M9OPD says ” Busy night on the 160m club contest. Sandown beach with full size doublet. Bad bits = An hour & half to set up, chair broke so sat on tool box, computer freaked when I transmitted so had to do paper log, 7 degrees in van, late finish. Good bits = learnt lots, chatted to 3 members of the public, two club members popped in for a chat, saw a fox, had lots of fireworks on the beach, made 30 contacts and got through to the RSGB HQ for bonus points”
G0WXJ had slightly more comfortable surrounding and was able to erect a full size coublet which no doubt contributed to his great score. The club can always rely on him to get a big number.
The clubhouse was the venue for M0RQD, G8NHG and G2CNN but suffered from some severe RF invasion which meant that it was very difficult to operate and so decided it was safer to stop after an hour. This will be looked into so that an effective solution can be found.