Trum y Ddysgl GW/NW-024

Another on the Nantlle Ridge

Trum y Ddysgl GW/NW-024

26/09/2015 (Saturday)

As mentioned in my previous blog Val and I had booked into a B&B in Rhyd Ddu. This was the Ty Mawr B&B and Tea Rooms run by Menno and Emma....superb.  This B&B allowed us to venture up to our chosen summits without having to use the car over the next few days.

Ty Mawr

I’d asked Barry M0IML to recommend a nice route up to Trum y Ddysgl avoiding Y Garn and Mynydd Drws y Coed.  Although slightly longer his route was a very pleasant walk through the forestry ending with a stiff climb along the ridge overlooking Cwm Dwyfor...5.62km to summit.

 My GPS track

Heading for the forestry...then up along the distant ridge line

 Our ridge to the summit

Snowdon, Y Lliwedd and Yr Aran from our ridge walk

 Turn right here on to the ridge....Bwlch y ddwy elor

 Along the ridge

We arrived on summit which coincided nicely with a text from Barry M0IML/p saying that he was on summit and operating on 60m (G/SE-013).  I quickly set up and called in getting an s2s and a further two contacts with Don and Andrew....summit nearly qualified...thanks everybody :)

11:11z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don IO70uv
11:13z	M0IML/P	5MHz	SSB	Barry s2s
11:14z	G4AFI	5MHz	SSB	Andrew

I could hear David MW0YDH/p calling from GW/NW-022 Moel Eilio on 2m and within minutes he was in the log with both John and Sean calling in to get the summits....great stuff.

11:19z	MW0YDH/P	144MHz	FM	David s2s
11:21z	GW4ZPL/P	144MHz	FM	John
11:24z	MW3PZO	144MHz	FM	Sean

Looking towards the Obelisk and Craig Cwm Silyn distant

By now Barry had finished on 60m so a quick self-spot on his frequency and six regular chasers made the log including my friend Roy from Cardigan who’s getting better at this chasing game even though his antenna is in the attic....

11:27z	G8ADD	5MHz	SSB	Brian
11:28z	M0MDA	5MHz	SSB	Mick
11:30z	G4AZS	5MHz	SSB	Adrian
11:31z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
11:31z	G4ZRP	5MHz	SSB	Brian
11:33z	GW6DGU	5MHz	SSB	Roy

With no further chasers I sent a quick text to Gerald to see if he had arrived on GW/NW-58...he replied with an ETA so we sat back and waited taking a much earned coffee break.  I was first in his log so another s2s completed.... a quick chat then thanking Gerald I left him to his pile-up :)

11:42z	M0AYP/P	144MHz	FM	Michael
11:44z	MW0WML/P	144MHz	FM	Gerald s2s

Coffee on the summit

Another self-spot for 40m resulted in a very brief pile-up but nevertheless ending with a nice s2s with John M0XOT/p on G/WB-011 Bradnor Hill...thanks John.

11:57z	G4GEW	7MHz	SSB	Peter
12:00z	G0TDM	7MHz	SSB	John
12:00z	PA7ZEE	7MHz	SSB	Geert
12:01z	M0IBC	7MHz	SSB	David
12:01z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	Pedro
12:02z	M0IML/P	7MHz	SSB	Barry s2s diff band
12:02z	ON5SWA	7MHz	SSB	Francois
12:03z	GW4CQZ	7MHz	SSB	Martyn
12:04z	MW0BYS	7MHz	SSB	Bill
12:08z	M0XOT/P	7MHz	SSB	John s2s

Nantlle valley below

GW4VPX/p on HF

Another good run on 20m brought two s2s, the first with Diego IU1AUG/p on I/TO-303 Monte Sagro and I was really happy with the other as it was Phil G4OBK on OK/KR-070...thanks both.

12:23z	IU1AUG/5	14MHz	SSB	Diego s2s
12:29z	OE5YYN	14MHz	SSB	Sylvia
12:31z	OE7FMH	14MHz	SSB	Franz
12:31z	EA2DT	14MHz	SSB	Manuel
12:32z	OK3KW	14MHz	SSB
12:33z	OE6GND	14MHz	SSB	Gerhard
12:33z	OE7WGT	14MHz	SSB	Karl
12:33z	OE7PHI	14MHz	SSB	Hansjoerg
12:34z	OK1SDE	14MHz	SSB	Borek
12:34z	EB2JU	14MHz	SSB	Jose
12:35z	HB9AGH	14MHz	SSB	Ambrosi
12:35z	HA5LV	14MHz	SSB	Viktor
12:36z	OK/G4OBK/P	14MHz	SSB	Phil s2s
12:42z	MW0WML/P	5MHz	SSB	Gerald s2s diff band

Looking from the summit towards Snowdon

Now I hadn’t really called out on 2m so when I heard Alan MI0YCC/p calling from GI/MM-001 Slieve Donard I was completely thrown by the callsign....we had a little chuckle as to the confusion ( he was a long way from home)...thanks Alan for the 10 s2s points.  It was great to get Roy on 2m also and a bonus to chat to Aled MW0UPH who I hadn’t heard from for a while.

12:47z	MI0YCC/P	144MHz	FM	Alan s2s
12:53z	GW7BZY/P	144MHz	FM	Peter
12:56z	GW6DGU	144MHz	FM	Roy
12:59z	GD3ZZN	144MHz	FM	Martyn
13:02z	MW0VTK	144MHz	FM	John
13:05z	MW0RHD	144MHz	FM	Bob
13:14z	MW0UPH/M	144MHz	FM	Aled

Cwm Dwyfor below...on our way down...Irish sea distant

 My activation set up:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  4 band link dipole (60/40/20+15m), (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole.. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts and spots.

73 Allan GW4VPX