GB2SL International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend 25th Anniversary Event.

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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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MQ0HFC Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee 2022

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Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee 2022

The Humber Fortress DX ARC will be celebrating the Platinum Jubilee for 28 days using the callsign MQ0HFC.

In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service.

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and their marriage lasted 73 years until Philip’s death in 2021. They had four children: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.

When her father died in February 1952, Elizabeth—then 25 years old—became queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, as well as Head of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth has reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution in the United Kingdom, the decolonization of Africa, and the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union. The number of her realms has varied over time as territories have gained independence, and as some realms have become republics. Her many historic visits and meetings include state visits to the People’s Republic of China in 1986, the Russian Federation in 1994, the Republic of Ireland in 2011, and visits to or from five popes.

Significant events have included the Queen’s coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her Silver, Golden, Diamond, and Platinum jubilees in 1977, 2002, 2012, and 2022 respectively. Elizabeth is the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch, the longest-serving female head of state, the oldest living and longest-reigning current monarch, and the oldest and longest-serving incumbent head of state. 

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GB0HM On the map

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What a great weekend was had by all that took part, this was our first time taking part in mills on the air from our Clubhouse at the mill.

We now can say that haven mill and GB0HM are on the world map.

Nice to see a few members return to the club for the first time after Covid.

Members taking part at the weekend.

Andy G7LRR, Kevin M0KVK, Chris G0URG, John G6LNV, Pat M0PKE, Fred G0AUQ, Paul 2E0WPW. 

This was a really nice relaxed weekend event, we did still have big pile-ups on 40m though which we had to handle but this was great fun, 80m was very noisy over the weekend and not many stations worked, 20m was wide open and lots of DX stations called into the event which is always good fun.

A few pictures of members enjoying the radio over the weekend.

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Kenwood TS 820s restore is underway at last

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Well back in 2018 Dave 2E0TKO drop an old Kenwood TS 820s on the clubs workbench which was in a bit of a state as it was pulled from a skip ready to be dumped.

But with going events and repairs all taking place at the club back then,it got put on the back burner.

In 2019 the club moved it home to Patrington and a full year was lost while we built the room rooms shack workshop etc…

In an old windmill.

Now the work is up and running the repairs can restart.

Picture of new workshop

First thing was to see if the radio would power up at all, so a variac was use to bring the power up slowly checking for faults the radio lights up,

So far so good but no Rx or Tx so a visual inspection started , first we saw bad solder joints on nearly ever board also a flashing display , looking like the vco or something was out of lock.

After reflowing most of the solder joints and removing the old harden flux. We then cleaned most of the molex plugs that interconnect the pcb’s.

Still no Rx or Tx so time to check voltages , we start at the source the tapping transform-a look at the 14 volt ac out, that goes to a rectifier pcb board which we find 2 of the diods blow and the other two leaky .

a bit more along that line we also have the 5 volt regulator which had blown also after replacing theses the Rx fires up into Life .

We notice that the Display is still not right and very erratic flashing and only showing up two numbers at times.

More to come.

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