Irish Amateur Station Licence Examination

The next Irish Amateur Station Licence Examination will be held on Thursday 27th November 2014 in the ComReg Offices in Dublin.

Irish Amateur Station Licence Examination - 27 November 2014

It is necessary to download the application form from the web page and forward the completed form and the appropriate fee so as to secure a place for the examination. If you pay the fee on line you must still complete and forward the application form. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Tuesday 11th November.

Full details, including entry procedure, examination fee and how to pay the fee on line are available at http://www.irts.ie/exam.

Three previous exam papers - http:// www.irts.ie/downloads

Amateur radio ham receives Nobel Prize

Radio amateur Professor William E. Moerner WN6I has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Moerner, WN6I, of Los Altos, a chemistry professor at Stanford University, will share the prestigious award equally with two other researchers — Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell — for their work in high-resolution microscopy / nanoscopy.

For many years scientists had believed that an optical microscope could never yield better than 0.2 micrometer resolution. The three scientists over came that limitation through what the Nobel panel called “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”

Read the Stanford News article - http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/moerner-nobel-prize-100814.html

Russian Radar and Voice of Iran on 21 MHz

The IARU Monitoring System newsletter reports a Russian radar covered the entire 21 MHz amateur radio band and a spurious emission from Voice of Iran is also causing interference

The International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring System (IARUMS) Region 1 September 2014 newsletter - http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2014/news1409.pdf

Reports of Amateur Band intruders can be logged on the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Logger - http://peditio.net/intruder/bluechat.cgi

Monitor the shortwave bands on-line with a web based SDR receiver - http://www.websdr.org/