Hard Work

Phew, that was hard work.

Yesterday I took part in the celebration of the centenary of the UK Radio Society of Great Britain, which is 100 years old this year.

For this our local amateur radio club set up a special event station under the call sign G100RSGB. The aim was to work as many stations, on as many bands, in as many modes as we could in 48 hours.

I manned our High Frequency station on 7.125MHz from about 11:00 to around 15:30, and was in practically continuous demand from other amateurs who wanted to confirm a contact with us and receive the special RSGB QSL card (confirmation of contact).

In all I guess I talked to well over 50 other amateurs in UK, and one in The Netherlands… and keeping one's head in the pile up of tens of stations calling at the same time, then sorting them out to acknowledge contact one by one, was hard work. Anyway enjoyed it immensely, especially as I am a new amateur with only 5 previous contacts!

M6KWH