Thursday 7 January 2016

GW/MW-011 Foel Cwmcerwyn

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Foel Cwmcerwyn GW/MW-011

06/01/2016

Today Val and I had company….it was my friend and fellow Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society club member Trevor GW4RVA. Parking at SN0755 3219 we made our way to SN 0815 3228 where I made a decision to follow the fence alongside the forestry instead of cutting diagonally across the really boggy bit…good move today after all the rain we’ve had over the last few months.  
My GPS track
Heading away from the car-park
Avoiding the puddles :)
Slippery underfoot today
The sun was shining with a strong breeze blowing from the West. It took us 61 minutes to reach the summit which is 3.03km from the car park at Bwlch Gwynt.  I’d already spoken to John GW4TQE/p (Moel Eilio GW/NW-022) on the way up but he was soon in the log as an official s2s on my handheld from my summit…thanks John. With Roy GW6DGU calling in to check that we had reached the summit safely I then focused on getting HF up and running including attaching the 2m cable-tie dipole to the pole. Next in the log was Viki from GW/SW-001 Pen y Fan and Trevor and I ensured she had contacts on 70cms also…thanks Viki
11:06z
GW4TQE/P
144MHz
FM
John s2s
11:08z
GW6DGU
144MHz
FM
Roy
11:18z
MW6BWA/P
144MHz
FM
Viki s2s
11:31z
MW6BWA/P
433MHz
FM
Viki s2s 70cms
GW4VPX/p from the trig
Knowing that Rod would be on 60m I quickly went to 5.398.5 and there he was with an offer of the frequency once he had finished....thanks Rod for the HF s2s from Pen y Fan.
11:35z
MW0JLA/P
5MHz
SSB
Rod s2s
11:36z
G8MIA
5MHz
SSB
Andy
11:36z
GW2HFR
5MHz
SSB
Jonathan
11:41z
G0EVV
5MHz
SSB
David
11:42z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
11:43z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
11:44z
G0TDM
5MHz
SSB
John
11:44z
G4OBK
5MHz
SSB
Phil
11:45z
G4FKK
5MHz
SSB
Martin
11:47z
GW6DGU
5MHz
SSB
Roy
11:48z
G8LXI
5MHz
SSB
Leonard
A good run of regular chasers on 60m and it seemed the bands were in good shape today.  I thought of plugging in the linear for 40m but I took the risk and called out after a self-spot on RRT. 40m was in great shape and I worked the usual station in both the UK and Europe….thanks everyone.
12:02z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
12:03z
MK3FEH
7MHz
SSB
Karl
12:03z
G4WSB
7MHz
SSB
Bill
12:03z
MW0BYS
7MHz
SSB
Bill
12:04z
G3TQQ
7MHz
SSB
David
12:05z
2E0SCS
7MHz
SSB
Stephen
12:05z
G0TDM
7MHz
SSB
John
12:05z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
12:06z
G0ELJ
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:06z
M6RUG
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:07z
EA2DT
7MHz
SSB
Manuel
12:08z
G4IAR
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:08z
PA0B
7MHz
SSB
Rob
12:09z
M0NTC
7MHz
SSB
Gez
12:09z
G4OOE
7MHz
SSB
Nick
12:10z
M0IML
7MHz
SSB
Barry
12:10z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don
Working the pile-up
As I finished with Don RQL we heard Mal calling from Waun Fach GW/SW-002 and both he and Ian were in the log for s2s. Thanks both.
12:12z
GW6OVD/P
144MHz
FM
Mal s2s
12:14z
2W0IWM
144MHz
FM
Ian s2s
12:16z
GW4XUE/M
144MHz
FM
Dave
12:18z
MW0BYS
144MHz
FM
Bill
12:23z
MW3PZO
144MHz
FM
Sean
You won't catch any fish there Trev
By now a mist was approaching so a quick visit to the WAB net was the order of the day before ‘pulling the plug’.  With Phil G7AFM as net controller it was all over in 6 minutes so thanks everyone.
12:26z
G7AFM
7MHz
SSB
Phil
12:26z
G0GWY
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
12:26z
G0FVH
7MHz
SSB
David
12:27z
G1YFF
7MHz
SSB
Jake
12:28z
G0RYM
7MHz
SSB
Stan
12:28z
M3ZKB
7MHz
SSB

12:28z
DL7UCW
7MHz
SSB
Ben
12:29z
G6LKB
7MHz
SSB
David
12:29z
SM6CNX
7MHz
SSB
Dan
12:29z
G3PRI
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:30z
M6EBC
7MHz
SSB
Mark
12:30z
2E0GBK
7MHz
SSB
John
12:31z
MM3PDM/M
7MHz
SSB
Peter
12:31z
G4NQX
7MHz
SSB
Robert
12:31z
G4FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
12:32z
G6TEL
7MHz
SSB
Steve
12:32z
G7BGA
7MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
Whilst I packed away Val and Trevor went looking for a Geocache with me joining soon afterwards..we never found it even though we were exactly on the GPS co-ordinates…..had someone taken it?…we’ll be back :)
In search of a Geocache
Mist closing in behind us on the way down

My activation set up today:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  3 band link dipole (60/40/20),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) and ‘cable-tie dipole’. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.
Thanks everyone for the contacts and the spots.

73 Allan GW4VPX

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for all the recent ones, Allan, especially in view of the weather! I've hopefully sorted out my 5 MHz antenna and hope to catch you on that band as well. 73, Dave, G4IAR.

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  2. Thanks Dave...looking forward to that 60m contact. 73 Allan

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