Sunday 15 April 2018

GW/SW-041 Black Mountain


GW/SW-041 Black Mountain

05/04/2018

I decided to take a different approach to the summit by parking at SO239372 (Hay Bluff car park) and walking up the side of Hay Bluff to the Trig point.

Heading for Hay Bluff and the Trig point
Val about to reach the Trig point
Remnants of snow as we head for the summit

Once you reach the Trig it’s an easy but fairly long walk to the activation zone for Black Mountain. A few text messages had been flying around between Rod, Barry and me,  it was evident that we would all be on our respective summits at roughly the same time. Rod and Viki were first in the log with an s2s on three bands from Caer Caradog G/WB-006 and Long Mynd Pole Banc G/WB-005 respectively. Barry on G/SE-013 Detling Hill soon found me as I spotted a frequency on 60m…thanks everyone.

S2s on the Kenwood TH-F7

10:10z
M0JLA/P
5MHz
SSB
Rod s2s
10:13z
M6BWA/P
144MHz
FM
Viki s2s
10:15z
M6BWA/P
433MHz
FM
Viki s2s diff band

I had a nice run of regular chasers and another s2s with my friend Bryn on Banc Llechwedd Mawr GW/MW-007…diolch Bryn.

10:20z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
10:21z
M0IML/P
5MHz
SSB
Barry s2s
10:22z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
10:23z
GI0AZA
5MHz
SSB
Esther
10:24z
GW0PLP
5MHz
SSB
Don
10:25z
MW0ISC
5MHz
SSB
Steve
10:25z
G0VWP
5MHz
SSB
Terry
10:26z
G1BLJ
5MHz
SSB
Steve
10:26z
G6NHW/P
5MHz
SSB
Pete
10:27z
G0HRT
5MHz
SSB
Rob
10:27z
MI0RTY
5MHz
SSB
Martin
10:28z
G4OBK
5MHz
SSB
Phil
10:29z
GI4ONL
5MHz
SSB
Victor
10:30z
GW4ZHI/P
5MHz
SSB
Bryn s2s
10:32z
G0NKZ
5MHz
SSB
Kenn

I had a feeling that Karl would be waiting on 80m so a quick addition of 80m coils and Karl, Dave and Ken were in the log with a bonus s2s with Mark on G/CE-005 Wendover Woods.

10:48z
M0NOM/P
3.5MHz
SSB
Mark s2s
10:57z
M3FEH
3.5MHz
SSB
Karl
10:58z
G0FEX
3.5MHz
SSB
Ken
10:59z
G4IAR
3.5MHz
SSB
Dave

Lord Hereford's Knob (Twmpa) with Pen y Fan GW/SW-001 in the distance

I had alerted for 2m so I spotted myself, this resulted in 4 contacts and then silence…time to pack up.

11:22z
2E0ILX
144MHz
FM
Mike
11:24z
G4FUJ
144MHz
FM
Graham
11:27z
M6YTH
144MHz
FM
Mark
11:29z
G4URM
144MHz
FM
Pete

As we approached the car park on our return journey I was delighted to see an Ice Cream van…99 please..a sign that spring had arrived?

99 please...

My Activation set up

 (HF) Elecraft KX2 (10 watts) and 4Ah LiPo
 Antenna - 3 band link dipole (60/40/20 (+15m extensions +80m loading coils)
(VHF)  Yaesu FT270 (5watts) and Kenwood TH-F7(70cms)  
into a ‘cable tie’ dipole
Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts
73 Allan GW4VPX

No comments:

Post a Comment