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Black Down SE-003

 

Black Down, G/SE-003 - 280m ASL - SU 919 296 - OS Explorer 133 - 1 SOTA point         Map & summit information from SOTAwatch    Click to return to summit index

Friday 11th January 2019 - Black Down G/SE-003 & Butser Hill G/SE-004

I set my alarm for 5am.  In the uncomfortable bed in the noisy apartment, I was awake (again) at 0455z.  So off I went.  After a leisurely breakfast stop at a petrol station on one of the main roads around Petersfield, I arrived at the Tennyson Lane parking spot just as dawn was breaking.  This was good because it can be hard to erect an 80m antenna in the dark!

Tom M1EYP                    Linked dipole                    Summit trig on Black Down

I followed the woodland paths in the general direction of the summit, keeping an eye out in the gloomy early light for the trig.  I was QRV at 8am on Black Down G/SE-003.  Eight QSOs were made - 4 on 80m FT8, 1 on 80m CW and 3 on 80m SSB.  Phil G4OBK got through on all three modes. 

Partway on the journey back, I drove past Butser Hill G/SE-004 where we would head later.

 

Time

Call

Band

Mode

08:02z

G0RQL

3.5MHz

FT8

08:03z

G4OBK

3.5MHz

FT8

08:08z

PA3CBS

3.5MHz

FT8

08:20z

DJ2PW

3.5MHz

FT8

08:35z

G4OBK

3.5MHz

CW

08:41z

G4OBK

3.5MHz

SSB

08:44z

GM6ZAK

3.5MHz

SSB

08:45z

G0VWP

3.5MHz

SSB

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