[Corkradioclub] Fwd: April 25th Meeting and IMD

[Timothy McKnight]

Hi Gents,

Dave asked me to give some further details on what to expect when you get to
Crookhaven.  I think it's best that we all meet at 2pm on Friday at the
parking lot just off the main road to Crookhaven.  In
http://maps.google.iepaste in the coordinates 51.461611 -9.744611.
The green arrow points to the
parking lot, which is next to the track up to Brow Head.  It is about 300m
past the turning for Mizen Head.

Crookhaven is about one mile further along from the parking lot and has
several choices for food.  The best food is at the Crookhaven Inn, first
building on the right in the village.  She has a decent variety of fresh
food with most main course items around €10 to €11 and open until about
9pm.  O'Sullivans pub, further along has soup and sandwiches until about
5pm.  Nottages restaurant next to the Welcome Inn pub in the middle of town
is also good and reasonable but not sure it will be open.  Also there's the
chip van in Crookhaven.  This gives us some choices but I think it would be
better if we could have a stew going at least Saturday evening so people
could eat whenever they get hungy without having to leave the site.  My
genny produces 36A so there's plenty of power for an electric kettle.

There are petrol and diesel pumps at the pub in the middle of Goleen, about
5 miles from Crookhaven.  Fuel is available as long as the pub is open,
which could be handy if we're short on fuel for the gennys.

Tim Ei2KA

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Moore <ei4bz at eircom.net>
Date: 26 April 2011 01:54
Subject: [Corkradioclub] April 25th Meeting and IMD
To: CorkRadioClub at mailman.qth.net


Hi All,
Despite the bank holiday, 21 persons turned out in Carrigtwohill last night
to hear Dave EI9FBB's very interesting talk and PowerPoint presentation on
Logbook of the World and EQSL.  Thanks Dave!

Due to a poor weather forecast for next weekends Marconi Station at Brow
Head and the unavailability of band pass filters, current thinking is that
we should run one station on Brow Head running 100w on 40m? (probably CW
only?) and a bigger set up at the car park lower down using an amplifier,
tribander and dipoles on all bands.
Hans EI9GRB and Ger EI8HT will bring their camper vans and other committed
to attending are Tim EI2KA, Ingo DH5DT, John EI7BA, Jeremy EI5GM, Dave
EI9FBB, Dave EI4BZ, Declan EI9GA and SW Karl.
The plan is to be on site at 1400 on Friday with both stations set up before
dark. Operation will run from midnight to midnight with the take down on
Sunday morning.
EI4BZ will provide the complete station on Brow Head i.e. tent, masts, rig
etc.
EI5GM will provide the masts, aerials and radio gear for the station at the
car park. (see Jeremy's earlier post)
EI2KA has a tent for that station and we need another biggish tent for
welfare facilities at that location. If nobody has one, we will probably buy
one in the Argos sale. EI2KA has a big generator for that station.

It looks like everybody will be responsible for their own catering
arrangements but if anyone has a camping gas cooker available please let us
know.
Questions:- Will the two camper vans have sufficient water on board for the
duration? Can cooking facilities on board be used?
Whatever else, the availability of continuous boiling water for tea/coffee
is vital or will everybody be satisfied with beer/soft drinks?

Tim, you might comment on dining establishments in the locality, how far
away etc.

Of course we could all agree to do a sponsored fast for some charity over
the weekend and it would make life very easy!!!

Welcome to reflector Brian EI5HV, Marcin SQ3GX and Keith Walsh SWL

Dave EI4BZ


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from Tim McKnight, Ei2KA