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