GB75BRS


A great team operated GB75BRS from Bawdsey Manor on the weekend Friday 26 through Sunday 28 February on the following bands:–

Band Pref Freq Comment
80m 3770–3780kHz
40m 7150kHz
20m 14.320MHz
6m 50.085MHz CW
50.135MHz SSB
50.236MHz JT6M
50.293MHz WSPR

Notes:–
QSL Manager: G8BHC
eQSL cards received are already on this web site. 777 QSOs logged on LoTW – thanks to M1DUD. G8BHC now checking his medical insurance for RSI coverage!

GB75CH was on the same as us Fri, Sat, Sun. 
GB75RDF and associated stations have already been operating, and will continue to operate (sporadically) until Mar 17th.

This is the Weedon team - complete with period transport re-enacting the original test  - and you can see the memorial plaque on the rock where they are parked.

Post script

Firstly a huge thank you to all of you who have participated in the GB75BRS weekend in any way - all of the contributions have been valuable, and all helped in the smooth running of the event.

Thanks also to Brian and his team(s), the pilots who volunteered their planes and fuel (rough value £1000) and all the work that went on to make the re-enactment a great success.

Thanks to Murray and the Gt Baddow team too, for their efforts to use one of the original structures to support the antenna - the only one!

I was very encouraged by the number of stations who said that had worked all three, or had worked two and were just looking for the last one - the spirit of working all three did catch on, and I'm expecting to see a number of applications for certificates out of that, so hopefully we can raise some funds for the BL.

Back to the local activity - we closed off the day with some spectacular demonstrations of WSPR capability on HF - thanks to Robin and Simon.  Using just the FT817 and Peter’s 20m vertical down by the sea, we worked (i.e. fully decoded spot in both directions) VK6POP at over 14000km (running 5W).  Looking at the spot list we were also 'heard' in India, and a large number of other locations.

Adding those full 2 way decodes into the log for the weekend, we achieved 743 QSO's to 55 DXCC entities - thanks to Martin M0BCT and John G4XVE for their final bits of SSB and CW DX hunting today when things went a bit quiet in the pile ups!  These totals may yet change as not all the WSPR logs have necessarily been uploaded to the web by the distant stations. Once we've got those in, I'll send out the logs for final uploading to LotW and to Martin G8BHC for QSL management.  So far about 30 eQSLs have appeared, but this number will probably grow significantly over the next few days.

The exhibition worked well, with 32 visitors over the weekend – in the room we had, this was about as many as we could cope with - it was quite packed in there at times.  Some of the material will be changed, and new boards added ready for June.

The owners of Bawdsey Manor have been very supportive, and have made the team very welcome.

Dave Powis G4HUP