GW/MW-015 - Bryn Amlwg

GW/MW-015 - Bryn Amlwg

28/08/2017

More s2s hopefully  (see previous blog..Garreg Hir in the morning)

Bryn Amlwg is situated in a wind farm with some 60+ generators whirring away and boy were they noisy today. I parked the car at SN 930958 and headed North down what seemed like a fairly new road then up to pick up the various bridle and other paths that were showing on the map...1.7miles to summit.  

My GPS track

Park here at SN 930958..Val is heading for the gate to take us North.

Head North through the gate ..no Private signs visible...new road

Heading up towards wind farm at SN 925962

Trig on the horizon

There was a strong breeze and the turbines were all working hard with the occasional clunks breaking up the wind noise. I started the activation with a surprise s2s with Rob MW0VFC/p who was on Eilidir Fawr so thanks Rob for the valuable points…he was hoping to activate Snowdon later… 60m was working well and a good run of chasers made my log…thanks everyone.

Now where does this plug into ?

12:26z	MW0FVC/P	144MHz	FM	Rob s2s
12:33z	EI3GYB	5MHz	SSB	Michael
12:34z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
12:35z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
12:37z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	Jim
12:38z	G4TJC	5MHz	SSB	Simon
12:40z	EI8DY	5MHz	SSB	Joe
12:42z	GM0AXY	5MHz	SSB	Ken
12:43z	GM4YMM	5MHz	SSB	Christine
12:45z	G1PGY	5MHz	SSB	Colin
12:46z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	Phil
12:47z	G0EVV	5MHz	SSB	David
12:48z	M0WBG	5MHz	SSB	Neil

I quickly moved on to 40m but this band had changed from the my morning session (Garreg Hir) and the chasers soon dried up nevertheless it was nice to get so many in the log.

13:00z	DJ5AV	7MHz	SSB	Michael
13:02z	EA2LU	7MHz	SSB	Jorge
13:03z	DL3HXX	7MHz	SSB	Lothar
13:04z	EA2DT	7MHz	SSB	Manuel
13:04z	OM1AX	7MHz	SSB	Vlado
13:04z	IN3ADF	7MHz	SSB	Markus
13:05z	DF5WA	7MHz	SSB	Berthold

By the Trig

Now Tom and Jimmy were due on Moel Hebog GW/NW-014  but I noticed that they had changed their activation time which was a little later than planned…Val and I would have to hang around for a while to pick up some more s2s points and as the sun had decided to show itself  it was now quite a pleasant afternoon.  I decide to attack 20m….quite a pile-up really :)

Dwarfed by the pylon

13:15z	SV2OXS	14MHz	SSB	Christos
13:16z	SP6JBF	14MHz	SSB	Jacek
13:20z	DR60VKL	14MHz	SSB	Peter - Clubstation
13:20z	IZ5RKL	14MHz	SSB	Matteo
13:21z	DL6ATM	14MHz	SSB	Wilfried
13:21z	OE8SPW	14MHz	SSB	Paul
13:22z	F1PSX	14MHz	SSB	Jean-Yves
13:23z	SP3HDU	14MHz	SSB	Janusz
13:24z	EA4FVT	14MHz	SSB	Diego
13:25z	DL8DXL	14MHz	SSB	Fred
13:25z	DL/KI6EAB	14MHz	SSB	John
13:26z	OE3IPU	14MHz	SSB	Gottfried
13:26z	IZ5CPK	14MHz	SSB	Renato
13:26z	F4HPZ/P	14MHz	SSB
13:27z	ON7ZM	14MHz	SSB	Jean Pierre
13:27z	OK1CZ	14MHz	SSB	Petr
13:28z	DD5LD	14MHz	SSB	Ed
13:29z	F5LMK	14MHz	SSB	Schmidt
13:29z	SV1JMC	14MHz	SSB	Vasilis
13:30z	YO6CFB	14MHz	SSB	Lacy Laszlo
13:30z	S56IHX	14MHz	SSB	Marjan

The band went quiet…perhaps the chasers dried up or my batteries were running low…not sure  what happened  so I decide to call on 2m with a spot to help me along. Only one chaser in the log but it also eventually brought Tom to my attention to say that Jimmy would be on the summit shortly and he wasn’t too far behind…thanks both for the contacts.

13:43z	G4IZZ/P	144MHz	FM	Mike
13:50z	MW0HGY/P	144MHz	FM	Jimmy s2s
14:08z	MW1EYP/P	144MHz	FM	Tom s2s

Apart from the wind turbines Bryn Amlwg is an easy summit especially if you have a bike as the link roads are all nice and smooth……

Activation set up:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (4Ah LiPo), UK-MX 50M linear (for 817) and (4Ah LiPo) Antenna - 3 band link dipole (60/40/20 (+15m extensions +80m loading coils),            (VHF)  Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole Kenwood TH-F7 for 70cms 

Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX