Following arm-twisting from the Bristol CG to make sure that we had a good selection of stations on the air, Dave (G4FRE) and I spent time undertaking site surveys to find a reasonable /P site.
My normal Welsh site was rejected as it is very close to one of our other team members and there is absolutely no point in mutually wiping each other off the air.
Eventually we revisited the site above Dorstone that we used to use about 25 to 30 years ago. And the farmer remembered towing my Ford Fiesta out of the field in the mid 80s !
It was exceptionally windy and keeping the antenna pointing in the required direction was hard work. Note the rope to the reflector end of the boom! Conditions were not good but 94 QSOs were made and we eventually managed a GM about 10 minutes before the end.
And then. 10 minutes before the end it started to rain. But at least this caused the rainbow above.
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