Today we visited the
Weald Radio Club at Headcorn Airfield as they operated their special event station GB1HA. Headcorn is the home of the
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum, which is a good excuse to activate a station over the weekend. Tony, G4IMP has a 5 element beam for 6m, an ingenious multiband vertical for HF and a longwire which reaches over to the pole with the (ahem) wind-sock on it.
Here is Tony operating 6m (other operators are available). 6m was open to Europe with Sporadic E providing contacts to Spain, Portugal, Poland, and even Russia. There was a lot of contest traffic.
Plenty of light aircraft taking off and landing and the Sky-divers were making frequent flights in their Cessna Caravan.
There were even a couple of buzzards displaying although they weren't calling on the ATC frequency, and they didn't seem to like the parachutes.
73 Hugh
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