Well yet another successful Fitz’s challenge is behind us.

On Sunday, WICEN again assisted the Pedal Power organisation with communications during the Fitz’s challenge bike ride. For those who are not familiar with this event, there are a variety of different length rides available to the competitors ranging from 50km to the longest at 255km with some pretty significant hill climbs included in these rides.

This year I was away for work in the period leading up to the event but fortunately, Graham VK1GVC stepped up to take on the organisational and event manager role. He did a superb job in getting everything together and running the event – with the assistance of Matt VK1FMDH and John VK1ET. Glen “Mr Repeater” VK1XX again put together a great repeater package, temporarily installing a portable 2m repeater at Isaacs Ridge and linking it to the Mt Ginini 2m repeater which provided excellent repeater coverage over the whole course.

It would be remiss of me not to thank all who participated in this event – both old and new, but it was particularly good to see (or hear in most instance) quite a few newcomers participating on this event this year – we hope that you enjoyed your experience and also to see a lot more of you guys in future events. A sincere and very big thank you to everyone involved.

There are only two more events this year: the Call of the Beasts event down at Caloola farm on Saturday 7 November and Rally Des Femmes on the following weekend. More information to follow shortly for these two events.

Matt

VK1MA

WICEN ACT