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Post AGM Report

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Many thanks to everyone for attending the AGM last Thursday. For those that were not present, there are some changes to the committee. So the new committee is:

  • Paul Norris – EI3ENB, Chairperson
  • Eamonn Kavanagh – EI3ENB, Vice Chairperson
  • John Burke – EI2JB, Secretary
  • Tommy Hallinan – EI2IT, Treasurer
  • John Ronan – EI7IG, P.R.O.

Plans are being made for a Christmas dinner, please contact John, EI7IG for details. As we are planning to have a Christmas dinner, the members present deemed it un-necessary to have a meeting in December, with the next meeting being scheduled for the 3rd of January. As the evenings are getting longer, the committee would like to encourage all members to come up on S18 to discuss any experiments they are conducting.

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Meeting!

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July is (almost) over, don’t forget to send your UHF logs off to the IRTS contest manager, also we have a meeting Thursday night, 20:00 Raheen House Clonmel, I hope to see you there.

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Slievenamon Shield

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It was great to see so many at a meeting last night. Considering the terrible weather it was very impressive. Good luck to those operating for the VHF/UHF Field Day this weekend, and we would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to submit logs of your 70cms contacts during the month of July for the Slievenamon Shield.

Slievenamon Shield

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Meeting

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Thursday evening (5th). As normal, the meeting is in Raheen House Clonmel, Co. Tipperary at 20:00, call in is on S18. All are welcome.

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Meeting

It was decided on Sunday evening, not to have a Club meeting this coming Thursday, as most of us had enough ‘radiospeak’ last weekend.

Activities

Walking Festival Roundup.

Many thanks to everyone who helped out over the weekend, there were roughly 250 walkers out over the weekend. It was pretty intense at times but in the end the following roles were assigned for the weekend:

Saturday:

‘A’ Walk: Conor O’Neill, EI4JN & John Burke, EI2JB

‘B’ Walk: Bernard Tyers (& YL), EI8FDB

‘C’ Walk: Eddie Kavanagh, EI3FFB & John McCarthy, EI8JA

Mobile Digi/Voice Repeater 1, Seamus Ryan, EI8EPB

Mobile Digi/Voice Repeater 2, Paul Norris, EI3ENB

Base: John Ronan, EI7IG

Sunday

‘A’ Walk: Tommy Hallinan, EI2IT

‘B’ Walk: Bernard Tyers (& YL), EI8FDB

‘C’ Walk: Eddie Kavanagh, EI3FFB & Joe Leahy, EI5GE

Mobile Digi/Voice Repeater 1, Seamus Ryan, EI8EPB

Mobile Digi/Voice Repeater 2, Conor O’Neill, EI4JN

Base: John Ronan, EI7IG, John Burke, EI2JB & Andy Jay, EI5JF

View during the walksSaturday Snapshot - xastir
The conditions were possibly the worst we have experienced at the walking festival, special thanks to everyone who travelled to help. And we look forward to seeing you again next year.

Activities

Galtee Mountain Walking Festival

Tipperary Amateur Radio Group, along with members of AREN are providing communication assistance over the Galty Walking Festival weekend, beginning tomorrow June 2nd. If you’re at a loose end over the weekend and feel you could have something to contribute, please listen out/call on our simplex frequency 145.450. TARG/AREN has been officially thanked for our participation by the walks’ organising commitee.

The event will also be the initial field trial of the GAISS project, so a very interesting weekend is in store.

If you’re coming to the walk and you have some spare radio equipment/antennas sitting there, bring it!
It’s better to be looking at it, than looking for it!

Hope to see you all there – Registration at “The Foot” bar at 9am, but we’ll be setting up radios etc some time before that – tune to 145.450, this will be monitored.

 

Activities

Tipperary Amateur Radio Grp – Counties Contest

On the 9th April three members of Tipperary Amateur Radio Group staged a field event to participate in the IRTS 2m Counties Contest under their callsign EI7T. Our original plan was to take the Argo out of hibernation and go up Slievenamon, but unluckily for us, the heather was being burned off the mountain all weekend, so we didn’t fancy calling CQ from an inferno. So Plan B was to go to an elevated site at Tommy’s QTH.

Pictured L to R: John Ronan EI7IG; Tommy Hallinan EI2IT; Seamus Ryan EI8EPB
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John Ronan EI7IG; Tommy Hallinan EI2IT; Seamus Ryan EI8EPB

Below was taken just after the contest had ended, the day never really opened up, it stayed overcast and with a little nip in the wind, still a very pleasant day though. Two of the three of us forgot our ‘nosebag’ so we didn’t delay packing up and getting on our way, despite a scare of missing car keys (7IG’s) for a period, we were gone after 45 minutes.

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