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Irish Radio Transmitters Society
Radio News Bulletin
Sunday May 31st, 2026
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News from the IRTS
The IRTS would like to warmly congratulate all newly licensed amateur radio operatorswho recently passed the HAREC exam and look forward to hearing your new callsigns on the air in the coming weeks. For IRTS members with a shiny new callsign, please contact the IRTS Membership Records Officer David Gardiner EI3IXB by email to memrecords@irts.ie to advise him of your new callsign for membership records purposes.
New licensees are a vital part of keeping local clubs and repeaters active, you can find a local club onirts.ie/clubs, and repeaters near you at irts.ie/repeaterswhich also offers ready-made files that can be used directly in many radio programming applications.
You are also encouraged to create online operator profiles on popular sites such asqrz.com,qrzcq.com, andhamqth.com. These profiles help other operators learn more about you and your new station.
Complementary to your IRTS membership, you benefit from a public liability insurance that covers parks on the air and summits on the air activities in Ireland, UK, and across the EU.
Candidates who wish to re-sit the HAREC exam are encouraged to checkirts.ieregularly for the upcoming exam dates.
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May 31st Deadline for the Summer Edition of Echo Ireland
The deadline for the summer edition of Echo Ireland is today, May 31st. If any member or club has news or reports for inclusion, please forward these to echoireland@irts.ie
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HF Newsreaders Required
HF newsreaders are required to join our current panel of newsreaders for the weekly Sunday morning IRTS news bulletins on HF especially for the 80m band. There is very little involved in reading a bulletin and no experience is necessary. If any licensed IRTS member feels like that they would be interested in becoming part of the IRTS newsreaders panel or if you require more information, please get in touch with the IRTS news editor, Keith EI5IN via email to newsteam@irts.ie
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Tipperary Amateur Radio Group
The next meeting of the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will be held at Raheen House Hotel, Clonmel, Co Tipperary on Wednesday the 3rd of June 2026 at 8 p.m. The Eircode for this venue is E91 AC82. The meeting is open to all, and short-wave listeners are very welcome to attend also. For more information about Tipperary Amateur Radio Group, you can send an email toei7trg@gmail.com
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Parks on the Air Rover Attempt by TOG Hackerspace
TOG Hackerspace is very excited to be teaming up with their friends in South Dublin Radio Club for their first Parks on the Air Rover attempt. Today, the June Bank Holiday Sunday, they will be all over Dublin activating parks as EI0TOG. You are welcome to join them at one of the parks or catch them on the air. More details can be found at tog.ie/radio
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Dublin Maker Returns This August
A major event for tech enthusiasts, tinkerers, and builders returns late this summer. The Dublin Maker festival has been confirmed for Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd of August, taking place at Leopardstown Racecourse. Dublin Maker stands as one of Irelands most vibrant showcases of invention, engineering, craft, and curiosity. Firmly established as a flagship celebration of the maker movement, the event functions as a hands-on, family-friendly festival where ideas are not just displayed, but actively demonstrated, built, and shared. At its heart, the festival is a "show and tell" for all ages. This creates a unique space where engineers, hobbyists, artists, educators, and electronics tinkerers come together to share how things work, how they are made, and how creative ideas become reality.
Amateur radio clubs and technical communities play a central role in the festival, providing a fantastic public platform to showcase the technical side of the hobby, from homebrew equipment to live field operations. TOG Hackerspace and the South Dublin Radio Club will be returning to the event. Having both participated in the festival for many years, they are an important and highly popular part of the weekend's showcase. Further details, including call-for-makers information and club registration, can be found on dublinmaker.ie which is the official Dublin Maker website.
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Propagation Update
On the HF bands, solar activity is changeable with the solar flux index on a downward trend, and the HF bands are heavily disrupted. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center noted a risk of daytime radio blackouts from minor flares, while closer to home, the Magnetometer Network of Ireland issued an alert after recording a major storm with a local K-index of 6 at Dunsink. This combination is causing high noise floors and heavy signal absorption, particularly on northern routes. The HF bands will remain somewhat volatile early this week as the ionosphere recovers, leaving the lower frequencies as the most reliable choice for domestic paths.
In contrast, frequencies above 30 MHz are experiencing excellent late-spring openings due to the Sporadic-E season. Intense ionisation has opened short-skip paths across Europe on both the 8-metre and 6-metre bands. On 8 metres, strong FT8 signals have been logged from Ireland into continental Europe over distances approaching 1,500 kilometres, while the 6-metre band remains wide open. Operators should monitor 8 and 6 metres closely, as these openings can appear rapidly throughout the day and evening. Finally, the Hepburn tropospheric forecast at dxinfocentre.com shows a stable, standard atmospheric profile for the early part of the week. No major long-distance tropo openings are expected immediately, but operators should check local beacons for minor enhancements between Ireland and the UK during the cooler morning and evening hours.
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VHF/Microwave News
An exciting Amateur Radio on the International Space Station school contact is scheduled for next week. Two schools in France will take part in a joint contact on Friday, June 5th, with the space station pass locked in for 09:26 UTC. Listeners across Ireland and Europe can monitor 145.800 MHz FM to hear the astronaut's live responses to the students. The space station will be using the callsign OR4ISS for this event, and the latest operational status of the ship's transceivers can be checked at ariss.org.
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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 the radio news editor Keith EI5IN via email to newsteam@irts.ie with the details. The deadline each week is midnight on Thursdays. Items intended for inclusion in Echo Ireland, which is the IRTS quarterly journal, should be sent to echoireland@irts.ie
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