I decided to have a day out doing mind-boggling easy one-pointers on Friday 23rd August 2013. Each one on the itinerary was admittedly easier then The Wrekin G/WB-010.  I got up at 5am and made for the kitchen cupboard. All the interesting flavours of soup - Wiltshire ham & sweetcorn chowder, mulligatawny, courgette & gruyere - had one or two tins, but not the three needed to make up a litre flask. Somebody has been helping themselves it seems. But there was many tins of boring old mushroom, so three of these were warmed.

       

McDonalds on the A483 at Chirk was the next stop for a spot of breakfast, before continuing down to just before Welshpool and turning left for Long Mountain-Beacon Ring GW/MW-026. On this occasion I set up on the earthwork boundary just through the gate at the end of the transmitter access track after the short walk from the road.

       

12m was clearly not open, but I did manage to get Steve G6LUZ on SSB. With no further takers, I QSYd with Steve to 24.92125MHz for a PSK31 QSO. That may have taken me to two QSOs, but really it was only one in terms of the requisite four to qualify. Mark G0VOF answered the call on 12m CW, but that was game over for 24MHz.

       

I left the antenna up in case I needed to go back to it, but began calling CQ on 2m FM using the VX7R handie. Andy G8MIA and Phil G4JCP provided the contacts needed, and I packed up and got on my way to Stingwern Hill GW/MW-030.