Mynydd y Betws, GW/SW-028 - 374m ASL - SN 664 094 - OS Explorer  165 & 178 - 1 SOTA point            

SOTA road trip, Day 3 - Monday 3rd August 2020

From Trichrug GW/SW-022, it was a short-ish drive south to the large whale-backed wind turbine-topped hill of Betws.  I parked on the summit road, just south of the summit point which is on an earthwork 300m north of the road.  I walked onto a convenient piece of rough ground on the opposite side of the road to the "summit" and set up the 17m groundplane antenna.

I stuck with my policy of going straight to FT8 once the QSO rate on legacy modes had been noted to be slowing.  This had clearly happened two activations earlier in the day, so no messing, straight onto 17m FT8.  A very pleasing contact was a 17m FT8 S2S (summit-to-summit) QSO with Jirka OK2OP/P.  That was the obvious highlight of a ten contact activation.

It was now just after 6pm, but I figured I could still squeeze in two more activations - and of course book some accommodation for the evening!  Next up, it was Mynydd Uchaf GW/SW-031.