My station G1KSW is situated on the North East side of the city of Kingston-upon-Hull on the North East coast of the United Kingdom, approximately 32 miles South East of the City of York and ~ 8 miles from the North Sea coast.

The QTH is on the highest point within the city boundary of Kingston-upon-Hull at an elevation of ~12 metres (trig point 11m's) above the surrounding area. This is because the QTH is located on a Glacial Moraine which extends across East Hull for a few miles to the North. The hill is around 40 feet tall and drops away to sea level within ~ 150 to 300 yards on most sides. This can be seen by the crudely drawn picture below. Please click for enlarged version. For more information on Glacial Moraines and the Geology of the area CLICK HERE.

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For QTH on Google Earth click here  →

Below you will find links in and around the city of Hull plus the current local weather conditions on the left.......:)

Click on coastal Humber below for a few video clips of the region.

Click on above map for interactive map of area.

   Click on map for larger picture of area.

 

   Humber Rescue

Hull City Council site.

Wolds Way.

The Deep.

Hull Museums.

Click on the pictures to enlarge. Was thinking of connecting the Icom 7400 up via an ATU and trying the 1,410 meters of central cable on top band....:) Bet that would work a treat..LOL.

Just to the West of the QTH is the famous landmark, the Humber Bridge. For 17 years it was the world’s longest single-span suspension bridge, and was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen in July 1981. It took nine years to build and provided the link between two areas which had previously been separate and distinct parts of the country.

It’s an impressive structure, spanning just over 1400 meters, with concrete along weighing almost half-a-million tonnes.

he Humber Bridge is a suspension bridge with the north tower sited on the high water line and the south tower founded in shallow water 500m from the shore. On the north bank, a hard well-jointed bed of chalk comes close to the surface and is covered by a tough layer of glacially deposited chalky boulder clay. The chalk has provided good foundations for both the anchorage and tower on this bank, on the south side, soft alluvium is underlain by beds of boulder clay, sand and gravel. Below these beds, at a depth of 30m, there is a deep bed of stiff, heavily fissured kimmeridge clay, on which the tower and anchorage have been founded. Designed to cross the last major unbridged estuary in Britain, the bridge comprises reinforced concrete towers aerial-spun catenary cables and a continuously-welded, closed – box road deck supported by inclined hanger cables.   The bridge is a masterpiece of civil engineering and was developed out of a design used initially for the Severn bridge near Bristol, England. Its design lifespan is 120 years. The Consulting Engineers for the project were Freeman Fox & Partners   Main Span 1,410m Side Spans   North   South 280m 530m Length between anchorages 2,220m Clearance over high water 30m Deck width (including paths) 28.5m Tower height above piers 155.5m Diameter of main cables 0.68m Total length of wire 71,000km Load in each cable 19,400 tonnes Weight of Steel 27,500 tonnes Weight of concrete 480,000 tonnes Depth of Foundations   Anchorage,   North side   South side 21m 35m Tower,   North Side   South Side 8m 36m   Carriageways ....Dual two lane carriageway plus separate paths Main Cables .....Two cables, each of 14,948 wires of 5mm diameter and 1,540 N/mm2 UTS plus an additional 800 similar wires in each cable on the Northern Side span.