MMØDGR/p will be working from Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve (GMFF-011) on Saturday, 20th March, 2010. The station will be located at the Caerlaverock Castle south of Bowhouse on the north coast of the Solway Firth (NY018651). WAB Square: NY06; QRA Locator: IO84GW; Latitude: 54°58′16″N; Longitude: 03°32′07″W, EU Area: SC06 (Dumfries and Galloway), IOTA: EU-005, WLOTA: LH-1234. Bands: 40 - 10 metres. Modes: BPSK63, CW, and SSB. QSL cards should be sent via MMØDFV.

There are few places in Scotland like this – a dramatic landscape of mudflats, sandbanks and saltmarsh, which extend beyond the Reserve, into the estuary and all the way to England. The Reserve is home for tens of thousands of barnacle geese; the entire Svalbard population of barnacle geese, currently approximately 27,000 birds, return each year to the Solway Firth. The Reserve includes the mudflats of Blackshaw Bank and parts of Priestside Bank and Carse Bay. The River Nith meanders its way through Blackshaw Bank, its channel constantly moving with the mudflats where it enters the Solway Firth. 

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