Biography

This Special Event station will be established as part the Churches On The Air (CHOTA) event, and as part of the Parish of Worthing, Saint Matthew’s annual community celebrations, giving thanks for the formation of our Parish in 2008 on the 2nd and 3rd Saturday in September each year.

Saint Matthew’s church was opened in December in 1899 as a daughter church (Chapel of Ease) of the Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Worthing. Then In the early 1990′s Saint Matthew’s Church became part of the Team Ministry of the Parish of Christ The King, Worthing. At the end of March 2008 the Parish of Christ the King, Worthing was dissolved. And on 1st April 2008 after 109 years and 2 months the Church of England Parish of Worthing, Saint Matthew’s was formed and Saint Matthew’s church became a Parish church for the very first time.

As part of our celebrations the Parish Church of Worthing, Saint Matthew’s put on special events and activities during September each year involving the whole community.

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Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Rig: Yaesu FT-857D

Antennas: Multi-band 0ffset dipole (Windom style)for 40M to 6M mounted on the gable end of the church Choir vestry and the other end in a tree at the far west of the church grounds, at about 8M above ground level, with an LDG Z-100Plus ATU. For 2M and 70cm a Sharmon X50 on a homemade stand on the flat roof of the Choir vestry.

And an old Dell Think Pad laptop for logging.