EI0EL

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...

OK, it was only a pretend crash, but it was a great scenario for a training exercise. The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club has been out practicing again – remember our “Black Sky” event earlier this year! This time the project was a bit more adventurous. We got together with the Glen of Imaal Mountain Rescue Team (MR) and with Wicklow Civil Defence (CD) to run a combined operation to practice and hone our skills with simulated emergency communications. We also had a guest observer from the Wireless Communications Laboratory at the Tyndall Institute with us. The Glen team responded to an imaginary small aircraft crash in the Ow Valley (just south of Lug na Coille). This carefully chosen location near Aughavannagh had no mobile phone signal, no Tetra radio signal and was very definitely out of line-of-sight for VHF signals. The background to the exercise was to simulate the failure of the Tetra radio system operated by the emergency services, and to assess the feasibility of using HF ...