Paul, EI5DI

Name: Paul O’Kane Call: EI5DI Nationality: Irish 3B9 Responsibilities: Team Member

Significant Operations:
EJ1D (Bere Island)
EJ4GK (Aran Islands)

Other Calls:
GI3OTV

Club Memberships:
RSGB, IRTS, Dalkey Island Contest Group

Home Page: www.ei5di.com

About Paul:
Paul was first licensed at the age of 17, and has CW contest certificates starting from 1962. After the usual break for college (Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin), career and family, he got his EI call in 1978. He prefers mixed-mode operation on 10m and has been placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the ARRL 10m Contest (SO LP Mixed) in recent years.

Paul is a committee member of IRTS (Irish Radio Transmitters Society) and served as President from 1997-2000. He represented the Society at IARU R1 conferences in Tel Aviv (1996) and Lillehammer (1999) and lobbied for the retention of the CW requirement (that didn’t work) and against inappropriate integration of Amateur Radio and the Internet (that one might work yet).

He is self-employed in the IT industry, and is the author of SD – the well-known contest logger. His wife, Pat, teaches Desktop Publishing. His older son, Conor, lives in Melbourne and is a graphic artist with a team developing PlayStation games. Dermot, his younger son, is a tour guide for visitors to Ireland.