GW/MW-034 Mynydd Cynros

GW/MW-034 Mynydd Cynros

19/09/2016

With Mal and Ian out on Great Rhos I had to get out and get an s2s with them.  I had initially alerted for Trichrug over by Llandovery but realised that Phil and Andy had activated it a few days ago so I opted for MW-034. Although the weather forecast had said that it would clear up later in the day I arrived at the parking spot in Talley with mist and rain hanging around the valley…onwards and upwards. 

Looking back towards the Church and Abbey at Talley and parking spot

Nice new surface until.....

Logging

I followed the zig-zag and soon arrived at the summit (35 minutes)and it was still raining so I threw up the tarp and then set up the antenna.

The Tarp...not the best configuration today...forgot the pole...kept me dry though.

 I soon qualified with local contacts so thanks everyone but the surprise contact was an s2s with John TQE/p who had made a point getting up early on Rhinog Fawr GW/NW-023 to get me…thanks John…made my day.

09:14z	GW4JQP/M	144MHz	FM	Peter
09:15z	GW1CLH	144MHz	FM	Paul
09:17z	GW0PLP	144MHz	FM	Don
09:19z	MW0MXT	144MHz	FM	Craig
09:24z	GW4TQE/P	144MHz	FM	John s2s

60m was busy for a few minutes with Mal calling in from Great Rhos  GW/MW-002 …we arranged a 2m contact so that Ian could also get the s2s and qualify his summit…thanks to all the regular chasers for calling me…nice to hear from Mike G6TUH after a his recent operation.

09:47z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
09:48z	M0NTC	5MHz	SSB	Gez
09:49z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
09:50z	M0JLA/P	5MHz	SSB	Rod
09:50z	G4IAR	5MHz	SSB	Dave
09:51z	GW6OVD/P	5MHz	SSB	Mal s2s
09:51z	G6TUH	5MHz	SSB	Mike
09:53z	G8VNW	5MHz	SSB	Nick
09:53z	MW0XOT	5MHz	SSB	John
09:54z	G4AZS	5MHz	SSB	Adrian

Quick call on 2m and Ian 2W0IWM/p along with Mal once again were in the log. I then chased Phil OBK and Geoff PYG on OK/ST-100…success :)

10:06z	2W0IWM/P	144MHz	FM	Ian s2s
10:08z	GW6OVD/P	144MHz	FM	Mal s2s
10:26z	OK/G4OBK/P	7MHz	SSB	Phil s2s

Messy office

I spotted myself on 40m and was taken aback when Dave G6LKB called me just as my spot went up with a booming signal from France which looked good for a pile-up on band but this did not materialise. An alert for Victor ONL  in EA6 came up on RRT so I called him without changing the links for a quick s2s..thanks Victor for keeping the exchange nice and short. Back to my original frequency where Pedro CKX and Rob PA0B were waiting for me….thanks everyone.

10:29z	F/G6LKB	7MHz	SSB	Dave
10:31z	SM7DIE	7MHz	SSB	Tore
10:32z	ON4TA	7MHz	SSB	Phil
10:32z	CT1HIX	7MHz	SSB	Gomes
10:33z	PA7RA	7MHz	SSB	Rien
10:37z	EA6/GI4ONL/P	14MHz	SSB	Victor s2s
10:38z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	Pedro
10:39z	PA0B	7MHz	SSB	Rob

A quick call on 2m to see if Roy DGU was around also brought KevinVKD to my log so we had a quick chat before I announced a QSY to 20m.

10:42z	GW6DGU	144MHz	FM	Roy
10:46z	MW0KVD	144MHz	FM	Kevin

Trig on Mynydd Cynros

I couldn’t  resist calling Ian on 20m as he was such a strong signal from Great Rhos and then a ‘stand-by’  from him also brought Mal to the log…great fun….  Spot up, linear on  and I was away with a 5/9 each way contact with George N1GB in  Vermont …thanks George. Next in the log was Ed DD5LP followed by 8 chasers some of which are frequent activators…thanks everyone.

10:51z	GW6OVD/P	14MHz	SSB	Mal s2s
10:52z	2W0IWM/P	14MHz	SSB	Ian s2s
11:02z	DD5LP	14MHz	SSB	Ed
11:02z	N1GB	14MHz	SSB	George
11:03z	IZ1ZJS	14MHz	SSB	Marino
11:03z	OH3GZ	14MHz	SSB	Jukka
11:03z	DJ9BX	14MHz	SSB	Michael
11:04z	OE5REO	14MHz	SSB	Martin
11:04z	EU2MM	14MHz	SSB	Vladimir
11:05z	OK2PDT	14MHz	SSB	Jan
11:05z	IZ2LTN	14MHz	SSB	Emanuele
11:06z	HA8WX	14MHz	SSB	Miki

The mist and the rain never really cleared and it was time to head for home…great morning on one of my favourite small summits which has given me some good DX including several  s2s to VK.

Still misty and wet on the way down

My activation set up:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  UK-MX 50M linear (for 817) and 12V 4 Ah LiPO battery,  3 band link dipole (60/40/20 (+15m+80m extensions),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole.. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX