On Sunday 4th June members will be attempting to communicate between our Beachy Head radio site and Princetown Dartmoor. G8DXU and other members will establish their portable station with telescopic mast and beam probably near North Hessary Tor at 500m asl. Please see the Forum for more details of timings and frequencies. At 186 miles, this …
Last Wednesday’s meeting involved a successful communication between myself on Crystal Palace Hill in South London, Dave G0FDV from Heathfield, and members operating under G1KAR/P at BHRS including Barry G8DXU and Tony G4UPY. Having erected a dipole for 40m I constructed at home this previous week, we attempted contact at the arranged time of 1500 …
We arrived at the Hellingly Festival of Transport site on the Friday afternoon, with plenty of time to set up our camp and radio display before the public opening on Saturday. I located the Marshal for the military section and discussed where I should establish my display. I also sought permission to erect an aerial …
Andy M6GND has summed up this communications exercise very well. I will however add some detail to explain my reason for going to Dartmoor on this particular occasion and the local conditions. I have made many backpacking trips exploring Dartmoor, some of these with the added weight of a Clansman RT351 or RT320. Although there are …
BHRS – As Barry G8DXU was spending the weekend on Dartmoor we planned to attempt Clansman to Clansman contact between Dartmoor and Beachy Head, a distance of around 200 miles (320km), for this we decided to enlist the services of the PRC320 using the AM mode. I had earlier had grandiose plans of deploying the …