EI0MAR article in PW

The current February edition of Practical Wireless contains a three-page feature on EI0MAR, which operates each Sunday from the vintage radio museum in Howth.

The article is well illustrated with colour photographs and
relates the history of the Martello tower, in which the
museum is located, and its connections with the early days of wireless experimentation.

Both Lee de Forest, the American inventor of the triode valve, and the Marconi Company conducted experiments from the Martello in 1903 and 1905 respectively.

The Practical Wireless article, by Tony (EI5EM), also gives a run down on the activities of the Howth Martello Radio Group using its own regular EI0MAR callsign as well as documenting other special event activities for JOTA, International Marconi Day and the Howth Festival. Photographs of the radio equipment used at EI0MAR are also included in the article

The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 until 4 during the winter months and seven days a week from April until October. EI0MAR is usually QRV on Sundays on HF and also monitors S23 (145.575 MHz).

More details, including a contact telephone number, are
available at www.qsl.net/ei5em/museum.html.

Visitors who would like to see the station in operation are
advised to telephone or email "ei0mar at eircom dot net" to check that the station will be QRV on a particular date.

• Practical Wireless website

Source: IRTS

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