GW/MW-017 - Garreg Hir

GW/MW-017 - Garreg Hir

28/08/2017

Mission accomplished

Yet another s2s today with Gerald over in Germany.  We arrived at the parking spot at SO 011967 with just enough time to spare to get to the summit, set-up and collect 10 s2s points. 

My GPS track..1.2 miles to summit

Follow the track for about a third of the way

Llyn Mawr on the way up

Arriving at the stile which enters the Open Access land ...Llyn Mawr and Llyn Du below

Gerald had already started but soon heard me when I flicked the switch on the linear and announced ‘summit to summit’..5/8 both ways…thanks Gerald.   As the links were already set for 40m I dropped down below Gerald and sent a spot announcing my frequency. 

Fiddling with my phone again...to get a spot up

A nice run of chasers came back to my calls but only John TDM up in Penrith and Phil OBK in Yorkshire were UK contacts so 60m would have to be next on the agenda.

09:28z	DL/M0WML/P	7MHz	SSB	Gerald s2s
09:32z	G0TDM	7MHz	SSB	John
09:32z	IN3ADF	7MHz	SSB	Markus
09:33z	SM6CNX	7MHz	SSB	Dan
09:34z	PA0SKP	7MHz	SSB	Sake
09:34z	PE1PIC	7MHz	SSB	KeesJan
09:35z	OE3IPU	7MHz	SSB	Gottfried
09:35z	PA0DLN	7MHz	SSB	Hans
09:35z	ON4FI	7MHz	SSB	Karel
09:36z	EA2LU	7MHz	SSB	Jorge
09:36z	EA2DT	7MHz	SSB	Manuel
09:37z	G4OBK	7MHz	SSB	Phil
09:37z	OK1CZ	7MHz	SSB	Petr

Ready to enter a callsign into the log

First on 60m was Don RQL saying that he could not hear me on 40m and glad I had dropped down to this band. A nice run of regulars followed with Scotland and Northern Ireland making my log…thanks everyone.

09:45z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
09:46z	G4TJC	5MHz	SSB	Simon
09:47z	M0MDA	5MHz	SSB	Mick
09:47z	G0TDM	5MHz	SSB	John
09:49z	M0AWX	5MHz	SSB	Gerry
09:50z	M1MRB/P	5MHz	SSB	Martin
09:51z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
09:52z	GI0AZA	5MHz	SSB	Esther
09:53z	GW6OVD	5MHz	SSB	Mal
09:54z	GI0AZB	5MHz	SSB	Ian
09:54z	GM4WHA	5MHz	SSB	Geoff

I had Alerted that I would call on 2m and that effectively  is what I did with no response even though I sent a spot.  Has everyone gone to digital?  As a few s2s were likely at the time we were alerted for Bryn Amlwg I packed up and we were quickly heading down hill.

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