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Mynydd Carn-y-cefn SW-014

 

Mynydd Carn-y-cefn, GW/SW-014 - 550m ASL - SO 187 085 - OS Explorer 166 / OL13 - 2 SOTA points         Map & summit information from SOTAwatch    Click to return to summit index

 

South Wales SOTA Trip - Day 2 - Monday 25th May 2015

I was up early and warming the soup in the members' kitchen of the youth hostel.  Jimmy and Liam eventually joined me and we chomped through some Nutri-Grain bars for a quick and easy breakfast.  Jimmy then directed me down through Brynmawr and up to the West Monmouthshire Golf Club car park at SO184105.  Adjacent to the entrance to the car park was a stony track running initially alongside the golf course, and this was the first part of the walk.

Jimmy setting up at the summit        Tom

The winding and steadily ascending stony track is marked as a "road used as a public path" on the OS 1:25000 map, though I wouldn't have fancied driving my car along it!  Once the hill rounded off and we were on the plateau, it was about another half kilometre to the trig point.  Again I struggled to collect my Challenge multiplier, so Jimmy encouraged his local 2m FM contacts to listen for me on 10m SSB.  Again, Frank G3RMD obliged.  Moving over to 40m was much more fruitful.  Jimmy qualified easily with plenty of VHF contacts.

Liam        Liam & Jimmy

We descended and took a fair old drive west for an attempt on Cefn yr Ystrad GW/SW-008.

Time

Call

Band

Mode

Op

08:44z

G0LGS

144MHz

FM

J

08:45z

MW0ZVR

144MHz

FM

J

08:46z

G3RMD

144MHz

FM

J

08:46z

G0RQL

144MHz

FM

J

08:48z

2E0MDJ

144MHz

FM

J

08:48z

G3TJE

144MHz

FM

J

08:59z

G3RMD

28MHz

CW

T

09:09z

ON4FI

7MHz

CW

T

09:10z

G4FGJ

7MHz

CW

T

09:10z

DK1WI

7MHz

CW

T

09:11z

DL2HWI

7MHz

CW

T

09:12z

G4APO

7MHz

CW

T

09:13z

G0EVV

7MHz

CW

T

09:13z

DL5AWI

7MHz

CW

T

09:14z

DL2EF

7MHz

CW

T

09:15z

PA0B

7MHz

CW

T

09:15z

M0IML

7MHz

CW

T

09:18z

G7BGA

7MHz

SSB

T

09:18z

G7AFM

7MHz

SSB

T

09:19z

G0FEX

7MHz

SSB

T

09:22z

MM3PDM/M

7MHz

SSB

T

09:23z

G0VWP

7MHz

SSB

T

09:24z

G0GWY

7MHz

SSB

T

09:24z

DL7UCW

7MHz

SSB

T

09:25z

G4DUE

7MHz

SSB

T

09:26z

G0FVH

7MHz

SSB

T

09:27z

G0RQL

7MHz

SSB

T

09:28z

G4ZRP

7MHz

SSB

T

09:29z

M0HEM

7MHz

SSB

T

09:29z

G6LKB

7MHz

SSB

T

09:30z

G0BFJ

7MHz

SSB

T

09:31z

MW0TBI/P

7MHz

SSB

T

09:31z

G0ABY

7MHz

SSB

T

09:34z

GW0IRT

144MHz

FM

J

09:35z

MW0PJJ

144MHz

FM

J

09:36z

G3YIP

144MHz

FM

J