EI0MAR to celebrate IRTS 75th anniversary

During the past week, Tom O'Donnell, EI4Z paid a visit to EI0MAR at the vintage radio museum in Howth.

Tom is 93 years old and still hale and hearty as he proved by walking up the steep pathway to the Martello Tower housing the museum. Tom was accompanied by his son Philip who was a radio officer himself from 1968 until 1980 and operated with the call sign EI3DA maritime mobile.

Philip claims that his father is Ireland's oldest living radio experimenter. Is there anybody out there who knows if this claim can be challenged?

EI0MAR will be celebrating the IRTS's 75th birthday by using the call sign EI75IRTS on Sunday 26th of August and on the first two Sundays in September.

CW will be the main mode of operation although some CQ calls will also be made on SSB as well.

If conditions are favourable, the 7 MHz band will be the main focus, to allow as many EIs as possible to work the special call sign. The station may also be QRV on the Saturdays of
the same weekends.

EI0MAR is QRV most Sundays between 11 and 3. Telephone and email contact details for EI0MAR are available on the museum website which is www.qsl.net/ei5em/museum.html. A link on the museum web page will take you to EI0MAR's own web site.

Source: IRTS