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This summit was visited en route to my gig in Harrogate on Friday 26th April 2017. The parking area is within the AZ on this one. Colin M1BUU and I walked to just beyond the large boundary stones. I was about to set up there when I realised I had left my pole in the car. We returned to the car and Colin had to go to collect his lads from school. I went partly back up the path and set up for 30m. I'd had the connector on the feeder repaired that morning and picked up a couple of spare 259 to BNC adapters. Sufficient to determine that the fault lay with the 817's rear connector. The front connector had been broken and left unfixed for a few years ... so that was the 817 out of action.
Time was running out before I had to get back on the road for the night's gig in Harrogate. I grabbed the handheld and wandered back up to the boundary stones. Several CQ SOTA calls produced nothing, so I resigned myself to my first ever non-activation and walked back towards the car. I continued the occasional call, knowing the full length of the path was in the AZ. To my delight, Colin M1BUU/M came back and worked me, so at least the activation existed! No other replies though, so I'd have to return the same year if I want to claim the point.
Next it was onto another FB gig with Joe Longthorne and the band, and thence to a Travelodge on the A1 ahead of the Saturday gig in Essex. Life on the road!
Nick and Dave were first into the log, S2S, when I called on 2m FM from Rombalds Moor G/NP-028. I was now a bit pushed for time, so was just using the handheld. Fortunately, a couple of calls from Keighley sealed the qualification for me, and I could press on to work at the Grand Opera House in York.
With the qualification sealed with the requisite four QSOs, I got on my way to York for that night's gig at the Grand Opera House.
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