GW/NW-073 Mynydd Rhyd Ddu

GW/NW-073  Mynydd Rhyd Ddu

24/05/2017

Uniques and Completes

We were on our way up to Llangollen for a few nights and Val always suggests we activate a summit on the way to a B&B or Hotel. I downloaded Gerald MW0WML’s  GPX track from the SOTA Mapping project which was perfect although I did follow the track as close to the Trig as possible and not cut up through the field….read his notes also.

 In the middle of a small wind farm

Setting up

Activation..up and running

This summit would be an unique and a complete for me.  I started the activation on 2m managing only 4 contacts. There is plenty of room on top for HF so I took the opportunity to add my  80m extensions  to make a half wave dipole which brought a good run of chasers followed by 60m which was working just as well.

11:35z	GW4ZLP/P	144MHz	FM	John
11:38z	GW0PLP	144MHz	FM	Don Aberporth
11:40z	G0OHI	144MHz	FM	Arthur
11:45z	M0CQE	144MHz	FM	Paul Oldham
11:52z	G4IAR	3.5MHz	SSB	Dave
11:52z	M6HMK	3.5MHz	SSB	Helen
11:54z	G4WSB	3.5MHz	SSB	Bill
11:54z	G7BGA	3.5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:54z	G0GWY	3.5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:55z	M3FEH	3.5MHz	SSB	Karl
11:58z	G0FEX	3.5MHz	SSB	Ken
11:59z	EI3GYB	3.5MHz	SSB	Michael
11:59z	G6NHW	3.5MHz	SSB
11:59z	G0BFJ	3.5MHz	SSB	Brian
11:59z	G0RQL	3.5MHz	SSB	Don
12:04z	G6TUH	5MHz	SSB	Mike
12:04z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
12:05z	G0GWY	5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
12:06z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
12:07z	G3IUW	5MHz	SSB	Laurie
12:10z	G1BLJ	5MHz	SSB	Steve
12:12z	M0WBG	5MHz	SSB	Neil
12:13z	GW3UZS	5MHz	SSB	Jeff
12:15z	G4IAR	5MHz	SSB	Dave
12:15z	MI0RTY	5MHz	SSB	Martin
12:16z	GI8SKN	5MHz	SSB	David

Nice views and an easy 'first time summit' to activate

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 extensions),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole.. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX