On the weekend of the 11th/12th May, WKARS once again set up our special event station at Nutley Windmill in the Ashdown Forest for ‘Mills on the Air weekend’. One of the sweeps of the mill had become detached last year but has now been restored.

As usual we used the callsign GB2NW for this event, and ran stations covering HF with SSB, CW and QRP FT8. The Saturday was something of a disappointment for us, as the intense solar disturbance that had occurred a day or so before had effectively knocked out worldwide shortwave communications – it did yield some spectacular aurora at night though! Due to this, the number of contacts we made on Saturday were somewhat reduced. The situation improved on the Sunday, where HF made a reasonable recovery.