Well at the start I didn’t have any plans to take part in the RSGB vhf national field day, but on Friday evening my dad (m3jfm) asked me if we where going to try and work some of the stations taking part.
So once we decided it might be a bit of fun to take part we decided that we would put up another 144 MHz beam just to see if there was a difference in signal from the permanent 8element beam which is up all year long.
The antenna we put up was a 5 element crossed beam although we only used the horizontal part of the antenna because we haven’t got a phasing harness for the antenna. This was put under the main 144 MHz beam so it was about 13ft up the pole.
Next thing we had to decide on was the what radio we where going to use we had the option of two ICOM radios the IC-706MKIIG & ICOM IC-260E (a much older rig), we decided it might be fun to try both.
Friday night the antennas where up and all that needed to be done in the morning was to get the radios ready and connected to antennas.
Saturday morning arrived although I didn’t wake up till 11am, so we started to get all the radios working. Everything was setup by 14:00 1hour before the contest so we where still going to be able to start the contest on time.
Turning over the ssb part of the 2m band we found special event station GB4HS, locator IO92LL there signal report was 53 and I received the signal report of 43 but still was able to make the contact!
The contest started but I didn’t start making qsos till 15:00 below is all the stations I worked.
Date
Time
Callsign
Serial
03/07/04 1506 G3WIM/P 023
03/07/04 1524 GM3HAM/P 051
03/07/04 1536 G3SAD/P 034
03/07/04 1541 G4RFR/P 076
03/07/04 1553 G6GS/P 028
03/07/04 1601 G3TCR/P 036
03/07/04 1604 G3ZMS/P 041
03/07/04 1606 G0FBB/P 107
03/07/04 1642 ON4WY 078
03/07/04 1648 G7APD/P 058
03/07/04 1651 G5XV/P 034
03/07/04 1656 EI7M/P 113
03/07/04 1712 F6IFR 167
03/07/04 1718 F1CVU 027
03/07/04 1739 G6YB/P 069
03/07/04 1749 G3MDG/P 083
03/07/04 1818 G3RSC/P 047
03/07/04 1827 G8SRC 114
03/07/04 1923 G3CZU/P 049
03/07/04 1944 G0VHF/P 108
03/07/04 1948 G4ARL/P 072
03/07/04 1959 G5LK/P 173
04/07/04 1116 G4HSO/P 003
04/07/04 1152 G0ARC 074
04/07/04 1158 G4HLX/P 023
Below is the results plotted on a map:
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