Radio club aims high with mast set up at Noss Head for Lighthouses on the Air event

Members of Caithness Amateur Radio Society (CARS) set up their shack this past weekend at Noss Head lighthouse for the annual event Lighthouses on the Air (LOTA).

LOTA is an international event originally started in Scotland in 1993 and has continued to grow each year with over 450 lighthouses and ships participating. Clubs seek to contact and exchange details and information about the lighthouse they are working from, Noss head being UK0039.

The Caithness club (call sign GB0NHL) used various high frequencies and digital data modes on a number of transmitters and antennas to contact many other clubs in the event.

CARS club secretary, Nigel Mansfield, said: "The set up took approximately 1.5 hours on Friday evening. The weather was kind to us and a good deal was learnt about Noss Head and the other lighthouses who we contacted which even included an inland lighthouse ship based on the river Ouse in the southern UK."

The event is an annual event each August.

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