Beacon Batch, G/SC-003 - 325m ASL - ST 484 572 - OS Explorer 141 - 1 SOTA point            

SOTA road trip, Day 5 - Wednesday 5th August 2020

From Dundry Down G/SC-010, it was a fairly short drive south-west down the A38 and then via Blagdon up to the transmitter site on the East end of the hill.

When I last walked from this side in 2019, the path was badly waterlogged on the initial section, but thankfully it was much drier on this occasion.  I started to feel extremely tired as I got onto the final approach towards the summit.  When I was about 10m vertically below the summit, and about 150m away, I decided to be very lazy and set up my antenna there, beside the footpath!

This was a very easy activation with five quick QSOs on 17m CW.  It had looked like the band wasn't in the best shape on the previous activation, but all was fine and i could get quickly off for a longer drive south-west into the Quantocks, and Wills Neck G/SC-002.