This year G3RCW returned to IO93EP for VHF Field Day.
The event was attended by 30 members of the Worksop Amateur Radio Society over the weekend, many of them choosing to camp on-site for what turned out to be a warm sunny weekend with good levels of activity on the VHF Bands.
The main point of Field Day is that you come together as a group and set up an Amateur Radio Station in a field that relies on off-grid power, this gives us chance to put into practice the skills needed if we were required to set up an Amateur Radio Station in an Emergency. Field Days are not just a UK event and they happen around the globe, however not all at the same time or using the same Amateur Radio Bands.
The Amateur Radio station is then ‘tested’ by operating in an Amateur Radio Contest for 24 hours, this involves the exchange of certain information, such as Call Sign, Serial Number, Signal Report and Maidenhead Locator.
We were able to Operate on the following bands 2m, 70cms, 23cms, 6m (Saturday only) and 4m on Sunday. We had a noticeable increase in activity on 23cms this year.
We also welcomed a number of visitors on-site, some from other local Radio Clubs and others just interested in what we were doing.