Monday 26 January 2015

GW/MW-001 - Plynlimon-Pen Pumlumon Fawr




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GW/MW-001 - Plynlimon-Pen Pumlumon Fawr

26/01/2015

Having pulled my alert for Tor y Foel a few days previously due to the weather I grabbed the opportunity to activate the highest summit in Mid-Wales as the forcast  looked really promising.
The mining track 
I duly paid my £5 parking fee at Eisteddfa Gurig and made my way via the old mining track towards the summit. Moving into the mist and off the track I passed numerous remnants of snow on the way up but what struck me was the force of the wind so I was happy with the protection of the very large cairn next to the trig point.
Snow on the path
I left two bottom sections of the fishing pole in the main tube due to the wind so the Band Hopper 2 dipole was quite low - it would be interesting to see how it would perform. Operating from within the cairn means that often the mobile phone signal is a bit iffy so I decided to give a call out on 7.118 and not use RRT.
The trig and cairn
Mike G6TUH and Barry M0IML had been waiting for me on the frequency so I was up and running immediately with excellent signal reports each way - thanks both.  Indeed, most signal reports were exceptionally good and the antenna was thankfully staying up despite the strong gusts of wind.

10:53z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
10:53z
M0IML
7MHz
SSB
Barry
10:54z
G1PIE
7MHz
SSB
Mark
10:55z
G6WRW
7MHz
SSB
Carolyn
10:55z
G0VWP
7MHz
SSB
Terry
10:56z
G4OBK
7MHz
SSB
Phil
10:56z
ON5SWA
7MHz
SSB
Francois
10:57z
MW0BYS
7MHz
SSB
Bill
10:57z
M0JLA
7MHz
SSB
Rod
10:58z
G8VNW
7MHz
SSB
Nick
10:58z
G6ODU
7MHz
SSB
Bob
10:59z
G4ASA
7MHz
SSB
Dave
11:00z
G0EVV/P
7MHz
SSB
David s2s
11:01z
G0TRB
7MHz
SSB
Roger
11:01z
M0NTC
7MHz
SSB
Gez
11:02z
GM4COX
7MHz
SSB
Jack
11:04z
EB2CZF
7MHz
SSB
Jose
11:04z
M3FEH
7MHz
SSB
Karl
11:05z
2W0XOT
7MHz
SSB
John
11:06z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don
11:07z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
11:08z
G4DDL
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:09z
MW0YCC
7MHz
SSB
Alan
11:09z
M0BKV
7MHz
SSB
Damian
11:10z
2E0WDS
7MHz
SSB
Wayne
11:11z
M0TTE
7MHz
SSB
Simon
11:11z
GM4WHA
7MHz
SSB
Geoff

27 chasers made it into my log including a nice 'catch up' chat with Jack GM4COX and an s2s with David G0EVV/p on G/LD-021- Illgill Head thanks David.
Now this summit has a trig (WAB -TP5480 Plynlimon) so after the regular SOTA chasers dried up I called into the WAB net on 7.160. With Ken G0FEX as net controller I quickly ran down the list with 10 contacts in 8 minutes - job done - thanks once again :)

11:16z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
11:17z
M0HEM
7MHz
SSB
John
11:17z
G7AFM
7MHz
SSB
Phil
11:18z
G0GWY
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
11:19z
G6LKB
7MHz
SSB
David
11:19z
M0GDJ
7MHz
SSB
Brian
11:20z
MM3PDM/M
7MHz
SSB
Peter
11:20z
G4GHT
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:21z
G4JJS
7MHz
SSB
Simon
11:22z
2E0GBK
7MHz
SSB
John
A quick call on 2m produced only one reply but after I had packed everything away and was ready to leave the summit Neil MW0ECX/p came booming in on the FT270 with an s2s from GW/SW-003 Fan Brycheiniog. A perfect end to the activation - thanks Neil.
11:35z
GW4XXF
144MHz
FM
Bruce
11:48z
MW0ECX/P
144MHz
FM
Neil s2s

Once again thanks for all the contacts - looking forward to the next one :)

73 Allan GW4VPX

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