Wednesday 3 May 2017

GW/MW-033 Mynydd Carningli

GW/MW-033 Mynydd Carningli

02/05/2017

Chasing s2s..again

A last minute alert on Sotawatch and Val and I were away down to Newport, Pembrokeshire to activate Mynydd Carningli. We approached from the West which gave a nice long walk in the sunshine.
My GPS track
Newport below

Being unsure of what the HF bands were like I just assembled the ‘cable tie dipole’ for 2m on a few section of the fishing pole and also the summit was busy so I kept a low profile.  Nevertheless I soon qualified the summit,  some long QSOs and including s2s with 5/9 each way contacts with John on Gamallt and Mal and Ian on Waun Fach…thanks everyone including Don RQL all the way from Devon..nice one...

10:35z
GW6DGU
144MHz
FM
Roy
10:40z
MW6WMW
144MHz
FM
Mike
10:44z
EI9GLB
144MHz
FM
Jim
10:48z
MW1BLE
144MHz
FM
Colin
10:49z
G0RQL
144MHz
FM
Don
11:13z
GWTQE/P
144MHz
FM
John s2s
11:16z
GW0PLP
144MHz
FM
Don
11:21z
GW6OVD/P
144MHz
FM
Mal s2s
11:22z
2W0IWM/P
144MHz
FM
Ian s2s


Away on 60m
The hordes vanished and I set up for HF although not in my usual spot as there was still someone sitting there!  Nice run on 60m with varying signal reports depending on which direction they were calling from…interesting.
11:34z
G8ADD
5MHz
SSB
Brian
11:36z
G1YFF
5MHz
SSB
Jake
11:37z
G0RQL
5MHz
SSB
Don
11:38z
G4OBK
5MHz
SSB
Phil
11:40z
G0FEX
5MHz
SSB
Ken
11:40z
G0VWP
5MHz
SSB
Terry
11:42z
GW6DGU
5MHz
SSB
Roy
11:43z
G8VNW
5MHz
SSB
Nick
11:43z
EI3GYB
5MHz
SSB
Michael
11:44z
G6TUH
5MHz
SSB
Mike
11:45z
GW4JEJ
5MHz
SSB

Attaching the 80m coils
Rocky summit
Val hiding from a cold breeze

I attached the 80m coils but there was a complete mis-match. It’s very rocky on the top of Carningli so I just took them off and worked a few stations on 40m…difficult contacts.

12:01z
G6TUH
7MHz
SSB
Mike diff band
12:02z
ON4TA
7MHz
SSB
Filip
12:03z
PA0SKP
7MHz
SSB
Sake
12:04z
ON6ZQ
7MHz
SSB
Christophe
12:05z
SP6BBE
7MHz
SSB
Zbigniew
12:06z
DJ5AV
7MHz
SSB
Michael

Another SOTA summit..Foel Cwmcerwyn GW/MW-011
Yet another in the distance....Frenni Fawr GW/MW-028

With quite a few final calls on 40m I gave a call on 2m to see if Caroline would reply…she did…30 minutes to the summit of Carnedd Llywelyn…I said I’d hang around until they reached the top and eventually ended the day with two  s2s…thanks both.

13:00z
GW3UEP
144MHz
FM
Roger
13:11z
GW4TGT
144MHz
FM
Terry
13:16z
GW3YSH/P
144MHz
FM
John
13:20z
MW3ZCB/P
144MHz
FM
Caroline s2s
13:21z
MW1MAJ/P
144MHz
FM
Martyn s2s

Geocache revisited..left a Trackable...
Plenty of wildlife on Carningli..Red Admiral


My activation set up:-  (HF) Elecraft KX2 (10 watts) Antenna 3 band link dipole (60/40/20 (+15m extensions +80m loading coils),  (VHF) Yaesu FT270 (5watts) into a ‘cable tie’ dipole.  Antenna support - 7m Fishing pole.
Thanks everyone for the contacts
73 Allan GW4VPX

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