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The day dawned bright and the threat of rain had reduced to "less than 5%" according to the Met Office. This contest was to be a solo effort by G0XAN, other club members being too busy (or too sensible!) to combine a significant hill climb with some outdoors radio.
Read more: RSGB 1st 144MHz Backpackers' Contest, 20 May 2012
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A successful Antenna Party , attended by seven members, was held on Saturday March 10th at the QTH of Peter G4HNU.
The main objective was to assemble and tune at ground level a Hustler 5BTV trap vertical. A 15 metre Delta loop was also erected and a 4 metre 1/4 wave vertical was positioned 20 feet above ground.
Unfortunately, a sked to contact Paul, W4/G3SXE in Florida on 15 metres was unsuccessful.
The Hustler trap vertical on 40 metres proved to be 2 S-points up on receive compared with G4HNU's existing Carolina Windom at a height of 30 feet.
The 4 metre 1/4-wave vertical worked well.
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In early February the group received a request to run a Thinking Day on the Air (TDOTA) station for the Brownies and Guides of Chanctonbury district. The request had come via a circuitous route and only reached the group with two weeks to go before the event! Despite the short notice and not having taken part in TDOTA for many years, we managed to put a station on the air.
Read more: GB0WCG - Thinking Day on the Air 18th February 2012
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Members of the club laid on special event station GB6HS for 6th Hove Scouts to take part in the annual Jamboree On The Air. The station was set up at the Scouts' Hillside campsite near Henfield and we were blessed with a lovely sunny autumn day. In addition to the Scouts who were camping for the weekend, we had visitors from 6th Hove Cubs and Beavers, and Scouts from the 1st Hove and 5th Hove groups.
Read more: GB6HS - JOTA Special Event Station 15th October 2011
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Gary, G0XAN, David, M0HVD and Peter, M0PCR braved another wet and windy day on Chanctonbury Hill for the final backpackers' contest of the season. For a summer series of contests the weather has not been very summery! The contest runs in parallel with an IARU European contest so there were plenty of big stations on the band to work. First contact was PI4GN (Holland) at 556km - a good start.
Read more: RSGB 5th 144MHz Backpackers' Contest 4 September 2011
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David, M0HVD and Peter, M0PCR once again set up camp on Chanctonbury Hill. Sadly a poorly battery meant that they could only operate for two hours of the contest. The contest was slow going and only 19 QSOs were made, although two were over 300km and almost every contact counted as a postcode multiplier. Best DX was G8HXE/P near Bolton at 340km.