Hi all, great to work a lot of ARRL members over the weekend. We had a great time doing so and some great comments on the strength of our signal for 100w. I think some were bordering of accusing us of cheating but that just made us giggle even more. Anyway, here is a little video of our operating conditions, hope you enjoy. Mark Dutton G0UOK
Glad you found one still serviceable. For @NB4R Royal Observer Corps monitoring post - Wikipedia Other bunkers: Royal Observer Corps Bunker (Fully Stocked with Food) (youtube.com) Looks like a vagrant was living in the bunker. Abandoned ROC Posts. Plus a tour of Buckminster Bunker (youtube.com) Odd that they counted on volunteers for post-Armageddon radiation monitoring. Very British - old school Brit that is....
And here is another bunker. This one is in Canada with a fully operational Amateur Radio club station: VE3CWM https://www.ve3cwm.com/ https://www.qrz.com/db/VE3CWM
Thanks! Glad to see the cost of the bunker is not totally wasted - by keeping it in use and running tours, it stays dry.
Should you find yourself near Ottawa Canada it sounds like you will want to visit the Diefenbunker. Open to tourists and set up with a full ham shack in the former radio comms room and a new 50 ft antenna. Follow this link: Park Information (pota.app) or see photos here VE3CWM Radio | Voice of Canada’s Cold War Museum 73 Edward
It was a pleasure to work you on 10 Meters, Mark! ICOM 7300 into a ground-mounted vertical on my end, about 90 watts. Great video, I really enjoyed it! 73, Tony W8HRO
Really cool. There are some World War 2 bunkers you can visit too, though I don't know of any amateur radio equipment in them. The immense secret headquarters in London is a perfect time capsule as it was locked up in 1945 and left alone for decades. And the tour of the air defense system in Valletta, Malta, is well worth it. You can walk through what looks like an old movie set with maps, telephones and all, but it is quite genuine.
in Essex Five secret bunkers to visit around the UK | Sky HISTORY TV Channel 13 Underground Bunker Museums in the UK (slow-travel.uk) plenty to see in the UK, even if underground. The linked one are museums etc... The massive underground complexes not open to the public or limited access still exist in many areas. Examples include - Pear Tree House: South London's Secret Nuclear Bunker - YouTube We Found a NUCLEAR Bunker Under a bungalow - Preserved and Left Frozen in Time (youtube.com) ABANDONED UK NAVAL UNDERGROUND HQ BUNKER - HMS Forward (youtube.com) Mount Wise PLYMOUTH Huge Cold War Navy Bunker Finally Visited (youtube.com) UTTOB has hundreds of videos where folks are stupid enough to go poking in WWII leftover underground complexes - in many places, not just the UK. Closed space rules // bad air apply - and are the reason some do not return.
And remember that you can visit and (if you are legal in U.S.) operate from a former 'sending end' location of a nuclear exchange - https://titanmissilemuseum.org/museum/ham-radio-operators/ N7MXO
