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Freeholds Top 2012

 

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We always enjoy meeting up with our Norwegian friends when the come over every October, and Jimmy 2E0EYP had been busy planning and communicating with Halvard LA1DNA and Aage LA1ENA for some time. The upshot was that we would return to a couple of G/SP summits not visited by us for a number of years.

Halvard M/LA1DNA/P    Liam & Jimmy on Freeholds Top

Due to the later alert timings posted by Aage and Halvard, as a result of their attendance at the Rishworth G-QRP event on the Saturday morning, only an 8am egt-up was required on Saturday 20th October 2012. Jimmy, Liam and myself set off north, and pulled in at Reddish Tesco for a cooked breakfast.

Liam & Jimmy    Tom M1EYP listening to CW signals

Forty minutes or so later, we were in the parking spot on the A681 Bacup to Todmorden road. Shortly after, Aage and Halvard pulled in in their red hire car, and the walking could commence. This route to Freeholds Top G/SP-011 is not the shortest, but it is certainly the easiest, for it avoids any steep climbs and all the bog.  We walked down the track for quite some distance before branching right for the summit. Liam discussed cars with Halvard for most of the walk!

Tom M1EYP    Looking across to Stoodley Pike

On arrival at the summit, Jimmy set up for 2m FM and made 19 contacts. Halvard went for 80m SSB, but struggled, so went on a combination of 40m SSB and 2m FM instead. Aage had a problem with his rig on 20m, but made 30m contacts without difficulty. I took the MM15 and went on 21MHz CW, making 18 contacts, the highlights of which were W, VE, EA6 and 4O. Quite why there was such a big pile-up for 4O4A I am not quite sure, but it was very satisfying to break it first call! 

Freeholds Top summit    Halvard LA1DNA & Aage LA1ENA

Soup of the day was lamb & vegetable.  With time marching on, we needed to make a move over to the second planned summit of Hail Storm Hill G/SP-009.  Many thanks to all our callers:

2E0LKC

2m

FM

J

2E0LMD

2m

FM

J

G0MZZ

2m

FM

J

G7DOM/M

2m

FM

J

G4BLH/P

2m

FM

J

G3NPJ

2m

FM

J

M3GHI

2m

FM

J

G0BSD

2m

FM

J

YL2ON

15m

CW

T

G4SSH

15m

CW

T

N1EU

15m

CW

T

GB6CHE

2m

FM

J

RA3TO

15m

CW

T

EA5YI

15m

CW

T

UR3QNV

15m

CW

T

K4YND

15m

CW

T

N3GJ

15m

CW

T

GB2SBC

2m

FM

J

G6XBF

2m

FM

J

G7VEC

2m

FM

J

G0SJS

2m

FM

J

OM7PY

15m

CW

T

US3LX

15m

CW

T

LZ2HT/1

15m

CW

T

G4OWG

15m

CW

T

AK4RS

15m

CW

T

G7KPO

2m

FM

J

G7NAL

2m

FM

J

HB9CGA

15m

CW

T

EA6ZS

15m

CW

T

VE2JCW

15m

CW

T

G4OWG

2m

FM

J

G7PFY

2m

FM

J

M0UEZ

2m

FM

J

4O4A

15m

CW

T

N4EX

15m

CW

T

DL3SBA/P on Ziegenhelle NW-185

40m

SSB

J