tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22637038586098401792024-02-20T22:31:25.936-08:00M0PLA/P SOTA ActivationsM0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-2771797503509678832019-09-14T03:26:00.002-07:002019-09-14T03:27:21.337-07:0027th August 2019. GW/NW-003, 004 & 005<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/GW/NW-005">GW/NW-005, Elidir Fawr.</a> 27th August 2019.</div>
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Altitude 924M. <a href="https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=93955629-66b5-4407-9864-aff11618f451&cp=53.13063~-4.07646&lvl=15&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027">Grid SH 611612</a>.<br />
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I had planned to attempt the linear route of the Glyders and Tryfan route that G4OBK (Phil) had done back in July 2017. A good friend of mine Mike (not licensed yet but soon) asked if he could accompany me. I was going to be glad of company on the route, as this was going to be the longest SOTA route I had ever taken part in.<br />
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Mike came to my house in Telford and we headed to North Wales on the Bank Holiday Monday 26th August to stay in a premier inn over night to make the day a little easier. We arrived in the Bangor area at around 4 pm so we decided to activate GW/NW-070 (The Great Orme) to give Mike a brief experience of what SOTA is all about. He enjoyed it, as well as the following day. Hence the reason for him taking his Foundation license.<br />
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Our route as seen from the centre photo above, the total distance walked was 11.7 miles and with the three activation's took us about 10 hours.<br />
We decided on parking at <a href="https://binged.it/2LtMjZ6">53.146556, -4.099415</a> and take the direct route up the tarmac road to the Marchlyn Mawr Reservoir. This is a 40 minute walk slowly going up hill all the way. From here the ascent is up all the way and if you are not sure yes it is not an easy route.<br />
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We managed to arrive and set up my Yaesu FT-270 Handheld and my homebrew Yagi for 2M FM and started calling CQ SOTA at 09.17 am local time. My first and not surprising QSO was with G4DQB/M (Geoff). He had known of my plans and was waiting to chase on all summits. This followed by an additional 8 QSO's including our good friend GW4VPX (Allan) and also EI9GLB (Jim). I told him that I had not heard him on for some time.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/GW/NW-004">GW/NW-004, Y Garn</a>. 27th August 2019.</div>
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Altitude 947M. <a href="https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=93955629-66b5-4407-9864-aff11618f451&cp=53.11569~-4.047079&lvl=15&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027">Grid SH 630595</a>.<br />
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We followed the path from Elidir Fawr North East around past Foel Goch but decided on staying to the lower track. The journey took us about one hour 10 minutes to arrive, we had decided as it was 11.45 am local it was time to set up and have dinner before calling CQ.<br />
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As we still had plenty of time left in the day and this summit cover's a large area I decided on playing on HF as well as 2M FM. I set up the SOTABeams linked dipole ready for 40M then started calling CQ SOTA on 2M FM. Yet again the first call of the activation went to G4DQB/M (Geoff), followed by my first S2S. This was with G4VFL/P (Andy) on G/SP-011 followed very shortly after with GW4HQB/P (Phil) on GW/NW-039. After 7 QSO's I decided on trying my luck on the FT-817 with 40M. I had a quick look at my phone and saw OE5YYY/P (Sylvia) & OE5AUL/P (Peter) were both on OE/KT-389 Sso that was my first HF S2S's. Just as I finished I heard MW6BWA/P (Vicki) & MW0JPL/P (Rod) on GW/NW-015 on my handheld calling CQ so reverted back to 2M FM.<br />
My final S2S on HF was with HB9BIN/P (Juerg) on HB/SG-054. I also managed 9 further QSO's including EA2DT (Manuel) a frequent chaser.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/GW/NW-003">GW/NW-003, Glyder Fawr</a>. 27th August 2019.</div>
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Altitude 1001M. <a href="https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=93955629-66b5-4407-9864-aff11618f451&cp=53.10147~-4.029164&lvl=15&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027">Grid SH 642579</a>.<br />
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On we went towards Glyder Fawr and this is probably the hardest summit I ever been to. The journey took as past the Devils Kitchen at the base of the ascent. Then from here is was loose stones all the way up to the summit. There were a few walking groups on the way up and down, it looked to me as though everyone was having a hard time of the route. There are plenty of zig zag's that need to be completed.<br />
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The clouds had been creeping up on us over the last hour and managed to catch us just as we approached the summit. I had never seen any other landscape like this, it looks more like on the moon. As the weather was turning and we still had one other summit to activate I decided a quick 2M FM activation was the way to go.<br />
I started to call CQ SOTA and was answered by G7OEM (Tony) first followed by a further 8 QSO's including a S2S with GI0AZB/P (Ian) on GI/MM-006.<br />
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We left the summit at 3.00 pm and started towards Tryfan, with in 100 yards of leaving the summit I tripped and twisted my right ankle. This was the end of activation's as safety comes first and we made our way slowly down the route we had planned to meet the taxi but minus the last summit.<br />
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Thank you Mike for a great day and great company, our next activation together will probably be Snowdon in October.<br />
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My first visit to Carnedd y Filiast to add another unique summit to my ever growing list. I left home (Telford) at 7.00 a.m. and headed towards Bala North Wales. Once I arrived at Bala I turned onto the A4212 and started towards the Llyn Celyn Reservoir.<br />
2 1/2 kms before you arrive at the reservoir turn right onto the B4501, Follow this for another 3 kms and turn left at Nant-y-cyrtiau. From here the track is single lane with only a few passing places in parts. This track is about 9 kms long and you have to open 4 or 5 gates on route.<br />
I eventually parked at the foot of <a href="https://binged.it/325IhMb">Foel Frech</a> at 9.15 a.m.<br />
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The weather was great around 25 degrees but the bog walking was not my favorite. I have uploaded my GPX route on <a href="https://www.sotamaps.org/tracks">SOTA Mapping project</a>. I would use my descent route for ascent and descent if I went again.<br />
I managed to have everything set up and had a coffee by 10.55 a.m. The route took me just a little over an hour.<br />
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I started with a S2S with GW8NZN/P (Dave) on GW/NW-004 followed GW4VPX/P (Allan) on GW/MW-020. Then shortly after with G7OEM/P (Tony) on G/SP-014. It was going to be a good activation with S2S's as I followed these up with EI/WN3F (Roy) on EI/IE-022, OE5JKL/P (Karl) on OE/SB-207 and finally HB9CMC/P (Friedrich) on HB/SG-017. Thank you to all of the S2S's and the chasers that I managed to work.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-49705948979086464182019-06-26T04:45:00.000-07:002019-08-25T07:09:38.591-07:00SOTA European Tour 2019 Day 9<div style="text-align: center;">
Our final day of the tour, back into Belgium and the route home.</div>
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We had planed two summits for the last day but added this one as it was on the way.</div>
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/ON/ON-004">ON/ON-004, Bois de Hazeille</a>. (6 point summit 586 M).</div>
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This summit is right by an old disused air field, the small forest around the air strip is out of bounds as instructed by ON7DQ (Luc), so we operated on the track.</div>
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The route from Luxembourg took us through Bastogne and as this year is the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge there were plenty of sights to look at.</div>
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After a short stop in Bastogne we headed to the summit. The turning near the monastery is at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/50%C2%B001'29.7%22N+5%C2%B024'21.6%22E/@50.0282555,5.4097429,2524m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d50.024921!4d5.40601?hl=en">50.024921, 5.406010</a> from here just follow the track until the T junction and turn left and follow this until you are near the second tower. All directions from Luc and they worked really well thank you.</div>
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<span jstcache="134">I set up my dipole spotted myself and started on 20M, only two QSO's so I tried my luck on 40M and managed a further 11 QSO's, including two S2S's with DL/G1INK/P (Steve) on DM/BW-321 & GW4TQE/P (John) on GW/NW-054. </span>my last was the legend himself <span style="text-align: center;">ON7DQ (Luc).</span><br />
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This summit is only 100 M from the French boarder, the weather was fantastic, temperature was around 35 degree's and not too many visitors at the very large unusual tower. We decided to set up on the car park as there was only one other car there.</div>
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We decided to have lunch before I started calling CQ, a few nice fresh rolls and cup of coffee. It was a great pick nick hi hi.<br />
I was ready to start calling CQ now so I decided to try 40M again as it was the best band on my last summit. I managed 8 QSO's including two S2S's again, this time OK2PDT/P (Jan) on OK/JC-010 & G4ZAO/P (David) on G/TW-001 on CW.<br />
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Last summit of the Tour.<br />
<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/ON/ON-021">ON/ON-021, Plantis de Mesnil.</a> (2 point summit 306 M).<br />
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This summit was about a 40 minute drive from our last summit and the time went by very fast. The air con was on full as I think it was 38 degrees outside. We parked up just in the small forest about 10 meters from the road side.<br />
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Just a short 5 minute walk into the woods and there is a small wooden shelter, we set up on the track just outside this. Again I opted for 40M, I just had a quick check on SOTAWatch3 and saw that DL/G1INK/P (Steve) was on DM/BW-256. I gave him a call and managed my first S2S with him from this location. I also had a S2S with DL3SBA/P (Lutz) who I had met on our first summit near Friedrichshafen. This followed with a S2S with SV2RUJ/P (Stavros) on SV/TL-002 and my final QSO of the tour was yet another S2S with DL/G1INK/P (Steve) again who had managed to get to his second summit.<br />
This was the end and Michelle asked if there were any more summits near that we could do Hi Hi I think she is hooked.<br />
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A big thank you to all of my chasers for making this Tour a great successes. I hope to do this again next year.<br />
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Our first visit to Luxembourg for over 29 years, we last visited back in 1990 during my time serving in the British Army.</div>
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/LX/LX-002">LX/LX-002, Grengenwald.</a> (4 point summit 432 M).</div>
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I had offered Michelle a day off from SOTA so we could spend the day in the city of Luxembourg itself. We had left our hotel in Germany at around 9 a.m. and started our journey North West. The SatNav had took us through France and we ended up paying around 30 euros in tolls (be warned).</div>
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We stayed in Luxembourg for just over an hour and then Michelle said shall we go back to the summits? I said are you sure and she said yes I am tired of shopping already hi hi I was very glad.<br />
We parked at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/49%C2%B040'14.9%22N+6%C2%B012'22.7%22E/@49.6708205,6.2041083,711m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d49.670817!4d6.206297">49.670817, 6.206297</a> as suggested by ON7DQ (Luc) on his blog. I missed it the first time as it is very small so I had to turn around drive past it and turn around again as Luc said your cant turn left into this place.<br />
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The walk from the car to the activation zone took us about 15 minutes slow walking due to the temperature. I set up my dipole on 40 M, spotted myself and started calling. I managed 10 QSO's including a S2S with HB9BIN/P (Juerg) on HB/NW-011. We only stayed about 15 minutes as it was very hot.<br />
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Our second summit was very close to the hotel that we had booked into for the night so had decided to activate this one before we went to the hotel.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/LX/LX-001">LX/LX-001 Steekammchen</a>. (4 point summit 456 M).<br />
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We left the village of Erpeldange and headed south up the track towards the summit and saw a local farmer with his tractor and asked if it was ok to drive up to the summit and he said yes it was fine.<br />
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The tracks are fine to drive on and we arrived within 10 minutes.We found a hard standing to park up and walked 100 meters or so up to the AZ. I managed 11 QSO's including 5 on CW all on 40M. We stayed just over 30 minutes then packed up a headed to our hotel which was in Wiltz so only 10 minutes or so driving from the summit.<br />
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Today's activation's were going to be our last in Germany, then we would be heading towards Luxembourg. These summits are close to the German - France boarder.</div>
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-054">DM/BW-054, Hohloh. </a>(10 point summit 984 M).</div>
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We parked at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/48%C2%B042'49.3%22N+8%C2%B025'27.8%22E/@48.7136885,8.4221913,725m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d48.713685!4d8.42438?hl=en">48.713685,8.42438</a>, this is a large drive around triangle shaped car park with lots of room for well over 200 cars. There were 3 cars including ours, so not too many people walking the summit. The weather was very hot so minimum gear, hats and lots of water to take as the walk is about 30 minutes with a slight to moderately steep incline.</div>
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During our little tour we saw a lot of the sign above. Umleitung German for diversion and they mean it, the German's block the road and you can take 20 - 30 minutes diversions which we had to on a few occasions.<br />
This summit was a nice walk even in the hot sun, the main problem I had was no mobile phone signal on either my O2 or Michelle's EE network. I managed to get a S2S with S50AAA/P the Slovenia SOTA Club. I managed to save the day when I called break on the WAB Worked All Britain net on 40M. M0NMI (David) heard me calling and I managed two more QSO's. (Thank you WAB).<br />
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Our second summit of the day was going to be a highlight for me as I was going to be the 23rd only activation.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-103">DM/BW-103, Merkur.</a> (6 point summit 668 M).<br />
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The only way to this summit as far as I could see was via the cable railway, this was a carriage type system that held up to 16 passenger's in each car there was one at the top of the hill and one at the bottom.<br />
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We had a little walk around to admire the views then I set up my dipole, I started on 40m and my first QSO was with G4OBK (Phil) followed by a further 10 QSO's. I have now added up all of the chasers that followed me during the tour and the top place was joint with G4OBK (Phil) and G4WSB (Bill) both on 12 summits chased. Thank you guys, followed closely by EA2DT (Manuel) with 11 summits chased.<br />
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Time for our final German summit.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-019">DM/BW-019, Hornisgrinde.</a> (10 point summit 1163 M).<br />
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This was another drive on summit, as long as the barrier at the bottom is open so I was told when I asked at the shop at the bottom.<br />
We parked up in the car park and walked around 100 M to the bench that I chose as the activation point. I quickly set up the dipole and managed 9 QSO's between 40M & 20M including a S2S with EA2BD/P (Ignacio) on EA2/NV-138.<br />
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After just a little over 25 minutes of operating we decided to call it a day as it was almost 18:30 p.m. local time and we still had to drive to our hotel for our last night in Germany and we had both decided on a German Gyros for food as we had not had one on this trip at all.<br />
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Today was Monday June 24th and time to leave the nice hotel we had stayed in for the last 4 nights and start our slow journey back towards Calais. We still had four days of SOTA left to activate so not the end by far.<br />
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Our first summit of the day was:<br />
<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-853">DM/BW-853 Blankenhalde.</a> (10 point summit 871 M).<br />
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The journey to this summit from our last hotel was amazing, the country side around this area is breath taking. We stopped many times to admire the scenery and take photo's of the area. As we arrived at the summit it was occupied by DL/HB9DBM/P (Mark) and his XYL. We had a quick chat and he said we had just missed ON7DQ (Luc) who had finished his activation 20 minutes earlier.<br />
We moved onto the other side of the road and a little closer to the trig point and set up.<br />
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As I was getting my gear from the back of the car I heard Michelle scream? "what is wrong" I shouted as I ran to her. She had been shocked by a fully grown female deer that had jumped out of the woods only a few feet away from her, then ran away probably from Michelle's scream hi hi<br />
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I only managed 4 QSO's on this summit but it was qualified and that's what counts. As we had two more summits and a lot of driving today we packed up and set off to our next summit.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-195">DM/BW-195 Zundelberg.</a> (10 point summit 954 M).</div>
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Our next summit was a 20 minute walk from the car park location of <a href="https://opentopomap.org/#marker=16/48.05228/8.73332">48 052153, 8 733299</a> Michelle said its too warm and she stayed in the car. I should have driven further up towards the summit as the roads/tracks are not too bad. It was very hot as the temperatures were close to 35 Deg's. I took plenty of water with me and I need it.</div>
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I had to look at my map quite a few times to make sure I was on the correct track. I managed to get as close as I could to the summit and then set up my linked dipole and decided on 40M. My second QSO was a S2S with S57MS/P (Marko) on S5/KS-025. I had 9 QSO's in all and then decided to pack up and make my way back to Michelle as by the time I got back had been alone for just over an hour. She was happy just sitting on a deck chair knitting.<br />
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On to our last summit of the day:<br />
<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-156">DM/BW-156 Lindenberg.</a> (10 point summit 949 M).<br />
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This is another drive on summit just north of the village of Ippingen, we drove up the forestry tracks and did take a wrong turning as Michelle's map reading needs to improve.<br />
We parked in the woods and decided to operate just on the edge of the fields.<br />
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Michelle had finished her second knitted jacket she had been working on so she was very happy. I set up the linked dipole and had seen there was a S2S to have with LB4FH/P (Bob) on LA/MR-155 so I went straight to 14.285 Mhz and there he was, a S2S logged so I decided to stay on 20M for a short while and managed 3 more QSO's. Then I tried my luck on 40 M and managed another 16 QSO's including two more S2S's with DL/HB9DBM/P (Mark) on DM/BW-361 whom we had met earlier on in the day and F5LKW/P (Roger) on F/CR-142.<br />
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Day Five of my SOTA European Tour 2019</div>
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Day 5 was spent at the Friedrichshafen Rally, a good day and purchased a Sotabeams WolfWave I will cover this on another Blog.</div>
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Day 6 is 4 summits starting with:</div>
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-228">DM/BW-228 Hummelsberg,</a> (10 point summit 1002 M).<br />
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There is a car park here next to the airfield. The summit was just under 1 km walk, Michelle decided she was not up for walking so stayed in the car. Just before we started our drive up to the summit we saw a house with a very nice antenna/mast set up. I looked at Michelle and she said NO hi hi.<br />
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It had been raining during the night and the grass was still very wet as I found out just before I managed to get to the summit. I wish I had put my Gor tex boots on but I didn't so ended up with wet feet.<br />
I set up the linked dipole and saw that DL/ON7DQ/P (Luc) had spotted himself on DM/BW-086 so I went straight to his frequency on 40M and had a S2S. I then turned my antenna into 20M's spotted myself and started calling CQ SOTA. My first QSO was with G7LMF (Graham) from TDARS my local club then followed by 11 further QSO's all on 20M.<br />
This is a nice summit with great views of the surrounding country side.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-041">DM/BW-041 Wandbühl.</a> (10 point summit 1007 M).<br />
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This is another summit with a small walk of about 1 km, we left the car at 48.167990 8.804175 near a barn type building with a picnic bench outside. We started the small walk through the forest tracks for about 700 meters. As we approached the summit we saw there was a dipole already erected and three operators also operating the summit for SOTA. These were PA0INA (Frans), PA3EIV (Andre) and PA5KM (Coen). We all had a nice chat for about 15 minutes whilst they finished their activation then I set up my dipole on 20M, spotted myself and started calling CQ SOTA.<br />
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My first QSO was with MW0JZH/P (John) another <a href="http://www.tdars.org.uk/">TDARS</a> member, he was on holiday in Wales. Followed by a further 11 QSO's, another nice summit to activate.<br />
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Our next summit was a very picturesque view even from a distance.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-846">DM/BW-846 Burg Hohenzollern</a>. (10 point summit 850 M).<br />
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This summit can be seen from many miles away, as there is a beautiful castle on top. We parked up in the car park I think it was €5. Michelle said I am not walking up and back again. I managed to persuade here to shuttle bus up and walk back hi hi. The shuttle was €2 for one way. We liked what we saw of the castle so decided to pay the entrance fee of €12 and had a good look around.<br />
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The dipole was set up and I started on 40M but only managed two QSO's so I tried my luck on 20M and managed 6 further QSO's. Thank you for the chasers that managed to get through. The castle was closing as we started and lucky it was not a busy day. We had about 15 people pass us on their way down. We packed away and started our descent back to the car park which took us about 10 minutes.<br />
Time to head for our final summit of the day.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-058">DM/BW-058 Burg.</a> (10 point summit 975 M).<br />
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This was another drive up into the forest summit. Lucky it was a tarmac road, as we approached the top there was the locked gates and camera's as pointed out by G4OBK (Phil) on his Blog. We parked about 200 meters from the gates, they were out of sight so I headed into the woods and Michelle stayed in the car.<br />
As it was now getting late in the day the flying insects were becoming a pain so I had to reapply my insect repellent. Again no signal on my phone O2 so I used Michelle's on EE, this was the case on about 60% of the summits that we completed over the tour.<br />
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The dipole was set to 40M and I managed to get 6 QSO's, This was the worst summit to pack away my dipole, it took me three times longer than usual as the wires got tangled up on every branch that it came in contact with.<br />
I was also getting bitten to death even with the spray so I made a hasty retreat. It was getting late in the day so I told Michelle I would treat her to some food on the way back to our hotel. It was going to be too late for food at the hotel so as the big spender that I am .<br />
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This is Day three & four of my SOTA European Tour 2019</div>
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We arrived at the hotel that we were staying at for the next 4 nights. The guest house Pension Deifel, this is a family run guest house and I will be staying there again next year. A really nice and clean place with very friendly staff. We also met DL5NBU (Erwin) and his wife staying at the same hotel for the rally.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-348">DM/BW-348 Gehrenberg.</a> (8 point summit 754 M).<br />
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Our first summit of the day (Friday) was Gehrenberg which was about 25 minute drive from our hotel. We drove down the forest tracks and parked near enough at the summit. Our plan was every time I set up my gear Michelle would take a little walk around investigating the area and she became my photographer for the summit.<br />
I was setting my gear up and I heard a voice, it was DL3SBA (Lutz) who was also there to activate the summit. He set his gear up about 100 meters away.<br />
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I had set up my linked dipole in about 10 minutes as the wires got caught a few times on branch's on the floor. In the clear I can set it up in about 5 minutes. I spotted myself and started calling CQ SOTA on 20M and managed 5 QSO's the first with G8AQA (Paul) from my local club <a href="http://www.tdars.org.uk/">TDARS.</a><br />
Then I tried my luck on 40M and managed a further 12 QSO's. A very good start to the day, after just under 30 minutes all completed and I packed away then went looking for Lutz. I found him and we had a quick chat then Michelle and myself headed back to the car to set off for our next summit.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/BW-854">DM/BW-854 Höchsten.</a> (8 point summit 838 M).<br />
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This summit was a 20 minute drive from the previous summit and was literally on the side of the road. A very busy place with lots of visitors including DL3SBA (Lutz), DL6FBK (Paul) and HB9EIV (Michael). I set up my gear in a field by the side of the road and started calling on 20M CQ SOTA. My first QSO was with G3UKV (Martyn) from <a href="https://www.tdars.org.uk/">TDARS</a> followed by a further 9 on SSB and then 4 on CW, including two of my friends G0OOQ (Sean) and GW4VPX (Allan). I also managed a S2S with LB4FH/P (Bob) on LA/OL-186.<br />
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We had a good day looking around the rally and talking to other SOTA operators at the QSL wall, we had met 30 + people at the SOTA evening meal on the Friday night.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-22411130863934310652019-06-20T10:54:00.000-07:002019-08-25T07:07:02.294-07:00SOTA European Tour 2019 Day 2<div style="text-align: center;">
This is Day two of my SOTA European Tour 2019</div>
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/ON/ON-009">ON/ON-009 Iverst.</a> (8 point summit 693 M).<br />
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Day two started off with a nice continental breakfast in the hotel we stayed at the night before. Then a drive through the Ardennes Forest for about 50 minutes to our first summit of the day. Iverst is a drive on summit on the Belgium-German border, I decided on staying on the Belgium side and parked in the small lay by pointed out by ON7DQ (Luc), I actually met Luc the next day at the SOTA get together on the Friday night for Friedrichshafen Rally.<br />
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Again I set up my linked dipole but this time as it was early I gave a call out on 40M. I managed two S2S's S55VN/P (Vili) on S5/CP-033 & DL3RBF/P (Franz) on DM/BW--078 with a further 11 QSO's. Among these were G4OBK (Phil), G0RQL (Don) and EA2DT (Manuel), I think these three managed to hold QSO's with me on most of the summits during the tour. Thank you guys for the support and all of the other chasers as well.<br />
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I kept the QSO's short, as I wanted to complete another summit not too far away then drive the 5 hours down the our hotel for the rally.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/DM/RP-003">DM/RP-003 Schwarzer Mann</a>. (6 point summit 697 M).<br />
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Our second summit of the day was about 20 minutes drive from ON/ON-009. This was yet another drive on summit this time into a car park with picnic benches.<br />
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This time I decided to try 20M and managed 13 QSO's with a few more chasers to add to the list including GW4VPX (Allan) and G4WSB (Bill), the usual list was getting bigger. I managed to finish within 13 minutes so we packed up the gear and started the long journey South East towards Friedrichshafen. After about 30 minutes or driving we decided to pull into a layby and have a bite to eat. I also decided to remove my mag mount antenna so I could increase the speed slightly and this saved us at least two hours of driving I would say.<br />
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Yes last of the big spenders I know but she was happy with continental dinner as well Hi Hi.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-16703094515668298522019-06-19T12:07:00.000-07:002019-08-25T07:06:24.539-07:00SOTA European Tour 2019 Day 1<div style="text-align: center;">
This is Day one of my SOTA European Tour 2019<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-144" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">FL/NO-144 Mont des Cats.</a> (1 point summit 164 M)<br />
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This is an easy drive on summit not too far away from the Belgium border. I had planned to make this a quick 2M activation Hi Hi that was not going to happen as 2M's was dead as a DoDo. So I quickly erected my SotaBeams linked dipole. I spotted myself and gave a call out on 20M which followed with 2 S2S's, IN3ADE/P (Markus) on I/AA-158 & DL1CR/P (Chris) on DM/NS-122 and another 16 QSO's.<br />
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As can be seen from one of the photos above there is a very large mast about 100 meters away but I didn't summer any break through. Michelle my XYL accompanied me on the tour and she was my official photographer for the tour lol. As we planned for 4 summits today we only stayed for about 30 minutes then packed up and started out journey towards our next summit in Belgium.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/ON/ON-010">ON/ON-010 Baraque Fraiture</a>. (8 point summit, 651 M )<br />
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This was a good 3 1/2 hour drive with having a stop for a lunch break. Yet again another drive on summit, the trig point is within the local wooded area right by some type of communications mast. This area is enclosed within a fence line and I had read that most operators use the local car park just where I had set up.<br />
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The bands seamed a little quite on this summit I only managed to log 4 QSO's, Ireland, two Italy and one England. The car park was large enough to hold maybe 100 cars so plenty room and we were the only vehicle there so we had no disturbances.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/ON/ON-011">ON/ON-011 Sur Clair Fa.</a> (8 point summit, 601 M )<br />
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On to summit number three of the day, this took about 45 minutes driving to get close to the area. The sky was starting to very dark and there was a thunder storm coming. The light levels dropped a little and we had to drive up through a forest. Michelle was not a happy camper on this one. The tracks were rutted and water logged, if I did not have a 4x4 this summit might have been missed.<br />
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Yet again a quite Band for QSO's with lots of lightning spike's heard, so I did not want to stay long. Michelle was not happy at all, we are never going to get out of here she was saying Hi Hi. I said don't worry I am finished now after only yet again another 4 QSO's. This time Sweden, England, Wales and Croatia.<br />
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The car after we managed to get out, I was going to get it washed whilst we were away but it never happened. I have been back two weeks and still not had time Hi Hi.<br />
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<a href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/ON/ON-001">ON/ON-001 Signal de Botrange.</a> ( 8 point summit, 695 M)<br />
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The final summit of day one. I had prearranged this summit to coincide with <a href="http://www.tdars.org.uk/">TDARS</a> Wednesday night meeting. So as long as the band's were open I had people waiting for me. This again was another drive on summit. A large car park with a large mast, there was only two cars there so I parked in the far corner and set up my gear. This was my SOTABeams Linked dipole and my Yaesu FT817.<br />
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I gave a call out on 20M and was answered straight away by M0JZH/P (John) we passed reports and a few pleasantry's then followed another 8 QSO's with various club members including G0OOQ (Sean) who was at his home QTH listening in. All over in about 20 minutes just in time for the rain to start. I packed up quickly and we made our way to our first hotel for the night. This was a hostel in Eupen about 15 minutes drive away. It wasn't too bad except probably the most uncomfortable bed I have ever slept in.<br />
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The end of day one, four summits with 456 kms and 4 hours 35 minutes of driving. Easy summits but a lot of work to complete.Thank you to all of my chasers on day one.</div>
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Altitude 832M. Grid <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0710032300|SJ_s_071323|1&t=SJ%20071323&v=r">SJ 071323</a></span></div>
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My third visit to this summit since I started SOTA, the main difference was this time I was alone. I left home at 06.04 a.m. and headed towards Shrewsbury from my home QTH of Telford. I arrived at my car park Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0801329056|SJ_s_08013_s_29056|1&t=SJ%2008013%2029056&v=r">SJ 08013 29056</a> the same spot I parked in December 2018, I think this is a better spot.<br />
I had managed to put my boots on and have all my gear ready to start my ascent at 07.13 a.m. There was a little snow on most of the hills around and mine was no different. I had a fairly easy ascent with a little break near the lake at grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0717931543|Point_s_D|1&t=Point%20D&v=r">SJ 07179 31543</a>. Time for a coffee, a cheese and ham roll and a few photos. Then carried on up the left hand side of the hill towards the cairn at grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0717932445|Point_s_E|1&t=Point%20E&v=r">SJ 07179 32445</a>. I arrived at 08.52 a.m. A full ascent in about 1 hour 40 minutes with a 5 minute break so I was very happy with that time.<br />
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I didn't see anyone on the ascent until I was nearly at the summit and met a walker on his way down, we had a little chat and found out he had camped up there the night before and he said he was a little shocked at waking up to the snow. during my activation I had four groups of walkers visit the cairn and on the descent I passed about 40 people at various altitudes.<br />
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This was my best activation for the amount of QSO's I had ever had on a summit. I managed to log 45 including 6 S2S's, My first contact was M1EYP/P (Tom) on G/SP-015, followed an hour later with G6PJZ/P (Andy) on G/LD-026, M1HAX/P (Richard) G/SP-001, HB9DBM/P (Mark) on HB/AG-012, G4TJC/P (Simon) on GW/NW-010 and finally GD0VIK/P (Dan) on GD/GD-005. Thank you to all of the chasers and especially to the other activators on their summits.<br />
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I had been on the summit for a little over three hours now and was starting to get a little cold due to sitting around for so long, so I decided to pull the plug pack up and start my descent. By now most of the snow had melted, the sun was warm and the views were fantastic, I could see the surrounding hills in all directions as the visibility was good.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-62743810510181303012019-04-20T10:11:00.002-07:002019-04-20T10:11:43.292-07:0019th April 2019. SOTA Activation's of GW/NW-040, 039 & 035.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-040">GW/NW-040</a>. 19th April 2019.</div>
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This is my third visit to Tal y Fan, this is a summit near Conwy North Wales. I had planned on activating three summits today and all are four point activation's. I left home at 05.45 a.m. and headed towards Wales on the A5. I had planned on going past Wrexham and going to Conwy on the A55, I know this is about 20 miles further to travel but the road is a lot faster.<br />
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The weather was fantastic and this was the first summit that I have done in a long time without having to wear a jacket to walk up. This was going to be a fast activation as I had plenty of driving ahead of me. I managed to hold 6 QSO's including M0TBQ (Don) from my own club <a href="https://www.tdars.org.uk/">TDARS</a>.<br />
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My second SOTA Activation.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-035">GW/NW-035</a>. 19th April 2019.</div>
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Altitude 661 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SH7240044600|SH_s_724446|1&t=SH%20724446&v=r">SH 724446</a>.<br />
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This is a steady climb, a little steep to start with but easier about half way up to the summit. You have to watch your footing as you approach the summit as there are a lot of rocks as seen on the photo above.<br />
I set up my gear and turned on my hand held to hear MW1HAX/P (Richard) on GW/NW-001 so a quick shout of summit to summit and my first QSO was complete with a nice contact to Snowdon. This was followed by a further 6 QSO's including another S2S with M0NOM/P (Mark) on G/LD-017. I had finished all within 21 minutes and was packing up ready to start my descent and head to my last summit of the day.<br />
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My third and final SOTA Activation.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-039">GW/NW-039</a>. 19th April 2019.</div>
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Altitude 611 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SH9530042200|SH_s_953422|1&t=SH%20953422&v=r">SH 953422</a>.</div>
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I arrived at Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SH9622843434|Point_s_G|1&t=Point%20G&v=r">SH 96228 43434</a> where I have parked my car on the last three activation's of this summit, I started my ascent at 12.54 p.m. and arrived at the summit at 13.24 p.m. I had already decided this was going to be my play time for radio's so I set up my Sotabeams linked dipole. This was for 20/30/40 M but after my activation with Allan GW4VPX I had decided to add 60M as well. This was a quick add on that I managed to carry out last weekend. So after 7 QSO's on 2M including a S2S with G1TLQ/P (Steve) on G/LD-005, I decided to start my HF activation of 5.403.5 Mhz. My first QSO was with G7LMF (Graham) followed by a further 7 QSO's. I was happy my add on was working well. I then had a quick play on 20M and managed a further 3 QSO's.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-64909360229204687292019-04-20T08:35:00.001-07:002019-04-20T10:11:37.915-07:0030th March 2019. SOTA Activation G/SP-002.<div style="text-align: center;">
Today's SOTA Activation.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/G/SP-002">G/SP-002</a>. 30th March 2019.</div>
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Altitude 582 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SE0760004500|SE_s_076045|1&t=SE%20076045&v=r">SE 076045</a>.<br />
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My first activation of Black Hill in the Peak District, this was a weekend away for Michelle (my XYL) and myself. We stayed in Halifax to have a break away and I persuaded Michelle to let me activate a summit.<br />
We left the hotel after breakfast at 9 a.m and first of all headed into Halifax to pick up a few essentials, then headed south to Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SE0767507264|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SE 0767507264</a> this was our appointed car park for the day. The walk up to the summit was 1.44 miles and took us 54 minutes as Michelle is not an experienced walker so we took it easy.<br />
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The activation was not the best for quantity of QSO's but I did manage two S2S's. G3TQQ/P (Dave) and G4OOE/P (Nick) were both on G/NP-006 and MW3TMX/P ( Jordan) was on GW/NW-013. The weather was fantastic and it made for a good day out. There were plenty of walkers and nearly everyone stopped to ask the usual questions like what are you doing and how far have you managed to talk to.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-74557294801744280942019-03-10T05:03:00.000-07:002019-03-10T05:03:24.416-07:009th March 2019. SOTA Activation GW/MW-007 & 008.<div style="text-align: center;">
Today's SOTA Activation's.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-007">GW/MW-007</a>. 9th March 2019.</div>
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Altitude 560 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7750089800|SN_s_775898|1&t=SN%20775898&v=r">SN 775898</a>.<br />
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This was going to be my first shared activation. I was joined by GW4VPX (Allan), one of the few Mountain Goats in the SOTA community. I have met Allan two or three times now at the<br />
<a href="http://www.telfordhamfest.org.uk/">TDARS Hamfest</a>.<br />
and have spoken with him on the air as a chaser and even many summit to summit contacts.<br />
I left my home QTH (Telford) at 05:50 a.m. and headed towards Aberystwth. This was a 2 hours and 15 minutes journey to eventually park at Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7363988680|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SN 7363 8868</a> this was our agreed meeting point.<br />
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We had decided to make this a linear route and left my car at this location. We then used Allan's car to make our way to Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7749587960|Point_s_D|1&t=Point%20D&v=r">SN 7749 8796</a>. We eventually started our 5 mile walk at 08:38 a.m. and headed towards I think the hardest 2 point SOTA summit I ever completed. We managed to arrive at the summit of Banc Llechwedd-mawr at 09:48 a.m. This was a walk of about 1.85 miles or 2.98 Km's.<br />
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We arrived to I think probably the strongest wind I have ever had during a summit activation. We tried 2M FM with just one radio set up and after calling CQ SOTA for about 15 minutes we had only managed to hold one QSO with GW0PLP (Don). Allan said time to try HF, I looked at him a little strange and then looked at how strong the wind was and he said NO PROBLEMS lol we will only put the mast up a few meters. As seen from the picture above the linked dipole was only about 2.5 meters from the centre feed point to the ground and the ends were literally a foot off the ground. We went onto 60M a band that I dont have an antenna for but Allan uses this a lot. We had a QSO with CT2IWW (Paulo) and that was all we managed.<br />
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Allan said 60M as never been so poor so we added the coils to his dipole and went to 80M, with a press of the tune button on his KX2 we had 1-1 swr and started calling CQ. We managed 6 QSO's including G3UKV (Martyn) and G7LMF (Graham) from my own club TDARS. I was amazed and learnt a good lesson thank you Allan.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-008">GW/MW-008</a>. 9th March 2019.</div>
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Altitude 550 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7590087800|SN_s_759878|1&t=SN%20759878&v=r">SN 759878</a>.<br />
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This was another one hour and 30 minutes of walking but we did have a 10 minute break for a bite and drink near the second bridge at Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7663988809|Point_s_H|1&t=Point%20H&v=r">SN 766888</a>. From this bridge it was a about 55 minutes to reach the summit.<br />
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The wind was even stronger at this summit than it was on GW/MW-007 and a mast and a dipole at even 2.5M was going to get destroyed so we persevered with my 2M Yagi and eventually managed to log five QSO's. Allan managed to hold a S2S to the Lake District but conditions didn't hold up so not for me but never mind.<br />
After only 30 minutes on the summit we had a quick coffee and started our decent before we got blown off the summit. This time we were heading west towards the location I have left my car some five hours earlier. The way down was boggy in some areas but not too bad. It looks like you can take a short cut straight across and join the road but don't it is well too boggy, just head towards the small group of trees at Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7529688675|Point_s_I|1&t=Point%20I&v=r">SN 7529 8867</a> and go counter clockwise around them through the old farm yard. Then rejoin the road and follow it all the way to the park car location.<br />
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I found a new App on the SOTA Reflector this week so I tried it out as seen above (Relive).<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-63840476638940279662019-03-02T13:54:00.001-08:002019-03-02T13:54:57.563-08:002nd March 2019. SOTA Activation GW/MW-004.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-004">GW/MW-004</a>. 23rd February 2019.</div>
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Altitude 611 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7980077100|SN_s_798771|1&t=SN%20798771&v=r">SN 798771.</a><br />
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Today was a revisit to Pen y Garn GW/MW-004 for the third visit. As usual I left home around 06:30 a.m. and started my 2 hour journey in to Wales. I parked at grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN8009477689|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SN 80094 77689</a> close to the wind turbines and started a steady 25 minute walk up as I was accompanied by my XYL Michelle.<br />
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The 2M band was not very active and I only managed 4 QSO's all into Wales. I then tried my hand on HF, not realising that it was wall to wall contest stations. I did managed 3 QSO's OM1AX (Vlado), SV2HSY (Makis) and OH3GZ (Jack).<br />
Thank you to all of the chasers for helping me complete the activation.<br />
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The weather was not great and the wind was making it a very cold activation, especially for Michelle sitting in the cairn just watching. I suggested going for a run but she just looked at me funny Hi Hi.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-70867925313839768892019-02-23T13:07:00.005-08:002019-02-23T13:07:58.692-08:0023rd February 2019. SOTA Activation GW/MW-009 & 006.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-009">GW/MW-009.</a> 23rd February 2019.</div>
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Altitude 547 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO1760076700|SO_s_176767|1&t=SO%20176767&v=r">SO 176767</a>.<br />
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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.<br />
I arrived at grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO1917074834|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SO 19170 74834</a> 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Today's Second SOTA Activation.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-006">GW/MW-006.</a> 23rd February 2019.</div>
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Altitude 586 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO0230081200|SO_s_023812|1&t=SO%20023812&v=r">SO 023812</a>.<br />
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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 <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO0102480944|Point_s_E|1&t=Point%20E&v=r">SO 01024 80944.</a> 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-70639035777469674652019-02-16T14:02:00.002-08:002019-02-16T14:02:39.818-08:0016th February 2019. SOTA Activation GW/NW-046.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-046">GW/NW-046.</a> 16th February 2019.</div>
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Altitude 540 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0550021100|SJ_s_055211|1&t=SJ%20055211&v=r">SJ 055211</a>.<br />
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Today was going to be a new summit for me what they call a Unique Summit. I was off into North Wales half way between Welshpool and Bala. I left home at 06:50 a.m. (a late start for me this week). I had only planned on activating one summit and testing out my new EFHW antenna. The car park location for today was about another 600 meters further up the tract than others have parked. Be warned if you don't have a 4x4 I would not go that far. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0623320980|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SJ 06233 20980</a>.<br />
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I forgot to track my ascent but managed to tract the descent. 27 minutes to ascend and 22 minutes to descend, lots of loose tress and branch's so be very careful if you are planning a visit soon.<br />
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I spent about 30 minutes erecting my two masts, a 10M SOTA pole with my new<br />
EFHW (End Fed Half Wave) 30/20M linked. Also my 6M mast with SOTA Beams 40/30/20M linked dipole. I wanted to compare and I would say the EFHW was up by 3 S points.<br />
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The activation went well with 14 QSO's including 4 S2S's. I had taken my drone up with me to the summit, below is an edited video of the drone flight.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-5019726021056311912019-02-09T11:11:00.000-08:002019-02-09T11:11:23.109-08:009th February 2019. SOTA Activation GW/MW-002 & 010.<div style="text-align: center;">
First Summit of the day.</div>
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Another 6 a.m. start heading south for a change. Today I was activating two of the Mid Wales summits but these are both to the south of Telford. I arrived at my first car park grid<a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO1571565556|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r"> SO 15715 65556</a><br />
at 07.22 a.m. Sorted out my gear and started the 2.79 mile walk, I have added my GPS tracked route below. It was already very windy and that was at the car park altitude 440 meters.<br />
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I was a little surprised when I saw there was still snow on my ascent. I managed to arrive at the trig point for 08.28 a.m. Set up my gear ready for 2M FM and made my first QSO at 08.38 a.m. with G7LMF (Graham) followed directly by G6DFD (Mike) and G0OOQ (Sean). G0HCT (Brian) was also there but we didn't manage to make a good contact. After these quick few QSO's the band was dead and it took another 33 minutes to get my fourth QSO and finally qualify the summit with G3UKV (Martyn).<br />
There was another <a href="http://donsun.me.uk/tdars/">TDARS</a> member trying to contact me but it was not happening on FM so his good idea was to try SSB. Which we did and gave each other 5/5 & 5/8 G3JKX (Mike), this was followed by G3UKV also giving and receiving a better report than we did on FM.<br />
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Second Summit of the day.</div>
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I arrived at my car parking grid of <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO1511957200|Point_s_E|1&t=Point%20E&v=r">SO 15119 57200</a>. at 10.49 a.m. about 30 minutes behind schedule because of the problems I had qualifying Great Rhos. I had read that the farmer likes to be asked to have your car parked there so I started knocking on the doors. After 5 minutes I decided that there was no one around, so I left a polite message in my windscreen with my name and phone number if required.<br />
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This ascent reminded me of the Wrekin a relatively short walk but up hill all the way. I managed to reach the trig point at 11.19 a.m. and yet again it was very windy, this was going to be hard going and I decided not to even try to erect my mast for HF.<br />
I was just about to start calling CQ Sota and my phone rang, it was G3UKV (Martyn), we are waiting on 20M for you Paul he said. I explained about the bad wind conditions and Martyn and Mike (G3JKX) both came on 2M SSB and we had good 5/7s and 5/8s. We had a quick chat and then I went back to calling CQ SOTA. To my disappointment no one came back, this was going to be a hard shell to crack. It was another 15 minutes of calling before I managed to log G8TPM (Nigel) followed by G8UKV (Maz). Summit qualified in the end I was happy even though a little disappointed at not being able to activate HF.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-43183529817019556432019-02-03T03:09:00.000-08:002019-02-03T03:09:16.692-08:002nd February 2019. SOTA Activation GW/NW-044 & 051<div style="text-align: center;">
First Summit of the day.</div>
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Altitude 555 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ1610062600|SJ_s_161626|1&t=SJ%20161626&v=r">SJ 161626.</a><br />
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Yes Saturday again and time to go back up the summits, today was going to be Clwydian Range. I left home (Telford) at 06:15 a.m. and headed towards Shrewsbury and on to Wales down the A5. The summits today are very close together and near Mold in North Wales. The temperature was 0 degrees as I left home but soon started to drop. -1 as I got to Shrewsbury and -2 as I approached the Oswestry area.<br />
No snow on the roads until I was about 2 miles away from my car park grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ1614660586|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SJ 16146 60586</a>.<br />
I arrived at 07:45 a.m. made a quick video and started my ascent.<br />
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I managed to arrive at the summit for 08:30 a.m. I had passed a few walkers on the way up and it was very cold already with a wind chill of about -5 degrees. I set up my 2M Yagi against the fence in the SE corner of the trig point. I started calling CQ Sota and made my first QSO at 08.44 a.m. I managed to log 16 QSO's in about 26 minutes including 4 <a href="http://donsun.me.uk/tdars/">TDARS</a> (Telford and District Amateur Radio Society) members from my local club.<br />
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Second Summit of the day.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-051">GW/NW-051</a> 2nd February 2019.</div>
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Altitude 511 M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ1640060000|SJ_s_164600|1&t=SJ%20164600&v=r">SJ 164600.</a><br />
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I made it back to the car and had a quick cup of coffee to warm up a little before I started my ascent up Foel Fenlli. I started my ascent at 09.52 a.m. and the going was very slippy and the wind was blowing a lot harder on this summit which was not making the way any easier.<br />
I managed to make the summit at 10:13 a.m. took a quick selfie and set up my 2M Yagi again, this time no fence so in went my tent pole as a mast support.<br />
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I logged my first QSO at 10:26 a.m. and managed to log 15 QSO's in all, 35 minutes later I had finished and was extremely cold I had already decided not to activate HF, sorry to any chasers that were waiting. My hands were so cold I don't think I could have used the Morse key.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-84300045026651238082019-01-27T02:06:00.000-08:002019-01-27T02:06:38.341-08:0026th January 2019. SOTA Activation of GW/NW-042.<div style="text-align: center;">
First Summit of the day.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-042">GW/NW-042.</a> 26th January 2019.</div>
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Altitude 577M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ1760046500|SJ_s_176465|1&t=SJ%20176465&v=r">SJ 176465.</a><br />
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Today I was going to activate the two summits of the Horseshoe pass. I chose the furthest one away from the car park first Moel y Gamelin. I had left home in Telford at 06.15 a.m. as I needed to get some fuel (I forgot on Friday night). I managed to get to the car park opposite the Ponderosa Cafe grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ1923948068|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SJ 19239 48068</a> for 07.29 a.m. sorted my gear out and started walking.<br />
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It looked as though sometime last year they had a heather burn as most of the heather has now gone. The ascent took me over the top of Moel y Faen and eventually arrived at my activation summit for this morning at 08.11 a.m. time for a quick selfie and then move just off the summit and out of the wind. I set up my Yaesu FT-270 Hand held and my Homebrew 2M yagi. I had a quick scan over the band and heard G6DFD (Mike) talking to G0HCT (Brian) two of <a href="http://donsun.me.uk/tdars/">TDARS</a> members from my own club. I heard Mike say lets go to S20 to listen out for Paul on his SOTA activation. So I gave a quick break break and had my first QSO at 08.24 a.m.<br />
This followed quickly with a further three TDARS members and summit qualified. I wanted a few more as I was slightly ahead of my schedule, I gave a quick CQ SOTA and managed to bag a further five QSO's including M1EYP/M (Tom) on his way to activate I think he said the Cloud.<br />
Activation complete so I packed up my gear and started towards my next summit at 08.47 a.m.<br />
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Second Summit of the day.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-043">GW/NW-043.</a> 26th January 2019.</div>
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Altitude 565M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ2080048800|SJ_s_208488|1&t=SJ%20208488&v=r">SJ 208488.</a><br />
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After a good 57 minute walk I arrived, took a quick selfie and started to set up my gear. This time I wanted to use HF as well. I set up my 6M telescopic mast and my <a href="https://www.sotabeams.co.uk/band-hopper-iii-three-band-linked-dipole/">40/30/20m SOTA Beams</a> dipole. Time to start a CQ call on 30M, I also spotted myself on SOTA Watch. My CW is still not too fast so again I apologise to the chasers. I managed to get my first contact at 10.13 a.m. with MW0IDX (Roger) only 22 miles away but it was a nice QSO thank you Roger. Then followed OK1ZC Czech Republic, OH9XX Finland,DJ2MX Germany, OH3GZ Finland, G0OOQ Telford and finally OK2PDT Czech Republic. I managed to qualify the summit in CW which makes my day thank you all.<br />
I then moved onto 2M with my Yagi and bagged another 12 QSO's including MW0IDX (Roger) and G0OOQ (Sean) whom I had both managed to QSO in CW as well.<br />
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The end of another great activation at 11.25 a.m. and another 10 points towards my goal of Mountain Goat. I will add another photo below of how close the communication mast was too me but I didn't receive any interference. This photo also shows my Homebrew 2M Yagi, this cost me less than £10 to build and works really well.<br />
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Parts used to build this are as follows:<br />
25 mm white plastic conduit<br />
20 mm white plastic conduit<br />
20 mm white plastic conduit T piece<br />
20 mm to 25 mm white plastic enlarger (join the 20 mm to the 25 mm)<br />
6 mm solid aluminium bar (3 M Length)<br />
RG58 Coax<br />
2 x crocodile clips (join the coax to the aluminium)<br />
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<b>Statistics:</b><br />
Distance walked 6 miles<br />
Steps taken 12,085<br />
equivalent flights of stairs 155<br />
distance driving 101 miles<br />
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<b>Equipment used:</b><br />
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Yaesu FT-270 2 M Handheld 5 watts</div>
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Yaesu FT-817 Multi band 5 watts</div>
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Li-Ion 18650 4200 mAh 3.7v qty 3 (12.2 v)</div>
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Homebrew 2 M Yagi</div>
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40/30/20 M linked dipole</div>
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6 M telescopic mast (fishing pole)</div>
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I have made two of the battery packs, these cost £7.99 for 4 batteries and you only use 3. I charge these with a BC-4S15D Lipo balance charger cost £11.45. all purchased from ebay.</div>
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These packs last on average 2 - 2.5 hours of constants, CQing and talking, the pack weighs 115 grams.</div>
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I have lined a few photos just to show how easy these can be made and yes they do work well. The weight is a great saving.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-62187573333322791972019-01-13T00:44:00.001-08:002019-01-13T00:45:05.286-08:0012th January 2019. SOTA Activation of G/WB Famous 5.<div style="text-align: center;">
Today was my first attempt at the Welsh Boarder 5 (Famous 5) all on the same day.<br />
First Summit.<br />
<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/G/WB-002">G/WB-002 Brown Clee</a>. 12th January 2019.<br />
Altitude 540M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO5930086700|SO_s_593867|1&t=SO%20593867&v=r">SO 593867</a>.<br />
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As the famous five are basically on my doorstep I didn't need a 6 a.m. start, so I left home at 7:30 a.m. and arrived at my usual car park spot of grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO5854886899|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SO 58548 86899</a> at 8:00 a.m. after a quick stop to take a great morning sunrise photo. I got all my gear ready and started my ascent. The equipment that I was going to use for the five summits was my Yaesu FT 270 handheld and my home brew 2m yagi. I managed to arrive at the summit at 8:23 a.m. took a quick few photos and set my gear up and started calling CQ Sota.<br />
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This was a very quick activation with only 4 QSO's, probably because I was a good 30 minutes or more before the time that I had spotted myself for, (sorry to the chasers that missed me). The cloud cover was bad on the way up after altitude of 400 m, the descent was a lot clearer.<br />
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Second Summit.<br />
<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/G/WB-004">G/WB-004 Titterstone</a>. 12th January 2019.<br />
Altitude 533M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO5910077900|SO_s_591779|1&t=SO%20591779&v=r">SO 591779</a>.<br />
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I arrived at my next car park at 9:45 a.m. grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO5939377560|Point_s_E|1&t=Point%20E&v=r">SO 59393 77560</a> this is the disused quarry. This is a fairly easy ascent and I was at the summit and set up by 10:02 a.m. I had a quick look around the band and heard MW0XRT/P (Dave) on GW/NW-031 so a good start with S2S. I then gave my own CQ Sota call and managed to bag a further 10 QSO's with my final, another S2S this time with GW4TQE/P (John).<br />
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-013">GW/MW-013 Corndon Hill</a>. 12th January 2019.</div>
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Altitude 514M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO3060096926|Point_s_G|1&t=Point%20G&v=r">SO 306969</a>.</div>
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After a drive of about 45 minutes I arrived at my car park position at grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO2998096771|Point_s_H|1&t=Point%20H&v=r">SO 29980 96771</a>, I had been listening to Vicki on the Black Mountain as her signal came in and out on my route. I gave her a quick call and informed her I had arrived. Time to get to the top before I would loss the S2S. I managed to ascend and set up in 15 minutes, I was a little out of breath after that. This was far the windiest of the summits so far. I sat against the trig point and had to fight with the wind to keep my yagi and its little mast vertical. I managed to get my S2S with MW6BWA/P (Vicki) and MW0JLA/P (Rod) on GW/SW-041 as my first two QSO's then a further 16 QSO's including S2S with G7LAS (Stewart) on a HEMA summit G/HCE-002 and G7HEM/P (Mike) on G/CE-002. I also managed to hold QSO's with nine of our own club members from <a href="http://donsun.me.uk/tdars/">TDARS (Telford and District Amateur Society)</a>. I had received a few not so good signal reports from this summit and found out why as I packed away my gear, one of the crocodile clips on my antenna feed point had nearly broken through. I had not taken any tools with me on this trip (bad mistake). I was going to have to activate my last two summits using the handhelds little rubber duck aerial.</div>
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Fourth Summit.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/G/WB-003">G/WB-003 Stiperstones</a>. 12th January 2019.</div>
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Altitude 536M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO3670098600|SO_s_367986|1&t=SO%20367986&v=r">SO 367986</a>.<br />
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A quick 10 minutes drive from Corndon Hill and I had arrived at my car park grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO3693897692|Point_s_J|1&t=Point%20J&v=r">SO 36938 97692</a>. The car park was nearly full, a lot of walkers out on this summit. A quick walk up from the car park to the summit and I was there in 15 minutes. As I said before no yagi for this activation so I was calling CQ Sota in less than a minute. My first chaser was G0UFE.M (Simon) from our club (TDARS), followed quickly over the next 6 minutes another 8 QSO's (7 TDARS) and M1CNL (Peter) in Tamworth.<br />
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Fifth and final Summit.</div>
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<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/G/WB-005">G/WB-005 Long Mynd Pole Bank</a>. 12th January 2019.</div>
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Altitude 516M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO4151394434|Point_s_L|1&t=Point%20L&v=r">SO 415944</a>.<br />
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I arrived at my car park grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SO4208395327|Point_s_M|1&t=Point%20M&v=r">SO 42083 95327</a> at 13:57 p.m. and had a little 10 minute walk up to the summit trig point. Again a lot of walkers on the summit but they all said hello as you passed them. I think by this point I was a good 1 1/2 hours in front of my alerted times on Sotawatch. I gave a CQ Sota call out again and M0KZB (Eric) (TDARS Chairman) was the first to come back to me followed up quickly by 9 others including 4 more (TDARS members). The last summit was activated and finished in 8 minutes.<br />
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I had managed to complete the Famous 5 as they are sometimes referred to in 5 hours 28 minutes from arriving at the first car park and holding my last QSO. I know its not a race but I like to keep my eye on my timings.<br />
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The over all results are as follows:<br />
Miles driven = 95.7<br />
miles walked = 6.4<br />
steps taken = 13,215<br />
QSO's = 51<br />
S2S = 6<br />
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This was a very good day and with the winter bonus points I claimed 25 points towards the final goal of SOTA Mountain Goat. Thank you to all of the S2S's and the chasers and I hope to catch you soon on another summit.</div>
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-5646576194891668112019-01-06T03:53:00.002-08:002019-01-06T03:56:43.312-08:005th January 2019. SOTA Activation of GW/MW-001.<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/MW-001">GW/MW-001 Plynlimon-Pen Pumlumon Fawr</a>. 5th January 2019.</div>
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Altitude 752M. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7890086900|SN_s_789869|1&t=SN%20789869&v=r">SN 789869</a>.</div>
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Today was time for a new unique summit. I had decided to visit Plynlimon-Pen in Mid Wales. I left home at 05:50 a.m. and as usual of late headed towards Shrewsbury on the A5. I was supposed to turn left on to the A458 towards Welshpool, I was on my 2M rig talking away with G0OHY (Arthur) and then realised I was nearly in Oswestry. A little detour that added about 10 - 15 minutes on to my journey, lesson learnt follow the SatNav.<br />
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I eventually arrived at the car park Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SN7979384071|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SN 79793 84071</a>. Which is the one that GW4VPX (Allan) used just before Christmas. Yes it is still £5, my first time here so I didn't know which Bungalow I was to pay and it was 07:50 a.m. and everywhere was in darkness, so I left a note on my windscreen saying I will pay on my return. Which I did, in the light I could see the honesty box, so left my money there.<br />
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I made my ascent up the green route and because of the cloud cover made my descent down the red route so I could follow the fence line. My ascent took me exactly one hour with only two or three small stops for photos, this was maybe a little too fast as I was a little out of breath once I arrived at the summit.<br />
The summit was covered with cloud and ice patch's here and there. I decided to set up my 6m mast attached to the trig point with bungees and my guy ropes. I set up the Sotabeams linked dipole (40/30/20 M) and my homebrew 2 M yagi.<br />
I then realised there was no 3G or 4G so I could not spot myself. I started calling CQ Sota on 30M and was answered after about 3 or 4 attempts by SA4BLM (Lars) in Sweden, followed by IK2LEY (Fabio) in Italy. At this time a couple of other stations started to use the frequency and this made my activation very hard as they where both 599 to me and I then struggled to make my next contact which was DJ2MX (Mario). All I can say is really sorry it took so long Mario but every time you tried the other two stations were over powering. My Morse is still a little weak for a pile up really sorry.<br />
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The activation was going slow until a friend of mine G0OOQ (Sean) informed me there was a lift of 2M. So I turned my homebrew 2M yagi horizontal and tuned around the 144 Mhz on USB. To my surprise the first person logged was F1RAF (Nicolas) followed by a further 3 more France stations, 1 Spain, 1 Ireland and 1 Scotland.<br />
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I managed to log 4 S2S's with MW0XOT/P (John GW/MW-004), MW0XRT/P (David GW/NW-046), GW4TJC/P (Simon GW/NW-019) and MW0ZAQ/P (Chas GW/NW-053). Thank you to all of the activators and chasers for making it a good day.<br />
After three hours I was starting to get cold so I pulled the plug at 12:15 p.m. packed up and started my descent, as stated above the cloud cover was getting worse I decided to follow the fence line down this took about 55 minutes.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-58151383844339261792018-12-29T05:59:00.000-08:002018-12-29T05:59:03.345-08:0028th December 2018. GW/NW-012 Cadair Berwyn.<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/Summit/GW/NW-012">GW/NW-012 Cadair Berwyn</a>. 28th December 2018.<br />
Altitude 832M. Grid <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0710032300|SJ_s_071323|1&t=SJ%20071323&v=r">SJ 071323</a></span><br />
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Today was going to be my last activation of 2018 so I decided on Cadair Berwyn as I had not been there this year. Jamie and I set off from home at 06:35 a.m. and headed towards Oswestry on the A5, then A483 until Llynclys then turned right on to the A495, followed it then it turned into the B4396 then eventually into the B4580, then turning into Waterfall Street. We had decided on parking at a slightly different place this year. Grid <a href="https://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SJ0801329056|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=r">SJ 08013 29056</a> there is a small lay by just big enough for 3 cars at a push. We were the first to arrive so plenty room.<br />
We had got all our gear ready and started walking at 07:40 a.m. I decided to record the journey using my GPS map on my phone, the route we took is below.<br />
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We had a gentle ascent as we didn't need to rush and Jamie as not done any hill walking since we did Snowdon in June. We didn't see anyone else until we had arrived at the summit and set up in the cairn, then we had 4 or 5 groups ascend on us wanting to know what the wire and fishing pole was. Jamie managed to explain to all as I was already making QSO's.<br />
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The ascent was going well and we decided to take a break to have breakfast at 09.00 a.m. just near the lake. A nice cup of coffee and a ham sandwich went down well. As seen from the photo above the cloud cover was just above the lake level and we decided to put on an extra layer of clothing just in case.<br />
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We managed to arrive at the cairn and set up by 10.10 a.m. and have a quick drink of coffee then had a quick look on Sotawatch and say that MW1EYP/P (Tom) had got a spot on for him so I decided to give him a S2S first, which I did followed by a further two more S2S with F/HB9AFI/P and SQ9MDF/P.<br />
I then decided to spot myself on 14 Mhz and made a further 4 QSO's in CW. I then tried my luck on 145 Mhz and made a further 15 including another S2S with GW4VPX/P (Allan) and M3TMX/P (Jordan). The reports were all good signals and a good time enjoyed by myself and M6SZF (Jamie) my son.<br />
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I decided to put a little video of my Morse code QSO with SA4BLM (Lars) from Sweden, just to show it is not like making a CW QSO in your shack, it can take a little longer especially if the wind is blowing and you get cold.</div>
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<br />M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-51175118158950856222018-12-24T05:07:00.001-08:002018-12-24T05:08:09.704-08:0022nd December 2018. GW/SW-041 SOTA Activation visit.<div style="text-align: center;">
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My second visit to The Black Mountains (Brecon Beacons), this time with winter bonus points. I decided to make an early day start and left my home QTH (Telford) at 6.00 a.m.<br />
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I had arrived at the summit and set up for 9.00 a.m. I was going to use 30M CW first as this had saved me at my last activation. I managed to log 5 CW QSO's, including Germany, France, Sweden and Czech Republic. Thank you all of the CW operators for being patient with me and my slow Morse code.<br />
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At the end of the activation I had managed the following contacts:<br />
10 Mhz x 5 CW<br />
14 Mhz x 2 SSB<br />
7 Mhz x 6 SSB<br />
145 Mhz x 9 FM<br />
I also managed to hold 3 S2S's on 2M with GW0VPX/P,(Allan), MW6BWA/P(Vicki) and MW0JLA/P(Rod). Thank you to all chasers and the summit to summit contacts.<br />
Happy Christmas to all and hope to catch you on the next summit. I hope to activate two more summits before the end of the year.<br />
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M0PLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11681044078781363153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263703858609840179.post-80632880560520019492018-12-15T08:07:00.000-08:002018-12-15T08:07:12.435-08:0015th December 2018. GW/NW-035 SOTA Activation visit.<div style="text-align: center;">
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My second visit to Manod Mawr near the village of Ffestiniog North Wales. I left my home in Telford at 06:00 a.m. and headed west down the A5 towards Shrewsbury and Wales. I arrived at the car park location at grid <a href="http://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=SH7326945601|Point_s_F|0&t=Point%20F&v=h">SH 73269 45601</a> at 08:15 a.m. It had turned light at 07.50 a.m. so I could see what I was doing. I got my gear ready and started my ascent.<br />
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As seen from the photos above you can see that it didn't look to good up there on the summit. I managed to get to the summit by 08.43 a.m.and started to set up my SOTA Beams linked dipole. I was going to try another CW activation. This didn't go as planned and after spotting myself and calling CQ for about 10 - 15 minutes on 20m and no calls logged I decided to try 40m. Again spotting myself and this time I decided to try SSB. I managed to log 3 QSO's in a 5 or 6 minute run then again it all went down hill.</div>
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The weather was getting worse all the time and the temperature was not the best (about -4 wind chill).<br />
After another 30 minutes of no contacts I decided to try my luck at CW again, this time I was going to try 30m. I stopped myself and to my astonishment I had 3 QSO's in the next 8 minutes. I am very sorry to the others I could hear trying to get back to me but at that stage I could not feel my hands let alone my fingers. I told myself enough is enough and I needed to pack up and head back to the car.<br />
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As seen from the photo's above I had a little surprise when I went to my mast? OMG it was frozen solid. This was not good as I had no feelings in my fingers, so I struggled to pack the gear away, then it dawned on me why G0UFE (Simon) and M0JZH (John) call me crazy horse lol.<br />
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