GW/MW-011 Foel Cwmcerwyn

GW/MW-011 Foel Cwmcerwyn

23/02/2018

Joint activation with John GW4TQE

John was down on ‘my patch’ activating all of the Pembrokeshire SOTA summits.  I couldn’t resist joining him on our only 2 pointer which would also mean 3 winter bonus points.  After a few text message to arrange the activation we agreed to meet at SN0755 3219…it was here that we suddenly realised how windy it was.

My GPS track

On arriving at the summit we realised it would be too windy for HF so with me hanging on to John’s short fishing pole and Slim Jim we managed to qualify the summit on 2m with the help of a large number of SOTA friends.

10:28z	GW4TJC/P	144MHz	FM	Simon s2s
10:31z	GW6DGU	144MHz	FM	Roy
10:33z	MW0BYS	144MHz	FM	Bill
10:35z	MW0BBU	144MHz	FM	Steve
10:37z	GW0JAI	144MHz	FM	Glyn
10:42z	EI/M0BLF/P	144MHz	FM	Dominic s2s
10:51z	G0RQL	144MHz	FM	Don
10:52z	GW0PLP	144MHz	FM	Don

Simon GW4TJC/p was first up with an s2s from Mynydd Mawr GW/NW-026 and like us having to contend with a shortened antenna in the high winds…he did have the benefit of a nice cairn :) ..thanks Simon.  

My friend Roy from Cardigan was next in the log followed by Bill nr Milford Haven and my long time activating companion Steve MW0BBU on a handheld also from nr Milford Haven.

Glyn GW0JAI from Machynlleth was next followed by a surprise s2s with Dominic in EI land. I picked up  the two Don’s with some last minute calls on the handheld from by the trig…RQL on the  hh to Devon …cool :)

Quick selfie before leaving the summit..nice day..pity about the wind

 Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX & John GW4TQE