Mills 2019

Location

Saltford Brass Mill is situated on the banks of the River Avon in the village of Saltford, 5 miles west of the City of Bath in the South West of England. Its postal address is Saltford Brassmill, The Shallows, Saltford, BS31 3EY. However, there are some specific details that will be of interest to radio hams:

• Lat/Long (WGS84 Geoid): 51.401316°,-2.451456°
• IARU: IO81sj
• IOTA: EU005 (UK Mainland)
• WAB: ST66 – England
• ///unravel.transmits.rely

The Operation

Following the success of our first operation from within the Mill grounds in 2018 we continued with operations in a similar vein. This year we had a new position within the Mill grounds, operating from the front of the site giving us a higher profile to passing pedestrians and also freeing up the display area we used last year to allow the Mill volunteers to more easily demonstrate their water wheel models and display the plants that they cultivate and sell.

The equipment was similar to the previous year although we did play with a few odd bits just for the fun of it.

The Station

• Yaesu FT-991 HF/VHF/UHF Multi-mode transceiver
• Nissei DPS-300 Linear Power Supply
• B and W Manual HF ATU with balanced connection
• Behringer 302USB audio mixer (splits audio out from the FT-991 to operators headphones and external amplified speakers)
• Logitech USB powered amplified speakers
• 80m doublet fed with 450Ω ladder-line
• Fibreglass telescopic mast to support centre of doublet in an inverted vee configuration

We had a minor mishap, on Sunday we lost the hard drive on our Club laptop and with it the log of Saturdays activities. This means that we only have a partial log of the weekend. We have uploaded to eQSL so hopefully we will get some confirmations from the Saturday that we will be able to process later, so if you worked us and don’t see your QSO listed please drop us a line with the usual log details and we will add you to the list.

The Log

Date (UTC)	Time (UTC)	Station Worked	Band or Frequency	Mode	RST		Operators Name	QTH	Notes
					Sent	Rec'd
11/05/19	09:45	GB0ASH	80m	SSB	59	59	Dave	Ashton Windmill	North Bristol ARC
11/05/19	09:58	M0CGL	80m	SSB		58
11/05/19	10:08	2E0EVM	80m	SSB		59
11/05/19	10:58	G0UUQ	80m	SSB		57
11/05/19	11:17	GW4BKG	80m	SSB		59
11/05/19	11:26	M0KKM	80m	SSB		59
11/05/19	12:39	G0LTG	2m	SSB	57	57	Laurie	Binnegar
11/05/19	12:47	GB0TGI	2m	SSB	59	59	Shaun
11/05/19	13:53	G4CUS	80m	SSB		58
11/05/19	14:03	GB4WM	80m	SSB		59		Walkington Mill	Hull and District ARS
11/05/19	14:27	M0TRJ	80m	SSB		59
12/05/19	09:17	M0LJT	80m	SSB	59	59	Eddie
12/05/19	09:19	GB0CHW	80m	SSB	54	57	Gavin	Chailey Heritage Windmill	Downland RG
12/05/19	09:25	M0KEP	80m	SSB	57	57	Tim	Abingdon
12/05/19	09:28	G3OCI	80m	SSB	59	59	Denis		IC7300 Long Wire
12/05/19	09:30	G6PJX	80m	SSB			Chris	Chester
12/05/19	09:32	GB0LM	80m	SSB	59	59	Kevin	Llanyrafon Mill	Cwmbran and District ARS
12/05/19	09:35	2E0CZK	80m	SSB	57	59	Bob	Southampton
12/05/19	09:36	G7TGK	80m	SSB	58	59	Charlie	Pershaw
12/05/19	09:39	G3XTZ	80m	SSB	59	59	Graham	London (Heathrow)
12/05/19	09:42	M0TFY	80m	SSB	58	59	David
12/05/19	09:45	G3ZPS	80m	SSB	59	59	Steve	Kent
12/05/19	09:48	G0ERS	80m	SSB	58	59	Rod	Portsmouth
12/05/19	09:49	G4JZR	80m	SSB		59	Eric
12/05/19	09:51	G1NYN	80m	SSB	58	59	Dave	West Yorkshire
12/05/19	09:56	G0LUH	80m	SSB			Doug	West London (Heathrow)
12/05/19	09:58	GB2WMS	80m	SSB		59	Brian	Shepshed
12/05/19	10:05	GB2LWM	80m	SSB	58		Keith	Lytham Mill	Thornton-Cleveleys ARS
12/05/19	10:11	M0MVV	80m	SSB	57	55	Adam	West Byfleet
12/05/19	10:19	G3YNT	80m	SSB		58	Tony	Gloucester
12/05/19	10:28	G3GLB	80m	SSB			Edgar
12/05/19	10:30	G3YHN	80m	SSB	59		Chris	West Midlands
12/05/19	10:35	GW4GJA	80m	SSB			Ken	Merthyr Tydfil
12/05/19	10:38	M0WHW	80m	SSB			Horace
12/05/19	10:41	G3ZPF	80m	SSB	57	59		Wolverhampton
12/05/19	10:45	G0RGB	80m	SSB	59	59	Peter
12/05/19	10:49	GB50TEL	80m	SSB			John		Telford Radio Club 50th Anniversary
12/05/19	10:53	GB2WTM	80m	SSB	57	58	Keith	Woodbridge Tide Mill	Felixstowe and District ARS
12/05/19	10:58	GB2DWM	80m	SSB	45	55	Steve	Duloe Windmill St Neots Cambs	Huntingdonshire ARS
12/05/19	11:02	2E0EIC	80m	SSB			Joe
12/05/19	11:04	GX0BRA	80m	SSB	57	59	Paul		Banbury Radio Club
12/05/19	11:08	M0TRJ	80m	SSB	59
12/05/19	12:41	G8BIG	80m	SSB				Norwich
12/05/19	12:46	G7VKP	40m	SSB	59	59	Adrin	Chesterfield
12/05/19	12:49	PA0HPG	40m	SSB	59	58	Harm
12/05/19	12:53	G0KTR	40m	SSB	59		Roger	Manchester
12/05/19	12:58	G1PIE	40m	SSB	59	59	Mark	Preston
12/05/19	13:12	M0KED	40m	SSB	59	59	Andy	Lincoln
12/05/19	13:21	G0XTA	40m	SSB	58	59	Ray	Wisbeach Cambridgeshire
12/05/19	13:26	F4HZN	40m	SSB				SW France
12/05/19	13:29	ON5GA	40m	SSB	59	58	Ed
12/05/19	13:34	GB2SWM	40m	SSB	59	59		Stretton Mill	Chester and District RS
12/05/19	14:31	M3GJA	80m	SSB	56	59	Trevor	Norfolk