Many thanks to EI2IT, EI3ENB, EI8EPB, and EI7IG for activating EI7T/P for the contest. It was good to get up Slievenamon again this year (it was on fire last year), and  to hear so many  operators on the band.

EI3ENB, EI7IG, EI2IT, Jim Ronan (Mechanic!), EI8EPB behind the camera.

EI3ENB making tea, EI2IT dismantling, EI7IG behind the camera.

More pictures available here.

Good luck to all that took part!

Also note, that we have a meeting again on Thursday the 3rd of April.

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

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.

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.

 

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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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.

TARG Chairperson, John EI7IG, recently attended a South East Mountain Rescue Association excercise in the Galtees (on behalf of AREN) and is pictured below with Conor, EI4JN and Donal McNamara (SEMRA)

Persuaded the XYL and her sister to go walking yesterday, and took the opportunity to excercise the Conterra-inc Radio Harness. We walked up to the top of Suí Finn (Seefin) in the Monavullagh mountains.

I managed to raise EI2IT, EI5JF and M3MEL (Cornwall) on simplex from the cairn on the top, and EI1CN on the SEARG repeater system.

All is quiet on Helvick Head!

The next meeting of Tipperary Amateur Group will be held in the usual venue of Raheen House Hotel in Clonmel at 8pm on the first wednsday of june.All are welcome