Walter Kronkite, KB2GSD
The well-known, former US TV news anchor Walter
Cronkite has died after a long illness. He was 92.
He Narrated the "Amateur Radio Today" production by the
ARRL. The ARRL has presented him with many awards.
His love of Space science and the NASA Moon missions
won our admiration. His coverage of those showed his
interest in technology. May he rest in peace.
AO-51 Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Special Event
Congratulations to any ground stations that received
AO-51 during the limited passes during the special
event period.
These stations ware treated to a replay of the Apollo
11 Eagle communications, commerating the 40th
anniversary. Stations which ware SSTV ready ware also
treated to a Robot 36 SSTV Image.
Using AO-51 & special event there are some uploads of
activity on youtube.com from stations receiving the
pass.For anyone to take a look and listen to what they
have missed.
Send QSL requests marked "Apollo 11" with SASE to the
AMSAT office at 850 Sligo Ave. Suite 600, Silver
Spring, MD 20910 U.S.A
Radio Rallies
C.R.C. Rally 2009
The Cork Radio Club is holding their Rally in the
Montenotte Hotel in Cork on the 13th of September.
Special rates for those who wish to stay overnight just
mention Cork radio Club.
Food all day, plenty of parking & doors open at 11am.
All the usual traders will be there.
Mayo Rally
The 2009 Mayo Rally will be held on Sunday November
22nd in Castlebar. The venue is The Welcome Inn Hotel,
Where the 2008 rally was held at short notice, and
doors open at 11.00am.
Rally Director, Padraic Baynes, EI9JA, is now taking
bookings for stands at the Rally. He can be contacted
on 087 6957154. The hotel will be offering a Rally
special deal for accommodation. Full details will be
available soon.
EI2MOG on the Air!
The Dundalk Amateur Radio Society are now operating a Echolink internet gateway link on 145.2125Mhz simplex.
The link has been issued the callsign EI2MOG by Comreg and node number 57007 by Echolink.
EI2MOG will operate 24/7 from it's location at Mount Oriel, Co.Louth. Coverage reports are now welcome via email to info@ei7dar.com .
Further details can be found at www.ei7dar.com
Here are the details of the new gateway:
EI2MOG Echolink Gateway
CALLSIGN - EI2MOG AUTO ID EVERY 20MINS
LOCATION - MOUNT ORIEL
NODE NO. 57007
GRID REF - N98165 83282
LAT:53.789983 LONG:-6.511295
METRE ABOVE SEA LEVEL - 251M
MOTOROLA GM300
ECHOLINK INTERFACE
SIGMA CAT145 3dB ANTENNA @32M ON MAST
FREQUENCY - TX / RX 145.2125Mhz
TX POWER - 15 WATTS
ACCESS - CARRIER
IOTA Rathlin Isl
Sean EI4GK, Pete EI4GZB, Declan EI9HQ, Pete GI4VIV and
Joe EI7GY are back on Rathlin Island again for this
year's IOTA contest. They will be based in the East
Lighthouse, the same QTH as last year. The call sign
for the contest will be GI0MPG.
IOTA South Dublin Radio Club and the City of Belfast
Radio Amateur Society
EJ0GI are participating in the IOTA Contest (DXpedition
- multi-op, HP section ) from Inis Oirr, EU-006. The
combined team from South Dublin Radio Club and the City
of Belfast Radio Amateur Society have travelled to the
Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, hoping to build
upon the successes of recent years.
Some team members may be active under their home calls
outside of the Contest between 23 - 27 July. QSL via
EI2SDR (information available on QRZ.com).
DXCluster now on Twitter
GB7MBC, one of Europe's busiest DXClusters, is now
on Twitter.
It provides such things as DX news, IOTA, Contests and
Solar information.
If you wish to follow it on Twitter, just go to this
URL and add it to your list of 'tweets' you follow.
http://twitter.com/GB7MBC
DX News
XE1/EI7GK.
Paddy EI7GK will be QRV from his daughter's house in
Mexico during July. Listen out for XE1/EI7GK on 14.268
MHz SSB + or - QRM.
Past experience shows the best time for propagation
between EI and XE is early morning 06.00 to 08.00.
Irish time. Remember that Mexico is 6 hours behind EI.
Paddy will be delighted to work EI and GI stations.
Swaziland
A DXpedition will operate from Swaziland between 30th
July and 11th August 2009. The purpose of this
expedition is to provide an amateur radio station at an
International Scout Camp near Manzini.
Using the callsign 3DA0SS and also a station at Hawane
Resort near Mbabane where previous DXpeditions to
Swaziland have operated from. The Hawane station will
operate under the individual callsigns of the
expedition team.
Team members are – David GI4FUM 3DA0DJ Tony G4LDL
3DA0TB Gerry M0VAA 3DA0VA Malcolm GM3TAL 3DA0MH Mike
NC4MM 3DA0MM Yuri UT5EL 3DA0EL
There is an established HF antenna farm at the Hawane
site and we will operate 2 HF stations around the clock
depending on propagation and band openings. We plan to
operate on or near to scout frequencies.
Requests for skeds should be sent to GI4FUM /at/ 3da0ss.net
QSLs for this DXpedition should be sent via GI4FUM
Further details and photographs are available at
http://www.gi4fum.co.uk
This week in History
1897 Marconi registers the "Wireless Telegraph and
Signal Company".
1899 Royal Navy successfully trials Marconi sets during
exercises.
Sean EI4GK, Pete EI4GZB, Declan EI9HQ, Pete GI4VIV and
Joe EI7GY are back on Rathlin Island again for this
year's IOTA contest. They will be based in the East
Lighthouse, the same QTH as last year. The call sign
for the contest will be GI0MPG.
IOTA South Dublin Radio Club and the City of Belfast
Radio Amateur Society
EJ0GI are participating in the IOTA Contest (DXpedition
- multi-op, HP section ) from Inis Oirr, EU-006. The
combined team from South Dublin Radio Club and the City
of Belfast Radio Amateur Society have travelled to the
Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, hoping to build
upon the successes of recent years.
Some team members may be active under their home calls
outside of the Contest between 23 - 27 July. QSL via
EI2SDR (information available on QRZ.com).
DXCluster now on Twitter
GB7MBC, one of Europe's busiest DXClusters, is now
on Twitter.
It provides such things as DX news, IOTA, Contests and
Solar information.
If you wish to follow it on Twitter, just go to this
URL and add it to your list of 'tweets' you follow.
http://twitter.com/GB7MBC
DX News
XE1/EI7GK.
Paddy EI7GK will be QRV from his daughter's house in
Mexico during July. Listen out for XE1/EI7GK on 14.268
MHz SSB + or - QRM.
Past experience shows the best time for propagation
between EI and XE is early morning 06.00 to 08.00.
Irish time. Remember that Mexico is 6 hours behind EI.
Paddy will be delighted to work EI and GI stations.
Swaziland
A DXpedition will operate from Swaziland between 30th
July and 11th August 2009. The purpose of this
expedition is to provide an amateur radio station at an
International Scout Camp near Manzini.
Using the callsign 3DA0SS and also a station at Hawane
Resort near Mbabane where previous DXpeditions to
Swaziland have operated from. The Hawane station will
operate under the individual callsigns of the
expedition team.
Team members are – David GI4FUM 3DA0DJ Tony G4LDL
3DA0TB Gerry M0VAA 3DA0VA Malcolm GM3TAL 3DA0MH Mike
NC4MM 3DA0MM Yuri UT5EL 3DA0EL
There is an established HF antenna farm at the Hawane
site and we will operate 2 HF stations around the clock
depending on propagation and band openings. We plan to
operate on or near to scout frequencies.
Requests for skeds should be sent to GI4FUM /at/ 3da0ss.net
QSLs for this DXpedition should be sent via GI4FUM
Further details and photographs are available at
http://www.gi4fum.co.uk
This week in History
1897 Marconi registers the "Wireless Telegraph and
Signal Company".
1899 Royal Navy successfully trials Marconi sets during
exercises.
Thanks to the IRTS for the info.
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