Rubers Law, GM/SS-210 - 424m ASL - NT 580 155 - OS Explorer 331 - 1 SOTA point            

Thursday 8th September 2022 - Rubers Law GM/SS-210 & Belling Hill GM/SS-244

We set off after breakfast at the Tushielaw Inn on a misty but dry Thursday morning.  Unlike the last couple of days which were all spent on hills in the close vicinity of the inn, this morning we needed to drive out a bit further East and to the other side of Hawick.

We parked close to the track entrance at NT 59595 15873, West Lees.  We walked through West Lees Plantation in an easterly direction, following wooden signposts for Rubers Law.  The route switched out of the plantation and continued between a fence and a wall, with the medieval fort summit looming out of the mist ahead.

After about 40 minutes walking, it was time to start climbing much more steeply up the banks and ramparts to the summit.  However, this was barely another 40m vertically, so hardly problematic!

 It was a pleasant summit with trig point, commemorative plaque, topograph and rock outcrops aplenty.

We set up our usual aerials - Jimmy MM0HGY/P with a SOTAbeams MFD for 2m, and me (Tom MM1EYP/P) with a homemade quarterwave vertical groundplane for 20m.

Jimmy managed only two on VHF, so completed his qualification on 20m SSB using my antenna.  No problem for me on 20m CW & SSB, and three summit-to-summit contacts made.

We reversed our ascent route to return to the car.  Our next hill was even further east, and a bit south - Belling Hill GM/SS-244.