After Gruggandoo GI/MM-013 on Saturday 31st May 2014, we faced a bit of a drive west into County Armagh for a known easy-access summit. Our route took us through Newry, Camlough and Newtonhamilton, and out onto the A29 Keady road. The access road - which is a public road - to Carrigatuke GI/CA-003 summit is a right turn off the Keady road, and we were there more quickly than I imagined we might.  The road leads up to a car park, which has a transmitter installation at one corner, and the trig point at the opposite corner! I at least parked on the opposite side of the car park to the trig point, to allow for a "person-powered" final approach!

Jimmy went off like a train on this one, with three 2m FM contacts inside two minutes. He would have to wait for his fourth, but it did come, eventually, around 20 minutes later. In contrast, my first 24MHz QSO didn't seem to be happening at all. After many many unanswered CQ calls, I did find another CQ SOTA on 24.893MHz CW. This was Jurg HB9BIN/P on HB/BE-104, and we made the S2S, albeit with difficulty. Jurg was 599 with me, but me only 339 with him. We got there in the end though!

With no time to waste, I wasn't much for flogging the dead horse that 24MHz had become around teatime. So I moved over to 20m CW, and added seven quick QSOs in 3 minutes of operating there! Apologies to all those unhappy with the "quick band change" operators! However, I did have a ferry to catch, and wanted to squeeze in a fifth and final activation for the day - Cairngaver GI/MM-017.