British Inland Waterways On The Air - G2XP at Runnymede (mostly scenery)

British Inland Waterways On The Air (BiWOTA) takes place on the August bank holiday weekend each year.

On Sunday 25 August 2024, Martin M1MRB and Ed M0MNG travelled to Runneymede in SW London. We took part in BiWOTA from the banks of the River Thames.

Martin kindly allowed us to use the club callsign G2XP, which belongs to the Sutton & Cheam Radio Society

This video is a compilation of videos and photos that I took. Unfortunately I did not film many contacts as I was operating for much of the time.

Our furthest contact, and the only one outside of Europe, was with Cal VO1CAL in Newfoundland. Unfortunately, some individual saw fit to jam this contact which was a great shame. Nevertheless, we exchanged enough details with Cal for the contact to be valid.

Our vertical antenna tuned on all bands above 40 meters. Whilst the antenna was good for more distant contacts within Europe, it was not so good for contacting other BiWOTA stations around the UK unfortunately. However our very first contact of all was with a BiWOTA station in Scotland!

It was a very fun day and I would certainly recommend BiWOTA to everybody for future years.

Web links of interest:

BiWOTA: https://nharg.org.uk/biwota
G2XP: https://www.qrz.com/db/G2XP
VO1CAL: https://www.qrz.com/db/VO1CAL
Runnymede: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough...