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Moel y Gamelin 2015

 

"Mission Tidy" continued to go well. I was still off the ale and keeping up the exercise. And on Friday 20th February 2015, I actually managed to execute a successful activation with the EA8-intended kit of HB1B with internal batteries and ultra-lightweight end-fed antenna.

Liam and I picked up Richard G3CWI at 8am in Macclesfield, and set off west down the M56. Just over an hour and a half later, we were pulling in at the Ponderosa Cafe, and a few minutes later, so did Rob G0HRT. Rob would be doing Cyrn-y-Brain GW/NW-043 first, but Richard, Liam and I set off over the road for Moel y Gamelin GW/NW-042.

Liam        HF antenna

The initial climb of Moel y Faen at the start of the day is always a bit of a slog, but the rest of the day's walking is then easy and comfortable. Richard tore off ahead into the mist, and was set up by the time I reached the summit. Liam was being uncharacteristically slow for these days, reminding me of when he was much younger!

40m CW: 4 QSOs including F5UBH/P on F/NO-049 30m CW: 2 QSOs 20m CW: 4 QSOs including S2S with HB9BCB/P on HB/FR-036 2m FM : 2 QSOs, both S2S with GW4TQE/P on GW/NW-073 and GW0HRT/P on GW/NW-043

HB1B        Tom MW1EYP/P

Liam set off back to Ponderosa as soon as I started packing up, and this time he kept the pace up and I never caught him. The three of us took the traditional between summit lunch at the cafe, which for Liam and I was the always fabulous steak & kidney pie, chips, peas, carrots and gravy. We kitted back up again for the second summit, just as Rob reached the cafe after descending Cyrn-y-Brain.

Time

Call

Band

Mode

S2S

11:04z

GW4TQE/P

144MHz

FM

GW/NW-073

11:25z

HB9BCB/P

14MHz

CW

HB/FR-036

11:27z

OK2PDT

14MHz

CW

 

11:29z

SP9AMH

14MHz

CW

 

11:30z

CU3EJ

14MHz

CW

 

11:33z

GW0HRT/P

144MHz

FM

GW/NW-043

11:36z

DL4ALI

10MHz

CW

 

11:37z

SM7GUY

10MHz

CW

 

11:42z

DL6MST

7MHz

CW

 

11:42z

ON4FI

7MHz

CW

 

11:43z

ON6ZQ

7MHz

CW

 

11:44z

F5UBH/P

7MHz

CW

F/NO-049