Sunday 13 March 2016

GW/MW-006 Pegwn Mawr

Finally, a break in the weather

Pegwn Mawr GW/MW-006

10/March/2016

Winter bonus is coming to an end and the weather has really improved so I’m trying to cram as many summits as possible into the last few days. The blog has been put on the back burner and it’ll be a few days before I catch up with all the reports. 

The summit of Pegwn Mawr is in the middle of a wind-farm. You can park your car at SO 0085 8080 and then follow the track to the summit cairn and trig. I would suggest you inform the farmer at Cloesffynnon (that’s what it is on the OS map) that you are going up and ask where you can park the car…he’s very friendly…just likes to be asked. 
Snow on the mountains in the distance
Summit in sight
I had a busy time on this summit with John GW4TQE/p making the log with an s2s before I had even got my log book out….thanks John.  A good run of chasers followed on 60m with Viki calling shortly after I had finished with another s2s on 2m…we failed to make a contact on 70cms..sorry Viki.
10:57z
GW4TQE/P
144MHz
FM
John s2s
11:21z
G0TDM
5MHz
SSB
John
11:21z
GW6DGU
5MHz
SSB
Roy
11:22z
G4WSB
5MHz
SSB
Bill
11:22z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
11:23z
G6TUH
5MHz
SSB
Mike
11:23z
M0MDA
5MHz
SSB
Mick
11:24z
EI9GLB
5MHz
SSB
Jim
11:25z
G7BGA
5MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
11:25z
G4FGJ
5MHz
SSB
Gordon
11:26z
G1BLJ
5MHz
SSB
Steve
11:28z
G3YBY
5MHz
SSB
Ian
11:29z
M0JMV
5MHz
SSB
Derek
11:34z
MW6BWA/P
144MHz
FM
Viki s2s
Very large wind-farm..Pegwn Mawr
The bands were behaving today and as you can see I had a really good run on 40m which kept me busy for quite a while including an s2s with Rod who eventually managed to sort out his HF antenna problems…thanks Rod
11:51z
G0RQL
7MHz
SSB
Don
11:51z
G0VWP
7MHz
SSB
Terry
11:51z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike
11:52z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
11:52z
M6RUG
7MHz
SSB
Dave
11:53z
M3LIU
7MHz
SSB
Iain
11:53z
G4IAR
7MHz
SSB
Dave
11:54z
G4WHA/A
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
11:54z
G0RPA
7MHz
SSB
Ian
11:55z
2E0KVJ
7MHz
SSB
David
11:55z
G0GWY
7MHz
SSB
Geoff
11:56z
GW6STK
7MHz
SSB
Robert
11:56z
ON4TA
7MHz
SSB
Filip
11:57z
EA2CKX
7MHz
SSB
Pedro
11:57z
G7BGA
7MHz
SSB
Geoffrey
11:58z
G4GEW
7MHz
SSB
Peter
11:58z
DJ5AV
7MHz
SSB
Michael
11:58z
GW0HGP
7MHz
SSB
Ionan
12:00z
2E0SCS
7MHz
SSB
Stephen
12:00z
G3PRI
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:00z
MU0GSY
7MHz
SSB
Lionel
12:00z
PA7MDJ
7MHz
SSB
Michael
12:00z
G0HRT
7MHz
SSB
Rob
12:01z
MW0MXT
7MHz
SSB
Craig
12:02z
MM3PDM/M
7MHz
SSB
Peter
12:04z
MW0XOT/P
7MHz
SSB
John TP1005 t2t
12:04z
G4WSB
7MHz
SSB
Bill
12:05z
G0FVH
7MHz
SSB
David
12:05z
2E0FGQ
7MHz
SSB
Nick
12:06z
G4SQA
7MHz
SSB
Dave
12:06z
GW7MMG
7MHz
SSB
Phil
12:06z
EA2EC
7MHz
SSB
Antonio
12:07z
GW6DGU
7MHz
SSB
Roy
12:08z
M3NFL
7MHz
SSB
Neil
12:09z
G4TXF
7MHz
SSB

12:10z
EI3IT
7MHz
SSB
Tony
12:12z
ON6ZQ
7MHz
SSB
Christophe
12:13z
G3XKT
7MHz
SSB
Tony
12:14z
HB9MKV
7MHz
SSB
Rudi
12:14z
2E0GBK
7MHz
SSB
John
12:15z
M3KWS
7MHz
SSB
Steve
12:15z
G0AJH
7MHz
SSB
John
12:20z
MW0JLA/P
7MHz
SSB
Rod s2s
12:21z
G1SPC
7MHz
SSB
John
12:21z
MW0BYS
7MHz
SSB
Bill
Sending a spot using Rucksack Radio Tools
The next thirty minutes proved exciting with a good run of s2s and a visit to the WAB net although most of net had already chased me earlier..thanks everyone.
12:27z
M6NSV/P
144MHz
FM
Neil s2s
12:29z
MW0KCB/P
144MHz
FM
Darius
12:31z
GW4AZS/P
144MHz
FM
Adrian s2s
12:36z
G0GMY
7MHz
SSB
Paul
12:36z
G0FEX
7MHz
SSB
Ken
12:38z
G0OFD
7MHz
SSB
John
12:39z
2E0CON
7MHz
SSB
John
12:40z
2E0WLF
7MHz
SSB
Matthew
12:41z
MK0ZGY
7MHz
SSB
Gerry
12:45z
G3TQQ/P
144MHz
FM
Dave s2s
12:46z
MW3ZCB/P
144MHz
FM
Caroline s2s
12:47z
MW1MAJ/P
144MHz
FM
Martyn s2s
12:52z
M/SP9MA/P
7MHz
SSB
Jarek s2s
12:57z
GW1FOA/P
144MHz
FM
Peter s2s
I’ve omitted any detail regarding the s2s locations as I'm throwing this report together in a bit of a hurry as I’m preparing for my next activation in the morning. Update below.....


GW4TQE/P GW/MW-017 Garreg-hir
MW6BWA/P GW/SW-011 Sugar Loaf
MW0JLA/P GW/SW-011 Sugar Loaf
M6NSV/P G/WB-004 Titterstone Clee Hill
GW4AZS/P GW/MW-001 Plynlimon-Pen Pumlumon Fawr
G3TQQ/P G/SP-002  Black Hill
MW3ZCB/P GW/NW-045 Moel-ddu
MW1MAJ/P GW/NW-045 Moel-ddu
M/SP9MA/P G/CE-005 Wendover Woods
GW1FOA/P GW/NW-051 Foel Fenlli


My activation set up today:-  (HF) Yaesu FT817 (5 watts) (4Ah LiPo),  3 band link dipole (60/40/20),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) & Kenwood TH-F7E  (5watts) and ‘cable-tie dipole’. Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.

Thanks everyone for the contacts and the spots.


73 Allan GW4VPX

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