Radio Tales from West Wales and beyond...: G/NP-006

A long trek North

G/NP-006 - Great Shunner Fell

24/07/2015

It’s a long trek up to the North Pennines for both Barry M0IML and myself. Barry has a good six and a half hour journey from Dover and it takes me about five and a half from West Wales. We had arranged to meet at 1.00pm at a lay-by (SD893980) in the village of Thwaite on the Pennine Way which would lead us all the way to the summit.

Parking spot

Walking into the village of Thwaite to pick up the Pennine Way

My GPS track for Great Shunner Fell

It was a 5.62km walk along the Pennine way to the summit, relatively easy even after a long journey but also close to our B&B in the village of Hawes when we returned. This was to be the first summit of 5 during the next few days and we were starting with a 6 pointer :)

Great Shunner Fell - middle distant

Nearly there

Setting up...get on with it Barry

For the first few contacts we worked together then I moved on to 2m whilst Barry stayed on 40m. I only returned to get a contact with Don G0RQL and his Maidenhead Locator for my ARPOC award (see my blog list-right). It was all over very quickly as contacts soon dried up on both bands with 20m being in very poor shape.... a sign of things to come over the weekend.

14:08z	M0MDA	5MHz	SSB	Mick
14:13z	MM3PDM/P	7MHz	SSB	Peter
14:16z	G0TDM	144MHz	FM	John
14:17z	G4BLH	144MHz	FM	Mike
14:20z	G4WHA/A	144MHz	FM	Geoff
14:24z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don IO70uv

My log

Signal reports were not too good on 7Mhz but enough to qualify the summit and a couple of brief QSOs

14:07z	M0MDA	5MHz	SSB	MICK 5/7
14:13z	MM3PDM/P	7MHz	SSB	PETER 4/4
14:15z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	KEN 4/4
14:16z	DL7UCW	7MHz	SSB	BEN 3/3
14:18z	M6KVJ	7MHz	SSB	5/9
14:21z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	MIKE 4/4
14:22z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	DON 5/7
14:25z	M0JLA	7MHz	SSB	ROD 5/8
14:26z	EA2DT	7MHz	SSB	MANUEL 4/4
14:28z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	PEDRO 5/2