GW/NW-038 – Moel Ysgyfarnogod

 GW/NW-038 – Moel Ysgyfarnogod

18/09/2020

Another day with a fierce wind

I was hampered by the wind once more as I set up the pole as high as possible. The wind was gusting at 40mp so no HF again unless I wanted to take something home in bits.  There’s hardly any protection on this one as I have experienced before. I qualified within 5 minutes with chasers who had been waiting for me to summit.  After my brief pile-up was over I laid as low as possible and waited for Karen and Neil to summit Moel Hebog as a brief radio message had told me where they were.  They too were being buffeted by the wind so a quick s2s and I was on my way down.…thanks everyone. 

My GPS track

My target in the distance

Long way from the car

Remnants of the mining era...Manganese mines

Aran Fawddwy and others

Only a few sections showing

11:02	MW0UPH	144MHz	FM	Aled
11:03	MW0OFA	144MHz	FM	Frank
11:04	MW7ABS	144MHz	FM	Colin
11:07	GW4ZPL	144MHz	FM	John
11:11	GW4TQD	144MHz	FM	John
11:12	GW4XUE/P	144MHz	FM	Dave
11:19	M0KPW/P	144MHz	FM	Chris..s2s..Dent..G/LD-045
11:25	EI3IXB/P	144MHz	FM	Dave
11:30	MW7TGF/M	144MHz	FM	Tom
12:04	2W0TDX/P	144MHz	FM	Neil..s2s..Moel Hebog..GW/NW-014
12:05	2W0XYL/P	144MHz	FM	Karen..s2s..Moel Hebog..GW/NW-014

Snowdonia

Lleyn Peninsula

Ready to leave

My activation set-up

 (VHF) Yaesu FT270 & Yaesu FT2 (5watts) into a ‘Slim G’.

Antenna support – 5m Fishing pole

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX