Fionnbarra's Site
My
site is still under construction.
My name is Fionnbarra and I live
with my wonderful XYL/YL Ceallach KG7GPG and 2 cats and 3
dogs. Like this page, our station is in the process of being
built.
I am occasionally to be heard on 2
Metres and 70 cm mostly through the local voice repeater
EI7MLR, with the odd outing on Echolink hardly real radio! But
fret ye not! There are plans afoot that will change this! I am
hoping to have a few antennae erected shortly. Once I
have them in place I hope to operate QRP on SSB and
various digital modes. We are planning on antennae for
HF and probably something for 10/12 Metres, 6 Metres and
naturally 2 Metres and 70cms. CW is something I
would like to try. I don't know if I would be able to but I
shall give it the old college try!
At present our HF radio lineup
includes a Kenwood TS130SE, an Icom IC-735 and a Ranger
RCI-2950 For VHF/UHF we have 2 Yaesu FT-726r Triband 50 MHz/
144 MHz/ /430 MHZ. One was purchased at the Bangor And
District ARS in Donaghadee County Down, while the other was
give to me by my good friend Andy Early EI4ERB. Both of them
are under repair and in the capable hands of my friend Ray
Byrne and we hope to have them ready for the summer Sporadic-E
opening. We also have a couple of FDK mobile 2 Metre rigs, the
Multi-700EX an FM only rig which I got from Jim Bob Traynor
MI0JBT and the Multi-750XX which has AM/FM/SSB. This I got
from my good friend Eddie. One of our prized possessions is a
Trio TR-2300 which I got from Micheal EI2GKB. The latest
acquisitions are an Icom IC215 FM, and an Icom IC-251E 2 Metre
Multimode. For Handhelds we have a Yaesu FT-411, which I made
my first QSOs when I gy my license, an Icom IC-Z1E, a couple
of Baofeng UV-5R and a Baofeng BF-888S. We also have a Yaesu
FRG-7700 which we use for general listening including
broadcast band, utilities and Numbers Stations.
Yaesu
FT-726r purchased at the Bangor & District ARS Rally
2016 in Donaghadee County Down.
Icom
IC-251E purchased at the Limerick Radio Clubs 2017 Radio Hobbies
and Electronics Fair
Ceallach
is revising in order to sit the exam for her Irish license. It
is wonderful to have someone who shares my interests. She
already has a US Technician license, which she used in Oregon.
Her father Frank C Williams was a radio experimenter and might
have had an amateur callsign. We are currently searching for
it so that Ceallach can possibly obtain it as a vanity
callsign. She has had a lifelong desire to learn Morse code
and once she has passed the exam for her Irish license, both
her and I will tackle it together.
Worked
All Ireland Square S75W
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