G/DC-006 – Carnmenellis

G/DC-006 – Carnmenellis (1 point)

26/11/2018

Six of Seven

Two hours later and I was on top of Carnmenellis…another wonderful name for a summit. I parked at SW 688363 and followed Phil G4OBK’s route to the summit. 

My GPS track

There is some light bracken and gorse bashing to be done but if you follow some of the animal tracks you soon get to the summit via the Open Access land.

Summit and Trig ahead...some gorse and bracken bashing first

Another orderly pile-up with all the familiar voices making my log.  I did pop down to 5.363 and picked up Jorge EA2LU…I think I’ll have to make it a habit to visit this frequency a little more often…it worked well for me in Ireland.

12:37z	G4WSB	5MHz	SSB	Bill
12:38z	M0TMD	5MHz	SSB	Helen
12:39z	G1BLJ	5MHz	SSB	Steve
12:40z	G4AZS	5MHz	SSB	Adrian
12:41z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
12:42z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
12:43z	G4AFI	5MHz	SSB	Andrew
12:44z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	Phil
12:45z	G4IAR	5MHz	SSB	Dave
12:46z	G0FEX	5MHz	SSB	Ken
12:46z	GI0AZA	5MHz	SSB	Esther
12:49z	EA2LU	5MHz	SSB	Jorge on 5.363

My station just below the trig

Comms tower, trig and Phil's cave

Phil G4OBK and Geoff' M0PYG's cave which they used during their wet activation of the summit

A quick addition of the loading coils and I was away on 80m with five contacts in the log.  It was nice to hear Dan from Sweden calling me and looking for my WAB square and Trig.

12:57z	G0RQL	3.5MHz	SSB	Don
12:59z	GI0AZA	3.5MHz	SSB	Esther
13:00z	G4WSB	3.5MHz	SSB	Bill
13:01z	G4IAR	3.5MHz	SSB	Dave
13:02z	SM6CNX	3.5MHz	SSB	Dan

With no more callers I soon packed away as it was a long haul down to Penzance then North to Watch Croft G/DC-007 my last summit of the G/DC seven.

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 - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX