Friday 6 November 2015

GW/MW-035 Rhos Ymryson



Unexpected activation

GW/MW-035 Rhos Ymryson

03/11/2015

It wasn’t all that early in the morning and with other activities planned I just happened to look at the alerts on Sotawatch and was surprised that Mal GW6OVD was heading for Drygarn Fawr GW/MW-003.  I immediately sent him a text to find out what his ETA was on summit..’30 minutes ‘ was the reply!!  A quick word with Val, an alert up on Sotawatch and a text to Mal to say we were heading out to Rhos Ymryson we were soon on our way as the rucksacks are always ready and batteries fully charged:)  The summit is only 20 minutes from home so I calculated that Mal would either be on 60m or 40m and as a last resort I could call him on 2m.
He was calling ‘final calls’ on 60m when I finally switched on the FT817 after setting up on the fence close to the underground reservoir on Rhos Ymryson.  A short chat to Mal and thanking him for the summit I took over his frequency as he had finished...thanks Mal.  I soon qualified the summit with a good run of regular chasers and one activation point in the bag (first time on this one this year) ...thanks everybody.
11:38z
GW6OVD/P
5MHz
SSB
Mal s2s
11:41z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
11:41z
G3RMD
5MHz
SSB
Frank
11:42z
G0TDM
5MHz
SSB
John
11:43z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don IO70uv
11:45z
G4ZRP
5MHz
SSB
Brian
11:46z
PA5V
5MHz
SSB
Bob
11:48z
M0EMM
5MHz
SSB
David
 
I plugged the linear in for 40m and looked for a clear frequency knowing that Mike G6TUH was around so I sent him a text saying that I was calling on 7.114 knowing he would spot me.  Also hovering was Bill G4WSB so they were both very quickly in the log followed by Ken G0FEX keen to get my summit in his log. Most stations were really strong with Christine and Ken from Scotland and Pedro once again making my log from Spain. 
11:57z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:59z
G4WSB
7MHz
SSB
Bill
11:59z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
12:00z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
12:00z
G1BLJ
7MHz
SSB
Steve
12:01z
M0IML
7MHz
SSB
Barry
12:01z
G0ELJ
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:01z
M3FEH
7MHz
SSB
Karl
12:02z
G4OBK
7MHz
SSB
Phil
12:02z
G4WHA/A
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
12:03z
G8AVK
7MHz
SSB
Bob
12:03z
M3TAW
7MHz
SSB
Tom
12:04z
G0TDM
7MHz
SSB
John
12:04z
2E0SCS
7MHz
SSB
Steven
12:04z
LA3NGA
7MHz
SSB
Henning
12:05z
GM0AXY
7MHz
SSB
Ken
12:05z
GM4YMM
7MHz
SSB
Christine
12:07z
DL8DXL
7MHz
SSB
Fred
12:07z
G0VWP
7MHz
SSB
Terry
12:11z
ON6DN/P
7MHz
SSB
Alfons s2s
12:12z
ON9CBQ/P
7MHz
SSB
Franz s2s

The office...showing some of my 'dry bags' which I use to protect the equipment in transit

I finished my activation with a bonus s2s with Alfons and Franz on ON/ON-029 over in Belgium...thanks both.  As this was an unexpected activation and we had rushed out of the house we didn’t have time to prepare coffee and sandwiches so it was time to pull the plug,  head back down the hill and make tracks for home.

My activation set up:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  UK-MX 50M linear (for 817) and 12V 9.2 Ah Lithium Ion battery,  3 band link dipole (60/40/20 (+15m+80m extensions),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole.. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts and spots
73 Allan GW4VPX


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