Friday 2 June 2017

GW/NW-073 Mynydd Rhyd Ddu

GW/NW-073  Mynydd Rhyd Ddu

24/05/2017

Uniques and Completes

We were on our way up to Llangollen for a few nights and Val always suggests we activate a summit on the way to a B&B or Hotel. I downloaded Gerald MW0WML’s  GPX track from the SOTA Mapping project which was perfect although I did follow the track as close to the Trig as possible and not cut up through the field….read his notes also.
 In the middle of a small wind farm
Setting up
Activation..up and running
This summit would be an unique and a complete for me.  I started the activation on 2m managing only 4 contacts. There is plenty of room on top for HF so I took the opportunity to add my  80m extensions  to make a half wave dipole which brought a good run of chasers followed by 60m which was working just as well.

11:35z
GW4ZLP/P
144MHz
FM
John
11:38z
GW0PLP
144MHz
FM
Don Aberporth
11:40z
G0OHI
144MHz
FM
Arthur
11:45z
M0CQE
144MHz
FM
Paul Oldham
11:52z
G4IAR
3.5MHz
SSB
Dave
11:52z
M6HMK
3.5MHz
SSB
Helen
11:54z
G4WSB
3.5MHz
SSB
Bill
11:54z
G7BGA
3.5MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
11:54z
G0GWY
3.5MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
11:55z
M3FEH
3.5MHz
SSB
Karl
11:58z
G0FEX
3.5MHz
SSB
Ken
11:59z
EI3GYB
3.5MHz
SSB
Michael
11:59z
G6NHW
3.5MHz
SSB
11:59z
G0BFJ
3.5MHz
SSB
Brian
11:59z
G0RQL
3.5MHz
SSB
Don
12:04z
G6TUH
5MHz
SSB
Mike
12:04z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
12:05z
G0GWY
5MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
12:06z
G0FEX
5MHz
SSB
Ken
12:07z
G3IUW
5MHz
SSB
Laurie
12:10z
G1BLJ
5MHz
SSB
Steve
12:12z
M0WBG
5MHz
SSB
Neil
12:13z
GW3UZS
5MHz
SSB
Jeff
12:15z
G4IAR
5MHz
SSB
Dave
12:15z
MI0RTY
5MHz
SSB
Martin
12:16z
GI8SKN
5MHz
SSB
David
Nice views and an easy 'first time summit' to activate

My activation set up:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  UK-MX 50M linear (for 817) and (4Ah LiPo),  3 band link dipole (60/40/20 (+15m extensions +80m extensions),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole.. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX

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