G/NP-015 Great Knoutberry Hill

Last of the five

G/NP-015 Great Knoutberry Hill

26/07/2015

Monday dawned rather damp and grey. The last summit of our visit to NP was to be Great Knoutberry Hill, another wonderful name amongst the many activated over the last few days. 

 My GPS track

This is an easy summit with only a 1.95km walk from the parking spot. We parked the cars at SD7796 8804 and made our way along the Pennine Bridleway for 0.5Km then heading ESE from the sheep pen towards the summit. 

M0IML/p..Tour guide

Keep to the right of the fence after you pass through sheep pens 

Follow the fence..rain on the lens

We both had long journeys in front of us so this would be a short activation. As the rain had started to fall Barry took his extra large umbrella as a walking stick which meant we would use my fishing pole as the support for the antennas...we had a plan. Thank goodness there was a wall on top as by now the wind was quite strong. As we were setting up one side of the HF dipole went ‘ping’ so a knot was tied quickly as a temporary repair and we were ready for action.

09:32z	G8MIA	5MHz	SSB	ANDY 5/7
09:33z	G0EVV	5MHz	SSB	DAVID 5/7
09:36z	M5AFG	5MHz	SSB	5/9
09:38z	GI4ONL	5MHz	SSB	VICTOR 5/8
09:41z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	JIM 5/9
09:44z	G8TMV	5MHz	SSB	COLIN 5/7
09:45z	GI0OXG	5MHz	SSB	JOE 5/9
09:48z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	DON 5/9
09:51z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	ROD 3/7
09:53z	M1EYP/P	144MHz	FM	TOM 5/9 ON G/SP-015

Barry’s Log

 
Wet but cheerful?

Straight on to 60m which had served us so well over the last 4 days...we shared the contacts as usual.  It was nice to hear so many regular chasers but all were reporting that 40m was just as bad as it had been over the last few days. I more or less worked all the chasers that Barry did but in the background I could hear Tom M1EYP/p calling CQ SOTA from G/SP-015 (The Cloud)...also announcing that he was ready to QSY to another band...a quick s2s call and he was in the log...thanks Tom.

09:32z	G8MIA	5MHz	SSB	Andy
09:33z	G0EVV	5MHz	SSB	David
09:36z	M5AFG	5MHz	SSB
09:37z	GI4ONL	5MHz	SSB	Victor IO65se
09:42z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	Jim
09:43z	G8TMV	5MHz	SSB	Colin
09:45z	GI0OXG	5MHz	SSB	Jo
09:50z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don IO70uv
09:50z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
09:52z	M1EYP/P	144MHz	FM	Tom s2s
09:58z	G4BLH	144MHz	FM	Mike
09:59z	G0TVB	144MHz	FM	Paul
10:05z	G0HRT	144MHz	FM	Rob
10:06z	G4ZRP	144MHz	FM	Brian
10:10z	G0IUA	144MHz	FM	Stuart

My Log

My presence on 2m brought about a few more chasers as I felt obliged to give a call on 145.500. With no more callers we packed up and beat a hasty retreat off the summit but not before a few calls on 23cms..no luck.

Let's get off this summit

Dreich!

Thanks everybody for all the contacts over the last 4 days and especially to those who spotted us and also for those s2s points. Barry and I are in G/LD next for another joint-activation, however, I need to hit the GW/NW summits over the next few weeks..hope to catch you then.  

73 Allan GW4VPX and Barry M0IML