Thank you to all who were able to assist at this event. We managed to set up a good 2m net on 144.650Mhz running 10W that covered all the required check points this year.  On Sunday morning we were also picking up another group covering a cycle ride so we had to adjust squelch accordingly to eliminate most of their traffic.

Weather was wet and cool on Saturday but dry and sunny on Sunday which gave anice balance to proceedings.

We also tried some HF tests between a couple of the points using vertical SSB . Results below:

Thank you to the members that assisted at this annual event. As usual this presented good RF coverage challenges. We also used the Hunstanton control room club call of M0HCR/P for a change which confused everybody!!  In the end we managed to work all but one location directly from control with the Fring location being relayed from Sedgeford. We also used GB3KY for the Park Farm location.

The main issue at the control was S3/4 noise across the 2m band.  At first this was though to be very localised ie from nearby vehicles. But upon further investigation likely to be a mix from the nearby radio tower that is very close by.

Checkpoint R2

We saw over two hundred horses on the day

The control area including the donated Lynx bus

The control… 70cm link to talkthrough unit, HF and PMR.

Thank you to the members that were able to attend this event. We provided a good safety net for 220 horse riders on the hottest day of the year so far (just under 30C).  RF wise 144.650MHz was used into a low power cross-band 2 – 70 talk-through unit with no issues encountered. We also had a brief 80m test with excellent ground wave QRP signals between two stations.

Thank you to all members that were able to assist with this event. We provided cover at two fixed locations covering road crossings.We also had a mobile response that was available as needed. A good 2m net was provided between the mobiles and control on 144.650MHz.

Just over 140 riders took part and no incidents were reported.

Thank you to members of the group that took part in the exercise.  The results for our group are as follows:

Availability to respond on Fri 18th Dec 2015  at 11:15

Within 1 hour – 7 members

1 to 4 hours – 3 members

4 to 12 hours – 1 member

Thank you to all members that were available to help provide safety cover for this event.  We had 280 riders taking part across the various distance course around the estate. Weather remained sunny and mild and riders went away happy.

We established a good cover net on 145.200MHz using 5w to a small mast mounted dual band collinear.  Crossband talk-through allowed local remote control  so the control position was flexible on the site as per the usual requirement.

Thank you to all the team that turned out to help at this one.  We operated for British Red Cross who had no issues to deal with on the 10km walk. Walker numbers were sadly half of previous year so we only had around 340 taking part.

We used the usual cross-band 2m to 70 cm arrangements which allowed for a  flexible control location on the site. 5W to a dualband W50 at around 6m provided good cover to the handhelds and mobiles around the event.

Thank you to all those that were able to assist at this event spread over two days.  We managed to get a reasonably good coverage on 2m from a better location at Courtyard Farm that made it (just) to all the points.

Saturday proved the busiest day in terms of incidents and Sunday was quiet in comparison but had more riders and operators.

Thank you to all those that were able to assist with communications at this event. We had one of the largest turnouts of around 175 riders for this one.  An anti-clockwise route was ridden with the water stop at Red Barn crossing.

Communications wise we established a 2m net that covered the bulk of the route from the one location. We had our usual difficult coverage into the northern part of the course but managed to relay any signals needed.

First aid wise was quite quiet with just a couple of minor incidents to deal with.

A big turnout out of around 220 riders for this one. The route had been changed from previous events and was changed again on the Friday before to cater for some irrigation pipes!
No medical or other incidents of note to report.
Radio wise we ran a good net on 2m with 5W to our usual low slide-up mast with localised cross-band talkthough to allow the flexibility of control location.
We also set up a HF net on 80m which worked for most apart from the control location. It turns out the voltage convertor that is used to stabilise the battery outlet is an excellent localised HF noise generator – back to the drawing board with that one!

Thanks to the members that were able to assist on this one.