Welcome to Galway Radio Club!
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Check out our events calendar for 2018
Our special events station for the Volvo Ocean Race 2012 stopover was featured in Echo Ireland
Wild Atlantic Way:
For information and time allocation requests contact:
For information about our club contact:
Gerry EI8EXB gerryormond@eircom.net
Next meeting:
Our next club meeting is on Monday 14th May 2018 in Menlo Park Hotel at 8pm.
Repeater:
Our 2 metre repeater has been repaired and is now back on air. It is now equipped with Yaesu Wires-X. Galway repeater is linked into the CQ Ireland Yaesu fusion network.
This is an IRLP node.The number is 5768.
Besides IRLP, echolink is also available on the repeater EI2TBR-R Node 836867.
Dial dtmf 4151 before the node you want to connect to via VHF handheld, etc.
There is also an Echolink app available for Android.
Our 70cms repeater is still being repaired.
Obtaining a license:
Galway Radio Experimenters Club will consider running classes to prepare candidates for the Amateur Radio Station examination.
Anyone interested please contact 087 2327359 or reply through our “contact us” page above.
The last Amateur Station Licence Examination was held on Thursday 29th June in the ComReg Offices in Dublin.
Blog🐗
Latest blog posts:
- 30-05-2014: Lighthouse on the Air by admin
- 09-07-2013: VOA and BBC cutbacks by ei8ih
- 04-07-2013: BBC Radio 4 "History of Radio" by ei8ih
- 08-03-2013: Echo Ireland article of Volvo Ocean Race by admin
- 10-02-2013: Events Calendar by admin
- 15-12-2012: Digital text via analog shortwave by ei8ih
- 01-12-2012: Practical Wireless issues online by ei8ih
- 31-10-2012: Part of the BBC at 90 series: by ei8ih
- 04-09-2012: Solar activity. by ei8ih
- 03-09-2012: Radio 4 Sealand documentary by ei8ih