We’re heading out for another Parks on the Air activation on Easter Monday, 6 April.
If you have not come across POTA before, it is all about bringing amateur radio into the great outdoors, setting up in a qualifying park, and making contacts from the field. We did a quieter test run on Bull Island recently and it went well, so this time we are opening it up to the wider TOG community and the public. You can see a few photos from the last outing here.
We will meet at 10:30 am at the Ticknock café and then head off to find a good place to set up and operate. The activation will take place from Ticknock Forest in the Dublin Mountains, and we expect to be on air for around two hours. You can read more about the area on the Dublin Mountains website.
You are very welcome to come along, help out, and even have a go on the radio using the club callsign EI0TOG. Jeffrey Roe, EI7IRB, will be leading the activation.
Jeffrey is planning to cycle out, but there is parking nearby too. And if radio is not really your thing, or you do not want to stay for the whole activation, Ticknock has plenty of walks so you can still join us for part of the outing.
After the POTA activation, there are also the IRTS 70cm Counties Contest and IRTS 2m Counties Contest running, so anyone who wants to keep the radio fun going is welcome to do that too.
As always, this one is weather-dependent. If the conditions are awful, we will give it a miss rather than spend another Monday getting soaked.
If you are thinking of coming along, please let us know. We hope to see some of you there in person or hear from you on the bands.