Amateur Radio, also known as 'Ham Radio' is the hobby of communicating by wireless with other licensed Hams around the world. It is a hobby with many facets, and the ones that I am primarily interested in are those of HF (short wave) communication, and Contesting.

This section introduces the reader to EI8IC, the amateur callsign identifying Tim Makins as a licensed Radio Amateur, and provides a brief biography of his operating career, shows you photos and other details of his radio equipment, his antennas, and the log books that are a record of his recent contest activities.

There is also a small photo-gallery, with photos of the EI8IC QSL cards, some photos of the Sligo area of Western Ireland, and an archive of photos showing the G3GHN/P National Field Day expedition of 1979.