LIMERICK RADIO CLUB

Limerick Radio Club has been invited by the Foynes Flying Boat Museum to operate a special Amateur Radio Station in conjunction with the commemorative Transatlantic Re-Enactment Flight 1937 from Newfoundland Canada to Foynes Ireland.

A special call-sign has been allocated to the station EI70FOY. The station will be on the air from the 6th to the 8th of July 2007. On HF, the station will operate from 80 to 10 meters. It will also operate on VHF / UHF using the EI70FOY call-sign.

A special QSL card, commemorating the Re-Enactment Flight, will be sent to all stations worked over the three-day event. Send QSL cards to the Club’s QSL Manager Alan Cronin. Limerick Radio Club can be contacted at ei4lrc*eircom.net or at http://www.qsl.net/ei4lrc.

AVERY GIVES A SIGNAL REPORT

The Handiham World Weekly E-Letter
FOR THE WEEK OF 27 JUNE 2007

Okay! The readability and signal strength system set up years ago sure got a work out in this contest. For those who might not know about this system, readability is numbered 1 to 5, 5 being the best and strength is numbered 1 to 9 with 9 being the best.

What I thought was kind of funny was what I heard over and over again during this contest both in past years and again this year. What I heard was:

"You're 5-9, 59 (Then the section, in this case Minnesota) Solid copy. Please repeat. Please repeat your name and section."

Somehow if the person is copying 5-9, which means “the best you can get”, it makes no sense to me as to why they would need a repeat. If maybe the report was 2-5, I could understand the repeat.

I think if you are going to give a signal report, it should be an honest one, don’t you?

So for now 73 & DX from K0HLA - Avery