GW/NW-052 Mynydd Cwmcelli

GW/NW-052  Mynydd Cwmcelli

09/10/2016

Another unique and a complete for me today

I had chased 6 activators on this one and if I’m not mistaken most of them were contacts with Ricky MW6GWR who sadly has not been heard on the bands for some time.  It’s 1.76km to the summit from a parking spot at SH813105…...just follow forestry road through the gate for a few hundred meters then bear right up a narrow track which heads straight for the summit.  

GPX track to the summit (MW0WML)

Park here... SH813105...gate in view

Follow the track around to the left climbing gradually through the forest

Follow the track as it gently climbs up and around the base of the summit then take another narrow grass trail diagonally up the side with the scar created by off road motor bikes to your right.

Take the diagonal trail up the side...note the scar as mentioned previously

Thanks to Gerald MW0WML a GPX of this route is available on the SOTA mapping website…it’s spot on.

The Trig and Cadair Idris in the background

The top of Mynydd Cwmcelli..thought to be an old hill fort

It was a lovely morning and quite warm in the sun so Val was happy and soon settled down to enjoying the warmth and the chatter of a SOTA activation :) 

Val enjoying the sunshine

Frank RMD was first in the log for 60m with a promise of a spot which resulted in a steady stream of regular chasers with good signal reports both ways…thanks everyone.

11:19z	G3RMD	5MHz	SSB	Frank
11:20z	G4ZRP	5MHz	SSB	Brian
11:22z	G7AFM	5MHz	SSB	Phil
11:23z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
11:24z	G4FMG/P	5MHz	SSB
11:24z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	Jim
11:26z	PA7ZEE	5MHz	SSB	Geert
11:26z	GI0AZA	5MHz	SSB	Esther
11:27z	M0JCQ/P	5MHz	SSB	James s2s
11:27z	G7BGA	5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:30z	MW0XOT	5MHz	SSB	John
11:30z	M0MDA	5MHz	SSB	Mick
11:31z	GM4WHA	5MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:31z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
11:34z	GW6DGU	5MHz	SSB	Roy
11:34z	M1MAJ	5MHz	SSB	Martyn

It was nice to get James M0JCQ/p  in the log from Wendover Woods G/CE-005… so thank you James for popping down from 40m  to make the s2s. Because Martyn M1MAJ had given me a low signal report I had flicked the linear on which resulted in a comment of “you’ve switched something on?” but unfortunately I forgot to turn it off for 40m resulting in one big pileup but also an s2s with Juerg…thanks for calling me Juerg.

Yet another pile-up :)

11:38z	GW0PLP	7MHz	SSB	Don
11:43z	G4HPE	7MHz	SSB	Steve
11:43z	G7AFM	7MHz	SSB	Phil
11:44z	G0GWY	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
11:44z	GI0AZA/P	7MHz	SSB	Esther
11:44z	MM3PDM/M	7MHz	SSB	Peter
11:45z	DL7UCW	7MHz	SSB	Ben
11:45z	2E0GBK	7MHz	SSB	John
11:46z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	Ken
11:47z	G4SQA	7MHz	SSB	Dave
11:48z	MM3ZCB	7MHz	SSB	Caroline
11:48z	G4ZRP	7MHz	SSB	Brian
11:48z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don
11:48z	G7BGA	7MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:53z	MI5UTC	7MHz	SSB	Syd
11:54z	G4TQE	7MHz	SSB	John
11:55z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	Pedro
11:56z	M0JLA	7MHz	SSB	Rod
11:56z	DK1WI	7MHz	SSB	Ed
11:57z	ON4TA	7MHz	SSB	Phil
11:58z	M0WBG	7MHz	SSB	Neil
11:59z	M3FEH	7MHz	SSB	Karl
11:59z	HB9BIN/P	7MHz	SSB	Juerg s2s
12:00z	M0TTE	7MHz	SSB	Simon
12:00z	GM4WHA	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
12:01z	ON7MD	7MHz	SSB	Michel
12:02z	G0BPU	7MHz	SSB	Michael
12:03z	2E0HPI	7MHz	SSB	Carl
12:04z	DK7ZH	7MHz	SSB	Manfred
12:04z	DL8DXL	7MHz	SSB	Fred
12:05z	EB2JU	7MHz	SSB	Jose Luis
12:06z	G4GEW	7MHz	SSB	Peter
12:06z	2E0WDX/M	7MHz	SSB	Vin
12:07z	MW0MXT	7MHz	SSB	Craig
12:08z	HB9AFZ	7MHz	SSB	Frank
12:08z	EA2DT	7MHz	SSB	Manuel
12:09z	PA1MV	7MHz	SSB	Jaap
12:09z	GI4ONL	7MHz	SSB	Victor
12:10z	HB9DHA	7MHz	SSB	Ray
12:10z	G0NTC	7MHz	SSB	Gez
12:11z	M0IML	7MHz	SSB	Barry
12:11z	DJ5AV	7MHz	SSB	Michael
12:12z	MW0ABV	7MHz	SSB	Paul
12:13z	PA5KM	7MHz	SSB	Coen
12:14z	GW4TJC/A	7MHz	SSB	Simon
12:15z	EB2AOC	7MHz	SSB	Javi
12:15z	GW6DGU	7MHz	SSB	Roy

2m dipole high on the pole today..no contacts though...

VPX/p calling on 2m

It finally went quiet but by this time the nice lady on RRT was informing me that Rob RQJ/p was on Watch Hill G/LD-054 so a quick change of links back to 60m and he was in the log…thanks Rob. It was fortunate that I was heading for 20m when another s2s came up on RRT and Frederico was soon in the log.  I soon settled down to work the chasers on 20m with a couple of nice contacts once again from George N1GB and Bill W1OW from the USA. I ended my activation by hanging around on summit for an s2s with Gerald WML who was up in Scotland picking up Bill WSB over in Ireland whilst we waited.

12:20z	G4RQJ/P	5MHz	SSB	Rob s2s
12:29z	EU2MM	14MHz	SSB	Vladimir
12:29z	CT7ABA/P	14MHz	SSB	Frederico s2s
12:35z	SA4BLM	14MHz	SSB	Lars
12:36z	OK3KW	14MHz	SSB
12:36z	HB9DHA	14MHz	SSB	Ray
12:37z	OK4KOP	14MHz	SSB	David
12:37z	9A7W	14MHz	SSB	Oren
12:37z	OK2PDT	14MHz	SSB	Jan
12:37z	SP9AMH	14MHz	SSB	Mariusz
12:38z	N1GB	14MHz	SSB	George VT USA
12:39z	DL3HXX	14MHz	SSB	Lothar
12:39z	SM7DIE	14MHz	SSB	Tore
12:40z	OE5REO	14MHz	SSB	Martin
12:40z	LA8BCA	14MHz	SSB	Terje
12:41z	OE6GND	14MHz	SSB	Gerhard
12:42z	TA3ATA	14MHz	SSB	Mehmet
12:43z	DL2NAI	14MHz	SSB	Israel
12:43z	DL2HWI	14MHz	SSB	Dietmar
12:43z	VA2MO	14MHz	SSB	Eric
12:44z	UT5PI	14MHz	SSB	Valery
12:45z	W1OW	14MHz	SSB	Bill MA USA
13:12z	GI4WSB/P	7MHz	SSB	Bill s2s
13:33z	MM0WML/P	7MHz	SSB	Gerald s2s

Cadair Idris from the Trig

We were soon on our way down and looking forward to some coffee and sandwiches back at the car. I had booked a night at the Ivy House in Dolgellau as we would be on Maesglase the following day….another unique and complete ready and waiting :)

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