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The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club,  EI0EL  , plans to operate from bunkers along the east coast of Ireland between B/EI-0001 and B/EI-0008 from 1100 (local) on 15 February 2025 for one to two hours.  The initial objective is to seek to establish a 4m net on 70.350 MHz FM between the locations.  Operators will then to move to activate each bunkers on 40m (frequency to be announced) and other suitable bands.  Activators will alert and spot their locations on the WWBOTA cluster.  Please feel free to call in and get involved at any point! Bunkers planned for activation today, Saturday 15 February 2025 from 11:00 B/EI-0001, Ballagan Point Lookout Post (LOP 1)  Locator: IO63WX Worked All Ireland: J 20  B/EI-0003 Clogher Head Lookout Post (LOP 3) Locator: IO63VT  Worked All Ireland: O 18 B/EI-0006 Howth Head Lookout Post (LOP 6) Locator: IO63XI Worked All Ireland: O 23 B/EI-0008 Bray Head Lookout Post (LOP 8) Locator: IO63XE Worked All Ireland: O...

We are in the process of planning another 4 Summits (might be just 3, we'll see what happens) on 4m between Christmas and New Years Day.  The summits will be on the east coast of Ireland in Wicklow and/or Cooley Mountains. So QSO's into GW and north east G will be highly probable, especially on 4m.  The primary event date is Thursday 29th Dec. with Friday 30th as an alternate date.  The weather will be the main factor. We'll post an update soon with summit locations and frequency's More info here too https://wiki.oarc.uk/xmas-elarc-portable-day-2022

Members of East Leinster Amateur Radio Club, the 98th Dublin Scouts and the 7th Kildare Scouts have teamed up to activate EI-98-JOTA (Dublin) and EI-7-JOTS (Kildare) for the 2022 JOTA-JOTI weekend. We look forward to making contact with you by HF (80/40/20) , VHF (2m/4m) or DMR over the weekend. 15-16 October 2022. HF 80m  3.690 Mhz +/- QRM 40m  7.090 Mhz +/- QRM 20m 14.290 Mhz +/- QRM Listen out for us on DMR Talk Group 272907 JOTA IRL. Local VHF 2 Meter Repeaters EI2KPR - 145.7625 -0.6 Mhz  88.5 Hz (Dublin) EI2CCR - 145.6750 -0.6 Mhz 110.9 Hz (Dublin/Kildare) EI7MLD (DMR) - 430.3000 +9.0 Mhz CC1 (Kildare) Simplex on 2 Meters and 4 Meters 2m VHF Simplex - 145.5000 Mhz FM +/- QRM 4m VHF Simplex -  70.4500 Mhz FM +/- QRM 98th Dublin Scouts location is the "Bog of the Ring Scout Campsite, Dublin, Ireland" Grid IO63VN29 QSL via QRZ EI98JOTA 98 Dublin Scout Group 7th Kildare Rathangan Scouts location is the "Rathangan Scout Den, Kildare, Ireland" Gri...

The  East Leinster Amateur Radio Club, operating under the callsign EI0EL, will be activating Wicklow Head Lighthouse IE0026 on Saturday 20 August 2022 as part of the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend.   We will primarily be operating on HF, Phone, in an effort to contact other international lighthouses and lightships. In the spirit of the Club's activities on 4m, we will also be operating on 70.400 Mhz FM, +/- QRM. Coverage and range from this location will likely be somewhat restricted.   We would like to hear from others who are planning on taking part in the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend and will be on the air on Saturday. It would be great to try and organise a QSO., HF on 80m with an antenna in NVIS configuration would be best suited to this

Thanks to all SWL's and to all that called in and provided signal reports to today's IRTS 4m News.   Todays news was broadcast from: Dunmurry Hill, Kildare  Locator : IO63ME87 ASL : 234m   Frequency : 70.400 Mhz Mode : FM   Radio : Anytone AT-588 Power : 40 Watts Antenna : 5/8 Wave Hawkins Viper Portable 4m Antenna Antenna mounted 10m above ground on a portable telescopic mast.   Thanks to Paraic, EI9IRB, for droping by to say hello and for helping with setting up and taking down the portable station. It was great to meet you and we look forward to seeing you again. Thanks Artur, EI9IKB, who is newly licensed and built his own 4m antenna for calling in with a report. We enjoy hearing new callsigns on 4m.   Today we received from call in's from:   EI4DP Ian operating static mobile from the Wicklow Gap EI5IAB Dom operating portable from Slievecorragh SOTA Summit Reference  EI/IE-039 EI6IRB Michael operating Portable from Saggart Hill SOTA Summit Ref...

Club members made their way to their allocated summits on Saturday morning. This is the first time some of these summits have been activated on 4m. Ad-hoc check-ins were maintained between members on route via EI2KPR. Tom (EI5IEB) and Johnnie (EI6IPB) setup a portable station on SOTA Ref EI/IE-021 Clermont Carn. The station consisted of a SOTA Beams 6m telescopic mast, Hawkins Viper 5/8 4m rollup flowerpot antenna, Homebrew 15Ah LiFePO4 battery pack and an Anytone AT-588 radio. WX was not great. Rain, low cloud cover with visibility of 20 to 30 meters on the summit. After setting up the station a radio check was carried out. Frank, Dom and Michael all came back reporting 59. We had 15 minutes to spare before the start of the net so used this time to fire up the stove and make a coffee. This nicely complemented the breakfast rolls picked up on route. The net started at 1200 Local Time and continued until 1300 local time. A total of 8 stations called in to the net. The format of the net ...

On Saturday 30 July 2022 the East Leinster Amateur Radio Club (ELARC) will be attempting to activate 4 Summits on 4 Meters (70Mhz). In an effort to promote the use of 4 meters the Club would encourage those of you with 4m rigs to listen out for our CQ calls on 70.400 FM We know there are a lot of you out there with ex-PMR (Private Mobile Radio) rigs that have been modified and reprogrammed to operate within our allocation on the 4 meter / 70Mhz band. Many of you may already have off-the-shelf amateur radio rigs that have 4m built-in such as the Kenwood TS 890, Icom IC-7300, and Yaesu FT-847. This is a great opportunity to dust it off and get an antenna up and join us on 4m.  Based on our experiences in broadcasting the IRTS 4M News while operating portable, long-distance contacts can be made. For example, Dublin/Wicklow mountains into both North Anglesey (~160 km) and Sligo (~195km). We would especially be interested in making QSO's with anyone who may be operating portable on 4m o...

The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club (ELARC) will continue the portable nature of the station and will be transmitting this week's news on 4m from the Seahan Mountain . Date : Sunday 3 July 2022 Time : 1030am local time Frequency : 70.400 FM Location   Suggested by Michael EI6IRB . Thanks, Michael. Seahan Mountain / Seechon, near Kilbride Army Camp Lat 53.216925 Long -6.382171 https://goo.gl/maps/hgst9hL2QSpKWoqF9 The club will be putting out a few radio check calls from 1015am on 70.400 using the callsign of  EI0EL This will be our first time broadcasting the news from this location. If you are in the area you are more than welcome to drop by for chat and to checkout our portable setup.. Looking forward to talking to you on 4m 70.400Mhz  either before the news or during the call-ins. We'll also be listening on 145.500 

T he East Leinster Amateur Radio Club (ELARC) will continue the portable nature of the station and will be transmitting this week's news on 4m from the hills outside Skerries, County Dublin. The club will be putting out a few radio check calls from 1015am on 70.400 using the callsign of EI 0 EL This location has given us good coverage into Louth, Meath, Westmeath, Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare in the past. Date : Sunday 3 April 2022 Time : 1030am local time Frequency : 70.400Mhz Looking forward to talking to you either before the news or during the call-ins.

We continued the travelling nature of the station and transmitted from Kippure in the Dublin Wicklow Mountains, Grid IO63ue, SOTA Summit Reference EI/IE-005. Arriving at the base of the summit about 8:45am we re-checked our gear was securely packed and made out way to the top. The weather was dry and overcast. It was pretty windy at the summit so we set the station up in a suitable location and improvised a shelter with a tarp in a effort to limit the wind noise. This also helped with sheltering the stove while brewing the all important coffee. Members of the Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue team who were on routine patrol in the area dropped by for a chat and showed great interest in what we doing. We're not sure but it might have been the smell of freshly brewed coffee and chocolate biscuits that piqued their interest. The club would like to thank all callers but especially SWL's and those who get out and operated mobile to call in to the service. A rough map of todays call in...

The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club, www.EI0EL.com having successfully completed their monthly pilot of the IRTS News Broadcast on 4 Metres continue their monthly broadcasts.  Our next broadcast will be on Sunday 1st August at 10.30am local time on a frequency of 70.400MHz FM.   The club will continue with the travelling nature of the station and plan on transmitting from Kippure, Grid IO63ue, SOTA Summit EI/IE-005. The club would like to thank all callers but especially those who get out and operate mobile to call in to the service. We look forward to your call in's tomorrow.

On Sunday, 4 July 2021, we maintained the traveling nature of the IRTS News 4 Meters News  Station by transmitting from Clermont Carn, Grid IO64UB19. The weather was not great with thick fog and rain, however the great take off in all directions more than made up for this. While setting up Declan, EI6FR, stopped by to say hello before he setup to activate Clermont Carn EI/IE021. Declan setup his station a short distance from the 4m antenna so as to limit any CW interference. Thanks for that Declan, we apricated it. We put out a few calls before the news to make sure everything was working as expected and we were not getting desensed from the towers behind us. Harper, MI5AFK, came back and a we had a brief QSO. He kindly offered to reach out to other local amateurs in the area who also operate on 4m that we would be broadcasting the IRTS news at 1030. Thanks for that Harper and we hope to talk to you again. We had a total of 12 call in's and 1 report via email were received form sta...

The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club EI0EL successfully completed their pilot of the IRTS News Broadcast on 4 Meters. Their next broadcast will be on Sunday 4 July at 10.30am local time on a new frequency of 70.400Mhz FM. Going forward the broadcast will be on the first Sunday of every month. The club will maintain the travelling nature of the 4m News Station, probably broadcasting from more elevated sites, maybe even the odd mountain top. The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club would like to thank all radio amateur’s and shortwave listeners that called in to the 4m news and supplied signal reports, and also to those Amateurs who gave feedback and encouragement.