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The drive down through Bishops Cleeve and Cheltenham was not as frutsrating
as I recalled it on my previous visits, and we were driving up the long straight
tarmac cul-de-sac up Cleeve Hill barely an hour after departing
Bredon Hill G/CE-003. There were a couple of parking
spots remaining, so we bagged on and set off for the summit, mid-afternoon on
Saturday 14th July 2007. The trig point here is very useful, with the cap missing, allowing the pole to be inserted and hence used without guys. Ten minutes brought four contacts for Jimmy, and five for me, including G4JZF in the logs once again. Working conditions were again 5 watts on 2m FM:
Shortly after 3pm local, we were away and driving to London. Progress
on the A40 and M40 was good, and we made good time. Several items of interest
were spotted on the VHF FM broadcast band. The Oxford franchise on 107.9MHz is
now identifying on air and RDS simply as the rather uninspiring "FM 107.9". A
station, presumably pirate on 87.5MHz, had a scrolling RDS display on the car
radio which included "www.uksfinest.org.uk". 106.6MHz from Slough, formerly Star
Radio, was now "Time 1066 for Berks and South Bucks". London pirates Freeze 92.7
and Unique 101.2 were noted, and mirroring events in Manchester, London's 102.2
Jazz FM is now (unfortunately) Smooth Radio. |
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