GW/SW-024 Mynydd y Lan

 

GW/SW-024 Mynydd y Lan

07/May/2021

Seeking s2s and another unique

I arrived a little early on to this one as my journey down the M4 didn’t involve any delays. 

Route taken from SOTA Mapping as posted by Phil G4OBK

Lots of these on the way up

Communication towers ahead

Ready to activate

It would be a long wait before Viki and Rod arrived on their summit so I put up a spot and went straight on to 60m with the intention of going back to this band later. I was greeted by a comment from my friend Frank MW0OFA “You are early” followed by a nice chat for a few minutes. Two more chasers made my log and as the band went quiet I got up and clipped in the 80m loading coil which brought a good run of chasers especially a few dropping in from the WAB net…thanks everyone.

09:41	MW0OFA	5MHz	SSB	Frank
09:47	GI4OSF	5MHz	SSB	John
09:53	G4IPB	5MHz	SSB	Paul
10:10	2E0FEH	3.5MHz	SSB	Karl
10:12	G0BPK	3.5MHz	SSB	Nigel
10:13	M0BKV	3.5MHz	SSB	Damian
10:14	G0FEX	3.5MHz	SSB	Ken
10:15	EI3GYB	3.5MHz	SSB	Michael
10:16	G4IAR	3.5MHz	SSB	Dave

 

One more to qualify the summit

I went back to 60m with the volume on the 2m rig turned up to await Viki. I had a lovely QSO with my friend Victor in GI land. One more caller then silence but the FT270 burst into life and Viki and Rod were in my log on both 2m and 70cms…thank you both.

10:29	GI4ONL	5MHz	SSB	Victor
10:34	M0NMI	5MHz	SSB	David
10:37	MW6BWA/P	144MHz	FM	Viki s2s GW/SW-011 Sugar Loaf
10:38	MW0JLA/P	144MHz	FM	Rod s2s GW/SW-011 Sugar Loaf
10:46	MW0JLA/P	433MHz	FM	Rod diff band
10:48	MW6BWA/P	433MHz	FM	Viki s2s diff band
10:50	M0VNP	144MHz	FM	Steve
10:55	G4TCI	144MHz	FM	Mike

 

Dark clouds above..rain?

Endfed set up

Homebrew pole support..bright easy to see nylon string

Antenna wire support on the Carbon Fibre mast

Back to 60m to pick up anyone who might have missed me because I was early then a visit to 40m. I was aware that I had another summit lined up so I packed up and headed back to the car.

11:02	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
11:03	G4WSB	5MHz	SSB	Bill
11:09	F4WBN	7MHz	SSB	Christian
11:10	GM6ZAK	7MHz	SSB	Andy
11:10	EA1DHB	7MHz	SSB	Ricardo
11:12	EA2DT	7MHz	SSB	Manuel
11:13	ON3UA	7MHz	SSB	Jurgen

 

My activation set-up

HF:- Elecraft KX2 (8 watts) and 4.2Ah LiFe

HF Antenna – End-Fed - 49:1 Unun with loading coil for 80m

HF Antenna support – 6m Sotabeams Carbon Fibre Fishing pole

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VHF/4m Antenna support – 4m Life’s a Breeze Glass Fibre Fishing pole

(VHF) Yaesu FT270 2m-FM (5watts) into a ‘Slim G

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX