IRTS AGM

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society's 74th Annual General Meeting was held last weekend at the Vienna Woods Hotel in Cork and was hosted by Cork Radio Club.

The weekends activities kicked off with the annual dinner on Saturday night and in the company of the Lord Mayor of Cork Councillor Deirdre Clune and her husband, John Breen from the Department of Communications and Derek O’Reilly and his wife Veronique representing the Communications Regulator ComReg, sixty guests enjoyed a fabulous meal and a very sociable night.

John Breen in his address dealt with the threat to bands currently allocated to experimenters and amateurs worldwide and pointed out that lack of activity on any band could lead to a reallocation to commercial users who are continuously seeking additional frequency allocations. This particularly applies to allocations above 1 GigaHertz.

Sunday’s Annual General Meeting was well attended and the highlight was the handing over of the presidential chain of office to our new president Fr. Finbarr Buckley EI1CS.

Tributes were paid to the outgoing President Sean Donelan who has completed his three years in office. Sean also served as Treasurer for many years. He will still be with the committee as an ex-officio officer for the coming year.

The meeting also marked the departure of the outgoing
Secretary and Treasurer. Both Noel Walsh EI2JC and Brendan de hOra EI3GV are leaving the committee after years of dedicated service and deserve our sincere thanks for their contribution to the success of the Society in recent years.

The new committee was elected as follows: President Fr. Finbarr Buckley EI1CS, Vice President Paul Martin EI2CA and committee members Thos EI2JD, Joe EI3IX, Dave EI4BZ, Peter EI4HX, Paul EI5DI, Fergus EI6IB, Sean EI7CD, John EI7IG, Seamus EI8BP, Brian EI8IU and John EI8JA.

The new committee will meet at the Montague Hotel in
Portlaoise on Saturday May 13th at 11 a.m. when the main item on the agenda will be the allocation of jobs for the coming year. Clubs are invited to send representatives to this meeting.

The Vienna Woods proved an excellent venue for the weekend activities and we would like to thank the traders and patrons who turned up to make it such a success.

At this year's AGM the Pete Daly Cup was awarded to EI7M. The Paddy Smith Cup went to EI3Z and the IRTS HF Shield went to EI1DD. The Thomond Shield was awarded to EI9E, the IRTS VHF Shield went to EI7T and the EI7IQ 6 Metre National Shield went to EI5FK. The EI7IQ 4 metre National Shield was awarded to EI3IO and the Slievenamon Trophy went to EI2HI. The IOTA Off-Shore Trophy went to EJ2MT, the IRTS DX Trophy went to EI2II and the Hal Hodgins Key to EI9ES.

More awards will be announced in next week's news.

Source: IRTS

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