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After our activation of Mynydd Rhyd Ddu
GW/NW-073 on Wednesday 11th April 2007, we took the very short drive to
Llangwm, and beyond to the parking spot ahead of Foel Goch GW/NW-039. This, like
the remainder of summits on the trip, was one that I had activated 2 or 3 times
before, and that Jimmy had ascended 2 or 3 times before, but all before he
attained his amateur radio licence. So they all needed to be revisited so he
could get the points! The walk up was painfully slow, with Liam in reluctant and unenergetic mood.
I tried to cheer myself up by reasoning that it was improving my fitness having
an extra 11 stones of dead weight to shove up each hill! Extra to the 17 of my
own. He's his father's son alright! In fact Jimmy also made his first contact - Ron GW4EVX - with his handheld
while waiting for us, but then even with the FT817 and SOTA Beam, neither of us
could elicit another response for 20 minutes. Then the remaining 3 contacts each
required presented themselves suddenly in an 8 minute spell!
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