GW/MW-033 Mynydd Carningli

GW/MW-033 Mynydd Carningli

02/05/2017

Chasing s2s..again

A last minute alert on Sotawatch and Val and I were away down to Newport, Pembrokeshire to activate Mynydd Carningli. We approached from the West which gave a nice long walk in the sunshine.

My GPS track

Newport below

Being unsure of what the HF bands were like I just assembled the ‘cable tie dipole’ for 2m on a few section of the fishing pole and also the summit was busy so I kept a low profile.  Nevertheless I soon qualified the summit,  some long QSOs and including s2s with 5/9 each way contacts with John on Gamallt and Mal and Ian on Waun Fach…thanks everyone including Don RQL all the way from Devon..nice one...

10:35z	GW6DGU	144MHz	FM	Roy
10:40z	MW6WMW	144MHz	FM	Mike
10:44z	EI9GLB	144MHz	FM	Jim
10:48z	MW1BLE	144MHz	FM	Colin
10:49z	G0RQL	144MHz	FM	Don
11:13z	GWTQE/P	144MHz	FM	John s2s
11:16z	GW0PLP	144MHz	FM	Don
11:21z	GW6OVD/P	144MHz	FM	Mal s2s
11:22z	2W0IWM/P	144MHz	FM	Ian s2s

Away on 60m

The hordes vanished and I set up for HF although not in my usual spot as there was still someone sitting there!  Nice run on 60m with varying signal reports depending on which direction they were calling from…interesting.

11:34z	G8ADD	5MHz	SSB	Brian
11:36z	G1YFF	5MHz	SSB	Jake
11:37z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
11:38z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	Phil
11:40z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
11:40z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
11:42z	GW6DGU	5MHz	SSB	Roy
11:43z	G8VNW	5MHz	SSB	Nick
11:43z	EI3GYB	5MHz	SSB	Michael
11:44z	G6TUH	5MHz	SSB	Mike
11:45z	GW4JEJ	5MHz	SSB

Attaching the 80m coils

Rocky summit

Val hiding from a cold breeze

I attached the 80m coils but there was a complete mis-match. It’s very rocky on the top of Carningli so I just took them off and worked a few stations on 40m…difficult contacts.

12:01z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	Mike diff band
12:02z	ON4TA	7MHz	SSB	Filip
12:03z	PA0SKP	7MHz	SSB	Sake
12:04z	ON6ZQ	7MHz	SSB	Christophe
12:05z	SP6BBE	7MHz	SSB	Zbigniew
12:06z	DJ5AV	7MHz	SSB	Michael

Another SOTA summit..Foel Cwmcerwyn GW/MW-011

Yet another in the distance....Frenni Fawr GW/MW-028

With quite a few final calls on 40m I gave a call on 2m to see if Caroline would reply…she did…30 minutes to the summit of Carnedd Llywelyn…I said I’d hang around until they reached the top and eventually ended the day with two  s2s…thanks both.

13:00z	GW3UEP	144MHz	FM	Roger
13:11z	GW4TGT	144MHz	FM	Terry
13:16z	GW3YSH/P	144MHz	FM	John
13:20z	MW3ZCB/P	144MHz	FM	Caroline s2s
13:21z	MW1MAJ/P	144MHz	FM	Martyn s2s

Geocache revisited..left a Trackable...

Plenty of wildlife on Carningli..Red Admiral

My activation set up:-  (HF) Elecraft KX2 (10 watts) Antenna 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