…and the 2012 updates are underway. Up now are the 2012 photos from Gun G/SP-013, The Cloud G/SP-015 and Shining Tor G/SP-004, plus the day out on the Ponderosa pair of Moel y Gamelin GW/NW-042 and Cyrn-y-Brain GW/NW-043.
…is where you’ll find it all. Now on with creating the webpages for Liam’s Road Trip, February 2012.
Tom M1EYP
Liam’s Road Trip (Offa’s Dyke Path) Day 1 - now up on http://tomread.co.uk
Includes activation of Walton Hill G/CE-002, a breakdown on the M5, the start of the ODP close to the Severn Bridge and a jazz band in Monmouth!
Tom M1EYP
Liam’s Road Trip (Offa’s Dyke Path) Day 2 - now up on http://tomread.co.uk
Includes activations of Ruardean Hill G/WB-021, Black Mountain GW/SW-041 (and a chance meeting with M0MYA), and Bradnor Hill G/WB-011. Also visits to Monmouth, Pandy, Kington and Knighton.
Tom M1EYP
Liam’s Road Trip (Offa’s Dyke Path) Day 3 and Day 4 - now up on http://tomread.co.uk
Includes activations of View Edge G/WB-018, Long Mountain-Beacon Ring GW/MW-026, Y Golfa GW/NW-061 and Mynydd y Cwm GW/NW-076. Also visits to Montgomery Castle, and some very boring places, and a very noisy pub! On the final day, we visit some more boring places - and Prestatyn!
Tom M1EYP
Now added the following five summits: Brown Clee Hill G/WB-002, Titterstone Clee Hill G/WB-004, Long Mynd-Pole Bank G/WB-005, Stiperstones G/WB-003 and Corndon Hill GW/MW-013.
These five formed Jimmy’s (then M3EYP) Mountain Goat day back in March. Relive the celebrations by visiting: http://tomread.co.uk
Tom M1EYP
Now added Black Hill G/SP-002 and Billinge Hill G/SP-017, plus of course the perpetual updating (not yet complete) of Gun G/SP-013 and The Cloud G/SP-015.
The Billinge Hill page also includes the report and photos from the SOTA 10th Birthday celebrations at the Norbreck Rally - so another chance (or a first chance if you weren’t there) to see Audrey’s amazing SOTA 10th Birthday Cake!
It’s all here: http://tomread.co.uk
Please sign the guestbook - and that includes you even if you’ve signed it in the past. Lycos has suddenly discontinued its HTML Gear services, including the guestbook I used. With this action, is the deletion of my hundreds of previous guestbook entries, and an automated communication stating that it cannot be retrieved - bother!
So please help me fill it up again! Many thanks.
73, Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
OT: you can ignore if you wish.
stating that it cannot be retrieved
Thus we see the problems of trusting anything to the cloud. No not Bosley Cloud SP-015 but this mythical computing nonsense that every Snake Oil salesman is pushing now. If your data isn’t backed up onto something physical you have in your posession (hard discs, QIC, DLC, 9-track, DVD, CD or even punched card) then you don’t own your data. If you don’t own your data you can’t complain when someone else takes away your access.
Those of us who are long in the tooth in this computing lark know that only too well. But there’s lots of noobs and young impressionable people out there who don’t understand that and believe their data is safe in the cloud.
Andy’s data safety maxim #1:
Your data is only safe in the cloud as long as somebody can mine that data for profit. Once there’s no profit they have no reason to offer you free storage etc.
Sorry for the brief thread theft Tom.
Andy
MM0FMF
NP, but I’d like it back now please…
My website updates have now got as far as the MQ1EYP - 2Q0EYP Jubilee Bank Holiday raid in the Lake District.
See what Tom, Jimmy and Liam got up to on Blake Fell G/LD-031 here:
Tom M1EYP
Pages and photos now on for our activations of Dent G/LD-045 and Hard Knott G/LD-034.
[Sign the guestbook please!].
Breaking off for tennis and wine now, but more later.
Tom M1EYP
…OK, OK, quite a lot later - like the next day.
But the photos from the Mellbreak G/LD-036 are on my website http://tomread.co.uk now - if only to prove that the lads and me all got up this steep beastie!
Tom M1EYP
New pages now online with all the photos and details from our activations of Low Fell G/LD-042 and Black Combe G/LD-030.
Please sign the guestbook!
Tom M1EYP
New pages on my website, with photos, for recent activations of:
Lambrigg Fell G/LD-046
Hutton Roof Crags G/LD-052 (with Rob G0HRT)
Arnside Knott G/LD-058 (with Rob G0HRT)
Hope Mountain GW/NW-062
Foel Goch GW/NW-039 (without map & compass in poor visibility - tut tut)
The Cloud G/SP-015
Gun G/SP-013 (including a photo of my amazing birthday cake!).
Plus some other new stuff which may (or may not) be of interest.
Please visit http://tomread.co.uk
All guestbook entries highly appreciated.
Tom MO1EYP
My SOTA blog dominated website has been updated (at last)!
You can now see:
2013 activations of Kinder Scout G/SP-001 (with photos), The Cloud G/SP-015 (with nightime photos) and Gun G/SP-13.
2013 activations of Shining Tor G/SP-004 (a) joint activation with 2E0NSR and M0HGY (with photos) and (b) joint activation with G3CWI on the snow (some nice photos on the snow-covered hill).
2012 activation of Bardon Hill G/CE-004, featuring the first activation in over 7 years by SOTA Founder and President, John G3WGV. Also some photos from the RSGB Convention.
2012 activations of Freeholds Top G/SP-011 and Hail Storm Hill G/SP-009, with Aage LA1ENA and Halvard LA1DNA. With photos.
2012 New Years Eve activations of Moel Famau GW/NW-044 and Foel Fenlli GW/NW-051, with G3CWI. With photos.
Also on there, not previously mentioned in this thread, are mine and Jimmy’s August 2012 activations of xx South and Mid Wales summits, with plenty of photos. The summits included are:
GW/SW-036 Mynydd Sylen
GW/SW-039 Mynydd Llangyndeyrn
GW/MW-011 Foel Cwmcerwyn
GW/MW-028 Frenni Fawr
GW/MW-029 Hafod Ithel
GW/MW-033 Mynydd Carningli
GW/MW-034 Mynydd Cynros
GW/MW-035 Rhos Ymryson
GW/MW-036 Pen-crug-melyn
GW/MW-037 Brandy Hill
I hope it is of use and/or interest to anyone that takes a look. It was nice that a few activators came up to the SOTA stand at Nantwich on Sunday, and said that they used my website as one of the references to look at before activating a new summit.
Go to http://tomread.co.uk
…and click on SOTA on the left-hand-side menu.
Tom M1EYP
The new webpages and photos are now on for the 2013 activations of:
Hafod Ithel GW/MW-029
Foel Cwmcerwyn GW/MW-011
Brandy Hill GW/MW-037
Mynydd Llangyndeyrn GW/SW-039
Mynydd Sylen GW/SW-036
Collectively, these also appear in the pages detailing our Pembrokeshire Coast Path Road Trip of February 2013.
Go to http://tomread.co.uk
…and click on SOTA on the left-hand-side menu.
Tom M1EYP
The 2013 activation pages are now on for:
Moel y Gamelin GW/NW-042
Cyrn-y-Brain GW/NW-043
Moel Gyw GW/NW-053
…with nice photos of these summits in winter, and a nice photo of the hearty Ponderosa dinner!
[Also added some old photos found on my mobile 'phone, now that I’ve finally mastered Bluetooth pairing to my PC! More RSGB Convention pics on Bardon Hill page, and Essex holiday snaps on Bardon Hill 2011 page (why? - take a look!). Several of the Pembrokeshire Coast Road Trip photos were taken on the (cheap) mobile phone as well - they seem OK].
Go to http://tomread.co.uk
…and click on SOTA on the left-hand-side menu.
Tom M1EYP
I have reports of people not being able to see the new Pembrokeshire Coast Path pages on my website. Probably individual browser/cache reset issues, but has anyone else experienced difficulty?
BTW, have added a couple of videos of John Shuttleworth, for the uninitiated!
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
I have reports of people not being able to see the new Pembrokeshire
Coast Path pages on my website. Probably individual browser/cache
reset issues, but has anyone else experienced difficulty?
Working fine for me.
Pete
In reply to G4ISJ:
Cheers Pete,
Yes, others have said it is all working now.
Tom M1EYP
…is updated.
It now has some new reports and photos on for Gun, Shining Tor, The Cloud and Great Orme. This includes photos of Liam’s Cat & Fiddle Ploughman’s Lunch GCSE English Revision Day (that morphed into a SOTA activation), the meeting with the T-shirt wearing Jake 2E0SEY and Kev M6KRV on a very cold evening, and the three summit plus curry day with German visitors Stefan DM1LE and Martin DF3MC.
You can now also go directly to the summit index page via:
…with a button added to each page to get you back there. This was all done in a vain (pun intended) attempt to get accepted by Google Adsense, but they’re not having any of it. I guess I’m just a bungling amateur (pun intended) at the end of the day, not a professional web designer, so I’m not overly surprised!
Tom M1EYP
Coming soon on the website will be a gallery of SOTA QSL cards. I managed to get very behind with my QSLing and am currently working my way through many hundreds of cards that have arrived via the Buro.
A number of these QSL cards are beautiful colour designs with SOTA as the central theme. I will make a special page on my website for all these.
It is interesting, as I work through filing away the QSL cards, that I see many familiar callsigns. Yes, many of those amateurs who have sent me a card for a contact made with me (often as M1EYP/P from a SOTA activation), have already sent me a card in years gone by in return for an SWL report I sent them as G-20843.
I still have plenty of cards to work though, and I need to design and order a new batch of QSL cards for myself as well, so there will be a bit of a delay in returning some cards. There is a large pile written out on my old design - Radio - and these are ready to go to the Buro. I will get on to arranging the new cards this summer.
But it is nice to see that with many SOTA friends across Europe, the friendship was already started 10 to 15 years ago with QSLs for my SWL reports!
Tom M1EYP