Worldwide Digital Amateur Radio QSO Party

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The 6th annual event of the Worldwide Digital Amateur Radio QSO Party will take place on 23-24th September 2016, beginning with an 'around VK Friday night' event.

Event organiser, Peter Cossins VK3BFG has made an open invitation to all involved in amateur television to get involved.

The 2015 event successfully involved 655 viewers from Australasia, Europe, Asia and both South and North America.

This years event will be anchored by David Carwana, who will be presenting the event from repater VK5DMC located in Port Pirie, South Australia. Art Towslee WA8RMC from Ohio and Don Hill KE6BXT from California will also assist in presenting duties.

The event, which started in 2011 will combine televised segments on repeaters either by direct contact or via Skype.

Irish Repeater - EI7FXR Upgraded

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The Southern Ireland Repeater Group's 70cm repeater EI7FXR located at Farmer's Cross in Cork City was upgraded recently to a Motorola MTR 2000, replacing the long serving Motorola MC Compact that has been in service on the site for many years.

The new unit has a power output of 30 watts to the antenna and is more sensitive on receive than the old one, which should improve coverage across the Cork region.

Work was carried out by Neil Powell EI3JE.

CEPT Novice Licence and HAREC Changes

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Free and unbureaucratic short-term cross-border amateur radio operation is set to be expanded to more countries outside Europe 

Non CEPT countries can now join the framework of the CEPT licence and the CEPT Novice licence in a much simplified process thanks to an initiative of IARU Region 1 to change the relevant recommendations. 

At the same time the syllabus for the Harmonized Amateur Radio Examination Certificate (HAREC) has been amended to include questions on the Radio Amateur Code of Conduct and on operating practices. The changes were approved by the Working Group Frequency Management (WGFM) of CEPT and are now in force.

Full Story -  http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/regulatory-affairs

CEPT Novice Licence ECC Recommendation (05)06 - 
http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/official/pdf/REC0506.PDF

CEPT Entry Level Licence ECC Report 089 -
http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/official/pdf/ECCRep089.pdf

CEPT ECC Recommendation T/R 61-01 and T/R 61-02 - 
http://www.erodocdb.dk/docs/doc98/official/pdf/TR6101.pdf and
http://www.erodocdb.dk/docs/doc98/official/pdf/TR6102.pdf

CEPT Working Group Frequency Management - 
http://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/wg-fm/client/introduction/