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.

Thank you to all the members that turned out to support this charity horse ride around the Houghton estate. We had just under 150 horses taking part on one of the most challenging days of weather in a long while. Heavy rain showers, hail & lightning led to some very extreme conditions for the riders. Thankfully no injuries to deal with.

The set up of 5w VHF  to a low mast dual band collinear worked faultlessly throughout – even the lightning avoided it!!!

The control position!

Mast & crossband repeater

Some of the line up