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Friday 15th February 2019 - Moel y Gamelin GW/NW-042 & Cyrn-y-Brain GW/NW-043
This time it wasn’t 2m FT8 for me. I had built a 30m GP antenna during the week which I needed to test and trim. To cope with its size, I need to take a Travel Mast for this - as a standard 6.7m fishing pole would not be long enough. It took a bit of fiddling around to cut the antenna to optimum size, but then came the rewards.
27 QSOs were made in a very busy, and at times over-exuberant pile-up. Good to work my friend Kjell LA1KHA/P S2S from Holtankollen LA/TM-049 (I think ‘Holtankollen’ might be Norwegian for ‘Cloud’!).
I was pleased my antenna worked; it could be just the thing from The Cloud for a dawn activation when the MUF is significantly below 14MHz. A historical landmark moment occurred late into the descent when we noticed that the old rickety stile of the last 17 years had finally been replaced by a steel kissing gate. The journey home took in The Blue Cap pub in Sandiway for a very pleasant Mobberley amber ale. All most splendid - as usual.
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