From Slieveanorra GI/AH-003, we drove back to the A2 and back to Cushendall.  We then drove northwards on the minor road, out past the Youth Hostel and up to the highest point of the road, finding a parking spot at D246304.  We walked up through the fields on the east side of the summit ridge, and reached the north top of Cross Slieve without difficulty.  A survey of the surroundings revealed that we would now need to cross a series of barbed wire fences and a serious swamp in order to attain the true summit, some 1km to the south-west.  A survey of the map revealed that we were only 3m lower than the true summit, with the intervening land falling less than 10m along the ridge.  We resolved to use the 25m rule and set up where we were. The views were disappointing; we had anticipated some stunning coastal views, being only a mile from the sea on this summit, but the heavy haze put paid to that.  We did however set up with the intention of "playing radio", so up went the 40m dipole on the fishing pole, and Colin's huge 2m contest style 9 element beam.  We had anticipated the need to get well into Scotland, with this summit being effectively screened from the rest of Ireland by a wall of much higher land curving around us from south to north.

Things started well, with Colin working into Scotland, and with great difficulty into Northern Ireland, and I had a BBC-quality contact on 40m down into Ross-on-Wye.  The skip was long though, and I couldn't raise anyone else on 40m.  However, a switch to Colin's beam brought in Robin GM7PKT/P on Stob Binnein GM/SS-002 for another GI to GM summit-to-summit, followed by two more contacts in Scotland.  It took me 1 hour 11 minutes to get the four contacts.  Colin meanwhile, had switched over to my set-up, adding his paddle, to get his 4th contact, a 40m CW QSO with a station in Sweden. We returned to Larne, had a celebratory brew, and shortly after Colin departed, we set-off for Belfast Docks for our return ferry.  In the 2 hour queue to board the ferry, I listened on the FM broadcast band in the car, and used the 817 to listen on 48m and give GN4BJC/P a final airing on 2m.

Thanks to the following stations, all worked using 5 watts, the first on 40m SSB and the rest on 2m FM: