G/DC-002 – Brown Willy

G/DC-002 – Brown Willy

22/11/2018

The first of seven

An opportunity arose to get some cheap accommodation for a week down near Holsworthy in Devon and close to Don G0RQL which meant another get-together with my No.1 Chaser :)  The weather forecast for our 7 day stay was not brilliant so as the forecast was good for our first day we decided to tackle Brown Willy which is a 3.15km walk from the large car park at SX 138818.  Make sure you hit the bridge at SX 152804 later on your journey.

My GPS track

Information board

We were aiming for the Col between  Little Rough Tor and Showery Tor

On our way

The bridge below..Brown Willy above

The Trig on Brown Willy (middle of pic)

I’d already alerted that I would be working certain frequencies if free and having arrived on summit near my allocated time it was no surprise that a few chasers were waiting on my chosen frequency. First in the log was Rod who very soon had a spot up for me …thanks Rod. I had a good run on 60m  so thanks to all the chasers many of which were looking towards completing the summit after activating it at some time or other. ( …to complete a summit you activate it and chase it).

Working the pile-up...North of Trig

11:56z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
11:57z	G0HIO	5MHz	SSB	Michael
12:01z	GI0AZA	5MHz	SSB	Esther
12:02z	G8ADD	5MHz	SSB	Brian
12:02z	G4AFI	5MHz	SSB	Andrew
12:03z	G4WSB	5MHz	SSB	Bill
12:04z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	Phil
12:04z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
12:05z	G4AZS	5MHz	SSB	Adrian
12:06z	G6NHW	5MHz	SSB	Pete
12:07z	G0HRT	5MHz	SSB	Rob
12:08z	MW0XOT	5MHz	SSB	John
12:09z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
12:09z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
12:11z	G3VQO	5MHz	SSB	Les
12:12z	G0GWY	5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
12:13z	G6LKB	5MHz	SSB	David

Towards Rough Tor with G4VPX/p below...taken from Trig

On to 80m to make sure that those who can’t use 60m have a chance to chase the summit and as I was in Karl’s home patch I tried to make sure that this would be the trend throughout the week.

12:22z	M0NOM/P	3.5MHz	SSB	Mark
12:24z	G4IAR	3.5MHz	SSB	Dave
12:25z	G0VWP	3.5MHz	SSB	Terry
12:25z	G0RQL	3.5MHz	SSB	Don
12:26z	M3FEH	3.5MHz	SSB	Karl
12:27z	MW6IUT	3.5MHz	SSB	Bryan
12:27z	G4KRN	3.5MHz	SSB	Alan
12:28z	GI0AZA	3.5MHz	SSB	Esther

Rough Tor from Trig

80m soon fell silent and as Val was still feeling warm despite a bitterly cold wind I ventured on to 40m which brought my one and only s2s of the day so thank you Egon….

12:36z	IK2LEY	7MHz	SSB	Fabio
12:37z	GI0AZA	7MHz	SSB	Esther
12:38z	ON7DQ	7MHz	SSB	Luc
12:38z	DJ5AV	7MHz	SSB	Michael
12:39z	OE9EGI/P	7MHz	SSB	Egon..s2s OE/VB533
12:39z	PA0SKP	7MHz	SSB	Sake
12:40z	G0VWP	7MHz	SSB	Terry
12:41z	MM0XPZ	7MHz	SSB	SW
12:41z	F5JKK	7MHz	SSB	Eric
12:42z	HB9DHA	7MHz	SSB	Reinhard

The chasers on 40m soon fell silent so we made our way off the mountain before we felt too cold as we were both suffering from colds which had hit us before starting our visit. There were still 6 summits to go….

Towards Crowdy Reservoir

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)

Antenna support - 5m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX