LoRa digipeater will be
launched at 11 a.m. local time heading for high altitude. The launch
site will be Welshpool in the UK which should enable operators near the
east coast of EI to try their luck with the event also. The balloon is
expected to be airborne for approximately two hours reaching an
altitude of 90,000 feet. The uplink frequency of the cross-frequency
digipeater on board the high-altitude balloon will be 439.850MHz and
the downlink frequency will be 433.850MHz. The RSGB has published a
very helpful instruction guide for those interested in getting involved
in the fun. Further information including this guide may be found at
rsgb.org

The Hepburn tropospheric propagation forecast indicates a potential
opportunity toward the latter part of the coming week for VHF
operators. It may be short-lived but is worth trying some CQ calls and
you may be surprised.

The packet radio network in Ireland continues to grow and new nodes are
welcome. The Eirpak network operates on 144.950 MHz using 3600 baud
packet radio at present. If interested in learning more, contact
vhf_manager /at/ irts.ie and they will connect you with the experts who
can help.
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IARU Intruder Watch Service Newsletter

The August edition of the IARU Region 1 Intruder Watch Service
newsletter has been published. There was no indication of intruders
taking a break during the month. Over the horizon radars continue to
top the list of intruders in the amateur radio bands along with Russian
Ukrainian radio war activity, navy, and fishermen. This free report can
be downloaded from the Monitoring System section of the IARU website
located at www.iaru-r1.org
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Contests and Events

The IRTS 2m and 70cm counties contest takes place today, Sunday
September 14th. The 70cm contest kicks off at 2 p.m. running for 30
minutes. Immediately afterwards, the 2m contest starts and will run for
90 minutes ending at 4 p.m. All times are local.

The next UKIECC contest in their 80m series is on CW, on Wednesday the
24th of September 2025. You can learn more about this at www.ukeicc.com
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Texas Radio Shortwave

For shortwave band listeners, Texas Radio Shortwave will be active
during October. Programming for European listeners will be broadcast on
October 3rd, 5th, 8th, and the 31st. Frequencies used will be 6160kHz
or 3975kHz. Programs for European audiences will be transmitted from
Germany using either 1kW into a crossed dipole antenna or 10kW into a
vertical antenna. Specific times and further information may be found
at the Texas Radio Shortwave Facebook page.
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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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