I was just there! Went there for a week and got back late last night. Unfortunately I didn’t bring any heavy HF equipment overseas, but I did bring my HT. Went on the local repeater on the island and chatted with a nice guy named Bill, GM8RBR. He told me there are about 10 other hams in the area (not bad!). Good luck with HF! We had pretty nice weather there last week, but of course we missed out on the several weeks straight of sun and no rain. Good luck with the midgies! We were fine and had no problems.
If you don’t mind sharing at some point please open a new topic about how to do this. I’ve been looking at DeLorme for some time. I did wonder if they might disappear, but now Garmin have bought them I suspect the product line is secure for a while.
Thanks - Gerald
This is ace! Watching you closing in on GM/SI-090, Beinn Bhreac. One of those rare things in the UK… an unactivated summit! Bet the heather is hard going! I’m watching your average speed 
Yes it was fairly slow going over rough ground, though the only real difficulty was a couple of barbed wire fences to be crossed without the benefit of stiles. We should be able to pinpoint the crossing points we found in the eventual activation report.
Plenty of space at the top with nice cylindrical trigpont (not at true summit, but well in the activation area).
I will try to do a write-up of the APRS tracking on our return. In brief, I’m just running a simple script which reads the points out of the DeLorme API and injects them into APRS.
Martyn
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You know you want one. Just buy it… life is too short etc. Seriously you can spot with it and now APRS with it. Go on, get the credit card out before the UK sinks!
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They all start this way. Then before you know it you have a few hundred thousand lines of code and the simple script is a multi-headed Hydra that bites you on the bum everytime you make a simple change. 
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Hi Martyn
Watch out for the midges they were biting here at my place in Aberdeenshire last weekend, which is very rare so they might be out in force over on the West… Will listen out for you but maybe to close…
73
Steve 2M0SKJ
Well that is one advantage of the weather we’ve been having - no self-respecting midge would be out. Actually we did get a few brave ones one evening as we were de-booting back at the car, but they weren’t out in force.
We have not yet needed the midge nets or the various repellents we have.
One tick carefully removed (from Caroline) so far. The O’Tom tick twister worked a treat - extracted the little beastie still alive.
Martyn
…and then you terminated it I hope
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Hi again Martyn & Caroline,
As mentioned on our QSO on 398 yesterday - pity I missed you on GM/SI-081, it would have been a new one for me - hi! But it was my own fault. I was watching you & Caroline’s progress on www.aprs.fi noticed you had reached the top and was waiting for you to call on 398. In the interim I had some lunch and watched lunchtime news. Didn’t check the spots - that was my mistake you were on 379 and latterly Caroline was on 7.125. By the time I did you had popped onto 20M - doh! So today if you are out and about I’ll try and do better 
And just for the record. Following our QSO on GM/SI-058 and your 56 and my 59, when I QSY’d to try and work Caroline on 40M zilch, but I could here the southern G’s replying. And example of ‘over-the-top’ propagation - hi!
73
Jack (;>J
PS: maybe time to think about a dedicated channel/freq on 60M for SOTA. At times 398 can be a wee bit busy. But hey maybe this is me trying to shore up my Chasing abilities 
Waiting for the post Boris bounce…
Well if were you I’d buy one before Mark Carney opens his mouth again. Next we’ll be voting to phase out decimal currency.
With what’s left of my pension fund I’m going to buy some bent bananas now they are no longer banned.
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I thought it was cucumbers… Or maybe it’s both.
It was cucumbers!
I shall buy bent cucumbers then. It was bunches of more than 3 bananas that were illegal, I’m off down the greengrocers (should that be greengrocer’s ;-)) to buy all these things which were banned till recently.
Good news is my trip to Poland for some bagging in the Autumn is now on. Off to the Rob’s site for some serious planning.
Boom another one clocked
GM/SI-028
Big thanks folks for your time up there etc.
karl
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Right, that’s your lot - 10 summits done on Skye during the week. The weather left a lot to be desired - it has rained every day. Nor has propagation been at its best, so many thanks to the chasers who have struggled with us at times. We mostly did 1-pointers but they were by no means trivial ascents!
We didn’t make it to Raasay. We felt it needed a good weather day, and we didn’t really get one. It would in any case have been pushing it (for us) to get both summits done in the time available. It would be best done on a Saturday when the ferry timetable allows a longer stay on the island, but that wasn’t possible this time. We’ll just have to come back here one day. There is plenty more to do here.
It will take us a while to type up the logs and get them submitted - please be patient if you are waiting for your asterisks.
Martyn M1MAJ
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Well done both. And thanks for the all the new ones for me and a reason for me to pop up to Skye for some Completes (It must be almost 40 years since I last lofted about the island’s summits 
a poor admission 
) - outwith the midgey season 
Sorry I wasn’t able to have a few more contacts with Caroline, but as mentioned in a previous post - 40M was above me - hi!
Safe trip back home, and as we sometimes say - ‘haste ye back’ 
!
73
Jack (;>J
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Logs are now submitted, activation reports will follow when I’ve written them!
Caroline M3ZCB.
I should also add my thanks to the friendly lot of amateurs on the island and surroundings who I worked on 2m FM: unfortunately I never managed to find enough of you on air and in range at the same time to qualify any of the hills on 2m FM, but I got 3 over several hills.
Caroline M3ZCB.