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East Lomond SS-198

 

East Lomond, GM/SS-198 - 448m ASL - NO 244 061 - OS Explorer 370 - 1 SOTA point         Map & summit information from SOTAwatch    Click to return to summit index

Tuesday 1st July 2022 - East Lomond GM/SS-198, West Lomond GM/SS-154 & Bishop Hill GM/SS-187

Start of walk        Summit area

 

These can be done as a linear walk - by leaving the car at the start/end point for Bishop Hill (car park beside Holl Reservoir) and persuade a kindly local to chauffeur you from there to the high car park close to East Lomond to start the three summit traverse.

 

Tom M1EYP        Summit of East Lomond

We opted to go for the “easy” option of three separate “there and back” walks from closest parking spots - but I’m not convinced this was indeed the easy option - as each walk-in had to be reversed, ie doubled!

 

Trig point - curiously not at the summit!        Jimmy M0HGY

Anyway, 15 miles walked, 30,000 steps. Mainly 20m CW for me, but some SSB, and brief diversions onto 40m and 15m - and Jimmy’s 2m FM kit for a couple of S2S (Paul MM0SNA/P on GM/SS-224 & Andy GM6ZAK/P on GM/SS-277).

 

Jimmy M0HGY & Tom M1EYP        The strangely positioned trig point!

 

This one is a fairly short and simple walk up from a lofty public car park!

Next over to West Lomond GM/SS-154.

 

Time

Callsign

Band

Mode

Op

07:00

GM6ZAK

144MHz

FM

MM0HGY/P

07:03

GM0AXY

144MHz

FM

MM0HGY/P

07:04

OK2QX

14MHz

CW

MM1EYP/P

07:04

OM1AX

14MHz

CW

MM1EYP/P

07:05

EA7GV

14MHz

CW

MM1EYP/P

07:05

F8DGF

14MHz

CW

MM1EYP/P

07:06

GM0GAV

144MHz

FM

MM0HGY/P

07:08

GM0MRJ

144MHz

FM

MM0HGY/P

07:09

GM0GAV

14MHz

CW

MM1EYP/P

07:10

GM4YMM

144MHz

FM

MM0HGY/P