GW/SW-005 Fan Fawr

GW/SW-005 Fan Fawr

20/November/2021

Loads of s2s

Well, what a great morning in GW land. Ben GW4BML's Alert for Pen y Fan GW/SW-001 prompted me to Alert for Fan Fawr GW/SW-005. That kicked off a flurry of alerts, e-mails flying around and some chat on our GW Summits On The Air Facebook group with promises from others to be out on the mountains. I had an enjoyable but cold and damp morning with 6 s2s, 9 2m-fm contacts and 7 on 60m. I also had the pleasure of meeting up with Ben and family at Storey Arms...thanks Ben. It's great to see a growing band of new activators with a few oldies trying to keep up.

My route to the summit

The carpark for Fan Fawr...there was some event going on?

Storey Arms and low cloud on Pen y Fan

Fan Fawr hidden in the low cloud

Nearly there

Damp and misty

10:55	GW4TQE/P	144MHz	FM	John s2s Allt y Main
10:57	MW0GWG/P	144MHz	FM	Richard s2sPen y Garn
11:08	GW4BML/P	144MHz	FM	Ben s2s Pen y Fan
11:15	MW0OFA	144MHz	FM	Frank nr Cardigan
11:17	G0RQL	144MHz	FM	Don, Holsworthy Devon
11:29	GW4TJC/P	144MHz	FM	Simon s2s Craig Cwm Silyn
11:30	2W0FLW	144MHz	FM	Derek, Swansea
11:35	MW0PJE/P	144MHz	FM	Pete s2s Pen Llithrig y Wrach
11:37	MW7RJO/P	144MHz	FM	Richard s2s Y Garn
11:45	G6PJZ	5MHz	SSB	Andy, North Yorkshire
11:46	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don diff band
11:46	G4IVV	5MHz	SSB	Jonathan, Linton
11:48	GI4OSF	5MHz	SSB	John, Co Antrim
11:48	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod, Hereford City
11:49	G3TQQ	5MHz	SSB	Dave, Pickering
11:50	M0NMI	5MHz	SSB	David, Swindon

 

My VHF set up with a visitor at the cairn

My VHF and my HF pole in the mist

Ben GW4BML/p with Mr Brown on Pen y Fan

Pete MW0PJE/p 's setup on Pen Llithrig y Wrach

Simon GW4TJC/p on Craig Cwm Silyn

11 year old Finn on his way down from Y Garn

after activating with dad Richard MW7RJO/p

My activation set-up

HF:- Elecraft KX2 (8 watts) and 4Ah LiPo with  EFHW antenna

HF Antenna support – 6m Carbon Fibre Fishing pole

VHF :- Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘Slim G' with Fibreglass 4m pole

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX