GW/MW-034 Mynydd Cynros

Valuable s2s points today

GW/MW-034  Mynydd Cynros

25/March/2015

The weather forecast had promised a nice but cold day today so as Barry M0IML/p had called me to say he would be out on G/SE-011 Wilmington Hill for SOTA and a WAB trig I decided to alert for Mynydd Cynros.  The sun was shining on a lovely spring day as I parked opposite the Abbey at Talley and made my way up the zig-zag path towards the summit.

 Towards the zig zag path and summit

On the zig-zag path heading towards the summit

From the alerts I knew that Nick ON/G4OOE/p  and Phil ON/G4OBK were out on few summits but that I would probably miss their first activation of the day over in Belgium. I bungeed the pole to a fence post and set about erecting both the 2m dipole and the 60/40/20m linked dipole just next to the trig. It was a surprise that RRT burst into life with an announcement that Nick was calling on 40m and within seconds he was in the log...perfect timing...thanks Nick.

10:40z	PA/G4OOE/P	7MHz	SSB	Nick s2s
10:51z	G6DTN/P	7MHz	SSB	David s2s
10:54z	M0IML/P	7MHz	SSB	Barry s2s

With RRT pinging away I was notified that David G6DTN/p was calling from G/WB-005 Long Mynd-Pole Bank . He was soon in the log followed by Barry and the offer of the frequency once he had finished...thanks.  

 GW4VPX/p

Now Barry’s offer came with a ready made pile-up with Mick M0MDA making the log as the first of the regular chasers and within 10 minutes I had finished my first visit to 40m....thanks everyone.

10:59z	M0MDA	7MHz	SSB	Mick
11:00z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	Mike
11:00z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don
11:01z	G8ADD	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:01z	M0TVU	7MHz	SSB	Paul
11:01z	G6WRW	7MHz	SSB	Carolyn
11:02z	GM4YMM	7MHz	SSB	Christine
11:02z	G0ELJ	7MHz	SSB	Dave
11:03z	G4WHA/A	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:03z	ON5SWA	7MHz	SSB	Francois
11:03z	F6COW	7MHz	SSB	Michel
11:04z	G4WSB	7MHz	SSB	Bill
11:04z	G0VWP	7MHz	SSB	Terry
11:04z	G0TDM	7MHz	SSB	John
11:05z	G4ZRP	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:06z	G3CWI/P	7MHz	SSB	Richard
11:07z	EI4TN	7MHz	SSB	Den
11:09z	G6LKB	7MHz	SSB	David

Now I had originally alerted that the first band I would use would be 60m so I duly changed the links and called on 5.398.5. Only one instant response and that was Don G0RQL very happy to have the contact on another band for SOTA, WAB trig and square. Thanks for the chat Don. Whilst talking to Don I noticed flakes of snow and hailstones coming down but thankfully it finished quite quickly.

11:14z

G0RQL

5MHz

SSB

Don

Now I knew that Rod and Viki were out and about but not due on summit for a while so I took a gamble on calling in on the WAB net first to give them the Trig (TP5012) and the Square SN63. 

 The trig (TP5012) at Mynydd Cynros

With Geoff G0GWY as net controller I quickly ran down the list ending with a t2t (trig to trig) with Darius M0KCB/p...thanks Darius and all the stations on the net.

11:21z	G0GWY	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:21z	G7AFM	7MHz	SSB	Phil
11:22z	G4JZF	7MHz	SSB	Graham
11:22z	G4SQA	7MHz	SSB	Dave
11:22z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	Ken
11:23z	G1PIE	7MHz	SSB	Mark
11:23z	G0ABY	7MHz	SSB	Phil
11:23z	G7BGA	7MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:24z	DL7UCW	7MHz	SSB	Ben
11:24z	G4DUE	7MHz	SSB
11:24z	G0FVH	7MHz	SSB	David
11:25z	MM3PDM/M	7MHz	SSB	Peter
11:25z	SM6CNX	7MHz	SSB	Dan
11:25z	G4PYW	7MHz	SSB	Mike
11:27z	M0KCB/P	7MHz	SSB	Darius t2t TP4768

It was now time for a coffee and sandwich as there was no imminent SOTA activity on the bands. I also had a play with the various functions on my camera...I’ve done this summit so many times that it’s difficult now to get any variations in the pictures that I take :( My short break was interrupted by Viki MW6BWA/p calling on 2m from GW/MW-009 Beacon Hill. A quick exchange of reports and a QSY on to 70cms and a very happy Viki :)

11:40z	MW6BWA/P	144MHz	FM	Viki s2s
11:44z	MW6BWA/P	433MHz	FM	Viki s2s
11:49z	MW0JLA/P	5MHz	SSB	Rod s2s
11:51z	GM4COX/P	5MHz	SSB	Jack s2s
12:32z	GM4COX/P	7MHz	SSB	Jack s2s
12:37z	PA/G4OOE/P	7MHz	SSB	Nick s2s
12:41z	GW6OVD/A	7MHz	SSB	Mal

Viki informed me that Rod MW0JLA/p was all set up on 60m and calling so I went hunting....s2s in the log. The next s2s for Rod was with Jack GM4COX/p on GM/SS-091 Meall Odhar and a message for me to QSY to 5.305.5Mhz. I soon had Jack in the log but under difficult conditions so I could not resist giving him another call later on 40m for a nice QSO and excellent signal reports.....thanks Jack and Rod. Within minutes Nick was calling from his second summit but this time using PA/G4OOE/p so another s2s was in the log followed by a QSY to speak to Mal GW6OVD/A...thanks both.

 The office with 2m/70cms dipole on fishing pole 

 Now due to the weather conditions over the winter I had neglected 20m so as it was a nice day I ventured on to 20 without being able to spot for some reason on RRT but thanks to those that did spot me on Sotawatch and the DXCC cluster.

13:10z	EA1HMT	14MHz	SSB	Ignacio
13:11z	LA1OSA	14MHz	SSB	Widar
13:12z	EA2DZX	14MHz	SSB	Luis
13:13z	EA1IPN	14MHz	SSB	Paco
13:13z	IK5ZAI	14MHz	SSB	Michele
13:14z	S57ILF	14MHz	SSB	Franci
13:15z	F/DD6DO	14MHz	SSB	Stephan
13:16z	DC2WF	14MHz	SSB	Rolf
13:16z	SP9AMH	14MHz	SSB	Mariusz
13:20z	OK/OE5HFM/P	14MHz	SSB	Hermann s2s
13:21z	OK/OE5MOM/P	14MHz	SSB	Monica
13:21z	DL2HWI	14MHz	SSB	Dietmar
13:22z	EA2CKX	14MHz	SSB	Pedro
13:23z	IW1BBQ	14MHz	SSB	Ferruccio
13:23z	E79D	14MHz	SSB	Dalibor
13:24z	OM1AX	14MHz	SSB	Vlado
13:24z	E79SD	14MHz	SSB	Sanja
13:25z	OZ4RT	14MHz	SSB	John
13:25z	DK7ZH	14MHz	SSB	Manfred
13:26z	RA3PCI	14MHz	SSB	Sergey
13:26z	E77O	14MHz	SSB	Slobodan
13:31z	RM9RZ	14MHz	SSB	Igor
13:32z	S58N	14MHz	SSB	Mike

The visit to 20m was well worth it as I was called by Herman and Monica on PA/PA-004 Torenberg (Apeldoorn) for an s2s....thank you both.  68 entries in the log today so thanks to all the chasers and activators.

Talley village with the Brecon Beacons in the distance

The weather forecast is not too good for the next few days so it will probably be mid-week before I’m out on the hills again....

73 for now.

Allan GW4VPX