Today's SOTA Activation's.
GW/MW-009. 23rd February 2019.
Altitude 547 M. Grid SO 176767.
Today was going to be another two summit activation and both unique's for me. The first was Beacon Hill GW/MW-009, I left home at 06:50 a.m. and headed towards Much Wenlock and south down the B4368 towards Ludlow. I had studied the maps the night before and decided on a different car park location to most other activators.
I arrived at grid SO 19170 74834 at 08:08 a.m. and parked next to the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust sign with information about Beacon Hill and a sign saying Crown Estate no Vehicles past this point.
The journey from here to the summit was 1.78 miles and took 30 minutes with a few photo stops. This is a fairly easy route and I will use it again next year. Once I arrived at the summit I set up my 2M Yagi and Yaesu FT-817 and started calling CQ Sota. I logged my first QSO at 09:03 a.m. with G0DUQ (Rob), I had heard G6DFD (Mike) calling me but sadly he could not hear me. I managed to log 9 QSO's in all then had a quick play with flying my drone.
Today was going to be another two summit activation and both unique's for me. The first was Beacon Hill GW/MW-009, I left home at 06:50 a.m. and headed towards Much Wenlock and south down the B4368 towards Ludlow. I had studied the maps the night before and decided on a different car park location to most other activators.
I arrived at grid SO 19170 74834 at 08:08 a.m. and parked next to the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust sign with information about Beacon Hill and a sign saying Crown Estate no Vehicles past this point.
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Today's Second SOTA Activation.
GW/MW-006. 23rd February 2019.
Altitude 586 M. Grid SO 023812.
I headed towards my second activation and not the best journeys I have ever had I must admit. My car's SatNav took me down every minor road that it could. So the journey cost me time and made me late for my second activation time which was 11:00 a.m. I parked the car at grid SO 01024 80944. at 11:11 a.m. sorted out my gear and started my ascent. I arrived at the summit for 11:33 a.m. and set up my 2M gear as the previous summit.
I made my first QSO with 2W0IXM/P (David) a S2S on GW/NW-044, then M0RSF/P (Chris) also another S2S on G/NP-010. This was followed by another 4 QSO's all within 10 minutes. Summit qualified and time to play with the Drone again.
I headed towards my second activation and not the best journeys I have ever had I must admit. My car's SatNav took me down every minor road that it could. So the journey cost me time and made me late for my second activation time which was 11:00 a.m. I parked the car at grid SO 01024 80944. at 11:11 a.m. sorted out my gear and started my ascent. I arrived at the summit for 11:33 a.m. and set up my 2M gear as the previous summit.
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