Galway APRS Digipeater

The Galway VHF Group are delighted to announce that the
Galway APRS Node is now active.

The Digipeater is located in Mervue, Galway, and has a very good distance view to the horizon. This will provide excellent coverage around County Galway and beyond.

The callsign of the APRS node is EI2GCP-2 and this will link into the already established national system. This will fill in a large gap that has been present on the western and north-western side of the country.

Brendan, EI6IZ, has kindly offered to link into our APRS node facilitating the north western area to give additional coverage into Co. Mayo and above.

We hope to add the facility of a weather station in the following months which will send its information via beacon text. By checking the data from the weather beacons on the APRS it is possible to form a general synopsis of the weather around the country. Such information can prove valuable to those active on VHF and more so on Microwaves.

Special thanks to Martin List-Peterson for providing a
location for the Digipeater on the roof of his Airwire office building, Gerry, EI8DRB, and Enda, EI3IX, who finalised the installation of the antenna and associated equipment. Sadly the transceiver for this project has been held up in the post due to the Royal Mail dispute.

To view the activity in Ireland from the internet connect into www.aprs.fi and scroll the map to Ireland.
At present, the bulk of the activity would appear to be in the southern direction and also in the Dublin area.

To view activity from received signals off air, it would be necessary to run the program UIView and have a TNC running in Kiss-Mode to receive the local information.

Further information about the Galway APRS can be obtained from Gerry EI8DRB or Steve EI5DD.

IRTS