Report from EGB Horse Ride Ringstead 21/22 June 2014

Thank you to all members that turned out to assist with safety communications at this event. No issues were encountered with riders either day with thankfully none getting misplaced!

We used the usual set up of small mast and dual band collinear with 10w on 145.200MHz. This covered well on Saturday but on Sunday we encountered some difficulty getting through to CP3. However a well place station on Peddars Way crossing near Fring relayed messages on VHF.  We also attempted a low power HF test on the Sunday but sadly the 5W on small antenna at control was not quite enough to get through to CP3 even though the received signals were good from there on both 80m and 40m.