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I’ve just left G6PZ’s station and I’m sat on the train from Weston Super Mare to Oxford via Didcot Parkway and I thought this would be the best time to write about the weekend.
A couple of weeks ago Simon M0CLW asked if I wanted to go to Paul’s to operate the special event station, of [...]

Looking back at Saturday, the GB2CCC special event station went very well indeed. We were all on site by 10am and had antennas setup within the hour

Fullsize G5RV
5el 70cms beam
2m folded dipole

Radio side of things was a Kenwood TS570D for HF and a Yaesu FT-100D for 2/70, HF conditions did seem poor we kept to [...]

On Saturday 8th September I’ll be helping operate at GB2CCC special event station at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford to support the Oxford Historic Churches Trust, Sponsored Ride or Stride. Operators are likely to be Harry (G3NGX) who is the station manager, Paul M3JFM, John, G0GWK and Steve G0OXR and myself.
We’ll be setting up the [...]

Yesterday (Wednesday 1st August) Terry (G0LUQ), Paul (M3JFM) and I (Peter, M3PHP) visited the local scout camp, which is on the edge of the city of Oxford to operate for a few hours as GB4YOU.

We setup the station which was an Icom IC706MK2II, MFJ atu the antenna we used was a 40ft doublet which tuned [...]