CQ Contest
While we can take advantage of the summer months we’re holding an extra meeting each month at the school, and as it turns out some of these coincide with the RSGB VHF contest evenings, so we thought we’d give it a go.
With Blazej’s FT-991A for all-mode VHF, and his yagi, together with JJ’s 33′ telescopic mast and X50 we had a respectable setup for both of this evening’s contests. Putting this together for the first time, and being our first contest, we aren’t expecting any silverware but we made contacts (hello Don Lamb G0ACK who many can thank for their Foundation training). And we scored points, not that they’re going to mean prizes on this occasion. But a lot of fun was had and next month we’ll be able to hit the ground running.
Teamwork
At the next meeting in just over two weeks time we’ll be back to our usual plans to get some DX and local FM in the log and maybe take another look at Meshtastic/Lora and other projests.