Welcome To The Windmill Contest Group home page.

The windmill contest group meet for HFNFD, VHFNFD, SSBFD, and the 6 hour Marconi 144MHz CW contest in November. Occasonally we get together for other contests. The group AGM is held during the first full weekend in July in a field on a hilltop near Ashford in Kent (JO01LD). For membership details contact me using the feedback form.

The aims of the group are simple :-

• To win (or at least do well in) contests.
• To drink large quantities of beer. We operate a very strict alcohol policy - bring as much as you want, none may be taken off site.

• To eat large quantities of curry.

To see how we do in the VHF contests look in the VHFCC results pages.

It is rumored that photographs of the results of too much of the other aims are in circulation.

Most of the images on this site are from field day events. Some of the pictures on this site are quite large - please be patient or spend some money on a broadband connection.

144MHz November CW

For many years (although not every) now we have won the 6 hour multi operator section of the November CW contest - possibly because there has been no real competition (OK so we were the only entry one year). If your club is active on 2M why not put an entry in - there is no need to go out portable for this contest and there is usually plenty of european activity. See the rules on the VHFCC site. If we are the only entrants for much longer the RSGB may delete this contest from the calendar, leaving us no choice but to stay in The Cock at Luddesdown all weekend. You owe it to our livers to enter this contest !

VHF NFD

Due to a sharp drop in club membership we entered the restricted (full power) section of VHF NFD for a few years. In 2000 the VHFCC changed the rules to make the restricted section 25W so we moved back to the open section.

Our field day site is located on the top of the North Downs near Ashford, Kent in JO01LD.

We usually use these callsigns:

NEW! 2006 contest pictures

VHF NFD 2006 Photo Gallery.

Follow these links for 2004 contests

HF CW NFD

We usually operate as G0FBB/P from a field near Harvel, Meopham, Kent in JO01EI

HF SSB FD

We have operated in the open and restriced sections in previous years. Open section entries are usually from the VHF NFD site using G3GRS/P, restricted entries from the HF NFD site using G0FBB/P.

Windmill Contest Group Photo Gallery.

A link to Terry G0FKL's corner of compuserve with a few very early photo's of the windmill contest group, be patient it can be slow.G0FKL Windmill Contest Group page

© Ian Burns G0AFH. Last update January 2004