OK!  So it has been a while since I last posted anything on my blog.  The main reason for this has been the decided lack of enthusiasm on my part.  With the run up to Christmas and working, I just found it difficult to motivate myself to post anything meaningful..... but here goes!

I have filled out and marked off, 000's of QSL cards for EI0W mainly but some for EI7DAR.  Some of these went back as far as 2005, so apologies to anyone who has been waiting for a return QSL card.  I should have the last of these cards filled out by then end of this year (still approx 1.5K to go!)and I will ship them all out together.

I also had my TH7 erected for the CQ WW SSB contest but then (and only then) discovered that the balun was not working.  This rendered the beam completely useless and I had to settle for entering the contest using only my Antron 99!!  I made just under 1000 QSO's for the weekend and entered the Single Op Unassisted High Power category.   Thus far, the CQ website has be placed as second in Ireland in this category.  Not bad for my first contest!

I ordered a new balun from Hy-Gain which arrived and was installed last week..  thanks must go to Jim, Thos, John, Declan, Seamus and Tony for their invaluable help in taking down the tower and replacing the balun.  I decided to go for the 4Kw rated balun even though I will never get near that amount of power going through it!!  So far so good, everything seems to be working well with the beam and I am looking forward to making some nice QSO's with it.

Finally, for those of you who are waiting on a QSL card from myself, I (with help) finished the design of my card and set it off for printing.

I will be sending out lots very soon hopefully!

So thats it for now.  I will try to keep the blog updated more often. 

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