Saturday 1 August 2015

G/NP-015 Great Knoutberry Hill



Last of the five

G/NP-015 Great Knoutberry Hill

26/07/2015

Monday dawned rather damp and grey. The last summit of our visit to NP was to be Great Knoutberry Hill, another wonderful name amongst the many activated over the last few days. 
 My GPS track
This is an easy summit with only a 1.95km walk from the parking spot. We parked the cars at SD7796 8804 and made our way along the Pennine Bridleway for 0.5Km then heading ESE from the sheep pen towards the summit. 
M0IML/p..Tour guide


Keep to the right of the fence after you pass through sheep pens 


Follow the fence..rain on the lens
We both had long journeys in front of us so this would be a short activation. As the rain had started to fall Barry took his extra large umbrella as a walking stick which meant we would use my fishing pole as the support for the antennas...we had a plan. Thank goodness there was a wall on top as by now the wind was quite strong. As we were setting up one side of the HF dipole went ‘ping’ so a knot was tied quickly as a temporary repair and we were ready for action.

09:32z
G8MIA
5MHz
SSB
ANDY 5/7
09:33z
G0EVV
5MHz
SSB
DAVID 5/7
09:36z
M5AFG
5MHz
SSB
5/9
09:38z
GI4ONL
5MHz
SSB
VICTOR 5/8
09:41z
EI9GLB
5MHz
SSB
JIM 5/9
09:44z
G8TMV
5MHz
SSB
COLIN 5/7
09:45z
GI0OXG
5MHz
SSB
JOE 5/9
09:48z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
DON 5/9
09:51z
M0JLA
5MHz
SSB
ROD 3/7
09:53z
M1EYP/P
144MHz
FM
TOM 5/9 ON G/SP-015
Barry’s Log
 
Wet but cheerful?
Straight on to 60m which had served us so well over the last 4 days...we shared the contacts as usual.  It was nice to hear so many regular chasers but all were reporting that 40m was just as bad as it had been over the last few days. I more or less worked all the chasers that Barry did but in the background I could hear Tom M1EYP/p calling CQ SOTA from G/SP-015 (The Cloud)...also announcing that he was ready to QSY to another band...a quick s2s call and he was in the log...thanks Tom.
09:32z
G8MIA
5MHz
SSB
Andy
09:33z
G0EVV
5MHz
SSB
David
09:36z
M5AFG
5MHz
SSB

09:37z
GI4ONL
5MHz
SSB
Victor IO65se
09:42z
EI9GLB
5MHz
SSB
Jim
09:43z
G8TMV
5MHz
SSB
Colin
09:45z
GI0OXG
5MHz
SSB
Jo
09:50z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don IO70uv
09:50z
M0JLA
5MHz
SSB
Rod
09:52z
M1EYP/P
144MHz
FM
Tom s2s
09:58z
G4BLH
144MHz
FM
Mike
09:59z
G0TVB
144MHz
FM
Paul
10:05z
G0HRT
144MHz
FM
Rob
10:06z
G4ZRP
144MHz
FM
Brian
10:10z
G0IUA
144MHz
FM
Stuart
My Log
My presence on 2m brought about a few more chasers as I felt obliged to give a call on 145.500. With no more callers we packed up and beat a hasty retreat off the summit but not before a few calls on 23cms..no luck.
Let's get off this summit
Dreich!
Thanks everybody for all the contacts over the last 4 days and especially to those who spotted us and also for those s2s points. Barry and I are in G/LD next for another joint-activation, however, I need to hit the GW/NW summits over the next few weeks..hope to catch you then.  

73 Allan GW4VPX and Barry M0IML

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