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The Leicester show moved from Donnington to Loughborough University. It was a
better venue, but there was Leicester see and Leicester do. Numbers through the
door were disappointing on Sunday 13th September 2009, although I understand it
was pretty busy on the Saturday. The lack of bodies through the door and absence
of manufacturers like Yaesu and Icom, and traders like MLS made this event seem
a bit of a damp squib when I arrived with Jimmy M3EYP and his mate Ed. But would we have anyone to present to? The first item on the convention
programme was an enjoyable talk about WAB, but with an audience of about six! Oh
dear, should I have bothered? I got ready for my own presentation, looked up,
and saw that the room was full! Wow, they'd all come to see Jimmy and I talk
about SOTA! The presentation was received well by the audience, and many
questions were taken at the end. We stayed another hour to watch Bob's excellent
talk about SDR and the skimmer, but then other priorities took over. Jimmy set up the 2m SOTA Beam and worked on FM making 6 QSOs. I set up the
20m Magic Moggy and made just 8 on CW, despite being QRV for around an hour. I
had been looking forward to a big pile-up and some DX at that late afternoon
time, but it turned out to be as much of a damp squib as the rally! It was a
really weird activation - I didn't even work Reg G3WPF!
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