"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.

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

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.