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Tuesday 4th June 2019
The Tuesday fun/contest evening came into play - but more of that later.
We had breakfast relatively late at 0815 BST, then headed south.
We parked up close to the Carno Wind Farm and waited for the rain to stop.
And waited. And waited. To be fair this was exactly as forecast, but
I hoped for a break in the rain that would allow us to pounce and conduct a
rapid activation of this straightforward summit. I bided my time while
compiling a bandscan of the long wave and medium wave bands on my car radio. 49
logs were recorded, with 549 Spirit Radio - Ireland, 1170 Swansea Sound, 648
Radio Caroline, 1296 Radio XL - Birmingham, 1368 Manx Radio, 801 BBC Radio Devon
and 1026 Downtown Radio - Belfast amongst the most interesting.
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Freq |
UTC |
Station & details |
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183 |
1055 |
Europe 1,
Felsberg - advertisements, FF |
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198 |
1056 |
BBC Radio 4,
Droitwich - Breath is Life |
|
234 |
1059 |
RTL,
Junglinster - ad for Renault Clio |
|
252 |
1100 |
RTE Radio 1,
Kilmessan - news in Irish |
|
549 |
1103 |
Spirit Radio,
Carlickroe - news, Donald Trump |
|
558 |
1106 |
Love Sport,
London - chat about antisemitism in football |
|
585 |
1512 |
BBC Radio Scotland,
Dumfries - // 810 |
|
648 |
1112 |
Radio Caroline,
Essex - ID, album rock |
|
657 |
1114 |
BBC Radio Wales,
Wrexham - gin |
|
693 |
1115 |
BBC Radio 5 Live,
Droitwich - Emma Barnett |
|
720 |
1116 |
BBC Radio 4,
Lisnagarvey - book reading |
|
738 |
1118 |
BBC Hereford &
Worcester, Worcester - Alanis Morissette |
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774 |
1121 |
Smooth Radio,
Gloucestershire - Ronan Keating |
|
801 |
1122 |
BBC Radio Devon,
Barnstaple - listener texts |
|
810 |
1123 |
BBC Radio Scotland,
Wetserglen - US trade deal |
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828 |
1514 |
BBC Asian Network,
Wolverhampton - talk about whispering, As. Mx |
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837 |
1124 |
BBC Radio Cumbria,
Barrow-in-Furness - BBC Sounds |
|
855 |
1124 |
Sunshine Radio,
Ludlow - INXS |
|
882 |
1125 |
BBC Radio Wales,
Washford (PRES) - gin //657 |
|
909 |
1125 |
BBC Radio 5 Live,
Moorside Edge - Emma Barnett |
|
990 |
1126 |
BBC Radio 5 Live,
Tywyn - Emma Barnett //909 |
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1017 |
1128 |
Absolute Classic
Rock,
Shrewsbury - "Money" - Pink Floyd |
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1026 |
1132 |
Downtown Radio,
Knockbreckan - "Northern Ireland's greatest hits" |
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1053 |
1133 |
talkSPORT,
Droitwich - Bob Mills //1089 + 1107 |
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1089 |
1133 |
talkSPORT,
Moorside Edge - Bob Mills //1053 + 1107 |
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1107 |
1134 |
talkSPORT,
Wallasey - Bob Mills //1053 + 1089 |
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1116 |
1134 |
BBC Radio Derby,
Burnaston Lane - cricket commentary |
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1125 |
1135 |
BBC Radio Wales,
Llandrindod Wells - interview |
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1152 |
1156 |
Absolute Classic
Rock,
Birmingham - "Number of the Beast" |
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1161 |
1520 |
Smooth,
Swindon - Corrs |
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1170 |
1205 |
Swansea Sound,
Winsh Wen - wx, Fleetwood Mac |
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1197 |
1209 |
Absolute Radio,
Gloucester - Lightning Seeds //1215 + 1242 |
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1215 |
1210 |
Absolute Radio,
Droitwich - Lightning Seeds //1197 + 1242 |
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1233 |
1520 |
Absolute Radio,
Northampton - "Ironic" |
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1242 |
1210 |
Absolute Radio,
Stoke-on-Trent - Lightning Seeds //1197 + 1215 |
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1260 |
1210 |
Smooth Radio,
Wrexham - Tasmin Archer |
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1296 |
1212 |
Radio XL,
Birmingham - Asian rlg song |
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1305 |
1212 |
Smooth Radio,
Newport - Pet Shop Boys |
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1341 |
1213 |
BBC Radio Ulster,
Lisnagarvey - drug issues |
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1368 |
1214 |
Manx Radio,
Foxdale - chat, pop |
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1413 |
1216 |
BBC Radio
Gloucestershire, Berkley Heath - chat, pop |
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1458 |
1221 |
Gold,
Manchester - T'Pau, Ian Dury |
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1458 |
1222 |
BBC Radio Cumbria,
Whitehaven - chat, cricket |
|
1458 |
1227 |
BBC Asian Network,
Birmingham - Asian mx |
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1476 |
1228 |
Carillion Wellbring
Radio,
Coalville - soul mx |
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1485 |
1231 |
BBC Radio
Merseyside,
Wallasey - local rates |
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1503 |
1232 |
BBC Radio Stoke,
Stoke-on-Trent - pop, chat |
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1548 |
1235 |
City Talk,
Liverpool - chat about architecture & art |
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1584 |
1236 |
BBC Hereford &
Worcester, Woofferton - quiz, Ronan Keating |
Lunch was taken in the car - Baxter’s Lobster Bisque - still my all-time
favourite. As the afternoon wore on, there was no let up in the rain, so
we gave up and went to look for a pub. The Aleppo Merchant Inn was excellent,
with a very good pool table and delicious Monty IPA. It was noted for
future reference that they did reasonably priced bar snacks and rooms.
By 6pm it had stopped raining, so we returned up the hill, parked again and
this time set off walking to the summit. It was an easy walk along wind
farm roads with only about 100m of ascent, but a bit of horizontal distance
requiring around 35 minutes each way. Shortly after setting up, the midges
came down. Shortly after that, the rain came down. Both of us
operated in our bothy bags.
I limped to four QSOs on 20m CW. Jimmy got to three on 2m FM, but it
was now after 7pm, so the Tuesday night FMAC was underway. So a couple of
contesters were worked for a stress-free qualification. By the time we’d
descended, it was 8.30pm BST, so unlikely we’d be back in Dolgellau in time for
food. Instead, we returned to the Aleppo and availed ourselves of the bar
snacks menu. The chilli, chips and onion rings was a simple but enjoyable
supper. We had our sights set on Y Llethr
GW/NW-017 for the following day.
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Time |
Call |
Band |
Mode |
Op |
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18:00z |
MW0OFA |
144MHz |
FM |
MW0HGY/P |
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18:02z |
YL/DK7OG |
14MHz |
CW |
MW1EYP/P |
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18:06z |
UR6AJ |
14MHz |
CW |
MW1EYP/P |
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18:07z |
GW6CWD |
144MHz |
FM |
MW0HGY/P |
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18:07z |
N4EX |
14MHz |
CW |
MW1EYP/P |
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18:11z |
GW4VPX |
144MHz |
FM |
MW0HGY/P |
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18:17z |
G7RHF |
144MHz |
FM |
MW0HGY/P |
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18:17z |
UTVW |
14MHz |
CW |
MW1EYP/P |
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18:20z |
M0TMD/P |
144MHz |
FM |
MW0HGY/P |
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