Day 6 - Friday 30th July 2010 - The catch-up and a new camp

This was to be that monumental day we had been working towards since October 2005. The day when Jimmy M3EYP would finally have activated the same (as of 30/7/2010) 235 summits as his father. This was the last one that remained of summits that had been activated by me - but not by him.  But the first job was to pack the tent down, as we would be moving camp today, and heading further east for a better base for attacking the G/SC hills.

   

Oh yes, and it was my 16th wedding anniversary. She Who Must Be Obeyed was already unimpressed that I had planned to be away on this date, so I did not dare mess it up any further.  I knew Marianne was getting home from a night-shift at 10am on the Friday morning. I called her on her mobile at 10.15am and directed her to my shack. "See that blue folder?" (it was a binder of Short Wave Magazines by the way) I asked. "Yes" she replied. "Move it to one side" I said. I had hidden her card and present under there before setting off south. It seems the planning paid dividends and Marianne was happy. Now it was time to head to Christ Cross and make Jimmy happy.

I parked just off the side of the road at SS966050 and we entered the track opposite. This is just a short level walk to a building and some transmitters, and I decided to set up on some rough land just outside the compound. Jimmy and Craig went rummaging through the hedges to find the trig point that eluded us on our last visit 6 years ago. This time, it was found!

Kicking off on 40m SSB, Jimmy and I both made the S2S contact with Carolyn GW6WRW/P on Carn a'Gheoidh GM/CS-030. Jimmy then made four QSOs on 2m FM and one on 2m SSB for his final 'catch-up' activation, while I managed 8 contacts on 40m CW and one on 15m CW. 40m CW included a further S2S courtesy of MM/OK1HDU/P on Ward of Bressay GM/SI-188.

   

So there we go then. Mission accomplished. From hereon, every new unique would be for us both, and for the foreseeable future, Jimmy and I will have equal placings in the activator uniques table.  The next job was to find the next campsite, and we found a great one in the Periton area of Minehead.  With the tent up and airbeds inflated, we had time to bag another activation. We opted for the very nearby Selworthy Beacon G/SC-005.