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