Thursday 21 March 2019

GW/SW-002 – Waun Fach

GW/SW-002 – Waun Fach

20/03/2019

John GW4TQE/p Mountain Goat

John and I have done a few joint activations and I told him that I would join him for his Mountain Goat activation. The day arrived and John had chosen Waun Fach as he had noticed I had not done it this year. 
Our GPS track
Happy John but would it be a misty journey?

It’s a bit of a slog up from SO185311 and over Y Grib but we made the summit in 1hr 52 minutes whereas in 2018 Val and I took 1hr 58 minutes….not bad going Val.

Mist clearing as we approach Y Grib
Pen y Fan and others popping up out of the mist

I let John set up his Slim Jim and sent a spot to Sotawatch.  It produced an instantaneous pile-up and Viki M6BWA/P had the honour of being his fourth contact for Mountin Goat..well done John and thanks to all the chasers for their response.

Ready for the MG activation

Viki M6BWA/p in the log for fourth contact just beating Rod M0JLA/p

Mountain Goat with badge

I had to get in on the celebration

11:00z
GW4AZS/P
144MHz
FM
Adrian s2s G/WB-006 Caer Caradoc Hill
11:04z
2E0YYY/P
144MHz
FM
Mike s2s G/CE-002 Walton Hill
11:05z
M6BWA/P
144MHz
FM
Viki s2s G/WB-013 Garway Hill
11:07z
M6BWA/P
433MHz
FM
Viki s2s G/WB-013 Garway Hill
11:10z
G0RQL
144MHz
FM
Don
My 2m log

I did get in on the action when a few s2s came up but eventual I set up HF and was away on 60m with Rod being the first in my log. He had been waiting for me on 5.3715 which was his and my alerted frequencies…thanks Rod.  60m was really working well and a nice pile-up followed with 2 WAB special event stations calling in....thanks everyone.

11:22z
M0JLA/P
5MHz
SSB
Rod s2s |G/WB-013 Garway Hill
11:23z
GW0PLP
5MHz
SSB
Don
11:25z
MW0OFA
5MHz
SSB
Frank
11:26z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
11:27z
G8ADD
5MHz
SSB
Brian
11:30z
G7LMF
5MHz
SSB
Graham
11:30z
GB50WAB
5MHz
SSB
Graham
11:31z
G0VWP
5MHz
SSB
Terry
11:32z
GB1ABG
5MHz
SSB
Dave
11:32z
G0GWY
5MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
11:33z
G3YZY
5MHz
SSB
Howard
11:34z
GI0AZA
5MHz
SSB
Esther
11:35z
G3RDQ
5MHz
SSB
David
11:36z
G0HRT
5MHz
SSB
Rob
11:38z
M0YBM
5MHz
SSB
Brian
11:40z
G0BPU
5MHz
SSB
Mike
My 60m log

Relegated to sit on the peat :)

Although 80m was working it wasn’t as good as 60m as some of the return chasers gave me lower signal strength report but nevertheless 13 chasers made my log with some cracking signals from the South East of England.

11:55z
M0BKV
3.5MHz
SSB
Damian
11:56z
G0VWP
3.5MHz
SSB
Terry
11:57z
G0HRT
3.5MHz
SSB
Rob
11:57z
2E0FEH
3.5MHz
SSB
Karl
11:58z
G6NHW
3.5MHz
SSB
Pete
11:58z
G3RMD
3.5MHz
SSB
Frank
11:59z
DG1NPM
3.5MHz
SSB
Nobbi
12:01z
G0NES
3.5MHz
SSB
Don
12:02z
G3YZY
3.5MHz
SSB
Howard
12:04z
G7AFM
3.5MHz
SSB
Phil
My 80m log

John had packed away so when there was no response to my ‘final calls’ I pulled the plug as John was keen to activate Fan Nedd before heading for his B&B. A thoroughly enjoyable day not only by due the fact that John had got his Mountain Goat but also that the sun had shone with hardly any breeze…..spring is here?
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 & GW4TQE

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