[UK-CONTEST] low power field day

[Chris G3SJJ]

Good stuff, John. You reminded me, I was going comment. I decided to see 
if anyone wanted a chat about 15 mins before the start of the 2nd 
session. Not a single taker. I would have thought people would have been 
tuning around to see what was available.

Chris G3SJJ


John Elsdon wrote:
> Dispatches from the eastern tip of East Anglia
>
> low power field day G3JRM/P
>
> After reading Richards article in Radcom the thought occurred that after
> over 60 years living by the  sea it was high time to really use the
> facility.Armed with my trusty TS850 ,laptop ,an assortment of batteries and
> a couple of Sota poles.Graeme (G4CKH) and myself (G4RLS)
> set up base camp on the foreshore.After a minor hiccup with the logging
> software losing us half an hour we had  a great day contesting
> interspersed by visits from various groups of walkers and one from H M Coast
> Guard who arrived mob handed in a gang of four apparently tipped off by a
> suspicious member of  the public, They took great interest in our setup and
> left in good humour to find some real smugglers
> We heard at least a couple of stations who gave up their lunch break or
> maybe  mistook  utc for local?
>
> 118 Qs with one dupe oops!
>
> greatful thanks to all who heard us above the crashing of the waves
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