VHF National Field Day 2019

Date & time of the field day contest: 1500 UTC Saturday 6th July 2019 until 1500 UTC Sunday 7th July 2019.

Location: Maesbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the Mendip Hills, just north of Shepton Mallet.  The site rises to 292 metres (958 ft) above sea level and enables a view over the surrounding valleys and hills, with views to the north, west and south.

The Club team arrived at Maesbury on the outskirts of Shepton Mallet (IO81RF) over the weekend of 6th & 7th July for the 10th consecutive year.

As in previous years VHF NFD was well supported, everyone joined in to build the station and get aerials up in the air whilst enjoying the scenery and great company of other members.

Once again Russ M0WYB and Dom M0UAS organised the catering and kept everyone well fed for the duration, Roy G0VFS and XYL Pauline kept everyone hydrated with cups of tea and coffee. Overall a fantastic team effort and team spirit. The WX was also in our favour and we all stayed dry which makes life easier at an event like this.

We entered the Mix and Match section and operated on all 5 bands: 50, 70, 144, 432 and 1296MHz.

This year we had an abundance of new Icom IC-9700 radios which were a pleasure to use. 

Attending all or part of the weekend were:

M0GHZ-David

2E0NEY-Pete

G4YXS-Frank

M0MAT-Matt

G0VFS-Roy & XYL Pauline

G0BKU-Shaun

2E0BKU-Tracy

M0WYB-Russ

M0UAS-Dom

G5BBL-Jan

G0GKH-Dave

G0HAS-Adrian

G0KCZ-Bill

M0IMS-Mark

G0GRI=Ian

G0HEL-Alan

G6LTG-Ian

G3TKF-Robin

Visitor: Reg Walker 

The G2BQY - VHF NFD Result  this year

The Trowbridge & DARC  were awarded 3rd place this year for the mix and match section, with 2565 normalised points.

Taking the G5BY Trophy, from us this year was  Telford & DARS in IO82 with 3235 normalised points,  and  Northern Fells CG in IO94 taking 2nd place with 2786 normalised points.

See full report here