Monthly Archives: November 2004

Ultimate John Ronan Crimbo Present

Andrew is work sent around an email with the above title, he was referring to this. Its kind of cool methinks. I probably have enough to make “white”. Waters and Stanton is where you could get pretty much all of … Continue reading

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More EGNOS

The EGNOS satellites constellation includes the �ESA satellite ARTEMIS ( PRN 124 labelled on your Garmin unit �with the number 37 ) , the satellite AOR-E (PRN120 – number 33 on garmin units ) and the satellite IOR-W (PRN126 – number 39 on Garmin ). The three satellites have already been connected to the EGNOS computing platform and are currently being used for assembly , integration and validation tests of the system .
The signal currently broadcasted by the EGNOS satellites is in this phase for
testing purposes and can only be processed by profesional receivers. Continue reading

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WAAS/EGNOS

I am still experimenting with APRS. I recently received an OpenTracker and have that in the car at the moment. I also have a PocketTracker operational, but I have not yet managed to get back into the hills to evaluate … Continue reading

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HF Mobile

I was returning from IST 2004 on Thursday, having departed early and leaving some of my collegues to Fly the Flag. As I was leaving my Aunts QTH in Dungarvan, John Ketch EI2GN gave me a shout on the repeater … Continue reading

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EI6GO – R.I.P.

Early, on Saturday morning, the 13th of November Ron Mcgrath, EI6GO passed away. Ron, or ‘six golden only’ as he was also known as was a founder member of Tipperary Amateur Radio Group. He watched over many of us in … Continue reading

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DX-Tuners

DX-Tuners have a promotion on this weekend, quite a few nodes (Including my own) are ‘free listen’. Log in and check them out.

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EI3RCW is Back

At about 15:00 UTC today Martin Hayes (EI9FMB) and I (EI7IG) got the Amateur Radio Station in Waterford Institute of Technology back on the air. Now it may not sound like a big deal, but I can assure you that … Continue reading

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