The 2018 tour dates were coming thick and fast now, and hopefully, so therefore would be the SOTA activations!  Friday 16th March 2018, and we had a show at the Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl.  I decided that I would try to activate Penycloddiau GW/NW-054 and Mynydd y Cwm GW/NW-076 on the way to my evening’s work. 

I set off from Macc at 10.30am after dropping Liam off for a solo gig he had himself that morning.  The main path up Penycloddiau was very damp, and my trainers were soon wet.  At the summit I set up Jimmy’s MFD, which I had recently repaired.  I was keen to check it out.  Pleasingly, it was now back behaving and performing perfectly, and 16 QSOs in 12 minutes on 2m FM were testament to that.

I then took the FT-817 out of the system and replaced it with the FT-70D, enabled by the SMA-BNC adaptor. Three QSOs were added on C4FM Fusion, taking the total to 19 for the activation. 

I returned to the little car park via the lower path, which is what I usually tend to do.  I was a little ahead of schedule, so the plan to also activate Mynydd y Cwm GW/NW-076 was still on.