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   covers the Cork city and surrounding areas, is back on air since Friday
   January 31st. A work around was performed to address an intermodulation
   interference issue that was causing trouble on the repeater. This
   involved removing the repeaters transmit CTCSS tone. The repeater still
   needs a 103.5 Hz tone to open it but if you can't hear the repeater on
   your own radio you will have to remove the receive tone and just set it
   to normal squelch.

   Their digital repeater EI7FXD on 430.250 MHz is also back on air. This
   has been changed from a DMR only to an MMDVM multimode repeater which
   is active on DMR, Yaesu System Fusion, D-Star plus standalone analogue
   with a 103.5Hz tone. It's all based around a Raspberry PI. Sometimes
   these lock up so it's on a weekly timer to fully reboot once a week if
   this happens. The team included Neil EI3JE, Jeremy EI5GM, and John
   EI8JA. The group wishes to also thank John EI8IR for his assistance and
   for providing the broadband link.
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Radio Rally Updates

   Phoenix Amateur Radio Club's annual radio rally take place next weekend
   on Sunday February 16th, 2025. The venue is Coolmine Community School,
   Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. Doors open at 10 a.m. and entry will cost
   five euro.

   Limerick Clare Amateur Radio Club's annual rally takes place on the 9th
   of March in Treacy's Oakwood Hotel in Shannon. Contact Dermot Gleeson,
   EI2GT, at DermotGleeson1 /at/ gmail.com to book a table. Only bookings
   made via email will be accepted.

   IRTS Awards curator Mark EI4FNB will be able to collect returning IRTS
   awards in Coolmine next week and at the Limerick Clare ARC rally on
   March 9th. For anyone who needs to get in contact with Mark regarding
   return of trophies, you can find his contact details on the contact
   section on irts.ie.

   Lough Erne Amateur Club's Radio Rally will be held on Sunday the 18th
   of May 2025. The venue is the Share Discovery Village, 221 Lisnaskea
   Road, Lisnaskea, Enniskillen BT92 0JZ. Doors will open at 11 a.m. Entry
   costs five euro or five pounds which includes a ticket for the draw.
   The rally will include a bring and buy and usual facilities including
   food and refreshments. Further details are available at
   LoughErneRadioClub.co.uk.
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Items for Inclusion in Next Week's Radio News

   That is the news for this week. Items for inclusion in next week's
   radio news can be submitted by email to newsteam /at/ irts.ie for
   automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. The
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