Sunday 25 September 2016

GW/NW-057 Foel Cae’rberllan

GW/NW-057 Foel Cae’rberllan

22/09/2016

David M0YDH and I had arranged to undertake 2 joint activations the following day so I decided to book a B&B in Dolgellau to avoid the long journey up in the morning prior to meeting up with David. As Val was not joining us she suggested I look for a summit that I could activate on the way up to Dolgellau. I chose NW-057 Foel Cae’rberllan and parked at the car park for Castell y Bere and headed South for 100m to cross into a field via stile gingerly making my way to the summit due to a knee injury. I tried to avoid any steep inclines hence the curved nature of my initial approach to the summit…worked well.
My GPS track
Entrance to Castell y Bere from Car Park
The stile...head diagonally across the field towards a wicket gate
The wicket gate...walk diagonally uphill across the next field
Walk diagonally off the track here and head up towards a gate
Looking back. the diagonal track approaching the gate
On the zig-zag track..farmer on his quad heading up...offered me a lift but not SOTA

No phone signal on this one so I turned towards Cardigan Bay and gave a call on 2m for Don GW0PLP in Aberporth…bingo… Don was there and he soon spotted me for 60m on Sotawatch…thanks Don.
11:05z
GW0PLP
144MHz
FM
Don
11:23z
G4BXD
5MHz
SSB
Ben
11:28z
G0FEX
5MHz
SSB
Ken
11:28z
G4WHA/A
5MHz
SSB
Geoff
11:29z
G4IAR
5MHz
SSB
Dave
11:30z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
11:32z
G6TUH
5MHz
SSB
Mike
11:33z
G4OIG
5MHz
SSB
Gerald
11:33z
G1BLJ
5MHz
SSB
Steve
11:34z
GI0AZB
5MHz
SSB
Ian
11:34z
MW0XOT
5MHz
SSB
John
11:35z
M0NTC
5MHz
SSB
Gez
11:36z
GW6DGU
5MHz
SSB
Roy
11:37z
PA7ZEE
5MHz
SSB
Geert
11:39z
G4ATX
5MHz
SSB
Phil
11:41z
G0TDM
5MHz
SSB
John
11:41z
M0JLA
5MHz
SSB
Rod
11:43z
G3HYG
5MHz
SSB
Douglas
11:47z
GI0HWD
5MHz
SSB
John
 My SOTA station
I changed the links and another spot from Don and I was away on 40m with a mixture of UK and EU stations…My little linear was working well as it was nice to hear Barry M0IML calling in as normally he can’t hear anyone with his 5/9 of noise.

11:51z
G4WSB
7MHz
SSB
Bill
11:52z
ON4EM
7MHz
SSB
Manuel
11:52z
G0VWP
7MHz
SSB
Terry
11:53z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
11:53z
DJ9BX
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:53z
CT1HIX
7MHz
SSB
Carlos Gomes
11:54z
M0IML
7MHz
SSB
Barry
11:55z
DJ5AV
7MHz
SSB
Michael
11:55z
OK3KW
7MHz
SSB

11:56z
M0WBG
7MHz
SSB
Neil
11:57z
GM0AXY
7MHz
SSB
Ken
11:57z
GM4YMM
7MHz
SSB
Christine
11:58z
2E0OOM
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:59z
GW2HFR
7MHz
SSB
Jonathan
11:59z
M0MDA
7MHz
SSB
Mick
12:00z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
12:01z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
12:04z
ON6ZQ
7MHz
SSB
Christophe
12:04z
SM7DIE
7MHz
SSB
Tore
12:06z
F6EWB
7MHz
SSB
Jean Paul
12:07z
MI0MVP
7MHz
SSB
Alex
12:07z
DF5WA
7MHz
SSB
Berthold
12:08z
G4WHA/A
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
12:09z
M6CJF
7MHz
SSB
Carl
12:09z
GW6OVD
7MHz
SSB
Mal


Towards Cardigan bay
I had a bonus s2s on 20m with Jan OK2PDT/p on OK/PL-015 which was worth 10 points…thank  you Jan for calling me. Two Stateside contacts also made the summit activation worthwhile so thanks to George and Bill for the contacts.
12:17z
OE5REO
14MHz
SSB
Martin
12:18z
N1GB
14MHz
SSB
George
12:19z
EU2MM
14MHz
SSB
Vladimir
12:19z
S56IHX
14MHz
SSB
Marjan
12:19z
OK2PDT/P
14MHz
SSB
Jan s2s
12:21z
SP9AMH
14MHz
SSB
Mariuz
12:21z
SP8RHP
14MHz
SSB
Robert
12:22z
OH3GZ
14MHz
SSB
Jukka
12:23z
W1OW
14MHz
SSB
Bill
12:23z
OH3GBS
14MHz
SSB
Jouko
12:24z
RV9UCN
14MHz
SSB
Alexander
12:25z
GW0PLP
14MHz
SSB
Don
12:25z
YL3AD
14MHz
SSB
Janis
12:26z
S58MU
14MHz
SSB
Milan
12:27z
OE6GND
14MHz
SSB
Gerhard
12:27z
CT1APN
14MHz
SSB
Antonio
 It had been a pleasant morning and part afternoon of activation as not only I’d had some very good contacts but the sun had kept me company :)
Been there,done that...another unique

On the way to the B&B at The Ivy House, Dolgellau (recommended) I stopped off at Abergynolwyn railway station which is part of the Talyllyn narrow gauge railway…just managed to get a few pics of the last train of the day :)
Train approaching Abergynolwyn station
The engine

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


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