The Club participated in the ‘Railways on The Air’ weekend of the 27/28th September. The venue was, as in previous years, the Bideford Heritage Railway located at the old Bideford station at East the Water.
Unfortunately, on the day we only had John G3JKL, Alan 2E0EUZ and Mike G4KXQ able to support with the setup and operation. Terry G4CHD had to withdraw at the last minute due to illness. We were assisted by Ben 2E0FTZ during the day but for most of the time was just the three of us taking 20 minute stints at operator, logger and a short rest period. As per previous years we concentrated on 40m as a single band operation on SSB. A total of 130 QSO were worked, of which 17 were other Special Events Stations. We were active all day but were very conscious of a lot of stations were calling up but they were buried under quite high S9 noise. This was confirmed by Mike PGA who could hear lots of stations trying to contact us and failing.. Perhaps we should investigate alternative locations for next year. The operation continued until around 1600Z when we decided to draw stumps.