A day at the beach was calling, so XLY, radio dog and myself packed up and headed to Cayton Bay on the East Coast. Had a quick look at the map and if I set the radio up on the cliff top it would be a 2’fer with a costal path but I would rather be on the beach.
We headed down the cliffs and radio dog got very excited about the beach and the tennis ball he saw I had put in my pocket. Once on the beach, the zoomies kicked in as he was left off the leash. After he had had a good run around we found a nice spot to set up. XLY went to find some hot drinks as I tried to put the mast and antenna up whilst dog ran around alike a loon!
With the radio set up and spot on http://pota.app it did not take me long to get the 10 QSO’s to activate and 2 extra. In fact was done in 10 mins! This meant I could try and get the kite up. The kite did not go up 🙁 The wind was just too swirly to hold the kite up so no luck there. So I packed up and we had a nice walk on the beach before heading to Scarborough for fish and chips for lunch.
| Operation Details |
| Park: https://pota.app/#/park/GB-1938 Grid square: IO94tf WAB square: TA08 |
| Working Conditions |
| Icom IC-705 Icom AH-705 Sotabeams tactical mini Sotabeams Band Hopper 3 Ham2K Polo |
| Operation Totals |
| # QSOs 6 DXCC Entities 1 P2P 1 Band and 1 mode 40m – 12 SSB |