£5 Parking fee
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.
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.
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
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G6TUH
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7MHz
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SSB
|
Mike
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10:53z
|
M0IML
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
Barry
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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
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11:11z
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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
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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
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MM3PDM/M
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
Peter
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11:20z
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G4GHT
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
Mike
|
11:21z
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G4JJS
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
Simon
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11:22z
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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
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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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