Meigle Hill, GM/SS-212 - 423m ASL - NT 466 360 - OS Explorer 338 - 1 SOTA point            

Friday 24th June 2022 - Eildon Mid Hill GM/SS-214 & Meigle Hill GM/SS-212

Paul M0SNA joined Jimmy and I for an early morning raid of a couple of summits near Melrose - both short walks - horizontally, but both with considerable vertical metres to be gained up steep flanks.

We all successfully qualified both summits on the radio using a mix of FM, SSB, CW and FT8 modes between us, on the 40m, 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 10m and 2m bands.

       

On this summit, Jimmy got his four on 2m FM. I did six QSOs on 17m CW, four on 20m CW including S2S with HB9BAB/P on HB/ZH-015 and four on 15m CW.

All three of us worked Viki MM6BWA/P and Rod MM0JLA/P for 2m FM S2S to GM/CS-077.

       

Later we reconvened in Berwick town centre for a fantastic lunch occasion, with Paul’s wife Rebecca joining us, as well as Marianne and Liam.  The food at Foxtons was excellent, and the company top class.

Next up that night - well Liam learned of the existence of a karaoke night in a Berwick pub - so he was reeling off the classics to a new audience - while his brother and dad got through a bit more beer…

The next SOTA outing would be three days later after we had relocated to Fife for the second part of our holiday.  The first summit there was Largo Law GM/SS-259.