GW/MW-029 -Hafod Ithel

Chasing s2s and MW0WML/p

GW/MW-029 -Hafod Ithel

14/Mar/2015

With Gerald MW0WML/p out on ‘my patch’ I decided to activate Hafod Ithel and then try and meet up with him and Sue somewhere during the afternoon.  Although it would only give me one point for SOTA there were many s2s possibilities during the morning and I didn’t have any more winter bonus summits left in close proximity to my QTH.

It was a reasonable day but in the distance I could see snow on GW/MW-001 Pen-Pumlumon Fawr so Gerald would have a nice start to his day’s activations. 

Bothy bag deployed

 I’d already arranged with Roy GW6DGU that I would give him a call, so after a brief QSO on 2m I told him that I would be moving to 60m and as RRT is now working I told him I would self spot.. An immediate response on 60m from Mark G0VOF who was busy with some paperwork but monitoring the frequency, however, in the middle of the chat Jim EI9GLB came up on 2m so I asked Mark to hold the frequency whilst I gave Jim the summit..good take off from Hafod Ithel into EI.

10:36z	GW6DGU	144MHz	FM	Roy
10:46z	G0VOF	5MHz	SSB	Mark
10:49z	EI9GLB	144MHz	FM	Jim

Back onto 60m and I was away with a good run of 16 chasers and a few chats thrown in and a bit of leg pulling by Bill G4WSB....

10:50z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
10:51z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	Phil
10:51z	M0MDA	5MHz	SSB	Mick
10:53z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
10:53z	G4WSB	5MHz	SSB	Bill
10:54z	G0EVV	5MHz	SSB	David
10:54z	G0TDM	5MHz	SSB	John
10:55z	G6ODU	5MHz	SSB	Bob
10:56z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
10:56z	M0YDH	5MHz	SSB	David
10:57z	G0ELJ	5MHz	SSB	Dave
10:58z	G3RDQ	5MHz	SSB	David
10:58z	G8TMV	5MHz	SSB	Colin
10:58z	G0LGS	5MHz	SSB	Stewart
10:59z	G4MD	5MHz	SSB	Paul

As I was next to the Trig I decided to call in on the WAB net and with Brian G0BFJ as net controller I had a run of 20 chasers eager for the trig which I believe was its first activation for the new award.

11:10z	G0BFJ	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:10z	G7AFM	7MHz	SSB	Phil
11:10z	G0FVH	7MHz	SSB	David
11:11z	G4HPE	7MHz	SSB	Steve
11:11z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	Ken
11:11z	M0HEM	7MHz	SSB	John
11:11z	G7BGA	7MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:12z	G4JZF	7MHz	SSB	Graham
11:12z	MM3PDM/M	7MHz	SSB	Peter
11:13z	G0BYH	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:13z	G4SQA	7MHz	SSB	Dave
11:13z	G7CLA	7MHz	SSB	David
11:14z	G8DCJ	7MHz	SSB
11:15z	G4STP	7MHz	SSB	Tony
11:15z	G0ABY	7MHz	SSB	Phil
11:16z	2E0HPI	7MHz	SSB	Carl
11:16z	G0TRB	7MHz	SSB	Roger
11:16z	GM0FGI	7MHz	SSB	Tom
11:17z	G4NUJ	7MHz	SSB	Ken
11:17z	G4WSB	7MHz	SSB	Bill

 With Bill G4WSB once again ending the run down the list it was a timely end to this visit to 40m as Phil and Andy were calling from  Tor y Foel GW/SW-013 for my first s2s of the day..thanks guys.

11:21z	MW0PJJ/P	144MHz	FM	Phil s2s
11:22z	GW7RKC/P	144MHz	FM	Andy s2s

GW/MW-001 taken on my way to meet Gerald

RRT informed me that Nick G4OOE/p was on G/TW-003 Gisborough Moor so a quick s2s call and we made the contact...thanks Nick. This prompted me to get going on 40m once again and 22 chasers made the log including another s2s with Jack GM4COX/p on GM/SS-049 Culter Fell ...thanks Jack.

11:27z	G4OOE/P	7MHz	SSB	Nick s2s
11:30z	ON5SWA	7MHz	SSB	Francois
11:30z	DK7ZH	7MHz	SSB	Manfred
11:30z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don
11:31z	M0MDA	7MHz	SSB	Mick
11:31z	GM4WHA	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:32z	G4ZRP	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:32z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	Mike
11:33z	M0IML	7MHz	SSB	Barry
11:34z	DK1WI	7MHz	SSB	Ed
11:34z	EI2KD	7MHz	SSB	Rodney
11:34z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	Pedro
11:35z	ON4LAN	7MHz	SSB	Christian
11:35z	EI7GEB	7MHz	SSB	Trevor
11:35z	PA0B	7MHz	SSB	Rob
11:36z	G0HRT	7MHz	SSB	Rob
11:37z	M1CNL	7MHz	SSB
11:38z	G1BBY	7MHz	SSB	Walter
11:39z	GM4COX/P	7MHz	SSB	Jack s2s + Trig
11:43z	2E0EII/P	7MHz	SSB	John
11:45z	2E0MIX	7MHz	SSB	Derek
11:46z	G4ZRP	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:47z	PA0SKP	7MHz	SSB	Sake

With no more callers I listened on 2m in the hope that Gerald was on his summit but was pleasantly surprised when Matt GW8XYJ/p came up with a really good signal from GW/MW-010 Gwaunceste Hill and on my ‘to do’ list for the end of the year....thanks for the nice chat Matt and looking forward to seeing you when you come down this way.  A call from Aled MW3DLA down in New Chapel  but for some reason it was a difficult contact so we didn’t have much of a chance for a decent QSO.

11:57z	GW8XYJ/P	144MHz	FM	Matt s2s
12:07z	MW3DLA	144MHz	FM	Aled
12:32z	MW0WML/P	144MHz	FM	Gerald s2s

Having brought my coffee and sandwiches I decided to hang around for Gerald who eventually made it into my log with another s2s from GW/MW-001 Pen-Pumlumon Fawr .  I told him that I would try and meet up with him as he crossed from GW/MW-001 to GW/MW-007 Banc Llechwedd mawr GW/MW/007.  It was a good 30 minute cross-country journey for me by car but I had calculated I would get there in time. I met up with Sue just above Maesnant but there was no sign of Gerald.  It transpired that he had already crossed the Afon Hyddgen getting his feet wet in the process by missing the new bridge and taking a different route to the normal approach. To cut a long story short I hung around for the rest of the afternoon giving him his first contact (and directions) on both Banc Llechwedd mawr and Drosgol GW/MW-008 before meeting up with him just before it got dark. 

MW0WML and GW4VPX

Thanks to all the chasers and activators and it was especially pleasurable to meet up with Gerald and Sue for the first time. Till the next time.....

73 Allan GW4VPX