25th Anniversary of International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Event

This year once again the Humber Fortress DX Amateur Radio Club will be activating GB2SL over the weekend of 20th to 21st August from Spurn Point ‘High Light’ Lighthouse (Spurn Head Peninsula). 

AT 00.01 UTC 20th August to 21st August 2022 to 2400 UTC

Numbers  Location information Lighthouses:

Locator: JOØ3BN

UK0080=Spurn Point High

UK0081=Spurn Point Low

WAB: TA-41

LAT: 53.578978n

LNG: 0.06.33 E

Spurn Head (old): A2424X

Grid Reference: TA 40345 11240

Grid Reference (6 figure)
TA403112

X (Easting) 540345, Y (Northing) 411240

Latitude, Longitude (decimal)

53.578980 , 0.11832847

Latitude, Longitude (degs, mins, secs)

53°34?44?N, 000°07?06?E

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The Humber Fortress DX ARC has once again been invited by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, to put on a Ham Radio station during International Lighthouse on the air weekend.

Spurn High Light is a visitor attraction, and the tallest lighthouse in Northern England!

Made of 300,000 Staffordshire bricks, with a height of 128ft (39m) and 145 steps to the top landing, providing a spectacular view of the Spurn nature reserve and the River Humber.

We are pleased to have been invited back by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to help promote the restored Spurn High lighthouse and for the 25 Anniversary of International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend and to back to Spurn Point to activate GB2SL.

Since our last visit, there have been changes to the shape of Spurn Point and it is now inaccessible to road transport due to the storms of 2013.

With at least a 200 yard break between the mainland and Spurn point making a newly created island almost at high tide.

We are taking a small team of 10, regrettably only those who can climb Stairs can attend this event, manpower and equipment will be ferried to the site by the YWT, in “or should that be on” their Unimog all-terrain vehicle.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend

Association of Lighthouse Keepers

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The Humber Fortress Fortress DX ARC will be taking part in Mills on the Air weekend on May 7th & 8th 2022

Using Callsign GB0HM
Locator = IO93XQ
WAB = TA32

Haven Mill Partington 1810

Haven Mill was built in 1810 and located just outside of the village of Partington in the diocese of York

This was one of many mills built in the 1800s within East Yorkshire and was in daily use into the 1900s.

In 1928 the mill was looking a bit worse for wear, so it was decided to

Remove the last two sails and run the mill with an Oil engine you can see

The shed which was built to house it is on the left 

One of the last photos taken of the mill was in 1936 by that time

The oil engine had been removed, and years of the top part of the mill

Being open to the weather had taken its toll so the top 3 floors were

Reduced to just as it is today ground floor and 1^st floor and new roof

Capped and sealed.

How it started (Demolition )

Today

Photos of the MIll that forms the new headquarters for HFDXARC Club from the outside and within we are so lucky

To be able to operate and put haven mill on the air around the world

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