GW/MW-035 Rhos Ymryson

Joint activation with GW4TQE/p

GW/MW-035 Rhos Ymryson

08/12/2016

I just had to get out and meet up with John GW4TQE/p as he was activating one of the summits that is on my local ‘patch’.  He had alerted for Hafod Ithel GW/MW-029 in the morning and Rhos Ymryson in the afternoon and with these two summits tending to be difficult on VHF 2m I made a point of helping him out to qualify the first. He was soon in the log and during the brief chat that ensued I told him that I would meet him later on Rhos Ymryson in the afternoon. The summit is only 20 minutes away from home so I had calculated that we would reach the parking spot at the same time, however, I was 5 minutes early but decided to make my way to the top to set up the HF antenna.  I was half way up when I saw John arrive so I decided to wait for him so that we could set up together.   

GW4TQE/p and GW4VPX/p

We were fortunate that both Gerald and Matt were out on summits and if the timings worked out we would start our activation with a couple of s2s. The plan came together and I opened my activation with a call to Matt who was talking to Gerald and the two s2s were in the log…thanks both.

14:01z	G8XYJ/P	5MHz	SSB	Matt s2s
14:02z	MM0WML/P	5MHz	SSB	Gerald s2s
14:16z	G4IAR	5MHz	SSB	Dave
14:19z	G4WSB	5MHz	SSB	Bill
14:19z	G6TUH	5MHz	SSB	Mike
14:20z	PA0B	5MHz	SSB	Rob
14:21z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
14:22z	GW6OVD	5MHz	SSB	Mal
14:22z	PA7ZEE	5MHz	SSB	Geert
14:23z	G0TDM	5MHz	SSB	John
14:24z	G0BIN	5MHz	SSB	E.P.
14:24z	G8ADD	5MHz	SSB	Brian
14:26z	G4WHA/A	5MHz	SSB	Geoff
14:26z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
14:27z	G0GNE	5MHz	SSB	Robin
14:27z	GI8SKN	5MHz	SSB	David
14:29z	G4MDR	5MHz	SSB	Alan
14:30z	G0FVH	5MHz	SSB	David
14:31z	G4FSN/P	5MHz	SSB	Eric
14:32z	M0HXA	5MHz	SSB	Adrian
14:32z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
14:33z	G0CTR	5MHz	SSB	Pete

 John quickly qualified the summit with two 2m contacts and s2s with Matt and Gerald…mission accomplished.

13:54z	MW0DEW	144MHz	FM	Eifion, Llanrhystud, near Aberaeron, Ceredigion
14:02z	MM0WML/P	5MHz	SSB	Gerald, Minch Moor (GM/SS-133)
14:05z	GW4XXF	144MHz	FM	Bruce, Tywyn, Gwynedd
14:14z	G8XYJ/P	5MHz	SSB	Matt, Titterstone Clee Hill (G/WB-004)

John was lucky because no-one came back to his repeated calls even though I had put a spot up for him…not like it used to be.

Dismantling our HF and VHF set-up on Rhos Ymryson

It was a pleasure to chat with John about his SOTA experiences after I had completed my run on 60m and as he had to head for Cardigan and his B&B we pulled the plug and headed down hill.

My activation set up:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) using 12V 4 Ah LiPO battery,  3 band link dipole (60/40/20),  (VHF)  Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX and John GW4TQE