GW/SW-013 Tor y Foel

GW/SW-013 Tor y Foel

18/01/2017

80m pile-up :) ....Please read previous report of earlier activation of Fan Nedd

Not having  alerted for this one I quickly sent an Alert to Sotawatch before leaving the summit of Fan Nedd although I did have to alter the time whilst driving around to the parking spot. The mist was still hanging around and it looked as if we would be in for a damp and miserable summit.

Our route to the summit...park at SO109187

On our way up...looking back at Talybont Reservoir

Summit cairn..still in need of a rebuild

First in the log was Viki who was eagerly awaiting my contact. Unfortunately 70cms was a non-starter but nevertheless we manged to exchange signal reports on 2m…thanks Viki. I never did manage to catch Rod and although he was spotted on 40m I could not hear him…sorry Rod.

15:05z

M6BWA/P

144MHz

FM

Viki s2s

Setting up in the mist

Setting up the 80m coils in the mist I was soon into a nice run of chasers with mostly excellent reports both ways.  I had swapped my 4Ah LiPos  around as the one running the linear on Fan Nedd was more or less depleted but capable of running the FT817 on 5watts for quite a while…the plan worked.

15:15z	G3XKT	3.5MHz	SSB	Tony
15:17z	G0RQL	3.5MHz	SSB	Don
15:18z	G8ADD	3.5MHz	SSB	Brian
15:18z	2E0KVJ	3.5MHz	SSB	Dave
15:19z	M0MDA	3.5MHz	SSB	Mick
15:19z	G0VWP	3.5MHz	SSB	Terry
15:20z	MM0XPZ	3.5MHz	SSB	SW
15:20z	M0TPG	3.5MHz	SSB	Tony
15:21z	M3FEH	3.5MHz	SSB	Karl
15:22z	G3OS	3.5MHz	SSB	Andrew
15:22z	G0BOM	3.5MHz	SSB	AJ
15:24z	2W0RDD	3.5MHz	SSB	Robert
15:24z	EI9GLB	3.5MHz	SSB	Jim
15:25z	G6TUH	3.5MHz	SSB	Mike
15:25z	G0GWY	3.5MHz	SSB	Geoff
15:26z	G8VNW	3.5MHz	SSB	Nick
15:27z	G8BIG	3.5MHz	SSB	M
15:27z	G1BLJ	3.5MHz	SSB	Steve
15:28z	G7HEM	3.5MHz	SSB	Mike

Working the pile-up

The run of chasers came to an end so I had a quick listen on 60m and found that it was very busy with nowhere to slot in…first time I’ve had that happen to me.  In the mean time Val had poured a cup of coffee which we drank before I heard Adrian calling on 2m.  I decided to answer him for a brief chat. It was nice to get Richard G4ERP in the log quickly followed by an anticipated s2s with John MWXOT/p  on Sugar Loaf GW/SW-011…thanks John.   I heard Bill GW4WSB calling but not from a summit.. ..it transpired that Bill was in his car having had to visit the summit of Mynydd Troed for a second time as he had forgotten his phone at the trig….he was not amused.

15:31z	GW1BXX	144MHz	FM	Adrian
15:34z	G4ERP	144MHz	FM	Richard
15:37z	MW0XOT/P	144MHz	FM	John s2s
15:43z	GW4WSB	144MHz	FM	Bill
15:46z	MW0MZM	144MHz	FM	Mark

Packing up time

The mist was really closing in now and even though it was only 15:45 it was getting dark so I pulled the plug and we headed down hill for another nice cup of coffee and some sandwiches before heading for home.

Car in sight ?

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

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX