[UK-CONTEST] G3GPO O/T

[DAVID BUTLER]

Yes - Ongar Radio Station held the call sign G3RSO - indeed I still have the 
affiliated society
certificate from RSGB.   (Radio Station Ongar)

It was a great site - on the Epping Ridge. It was very successful on HF and VHF.
We had a tower with many Yagis and wire aerials. 
Surprisingly we didnt suffer too badly from the HF TX'ers on site.

I moved my home QTH to the Ongar Site in the 1970's and won many VHF contests 
from there.

73 David G4ASR 

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I can't answer the question either but recall that sometime in the 1960'sthere 
was an amateur club at the GPO HF transmitting station at North  Weald in Essex 
(now long QRT) known for reason as 'Ongar Radio' when the  biggest nearby town 
was Epping. The callsign allocated was I think  G3RSO, Dave 'ASR & others might 
confirm? I'd moved on by then but doubt that running a station alongside 40+ 10 
- 40kW TX's would have been very successful (unless someone  patched in a line 
from the sister receiving station at Brentwood)! (40kW to Rhombics & remote RX's 
also with Rhombics that sounds like a  contest winning set up even by today's 
standards!) & someone once sent  my callsign on CW on a TX running 20kW - Thanks 
Terry! Some of the commercial circuits actually used what appeared to be  
amateur two letter callsigns (GnXX etc.) as opposed to the more usual  
commercial callsigns like GLO20 etc. I think that at one time there was  an 
amateur station at the Central Training School at Stone in Staffs  which had the 
call G3CTS, used for training 'Radio Inspectors', I bet  that kept the locals in 
order!  73...  Ken  G3LVP >