Friday 17 February 2017

GW/SW-009 Mynydd Troed

GW/SW-009 Mynydd Troed

16/02/2017

First of the classic double

Early start today as we had to be on summit by 10:00 as Rod MW0JLA/p had alerted for Cefn yr Ystrad and there was a chance that I could get Glyn GW4CFS/p in the log also for another s2s. Parking at SO160283 we made our way to the top having debated whether to go straight up or zig-zag the first steep bit…we decided to go straight up once more. 
Val heading for the summit
Looking back down...our car in the bwlch below...Llangorse lake in the distance

Glyn was quickly in the log from Black Mountain GW/SW-041 and my first s2s on the 2m hand held as I hadn’t had time to set up anything else…thanks Glyn.
10:06z
GW4CFS/P
144MHz
FM
Glyn s2s
Wishing Glyn a ‘safe descent’ I quickly set about erecting the HF and VHF antenna with 80m being my first band so loading coils were fixed  in place and I was ready to go.  A spot was sent via the RRT SMS function and almost immediately Karl M3FEH and Ken G0FEX were in my log. An excellent run of chasers followed hitting me at 5/9. Helen M6HMK made my log with 5/5 each way having just crossed her first 100 chaser points…well done Helen.  Rod called in from Cefn yr Ystrad GW/SW-008 to give me my second s2s of the day…thanks Rod.
10:20z
G0FEX
3.5MHz
SSB
Ken
10:20z
M3FEH
3.5MHz
SSB
Karl
10:21z
MW0XOT
3.5MHz
SSB
John
10:21z
EI9GLB
3.5MHz
SSB
Jim
10:22z
MI1AIB
3.5MHz
SSB
Paul
10:23z
G7BGA
3.5MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
10:23z
G4IAR
3.5MHz
SSB
Dave
10:23z
G7AFM
3.5MHz
SSB
Phil
10:24z
G0GWY
3.5MHz
SSB
Geoff
10:24z
G0RQL
3.5MHz
SSB
Don
10:25z
M6HMK
3.5MHz
SSB
Helen
10:26z
G4HPE
3.5MHz
SSB
Steve
10:26z
G4SQA
3.5MHz
SSB
Dave
10:27z
GB2IWM
3.5MHz
SSB
Edwin?
10:28z
MM3PDM/P
3.5MHz
SSB
Peter
10:28z
GW0PLP
3.5MHz
SSB
Don
10:29z
GM4FGI
3.5MHz
SSB
Tom Isle of Bute
10:31z
MM0XPZ
3.5MHz
SSB
SW
10:31z
MW0JLA/P
3.5MHz
SSB
Rod s2s
10:32z
G8VNW
3.5MHz
SSB
Nick
10:33z
G4WHA
3.5MHz
SSB
Geoff


80m pile-up underway
Waun Fach GW/SW-002 in the distance...to be visited at the end of the month

I moved to 60m but there weren’t as many chasers this time as most had visited me on 80m. Sake PA0SKP made the trip from the Netherlands with John G0TDM, Gez M0NTC and Terry G0VWP getting in on the action.
10:43z
G4WHA
5MHz
SSB
Geoff
10:43z
G4IAR
5MHz
SSB
Dave
10:44z
G0GWY
5MHz
SSB
Geoff
10:44z
PA0SKP
5MHz
SSB
Sake
10:45z
G0VWP
5MHz
SSB
Terry
10:45z
M0NTC
5MHz
SSB
Gez
10:45z
G0TDM
5MHz
SSB
John
I was very much aware that Adrian GW4AZS/p was due on Pen y Fan GW/SW-001 so a quick call on 2m brought Lee MW6LPU to the log …Lee lives down in Llangorse.  I was aware that a /p station was calling so I quickly finished with Lee to give the /p station a chance….it turned out to be Rod informing me that it was pouring with rain on his summit and giving him second thoughts about activating the next one unless the weather improved.  I told him I was packing up slowly but would be hanging on for Adrian keeping my fingers crossed that it would not be too long a wait.  As soon as Rod finished I gave a call for Lee once more and we had a nice little chat about SOTA as he was only just starting to get interested  and hoping to activate a few local summits in the near future. The time passed quickly and as I was packing the last items into the rucksack up pops Adrian for my final contact and s2s from  Mynydd Troed..thanks Adrian.
10:59z
MW6LPU
144MHz
FM
Lee
11:01z
MW0JLA/P
144MHz
FM
Rod s2s
11:10z
GW4AZS/P
144MHz
FM
Adrian s2s

Clouds hiding Pen y Fan...visitors on summit

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

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