Two AREN members, Conor EI4JN and Tim EI5GPB, provided radio communications for a walk over the Purple and Twomies mountains on Saturday last in the McGillicuddy Reeks. The almost 8 hour walk passed without incident.
Archive for September, 2008
AREN in the hills.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008AREN Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008The AREN committee met in Cork on Sunday the 14th of September. Items for discussion included activities since April, new members, the appointment of Assistant Co-ordinators, November SET, winter training nets, information gleaned from the recent SEVESO Seminar and Training Day and planning for next years AREN meeting.
New Handbook published.
Friday, September 12th, 2008Members should keep an eye on the postbox over the next 2 weeks or so, as the new Handbook should be arriving. If it has not arrived by the end of the month, please contact John, EI7IG.
Sean Kelly Tour
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008On the 24th of August AREN members made good use of the APRS Network, in order to keep track of the position of the end of each group of cyclists participating in the Sean Kelly Tour. Good use was also made of the South East Repeater Network for communicating with officials in what would have been communications blackspots (for the mobile phone networks).
In total there were 8 operators involved,
- Seamus Ryan, EI8EPB
- John McCarthy, EI8JA
- Eamonn Kavanagh, EI3FFB
- Gareth Wilmot, EI7FZB
- Francis Lenane, EI5GOB
- John Ronan, EI7IG
- Conor O’Neill, EI4JN
- John Ketch, EI2GN
Many thanks to all that participated and to the repeater keepers for permission to use the repeaters.
