Tuesday 24 March 2015

GW/MW-029 -Hafod Ithel



Chasing s2s and MW0WML/p

GW/MW-029 -Hafod Ithel

14/Mar/2015

With Gerald MW0WML/p out on ‘my patch’ I decided to activate Hafod Ithel and then try and meet up with him and Sue somewhere during the afternoon.  Although it would only give me one point for SOTA there were many s2s possibilities during the morning and I didn’t have any more winter bonus summits left in close proximity to my QTH.
It was a reasonable day but in the distance I could see snow on GW/MW-001 Pen-Pumlumon Fawr so Gerald would have a nice start to his day’s activations. 
Bothy bag deployed
 I’d already arranged with Roy GW6DGU that I would give him a call, so after a brief QSO on 2m I told him that I would be moving to 60m and as RRT is now working I told him I would self spot.. An immediate response on 60m from Mark G0VOF who was busy with some paperwork but monitoring the frequency, however, in the middle of the chat Jim EI9GLB came up on 2m so I asked Mark to hold the frequency whilst I gave Jim the summit..good take off from Hafod Ithel into EI.
10:36z
GW6DGU
144MHz
FM
Roy
10:46z
G0VOF
5MHz
SSB
Mark
10:49z
EI9GLB
144MHz
FM
Jim
Back onto 60m and I was away with a good run of 16 chasers and a few chats thrown in and a bit of leg pulling by Bill G4WSB....
10:50z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
10:51z
G4OBK
5MHz
SSB
Phil
10:51z
M0MDA
5MHz
SSB
Mick
10:53z
G0VWP
5MHz
SSB
Terry
10:53z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
10:54z
G0EVV
5MHz
SSB
David
10:54z
G0TDM
5MHz
SSB
John
10:55z
G6ODU
5MHz
SSB
Bob
10:56z
M0JLA
5MHz
SSB
Rod
10:56z
M0YDH
5MHz
SSB
David
10:57z
G0ELJ
5MHz
SSB
Dave
10:58z
G3RDQ
5MHz
SSB
David
10:58z
G8TMV
5MHz
SSB
Colin
10:58z
G0LGS
5MHz
SSB
Stewart
10:59z
G4MD
5MHz
SSB
Paul
As I was next to the Trig I decided to call in on the WAB net and with Brian G0BFJ as net controller I had a run of 20 chasers eager for the trig which I believe was its first activation for the new award.
11:10z
G0BFJ
7MHz
SSB
Brian
11:10z
G7AFM
7MHz
SSB
Phil
11:10z
G0FVH
7MHz
SSB
David
11:11z
G4HPE
7MHz
SSB
Steve
11:11z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
11:11z
M0HEM
7MHz
SSB
John
11:11z
G7BGA
7MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
11:12z
G4JZF
7MHz
SSB
Graham
11:12z
MM3PDM/M
7MHz
SSB
Peter
11:13z
G0BYH
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
11:13z
G4SQA
7MHz
SSB
Dave
11:13z
G7CLA
7MHz
SSB
David
11:14z
G8DCJ
7MHz
SSB

11:15z
G4STP
7MHz
SSB
Tony
11:15z
G0ABY
7MHz
SSB
Phil
11:16z
2E0HPI
7MHz
SSB
Carl
11:16z
G0TRB
7MHz
SSB
Roger
11:16z
GM0FGI
7MHz
SSB
Tom
11:17z
G4NUJ
7MHz
SSB
Ken
11:17z
G4WSB
7MHz
SSB
Bill
 With Bill G4WSB once again ending the run down the list it was a timely end to this visit to 40m as Phil and Andy were calling from  Tor y Foel GW/SW-013 for my first s2s of the day..thanks guys.
11:21z
MW0PJJ/P
144MHz
FM
Phil s2s
11:22z
GW7RKC/P
144MHz
FM
Andy s2s
GW/MW-001 taken on my way to meet Gerald
RRT informed me that Nick G4OOE/p was on G/TW-003 Gisborough Moor so a quick s2s call and we made the contact...thanks Nick. This prompted me to get going on 40m once again and 22 chasers made the log including another s2s with Jack GM4COX/p on GM/SS-049 Culter Fell ...thanks Jack.
11:27z
G4OOE/P
7MHz
SSB
Nick s2s
11:30z
ON5SWA
7MHz
SSB
Francois
11:30z
DK7ZH
7MHz
SSB
Manfred
11:30z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don
11:31z
M0MDA
7MHz
SSB
Mick
11:31z
GM4WHA
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
11:32z
G4ZRP
7MHz
SSB
Brian
11:32z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:33z
M0IML
7MHz
SSB
Barry
11:34z
DK1WI
7MHz
SSB
Ed
11:34z
EI2KD
7MHz
SSB
Rodney
11:34z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
11:35z
ON4LAN
7MHz
SSB
Christian
11:35z
EI7GEB
7MHz
SSB
Trevor
11:35z
PA0B
7MHz
SSB
Rob
11:36z
G0HRT
7MHz
SSB
Rob
11:37z
M1CNL
7MHz
SSB

11:38z
G1BBY
7MHz
SSB
Walter
11:39z
GM4COX/P
7MHz
SSB
Jack s2s + Trig
11:43z
2E0EII/P
7MHz
SSB
John
11:45z
2E0MIX
7MHz
SSB
Derek
11:46z
G4ZRP
7MHz
SSB
Brian
11:47z
PA0SKP
7MHz
SSB
Sake
With no more callers I listened on 2m in the hope that Gerald was on his summit but was pleasantly surprised when Matt GW8XYJ/p came up with a really good signal from GW/MW-010 Gwaunceste Hill and on my ‘to do’ list for the end of the year....thanks for the nice chat Matt and looking forward to seeing you when you come down this way.  A call from Aled MW3DLA down in New Chapel  but for some reason it was a difficult contact so we didn’t have much of a chance for a decent QSO.
11:57z
GW8XYJ/P
144MHz
FM
Matt s2s
12:07z
MW3DLA
144MHz
FM
Aled
12:32z
MW0WML/P
144MHz
FM
Gerald s2s
Having brought my coffee and sandwiches I decided to hang around for Gerald who eventually made it into my log with another s2s from GW/MW-001 Pen-Pumlumon Fawr .  I told him that I would try and meet up with him as he crossed from GW/MW-001 to GW/MW-007 Banc Llechwedd mawr GW/MW/007.  It was a good 30 minute cross-country journey for me by car but I had calculated I would get there in time. I met up with Sue just above Maesnant but there was no sign of Gerald.  It transpired that he had already crossed the Afon Hyddgen getting his feet wet in the process by missing the new bridge and taking a different route to the normal approach. To cut a long story short I hung around for the rest of the afternoon giving him his first contact (and directions) on both Banc Llechwedd mawr and Drosgol GW/MW-008 before meeting up with him just before it got dark. 
MW0WML and GW4VPX
Thanks to all the chasers and activators and it was especially pleasurable to meet up with Gerald and Sue for the first time. Till the next time.....

73 Allan GW4VPX

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