Shannon's Static Echoes: A Basin Radio Club's Digital Presence Drifts from 2021

SHANNON BASIN, IRELAND – The Shannon Basin Radio Club (SBRC), operating with callsigns such as EI2SBC and EI3Z, has a listed affiliation with the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) and a designated focus on the communities within Ireland's extensive Shannon River basin. However, the available public information for the SBRC dates from April 7, 2021. This significant lacuna of over four years casts considerable uncertainty over its current operational details and activities as of mid-2025.  

According to this now considerably aged record, SBRC adopted a strategy of directing interested parties to its website (www.sbrc.ie) and the IRTS News for specifics on its meetings, including venue and timing. Similarly, details for its purported weekly radio nets were, at that time, to be found on the club's website and/or its Facebook page. Contact with the club was channelled through a general club email address designated "SBRC."

This reliance on external online platforms for all current operational information was a common practice for many groups in 2021. However, without a more recent update to this central listing, the vitality of those platforms and, by extension, the current activities and meeting modalities of the Shannon Basin Radio Club itself, remain unverified from this particular source.

The Shannon Basin Radio Club's 2021 digital footprint points to an organization leveraging online tools for its member communication and information dissemination. Whether these channels remain active and provide a gateway to a currently engaged community in mid-2025 is a question that can only be answered by venturing to its last-known web address or attempting contact via the four-year-old email directive. This situation highlights the common challenge encountered when assessing the present-day status of volunteer associations whose public records have remained dormant for extended periods.