G/LD-047 Loughrigg Fell

G/LD-047 Loughrigg Fell

10/04/2017

Two uniques today

We parked at the National Trust car park at NY 350065 and made our way to the summit along the valley floor on well made paths. There are various paths to get to the summit of Loughrigg with many people starting and finishing their walk in Ambleside.

Our route to the summit

Easy stroll to start with

Coin trunk? similar to the coin post seen on the way up Snowdon

The view North from Loughrigg

Nearly there Val :)

I started the activation on 2m and soon qualified the summit…there were some long chats with some of the contacts :)  Geoff WHA had gone mobile to get me…thanks Geoff.  A good run of regular chasers on 60m with the band behaving itself….thanks everyone.

10:10z	G6ENN/M	144MHz	FM	David
10:13z	MW1FGQ	144MHz	FM	John
10:20z	G4WHA/M	144MHz	FM	Geoff
10:22z	G6LKB	144MHz	FM	David
10:28z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
10:28z	G7BGA	5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
10:29z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
10:30z	M1MAJ	5MHz	SSB	Martyn
10:31z	G0VPF	5MHz	SSB	Mark
10:31z	G4IAR	5MHz	SSB	Dave
10:32z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	Jim
10:33z	GW0PLP	5MHz	SSB	Don
10:34z	G4PDF	5MHz	SSB	Bob
10:34z	G0GWY	5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
10:35z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	ken
10:35z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
10:36z	MM0GGI	5MHz	SSB	John
10:38z	M0JEA	5MHz	SSB	Martin
10:39z	G8VNW	5MHz	SSB	Nick
10:41z	M6HLR	144MHz	FM	Lauren on LDW186
10:42z	G0PEK/P	144MHz	FM	Kevin on LDW186
10:44z	G0AZB/P	144MHz	FM	Ian s2s
10:46z	G0AZA/P	144MHz	FM	Esther s2s
10:49z	M6VMS	144MHz	FM	Mark

More contacts on 2m

Lake Winderemere in the distance

2m came alive when I heard young Lauren calling CQ WOTA and her and father Kevin were soon in the log quickly followed by Ian and Esther on Shining Tor G/SP-004…thanks everyone.

More reports on the way.

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