Club members setup and enjoyed a special event Station on Bangor Pier on the 20th July 2024.
Built in the late 19th century during the Victorian era, Bangor Pier exudes a charming and nostalgic atmosphere. Its architectural style and design reflect the elegance and craftsmanship of that era, making it a captivating sight for history enthusiasts. At intervals along the length of the pier deck, you will see pretty little Victorian kiosks, it was in two of these kiosks that we setup and ran the SES in.
We were greeted by sunshine upon arriving on the pier at 8:30am, however by 10am the weather had changed bringing in rain for most of the remainder of the day. This did not however dampen the spirit of the members that attended and didn’t stop members of the public visiting the pier and indeed visiting our kiosks.
The aim of the special event station (SES), and indeed all SES’s is to make to make contacts locally and/or around the world to promote, celebrate, or commemorate an event, or venue which in this case was Garth pier in Bangor North Wales. Another important aim of a SES is to allow members of the public to see amateur radio in operation and indeed have a go themselves and despite of the poor weather a few members of the public visited, took a turn on the microphone and tried their hand at morse code, Who knows one of our visitors may be a licensed amateur in the future!
During the day club members worked over 100 stations on HF 40m and 20m, CW, VHF 2m FM. We made 40m SSB contacts around the UK, Finland, Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, 20m SSB around Europe and 18m the Azores. CW worked some in a Russian contest at the start, and later in the YOTA contest – the youngest ‘Youth’ worked was a 9 year old Romanian.
Dragon Amateur Radio Club would like to thank the Friends of Bangor Garth Pier and Bangor city council who kindly allowed the Dragon Amateur Radio Club the use of two kiosks on the pier to run the club Special Event Station. Without their kind support this event would not have been possible.
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