Tonight we were very pleased to greet our guest from China, Lan, Di BD5SLD.
Lan, Di was pleased to meet all the members and to have the grand tour of the Club room and shack.
Lan,Di is pictured below with the attending members of tonight’s meeting at Fort Paull.
Vhf field day starts off with great weather sun shining and 26 deg’s and everyone starts to turn up for the weekend camp over pitching tent and caravans.
Saturday morning starts off with getting our portable shack in place and masts setup for 2 pm saturday kick off.
The 12 element Yagi for 2m is set to 10m height and guyed down all ready to go, John M0JBA set up camp and puts together his 70cm station with a home-made 7 element Yagi and 5 watts QRP which he operates from his tent into the wee small hours.
The contest kicks off and we soon find out the Yagi on 2m is working better than we thought it would with great results, contacts as far as spain are made over the 24 hours with just 100 watts.
In true Humber Fortress DX Sytle Saturday saw our normal event fish and chips supper which was enjoyed by all, the weekend before had seen a small party for an antenna install day at one of your members Jo 2E0JJO and Chris’s 2E0CWB QTH,
Whom put on a great BBQ and that was followed by a nice profiterole gateau,but one of our team Steve 2E0NSQ thought his serving was too small, it so happened Jo heard about this little moan of Steve’s, and on Sunday presented Steve with his own full profiterole gateau, the Greedy Cheap never shared it.
We are only kidding Steve..
A big thank you to all that supported the event.
Please enjoy a short slide show of the weekend
Congratulations are in order once again to the intermediate class on all passing their exams.
Mr Kevin Simms (M6EYR now 2E0KVK) , father and son teamwork from Pat Walsh (M6BPW now 2E0KCW), Steve Walsh (M6OKB now 2E0OKP)
Well done Guys from all at the Club, we all know that Team Walsh had a few beers to celebrate later that night.
Mr Kevin Simms (AKA Bear Grylls ) had to rush off to his son’s 21st birthday held at a private fishing lake, Kevin was also partaking in a night fishing with his sons, Kevin was keen to show his sons he was no coward to camping out overnight, and in true Bear Grylls style, he set up his camp.
We are told that a fire was lit and BBQ could be smelt miles away as Kevin lead the way for a night’s fishing. Much beer had to be consumed by all but mainly by Kevin for him to fall into his survival bag and shiny tent.
In the night Kevin did not catch much fish, but had many a visit from the local wildlife which made a night under the star all worthwhile NOT.
Kevin, you’re a Sport and we all know your Sons enjoyed the night along with you.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, our Tea Boy Mr Steve Walsh 2E0OKP has stepped down, but stepping into his big shoes is big Jon M6HDX who has been caught many times cleaning Steve’s galley and boiler, we all think Jon has been after the job for months.
We had to have the handing over of the silver spoon and apron ceremony only performed on such a special occasion as this.
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