GW/SW-007 Fan Nedd

Brrrr........

GW/SW-007 Fan Nedd

11/02/2015
 
I usually park my car at SN923197 just above the hairpin bends on the North approach to the summit. Well today there was some activity at this location in the form of a film crew using a Drone to film an immaculate Morgan car with a registration number of AERO 8. The car was being driven up and down through the hairpins. As far as I can see there does not seem to be a model with the same backend as the one in my photos but they do have a range called the Morgan Aero.

 Drone with camera on right

They were also controlling the section of road by the use of radio communications. I came to the conclusion that some sort of promo video was being made. It'll be interesting to see if anything appears on their website in the near future.

 Mist shrouding the summit

Past the cairn and towards the trig

The summit was shrouded in mist as I made my way to the top where I soon realised that it was freezing fog so a quick activation was the order of the day. The icicles were even horizontal on the blades of grass.

On arrival at the trig I immediately took off one sweaty layer and put on another 3 dry layers which hopefully would keep me warm during my stay. I bungeed the pole to the trig point and hid behind it and my rucksack as protection from the wind that had picked up then set about the activation.

An orderly pile up once again as soon as the spot kicked in with Don G0RQL being first in the log.

11:31z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don
11:32z	M0IML	7MHz	SSB	Barry
11:33z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	Mike
11:33z	M0IBC	7MHz	SSB	David
11:33z	G4WSB	7MHz	SSB	Bill
11:34z	2E0WDS	7MHz	SSB	Wayne
11:34z	G6ODU	7MHz	SSB	Bob
11:34z	G0VWP	7MHz	SSB	Terry
11:35z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	Pedro
11:35z	EI9GLB	7MHz	SSB	Jim
11:35z	G0TRB	7MHz	SSB	Roger
11:35z	G8VNW	7MHz	SSB	Nick
11:36z	M0NTC	7MHz	SSB	Gez
11:36z	PA0B	7MHz	SSB	Rob
11:36z	M6WSB	7MHz	SSB	Stephen
11:37z	HB9MKV	7MHz	SSB	Rudi
11:38z	M3FEH	7MHz	SSB	Karl
11:38z	M0BKV	7MHz	SSB	Damian
11:39z	G4ZRP	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:40z	G0ELJ	7MHz	SSB	Dave
11:40z	G0JZF	7MHz	SSB	Graham
11:40z	2E0MIX	7MHz	SSB	Derek
11:41z	G0TDM	7MHz	SSB	John
11:42z	G3RMD	7MHz	SSB	Frank
11:42z	PE1PIC	7MHz	SSB	KeesJan
11:43z	EA1IPN	7MHz	SSB	Paco
11:43z	DL3HXX	7MHz	SSB	Lothar
11:44z	M0JLA	7MHz	SSB	Rod
11:45z	GM4YMM	7MHz	SSB	Christine
11:45z	GM0AXY	7MHz	SSB	Ken
11:45z	M3NFL	7MHz	SSB	Neil
11:46z	G4WHA/A	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:47z	G3RDQ	7MHz	SSB	Dave
11:48z	G4YTD	7MHz	SSB	Tim

My flow was interrupted by 4 hill walkers who appeared out of the mist.  I had to ask Stephen 2E0SCS to stand by as they were really interested in what I was doing – their initial reaction was that I was military as they had passed a number of young Army lads with full kit on another part of the mountain.  They moved off and then another group arrived immediately so I had to repeat my speech :)... they too disappeared into the mist  - eerie. What I didn’t realise that not only Stephen was standing by but another 8 chasers were hovering :)  - thank you all.

11:53z	2E0SCS	7MHz	SSB	Stephen
11:53z	G0HRT	7MHz	SSB	Rob
11:54z	G6WRW	7MHz	SSB	Carolyn
11:54z	G8ADD	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:55z	ON5SWA	7MHz	SSB	Francois
11:56z	DJ5AV	7MHz	SSB	Michael
11:57z	DL/OE9EGI/P	7MHz	SSB	Egon s2s
11:59z	M0SAA	7MHz	SSB	Barry
12:00z	GW6DGU	7MHz	SSB	Roy
12:02z	EB2CZF	7MHz	SSB	Jose

As I was leaning against the trig (TP3108) I called into the WAB net and within 6 minutes I had finished.  So thanks Phil G7AFM for hearing me and letting me work quickly down the list.

12:06z	G7AFM	7MHz	SSB	Phil
12:07z	G0GWY	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
12:07z	G0BFJ	7MHz	SSB	Brian
12:07z	MM3PDM/M	7MHz	SSB	Peter
12:08z	G6LKB	7MHz	SSB	David
12:08z	SM6CNX	7MHz	SSB	Dan
12:08z	G6TEL	7MHz	SSB	Steve
12:08z	M0GDJ	7MHz	SSB	Brian
12:09z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	Ken
12:09z	G4STP	7MHz	SSB	Tony
12:10z	G0FVH	7MHz	SSB	David
12:11z	G7BGA	7MHz	SSB	Geoffrey

A call on 2m brought a bleary reply from Mal GW6OVD who was just awakening after his night shift –sorry Mal :)

12:12z

GW6OVD

144MHz

FM

Mal

Thanks to all the chasers for contacting me today whilst I was on Fan Nedd - 57 including 1 s2s in 40 minutes.  

 GW4VPX with many extra layers :)
My additional layers worked well today but I was glad to make my way down... ..brrrr. Hopefully the weather will stay kind for the rest of the Winter Bonus period as I’ve got a few more summits to knock off before it ends.

73 Allan GW4VPX