Tuesday, 7 July 2020

GM/SI-104 Beinn na Greine

GM/SI-104 Beinn na Greine

23/04/2019

3rd of 5 on the Isle of Skye

Today Len and Gwyneth joined us for this one and thank goodness the weather had been dry over the past few weeks as due to the boggy nature of the terrain around this summit I think it would have been difficult under foot with some deep peat hags.…you have been warned. 

We parked the car at NG434412 and followed the track towards the communication towers.

There is a nice cairn on top which surrounds the trig. This was to be a short activation and it was great to find that 40m was really working well. Three s2s with friends who had gone out to catch me on Skye so thank you one and all and not forgetting all the other chasers.

My GPS track

I was already set up on the summit as the rest of the group arrived in their own time

GM4VPX working the pile-up

Looking at a good run of chasers...thanks

Portree below and GM/SI-115 to the left

10:24z

2E0FEH

7MHz

SSB

Karl

10:25z

G4WSB

7MHz

SSB

Bill

10:25z

M6VWX

7MHz

SSB

Graham

10:26z

G0VWP

7MHz

SSB

Terry

10:27z

G4TQE/P

7MHz

SSB

S2S John GW/NW-062 Hope Mountain

10:28z

GW6OVD

7MHz

SSB

Mal

10:28z

GB2ABG

7MHz

SSB

Dave

10:28z

MW0OFA

7MHz

SSB

Frank

10:29z

M0JLA/P

7MHz

SSB

S2S Rod G/WB-019 May Hill

10:31z

G4YBU

7MHz

SSB

Tim

10:31z

DL3HXX

7MHz

SSB

Lothar

10:32z

G0RQL

7MHz

SSB

Don

10:34z

F4HZN

7MHz

SSB

Laurent

10:35z

G4OBK

7MHz

SSB

Phil

10:36z

M3FON

7MHz

SSB

Darrian

10:36z

2E0ESY/M

7MHz

SSB

Mike

10:37z

IK2LEY

7MHz

SSB

Fabio

10:41z

PA0INA

7MHz

SSB

Frans

10:42z

G4AZS

7MHz

SSB

Adrian

10:44z

GW4TJC/P

7MHz

SSB

S2S Simon GW/NW-045 Moel-ddu

 

On our way down...looking back at the summit

Past the communications tower

Heading for the car

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


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