This morning Steve 2E0OWI and I took a trip out to Combe Gibbet near the village of Combe in the County of Berkshire. We loaded the truck with a plethora of radio kit not really knowing what bands we were going to play on which is unusual for us as we normally plan what we are going out to do. The one thing we did plan to do was stay in the truck and operate out of the cold wind, this didn’t go as planned.

On the way up the hill I mentioned to Steve that it wouldn’t surprise me if someone was already at the top of the hill when we got there and sure enough as we approached the Gibbet there was another vehicle with a station already setup. We jumped out of the truck and went over to introduce ourselves.

We met fellow Ham Sri 2E0LKA, he was taking part in a 4m net. Some of the stations in the net were from our local area back down on the south coast. He invited us to jump in on the net and say hello using his station to which we accepted. After a few hello’s on the net we then spent the next couple of hours taking about Radios, Antennas and our ham exploits among other things. Steve and I didn’t set up any radio kit ourselves in the end but it was a pleasant morning chatting with a fellow Ham.

Next time we go out we are going to give Sri a shout and hopefully he will be able to join us for coffee and breakfast on top of a hill somewhere, and of course Radio..