Dave Rogers Bass Guitarist

LUNDY 2006 GB4LI G4VID M0AQP G4TTX G0NFL

Nothing to do with music, just madness

The arrival was wet, windy, cloudy and very rough. Two hours on the Oldenburg but the climb up the hill refreshes the lungs. We stopped at the shop for supplies and arrived at the lighthouse up in the clouds. We put up 1 aerial from the rails at the top, set up the station and retired to the Marisco Tavern. We had very little time for the other attractions of the island this time, mainly due to the new W.A.B. lighthouse award but this was to be one of the best trips yet. There were only 12 visitors on the island, usually there are 50 to 70, so the staff were having their wind down week after the summer madness and before the winter madder lot started to arrive, so we were invited to join in.

The clouds had gone Sunday so we headed to Rat Island at low tide, not so many takers as previous visits but it is nice to have the old 80 metre nets back and we used the new 60 metre band for the first time. Monday the clouds were back so North Light would have been difficult, by lunch time the clouds had been blown away so we set off for South Light, a shorter walk but a lot more climbing. 80 and 60 from the helly pad at South Light was windy but not too cold. Tuesday at least we could see without the clouds but we were struggling the 3 mile walk in the wind to North Light. The radio was good and we operated from the side of the old light tower. The new flashing lights are on the north side of the building. The wind had dropped for the walk back. Wednesday we waited for the tide to uncover the pier end so we could set up that station. While waiting we made use of the fishing rods and caught some dinner, another first for me.

Only one day left to play a bit more radio from the old light so we tried the vertical from the top, there was no wind and tea shirts in November on top of the light was another first.