Tuesday 28 July 2015

G/NP-006 - Great Shunner Fell



A long trek North

G/NP-006  - Great Shunner Fell

24/07/2015

It’s a long trek up to the North Pennines for both Barry M0IML and myself.  Barry has a good six and a half hour journey from Dover and it takes me about five and a half from West Wales. We had arranged to meet at 1.00pm at a lay-by (SD893980) in the village of Thwaite on the Pennine Way which would lead us all the way to the summit.
Parking spot
 
 Walking  into the village of Thwaite to pick up the Pennine Way
My GPS track for Great Shunner Fell
It was a 5.62km walk along the Pennine way to the summit, relatively easy even after a long journey but also close to our B&B in the village of Hawes when we returned. This was to be the first summit of 5 during the next few days and we were starting with a 6 pointer :)
Great Shunner Fell - middle distant


Nearly there
  

Setting up...get on with it Barry
For the first few contacts we worked together then I moved on to 2m whilst Barry stayed on 40m. I only returned to get a contact with Don G0RQL and his Maidenhead Locator for my ARPOC award (see my blog list-right). It was all over very quickly as contacts soon dried up on both bands with 20m being in very poor shape.... a sign of things to come over the weekend.

14:08z
M0MDA
5MHz
SSB
Mick
14:13z
MM3PDM/P
7MHz
SSB
Peter
14:16z
G0TDM
144MHz
FM
John
14:17z
G4BLH
144MHz
FM
Mike
14:20z
G4WHA/A
144MHz
FM
Geoff
14:24z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don IO70uv
My log
 
Signal reports were not too good on 7Mhz but enough to qualify the summit and a couple of brief QSOs
14:07z
M0MDA
5MHz
SSB
MICK 5/7
14:13z
MM3PDM/P
7MHz
SSB
PETER 4/4
14:15z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
KEN 4/4
14:16z
DL7UCW
7MHz
SSB
BEN 3/3
14:18z
M6KVJ
7MHz
SSB
5/9
14:21z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
MIKE 4/4
14:22z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
DON 5/7
14:25z
M0JLA
7MHz
SSB
ROD 5/8
14:26z
EA2DT
7MHz
SSB
MANUEL 4/4
14:28z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
PEDRO 5/2
Barry's log


Trig in front of Barry is part of the stone shelter


'The long and winding road'...back to Thwaite 

Thanks everybody for all the contacts especially those who spotted us.

73 Allan GW4VPX and Barry M0IML

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