HF On A Boat

Before one of the fantastic Cream Tea Open Days at the Packing Shed in West Mersea I thought I would try operating low power from one of our launches. Watch the video and see how I got on…

Anticipating something that may get brought up in the comments. Yes, it is legal for me as an intermediate licence holds to operate on tidal water as the old definition of /MM went ages ago, see the Ofcom link below. Despite not being required to sign as portable (or mobile) in the UK I often find stations pick this out when in a pile up so it makes sense for me to do it. As I had radials in the water and could not go anywhere I considered myself portable and not mobile…

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asset...