GW/MW-004. 13th Mar 2018.
Grid SN 798771, Altitude 611M.
Today's activation was my second trip to Pen y Garn in Mid Wales, this was going to be a chill out morning accompanied by a good friend of mine G0UFE (Simon). We set off from Telford at around
8 a.m. and headed towards Wales on the A5, we had decided on Welshpool, Newtown and via Llangurig. The journey took us 2 1/2 hours to reach the car park area at grid SN 80089 77686. This is the same spot that I parked last year and makes the walk to the summit an easy 20 minute walk.
Simon set up his mast, Yaesu FT-817 and a slinky, then started operating on 40M, I set up my mast, 20/40M HWEF and my homebrew 2M yagi. I started by having a quick check of the band and heard MW0KCB/P (Darious) on GW/MW-012 so went straight in with a S2S, a good start I thought then ended up with 3 out of my first 4 calls being S2S's.
After qualifying the summit I went onto 20M and my first contact was RW3XZ (Alexei) near Moscow, this kept on for another two hours, with contacts all over Europe.
Today's activation was my second trip to Pen y Garn in Mid Wales, this was going to be a chill out morning accompanied by a good friend of mine G0UFE (Simon). We set off from Telford at around
8 a.m. and headed towards Wales on the A5, we had decided on Welshpool, Newtown and via Llangurig. The journey took us 2 1/2 hours to reach the car park area at grid SN 80089 77686. This is the same spot that I parked last year and makes the walk to the summit an easy 20 minute walk.
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After qualifying the summit I went onto 20M and my first contact was RW3XZ (Alexei) near Moscow, this kept on for another two hours, with contacts all over Europe.
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The weather held out and was a great day out, plenty of contacts for us both and as a usual Telford Radio club outing we had a debrief on the way home at a nice public house in Welshpool.
Thank you Simon for accompanying me for the day.
Thank you Simon for accompanying me for the day.
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