GW/SW-006 Fan Gyhirych

A long walk

GW/SW-006 Fan Gyhirych

21/03/2016

Park at SN-8963 2219 but leave enough room for any agricultural vehicles to pass..gates are locked. It’s about 3.5miles to the summit but very easy to walk along the track..1hr 30mins to summit…excellent for SOTA bike weekend….

My GPS track

On our way

Our target..Fan Gyhirych

Fan Brycheiniog in the distance

Getting closer

Turn right here..i.e NW..follow faint track to summit

I self spotted for 60m and had a steady stream of regular chasers with very good signal reports both ways..this band was certainly in good shape.

11:42z	G0VWP	5MHz	SSB	Terry
11:43z	G7BGA	5MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
11:44z	G1BLJ	5MHz	SSB	Steve
11:45z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	Phil
11:46z	G4IAR	5MHz	SSB	Dave
11:46z	G6LKB	5MHz	SSB	Dave
11:48z	GW0HGP	5MHz	SSB	Lonan
11:49z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don
11:49z	G7AFM	5MHz	SSB	Phil
11:50z	G0TDM	5MHz	SSB	John
11:50z	GI4ONL	5MHz	SSB	Victor
11:51z	M0JLA	5MHz	SSB	Rod
11:51z	GW4BKG	5MHz	SSB	Steve
11:52z	GW1CLH	5MHz	SSB	Paul
11:53z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	Jim
11:54z	GW2HFR	5MHz	SSB	Jonathan
11:55z	EI0DB	5MHz	SSB	Dave
11:56z	G6TUH	5MHz	SSB	Mike

Everything went quiet but very soon Mal was calling me on 2m after coming off night shift..in the log then a quick chat :)

11:58z

GW6OVD

144MHz

FM

Mal

Sun shining but a cold breeze

A text from Mike G6TUH saying that there was a nice quiet frequency on 40m saw me make a quick link change and away again with an orderly pile-up. There were many WAB chasers calling including a trig to trig with Darius…once again this band was working well with good signal reports on both sides.

12:03z	G6TUH	7MHz	SSB	Mike
12:05z	GM4KDX/P	7MHz	SSB	Chris
12:06z	G4IAR	7MHz	SSB	Dave
12:06z	G0FEX	7MHz	SSB	Ken
12:07z	G7BGA	7MHz	SSB	Geoffrey
12:07z	G4WHA/A	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
12:07z	EA2CKX	7MHz	SSB	Pedro
12:08z	EA1CVZ	7MHz	SSB
12:09z	M3FEH	7MHz	SSB	Karl
12:09z	GW7MMG	7MHz	SSB	Phil
12:10z	G0ELJ	7MHz	SSB	Dave
12:11z	G0TDM	7MHz	SSB	John
12:11z	GW4BKG	7MHz	SSB	Steve
12:12z	M0IML	7MHz	SSB	Barry
12:12z	M6RUG	7MHz	SSB	Dave
12:13z	MW6KPN	7MHz	SSB	Adrian
12:14z	G3RDQ	7MHz	SSB	David
12:14z	G0RQL	7MHz	SSB	Don
12:15z	DJ5AV	7MHz	SSB	Michael
12:15z	GW2HFR	7MHz	SSB	Jonathan
12:16z	HB9AGH	7MHz	SSB	Ambrosi
12:17z	EI4HKB	7MHz	SSB	Pat
12:18z	PA2CVD	7MHz	SSB	Cor
12:18z	M0KCB/P	7MHz	SSB	Darius t2t TP4446
12:19z	G3VCG	7MHz	SSB	Don
12:21z	G0JZE	7MHz	SSB	Alex
12:24z	MM3PDM	7MHz	SSB	Peter
12:25z	G0BYH	7MHz	SSB	Geoff
12:27z	GM1VLA	7MHz	SSB	Tony
12:27z	PA0B	7MHz	SSB	Rob
12:28z	M0NTC	7MHz	SSB	Gez
12:31z	G7AFM	7MHz	SSB	Phil
12:32z	SM6CNX	7MHz	SSB	Dan
12:33z	2E0GBK	7MHz	SSB	John
12:34z	PA3DIP	7MHz	SSB
12:34z	G6LKB	7MHz	SSB	Dave

I had been in text contact with Matt G8XYJ who had said he’d be going home from work at dinner time to give me call. Calling for Matt on 2m brought a few chasers to the log including Phil MMG and Don RQL..5/5 each way to Devon. I sent a text to Matt saying that I was waiting for him on 2m and very soon he was in the log with a 5/5 from Ludlow (my sig 5/2).

Cray reservoir below

Now I had alerted that I would try 80m hoping to plug in the linear but silly me I’d left the TX link lead at home, nevertheless, I did get 3 contacts after spotting with 5/8-9 reports using 5 watts. As you can see I picked up an s2s on 2m whilst playing with 80m so thanks to John GW4TQE/p who was on GW/NW-067 Moel y Gest…thanks John. Well done to someone who got me on all four bands…Don :)

12:36z	G0VFK	144MHz	FM	Mike
12:40z	G0RQL	144MHz	FM	Don
12:43z	GW7MMG	144MHz	FM	Phil
12:57z	G8XYJ	144MHz	FM	Matt
13:00z	G0RQL	3.5MHz	SSB	Don
13:02z	GW4TQE/P	144MHz	FM	John s2s
13:04z	G7AFM	3.5MHz	SSB	Phil
13:05z	GW2HFR	3.5MHz	SSB	Jonathan

80m link from 20m link on dipole

My activation set up today:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  3 band link dipole (60/40/20),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) & cable tie dipole for 2m - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts and the spots.

73 Allan GW4VPX