[Corkradioclub] Ei5CRC at CIT

[jeremy sheehan]

Well done Gents.
Sounds like you got a very good responce at CIT in general.

73

Jeremy

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Timothy McKnight <ei2ka.tim at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Gents,
>
> A quick note to say thanks to all that helped and/or called in yesterday at
> CIT.  In the end we had great interest from students and staff alike at
> CIT,
> with many stopping for a long chat and one lad actually working Don 8DJ on
> the Cork Repeater.  Twenty signed up for more information and if even a
> third of that number takes it forward, I'd say there is a good possibility
> of forming an amateur radio society at CIT.
>
> We didn't make many radio contacts due to the very noisy location, but did
> get as far as Toronto and the Ukraine on 15m phone.  CW on 20m was a
> problem
> as the antenna just wouldn't cooperate.  Jim 8GS, Brian 5HV and Don 8DJ
> called in on the Cork Repeater and Aedan 3EG set up an IRLP connection to
> Australia but we were too busy at that moment to respond.  Finbarr 1CS,
> Conor 4JN and several other amateurs paid us a visit but it was too chaotic
> to have much of a chat or even get all the names.
>
> We also discovered CIT's radio shack located on the roof--a perfect spot
> that was previously used for marine radio training.  It is not being used
> at
> the moment and could be a great location for an amateur station.  There are
> even a few rusty HF antennas and a luffing tower still there.
>
> Again thanks to all, and in particular Ingo 2KF for getting permissions
> from
> CIT management and fielding most of the questions, and to Gene 6KF for help
> setting up and operating.
>
> 73 de Tim Ei2KA
>
> --
> from Tim McKnight, Ei2KA
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