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Periton Hill SC-006

 

Periton Hill, G/SC-006 - 297m ASL - SS 946 441 - OS Explorer OL9 - 1 SOTA point         Map & summit information from SOTAwatch    Click to return to summit index

SOTA road trip, Day 5 - Wednesday 5th August 2020

From Wills Neck G/SC-006, I drove west from the Quantock Hills and into the Exmoor National Park.  This is one of my favourite SOTA areas, and I always enjoy activating its three SOTA summits.  From the southern outskirts of Minehead, I drove up through Higher Hopcott to the large car park on the Macmillan Way.

Periton Hill        17m GP

Although this was another short easy walk in the grand scheme of things, again I was at the back end of another long day of summits and driving, and so starting to feel really tired.  i consoled myself with the thought that I would again sleep well in my backpacking tent later that night!  Again, I utilised the activation zone rule to allow myself not to progress all the way to the true summit.  Instead, I set up at the junction of paths at the 291m spot height, less than a flat kilometre from the true summit, and just 7m lower in altitude.

Tom M1EYP        Operating on 17m

This time I was only able to muster one single QSO on 17m.  This was on CW with the ever-reliable Jan OK2PDT.  As I began to consider completing the activation on FT8, my speculative calls on the 2m FM handheld produced the three more QSOs I required.  So I happily packed up and descended.  Next stop - Dunkery Beacon G/SC-001.

Time

Callsign

Band

Mode

18:30

OK2PDT

18MHz

CW

18:35

GW4PAF

144MHz

FM

18:40

MW6IVK

144MHz

FM

18:41

GW4MTE

144MHz

FM

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