GW/MW-004 - Pen y Garn

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GW/MW-004 - Pen y Garn

06/01/2015 

With a promise of a break in the weather in the afternoon and both Rod M0JLA and Viki M6WBA out on the hills in G/WB I made a late entry on the Alerts and decided on Pen y Garn which has a nice take off for VHF and a hollow cairn for protection against the elements.  Leaving the sunshine of the Teify valley I made my way up to the gloom, wind and rain of my chosen summit.

The circular cairn..good protection from the elements

Setting up my ‘office’ and a very much lowered fishing pole inside the cairn I went straight on to 40m as Alerted without using RRT as there was no phone signal in the cairn today.  A listen and quite a few calls of “Is this frequency in use and the customary CQ SoTA” on 7.118 brought an answer from Andy G8MIA and a promise of a spot – thanks Andy.  A pile-up ensued but  also the band was changing and bringing with it a number of Continental qso’s obviously not chasing the summit. Well done everyone who made my log as it was no doubt difficult at times so I hope I didn’t miss anyone, although I did hear Francois ON5SWA calling but we never made the link - sorry Francois.

12:33z	G8MIA	7MHz	SSB	Andy
12:37z	G0TDM	7MHz	SSB	John
12:37z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	Mike
12:37z	G4WHA	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
12:38z	G4WSB	7MHz	SSB	Bill
12:38z	G4IAR	7MHz	SSB	Dave
12:38z	M0MDA	7MHz	SSB	Mick
12:39z	M0IML	7MHz	SSB	Barry
12:40z	G4JZF	7MHz	SSB	Graham
12:40z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don
12:41z	G0BLJ	7MHz	SSB	Dave
12:41z	G6LKB	7MHz	SSB	David
12:41z	G8VNW	7MHz	SSB	Nick
12:41z	G0VWP	7MHz	SSB	Terry
12:42z	M3FEH	7MHz	SSB	Karl
12:42z	GW6XGA	7MHz	SSB	David
12:43z	G0HRT	7MHz	SSB	Rob
12:44z	G4OOE	7MHz	SSB	Nick
12:46z	M6WSB	7MHz	SSB	Stephen
12:47z	2E0SCS	7MHz	SSB	Stephen
12:47z	G0TRB	7MHz	SSB	Roger
12:48z	G4ZRP	7MHz	SSB	Brian
12:48z	G3RDQ	7MHz	SSB	David
12:49z	GM0AXY	7MHz	SSB	Ken
12:50z	GM4YMM	7MHz	SSB	Christine
12:50z	M1CNL	7MHz	SSB
12:50z	G4FGJ	7MHz	SSB	Gordon
12:50z	G4MCQ	7MHz	SSB	Steve

I had also Alerted the fact that there was a Trig-point on the summit TP1735 (Bryn Garw) so there were a few extra callers in the pile-up. Notice that the SOTA summit name is different to the Trig name and you also have to check the SOTA OS map reference against the WAB Trig list to make sure you have the correct details and location.

With no more callers I went QRT on 40m stating that I would be on WAB ‘net’ shortly (40m again). This was a timely break in proceedings as both Rod and Viki popped up on 2m and into the log for an s2s from G/WB-002 – thank you both.

12:54z	M6BWA/P	144MHz	FM	Viki s2s
12:55z	M0JLA/P	144MHz	FM	Rod s2s

It was cold but I decided to take the plunge and call into the WAB ‘net’ .  I was welcomed, given priority and logged 23 stations in 13 minutes – thanks guys.

13:01z	G4HPE	7MHz	SSB	Steve
13:02z	G1PIE	7MHz	SSB	Mark
13:03z	G0GMY	7MHz	SSB	Paul
13:04z	G4STP	7MHz	SSB	Terry
13:04z	G4NQX	7MHz	SSB	Rob
13:05z	MM3PDM/P	7MHz	SSB	Peter
13:05z	M0HEM	7MHz	SSB	John
13:06z	G4CQR	7MHz	SSB	Dave
13:06z	G0BFJ	7MHz	SSB	Brian
13:06z	G3XKT	7MHz	SSB	Tony
13:07z	G4TSQ	7MHz	SSB	Mike
13:07z	G0ABY	7MHz	SSB	Phil
13:07z	G0FVH	7MHz	SSB	David
13:08z	G7BGA	7MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
13:08z	G0GWY	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
13:09z	G0BYH	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
13:09z	G6TEL	7MHz	SSB	Steve
13:09z	G4SPA	7MHz	SSB	Tony
13:10z	M0DGA	7MHz	SSB	Andrew
13:10z	M6OXO	7MHz	SSB	Brian
13:12z	G8AFM/M	7MHz	SSB
13:13z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	Ken
13:14z	G8XTJ	7MHz	SSB	John

The 'office'

On finishing with the WAB ‘net’ I gave a quick call on 2m and found Mal GW6OVD/m parked up in the lay-by next to Craig y Llyn GW/SW-10and looking for me, Rod and Viki – thanks for the contact Mal.  I finished my activation with my friend Aled in Newchapel who was on his dinner break :)

13:17z	GW6OVD/M	144MHz	FM	Mal
13:22z	MW3DLA	144MHz	FM	Aled

Apologies for the shortage of pictures but I had forgotten my camera at home and had to resort to the camera on the phone.

Thanks for all the contacts and I’m looking forward to the next time.

73 de Allan GW4VPX