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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday October 12th, 2025
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Updates from the IRTS

Our IRTS ComReg Liaison Officer is Jeffrey Roe EI7IRB. His role is to
maintain communications between IRTS and the ComReg team. This means he
regularly engages with ComReg to raise members' concerns and to help
clarify any regulatory or licensing queries. Maintaining a strong and
constructive working relationship with the ComReg team helps ensure
that discussions are productive and issues are addressed efficiently
and effectively. If any member would like him to raise a matter with
ComReg on their behalf, you are asked to please contact him via email
to comreg_liaison /at/ irts.ie

The next Irish Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate (HAREC)
examination takes place on the 15th of November 2025. The location for
the exam is the Clayton Hotel Dublin Airport, Stockhole Lane,
Clonshagh, Co Dublin, K67 X3H5. The closing date for applications is
Monday the 3rd of November.

There will be a morning and afternoon exam. Registration for the
morning exam will start at 10.30 a.m., and the exam will commence at 11
a.m. with a duration of two hours. Registration for the afternoon exam
will start at 2 p.m., and the exam will commence at 2.30 p.m., also
with a duration of two hours. Information and links to the application
form can be found on the IRTS website or you can contact Mick EI6IKB by
email to irts_exams /at/ irts.ie
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Next Amateur Radio Licensing Course Starts 30 October 2025

The next HAREC course begins on Thursday, 30th of October 2025. It will
be the ninth course offered by the National Shortwave Listeners Club.
It will be called Class India. As before, the course is free to attend,
but participants must be members of the NSWLC. Membership is free for
current IRTS members. Class India will be held online via Zoom, every
Thursday evening at 20:00 hours, with 26 sessions in total. The course
will run until the 7th of May 2026. Zoom links will be sent directly to
current NSWLC members once they follow the joining instructions.
Students are also invited to take part in the optional NSWLC Sunday
Socials, where they can meet tutors and experienced radio amateurs also
via Zoom. For more information, or to join the NSWLC, visit swl.ie
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Group

The next meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will be held at
The Princess Bar, Irishtown Upper, Clonmel, County Tipperary on
Wednesday the 15th of October 2025 at 8 p.m. The Eircode for this venue
is E91 PW90. The meeting is open to all and Short Wave Listeners are in
particular, very welcome to attend. For more information about
Tipperary Amateur Radio Group, visit their group website at
www.ei7trg.ie
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Shannon Basin Radio Club SSB Nets

Shannon Basin Radio Club's next weekly HF SSB DX net takes place on the
80m band next Thursday night, October 16th. The net frequency will be
in the region of 3.775MHz starting from 9 p.m. local time. Everyone is
welcome to call in and SWL reports are also most welcome via email to
admin /at/ sbrc.ie
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Jamboree on the Air

Jamboree on the Air and Jamboree on the Internet takes place next
weekend. Over that weekend but especially on Saturday the 18th, you are
asked to run a support station at your club, at your home QTH, or as a
field day activity on your own or with some other operators. You can
monitor the cluster for scout stations on HF, 2m, and QO-100.

The nature of such events is that there may be 5 to 30 scouts who have
never been on the radio with a licensed operator supervising, all
wanting to make contact. Radio scouting Ireland will provide a
JOTA-JOTI patch to all IE operators with 10 or more logged calls with
scout stations in Ireland or around the world. Email ADIF or CSV logs
to radioscoutingireland /at/ gmail.com
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EI Stations Needed for UKEICC DX SSB Contest on November 1st and 2nd

The UKEICC DX SSB contest takes place on the first weekend of November,
three weeks from now. This 24-hour contest has become very popular
with DX stations, but there is a need for more multiplier stations,
especially EI stations. DX stations score double points for working EI
and UK stations, and each EI county and UK district counts as a
multiplier. This guarantees that EI and UK stations are very popular,
so even a modest station can enjoy large pileups. A record number of
EI stations were heard in the UKEICC 80m contest on the 1st of October,
so please come join the fun in the DX contest on the 1st and 2nd of
November.
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VHF/Microwave News

The next planned ARISS SSTV event is planned to coincide with Jamboree
on the Air. The event will take place over three days starting on
Friday next, with four images being transmitted over that time.

On Saturday next, October the 18th, an IRTS all-mode activity event is
planned for the 2m band. It is not limited to EI and stations from
other countries are encouraged to take part. It is a fun event intended
to allow enough time to try out different modes like SSTV and digital,
as well as CW, SSB, and FM. Activities will start at 12 p.m. running
for at least three hours. This will also coincide with JOTA also to
help encourage 2m activity for new or trainee operators on the air.

Strong tropospheric ducting is forecast to last until midweek or later
according to the DX Info Centre. It is one of the best opportunities in
recent months to take advantage of lift conditions and try some
long-distance repeater and simplex contacts on VHF and above.
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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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