M7GAX, G5LSI and I decided to have a field day and we found out in the correct location at Filey Brigg it’s a 4fr!
I set off very early and got a parking space right at the top of the car park. As it was raining a lot I set up the mag-mount and a vertical, attached the IC-705 and started with some FT8. Got a few in the log.
M7GAX and G5LSI turned up and rain started to let off and we got a beautiful rainbow.
I had set of before breakfast and brought a Trangia to make some bacon butties there. Whilst G5LSI and M7GAX worked the radios I made some food and brews.
We all got plenty of contacts and so decided to try my new toy, a kite to lift the antenna. I got the kite from Sotabeams and hadn’t used it yet.
M7GAX helped me get the kite set up and into the air, it went up like a rocket! But now we had to get it back down to attach the antenna.
With the kite down and the antenna connected we launched the kite again and I started calling CQ, and almost instantly got a reply from a US station! After the QSO I jumped up and did my gold dance (see The detectorists for more info on gold dances). After the initial excitement I then made a lot more contact with the kite antenna. I was so happy it worked.
| Operation Details |
| Park: https://pota.app/#/park/GB-0503 https://pota.app/#/park/GB-0706 https://pota.app/#/park/GB-0707 https://pota.app/#/park/GB-0711 Grid square: IO94uf WAB square: TA18 |
| Working Conditions |
| Icom IC-7300 Icom IC-705 Sotabeams tactical mini Sotabeams EFHW Vertical Sotabeams Kite Ham2K Polo |
| Operation Totals |
| 70 QSOs 15 DXCC Entities 28 P2P 10 Band and 3 modes 80m – 3 SSB 40m – 7 FT8, 10 SSB 20m – 20 SSB 17m – 3 SSB 15m – 10 SSB 12m – 3 SSB 10m – 7 SSB 6m – 3 FM 2m – 3 FM 70cm – 3FM |
