UPDATE

Rallies

Rallies during March include the Radio Hobbies and
Electronics Fair in the Limerick Radisson SAS Hotel on
Sunday 8th March, The Lagan Valley Amateur Radio
Society Rally in Hillsborough, Co. Down on Saturday
14th March and the Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club Rally
in Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh on Sunday 29th March.

More details of these events are also available on the
IRTS web site at www.irts.ie/rallies

QSY of AMTOR Mailbox

The AMTOR-mailbox DA5TOR, SELCALL "ATOR" will move its
40m access frequency in order to comply with the new
IARU Region-1 bandplan per 29th of March. The new
frequencies are 7047 kHz, 7049 kHz and 7051 kHz. The
access frequencies on the other bands remain unchanged
and still allow worldwide access.

All frequencies and technical details of the mailbox
can be found on www.amtor.de . The new activity-center
of AMTOR is 7042 khz for direct connections.



Special Event Station

GB5SPD St. Patrick's Day

The Foyle & District Amateur Radio Club MN0AKU have
been issued a Special Event Callsign - GB5SPD - to
celebrate Saint Patrick's Day 2009.

The Club will be on the air to celebrate this event
from Saturday, 14th March until Tuesday, 17th
March, 2009



Certificate for operating VO-52

AMSAT India will issue a certificate to radio amateurs
who establish two-way contact through the VO-52 ham
radio satellite between now and May 5th. The first
fifty certificates will be sponsored and includes
postage. After the 50 certificates have been issued a
fee will apply.

Please send your QSL card containing the details of
your QSO on VO-52 to AMSAT India,No. 201, 2nd Main
Road, Mahalakshmi Layout, Bangalore 560086 India. Make
sure to include the mailing address where you would
like to have the certificate sent.


History this week

1876 Bell - Granted US patent for his telephone.


European PSK Club Stations

The following European PSK Club stations have agreed to
make an effort to be active solely on 10.140 on the
29th as a fáilte for EI stations

CS2EPC, DK0EPC, K1EPC, M0EPC, MI0EPC, N4EPC, PA30EPC

The above is the list so far although more stations may
come available on the day.



5 MHz Renewals

As we told you recently the present 5 MHz permits
expire on the expiry date of the associated licence and
an application to ComReg is required for their
continuance.

Where any change is being made in the equipment or the
antenna being used, the location of the station or in
the nature of the experiments being carried out then a
full application must be made on ComReg form 02/07R2
Radio Experimenter Licence: Additional Authorisation
(Powers and Frequencies) which is available on the
ComReg website at www.comreg.ie

Where no changes are being made a letter or e-mail
(derek.oreilly /at/ comreg.ie ) requesting continuance of the permission will suffice but it must explicitly
state that no changes are being made to the equipment,
antenna or in the nature of the experiments being
carried out or the location of the station. Complying
with these requirements will simplify the processing of
these applications.


Thanks to the IRTS for the above info.