In August I went out twice on 10GHz to compete in the RSGB SHF UKAC, and the August UKuG contest:
- On Tuesday 22nd August - a 45-minute drive to the Pink Road lay-by at Lacey Green (IO91OQ) atop the Chilterns. It was a cold dark evening and after setting up and impaling my arm on some barbed wire (remember to always take a first aid kit when /P) I set-up the dish and then failed with Peter G3PHO, Dave G4ASR, and Stu G0LGS/P. Stu could just hear me and I could just detect him and Neil G4LDR. Basically I worked no one. Then it rained and I got soaked packing up. 2M talkback signals (I had 6Y and 100W) were massive both ways with G3PHO and G4ASR. I didn't take 13cm as it was complicated enough in the dark with 2 complete stations plus having to deal with KST on my iPad. Sorry to Richard G8FUO who travelled from Windsor to share my disappointment! I learnt once again that GHz is hard, and things frequently don’t go to plan!
- On Sunday 27th August - I want to my local site near Remenham Hill (IO91NM) for an hour in the UKuG 3cm contest. I was determined to see if I could hear the GB3SEE beacon in Reigate to check my RX. As luck would have it the beacon was off-air. My DB6NT 10 G2 transverter is dead I could not hear or work M0HNA/P at Wilbur Hill and also G7JTT on the South Downs (IO90LX).