Today I met up with my long time Friend and Ham Neil M0CJM. We made our way to the next county over, Berkshire to activate GFF-0406 Padworth Common.

The weather was wet and rainy but this did not dampen our spirits.
Whilst I was putting the station together Neil put the kettle on and cooked a very nice Breakfast.

Todays kit list:
Yaesu FT891 – 100W
mat 30 Tuner
Chameleon Tactical Delta Loop at around 5m off of the ground using a fiberglass telescopic pole.
My favourite logging software for portable operation – Ham2K

When an activation affords the luxury of parking and operating from the truck we normally operate outside but today due to the wet conditions we decided to operate from inside. We started off on 20m and within seconds of self spotting the frequency came alive with a final count of 60 QSO’s. We QSY to 40m but struggled to find a clear frequency without any QRM, we finally found a relatively clear gap and managed another 21 QSO’s bringing the total for the day to 81.

All in all a successful and very enjoyable activation, I’m looking forward to the next one.