Tuesday 17 February 2015

GW/SW-003 - Fan Brycheiniog




No selfies today!

GW/SW-003 - Fan Brycheiniog


17/02/2013

The sun was shining when I headed for the summit of Fan Brycheiniog which was shrouded by a long bank of cloud. I had parked off the road as usual at SN856223 which can accommodate 5 or more cars and made my way WSW, skirting the South end of Llyn y Fan Fawr picking up the steep track that leads up to the summit.  Mal GW6OVD  had told me there was some snow on the track but the numerous deep foot holds made it a reasonably safe ascent. 
 No sign of the summit
By the time I’d reached the summit the cloud bank had gone but the extremely cold breeze made me set up the station in the cairn.  
Good foot holds
I was early on summit so I decided to call on 60m although I had only alerted for 40m so with a self spot I was up and running.
11:16z
G8TMV
5MHz
SSB
Colin
11:17z
G8MIA
5MHz
SSB
Andy
11:17z
G6ODU
5MHz
SSB
Bob
11:18z
G8ADD
5MHz
SSB
Brian
11:19z
G4IHT
5MHz
SSB
Robert
11:19z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
11:20z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
11:21z
G4RMD
5MHz
SSB
Frank
A ‘heads up for 7.118’ from Bill  G4WSB enabled me to get my first S2S with Terry G0VWP/p on G/LD-040 and great to hear the voice of Heather M6UXH working 2m in the background.
11:32z
G0VWP/P
7MHz
SSB
Terry s2s
A ‘7.121 QSY’ announcement and a spot from Bill I was quickly working an orderly pile up once more – thanks Bill. The summit was busy now and I waved to a number of walkers making their way to the trig.
11:34z
G4WSB
7MHz
SSB
Bill
11:35z
G8VNW
7MHz
SSB
Nick
11:37z
M3FEH
7MHz
SSB
Karl
11:37z
M0IML
7MHz
SSB
Barry
11:38z
M0IBC
7MHz
SSB
David
11:38z
ON6ZQ
7MHz
SSB
Christophe
11:39z
DL8DXL
7MHz
SSB
Fred
11:40z
ON4FI
7MHz
SSB
Karel
11:40z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:40z
G4OBK
7MHz
SSB
Phil
11:41z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don
11:41z
EI9GLB
7MHz
SSB
Jim
11:41z
G4GEW
7MHz
SSB
Peter
11:42z
ON1HQK/M
7MHz
SSB

11:42z
EA1HMT
7MHz
SSB
Ignacio
11:43z
DJ5AV
7MHz
SSB
Michael
11:43z
EA1IPN
7MHz
SSB
Paco
11:44z
M3ZKT
7MHz
SSB
Marie
11:44z
DL4KCA
7MHz
SSB
Joe
11:45z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
11:45z
PA0B
7MHz
SSB
Rob
11:46z
DK7ZH
7MHz
SSB
Manfred
11:46z
ON5SWA
7MHz
SSB
Francois
11:47z
2E0BLL
7MHz
SSB
Mike

Despite several requests for a repeat of ‘sent signal report’ it was not forthcoming from one chaser.  There was another third party involved in giving ‘overs’ so I’m afraid I have not logged a contact for the DL chaser and made a comment to that effect on air. I will do my utmost to make sure a chaser gets the summit but there are limits...
 Llyn y Fan Fawr
I was aware towards the end of the pile up that there was some activity on 2m so as soon as the chasers dried up I had a quick scan down the 2m frequencies and found Viki  MW6BWA/p on GW/SW-009 Mynydd Troed. We exchanged 5/9 ‘both ways’ signal reports on both 2m and 70cms. If you hear Viki on 2m and you have the facility for 70cms then please give her a call on this band also – she’s working towards something? :) I now carry my Kenwood TH7 so that I can give Viki the contact.
11:50z
MW6BWA/P
144MHz
FM
Viki s2s
11:52z
MW6BWA/P
433MHz
FM
Viki s2s
11:55z
MW0JLA/P
5MHz
SSB
Rod s2s
Finishing with Viki I very soon had Rod in the log as RRT informed me that he was on 60m and calling from  GW/SW-015 Mynydd Llangorse – job done and thanks both.
Inside the cairn
A quick call into the WAB ‘net’ to give them the square and the trig resulted in a quick run down the list and a Trig to Trig with Damian M0BKV. Thanks everybody.
11:58z
G7AFM
7MHz
SSB
Phil
11:58z
G4JZF
7MHz
SSB
Graham
11:59z
SM6CNX
7MHz
SSB
Dan
11:59z
DL7UCW
7MHz
SSB
Ben
11:59z
G4HPE
7MHz
SSB
Steve
12:00z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
12:00z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don
12:00z
G0FVH
7MHz
SSB
David
12:01z
G7BGA
7MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
12:01z
G0GWY
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
12:01z
G4EST
7MHz
SSB
Charlie
12:02z
G6LKB
7MHz
SSB
David
12:02z
G1PIE
7MHz
SSB
Mark
12:03z
G4ZRP
7MHz
SSB
Brian
12:04z
M0GDJ
7MHz
SSB
Brian
12:04z
G3TPP
7MHz
SSB

12:05z
MM3PDM/M
7MHz
SSB
Peter
12:06z
M1TES/M
7MHz
SSB
James
12:06z
G4JJS
7MHz
SSB
Simon
12:08z
M0BKV/
7MHz
SSB
Damian t2t TP5263
I hadn’t brought my 2m dipole today as I was trying to save weight also knowing that Rod and Viki would be strong signals on just the Hand Held. Now I knew Pete G4ISJ/p would be out today on Black Mountain but he does not normally venture on to 2m. Today was my lucky day and we made the contact with 5/9 each way. With Black Mountain you can activate from one side of the path and be in G land and if you operate on the other side you are in GW. Pete obliged by crossing the path into GW for our s2s  – thanks Pete and looking forward to the next one.
12:20z
GW4ISJ/P
144MHz
FM
Peter s2s
12:30z
MW0PJJ/A
144MHz
FM
Phil
I packed up and gave a final call on 2m so it was nice to hear Phil MW0PJJ/A come back to me for a brief QSO. He was supposed to activate this summit last week with Mal and Andy but was not feeling too well.  All kitted up and ready to leave a couple of walkers came by so I asked one them to take a pic of me at the Trig – bit of a change from my ‘selfies’ :)
I arrived back at the car at about  14:30 and heard Viki calling from her second summit  GW/SW-015 Mynydd Llangorse. With 5/5 each way on 2m then a quick rummage in the rucksack I got the TH7 and we exchanged similar reports on 70cms – she was delighted.
 PyF and Corn Du
Thanks everybody for the contacts but it looks as if the weather is taking a turn for the worse over the next few days but as soon as it improves I have a couple of 8 pointers up my sleeve again.

73 Allan GW4VPX 

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