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Radio Social Combe Gibbet

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So another Sunday Ham Radio social, the QTH this time was Coombe Gibbet located on Gallows Down sitting on the border of Hampshire and Berkshire. In attendance were Myself, Steve 2E0OWI, James 2E0HHP, Sri 2E0LKA and Tiago not yet licenced but watch this space.

Today the guys were QRV on 4m, 2m and HF with a good selection of antennas for experimentation. There was even a little smattering of LoRa Meshtastic in the guise of a LILYGO T-ECHO placed on the back of the truck. Although the sun was out it was still pretty chilly on top of the hill . The clear sky enabled good views of the 3 counties consisting of Hampshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire. We of course had the obligatory bacon and sausage wraps and plenty of coffee to keep us going.

There was plenty of wildlife spotted for the day including Hares, Red Kites, kestrels and skylarks who’s song you could constantly hear on the breeze. Either side of the ridge consisted of the Inkpen and Walbury Hills SSSI with the wildlife clearly thriving here. Across the top of the ridge is a byway which in places was quite rough but as were were all in 4×4 capable vehicles this added a bit more fun to the day. During these /P outings where there are members of the public around we generally always get someone asking us what we are doing which then gives us the chance to be an ambassador to and promote this great hobby and today was no exception

A friend joined us today, Tiago who moved to the UK from Brazil. He is very interested in getting his Ham Radio Licence as he has friends back in Brazil who are licenced operators. During this session we took the opportunity to introduce him to HF where he had a chat with a station on 40m and later on with a station in Kentucky on 17m.

All in all another pleasant Sunday Ham Radio Social.

Combe Gibbet – Berkshire – IO91hj78

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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..