New summit website pages

In reply to G4OBK:

Hi Phil,

I play the guitar but I can’t do CW :frowning:

73 de Mick M0MDA

In reply to G4OBK:

Thats it, Phil, what we musos call “woodshedding”, though I think in the early stages with a bass fifteen minutes would be as much as your fingers could stand, I had a go with my sons six string Brice and it nearly skinned my fingers after a few minutes of trying to do the intro to "So What" - you dont get much finger abrasion with a sax, though the thumb rest soon makes a callus and as for your lips…!

Im stuck at a later stage of learning morse: I know the code and can copy at about 10 or even 15 wpm (with a following wind)for a short time, then I get fatigue, its just as if my brain has clamped down, and concentration goes. I know that if I keep at it I will eventually develope more endurance, but somehow I cant motivate myself to make the effort.

73

Brian

Brian - activate. That is the answer. It gives you that missing motivation. Also, you can’t really go wrong because YOU are the “DX”. So you set the speed, the style, the MO (rubber stamp QSOing is fine while you get going) and how long you do it for.

I dare you to try it - you won’t look back!

Tom M1EYP

I know that if I keep at it I will eventually
develop more endurance, but somehow I can`t motivate myself to make
the effort.

Well, I have access to acoustic guitars and a piano (nothing posh). I can pick out a tune by ear, and enjoy twiddling, but never make any real progress. When I have from time to time resolved to practice regularly, the joy just goes out of it!

So it was with CW, until SOTA activating came along - so I would endorse Tom’s comments.
Now, what about the music, summit busking…?

Adrian
G4AZS

In reply to M1EYP:

I dare you to try it - you won’t look back!

After 50 years amateur activity without Morse, I strongly suspect nothing will happen now.

Andy
MM0FMF

In reply to MM0FMF:

Stranger things have happened before now, so who knows? No promises…

Brian G8ADD

Next batch is on.

Photos from our October 2013 activations in G/SC, the week of the big south coast storm (that eluded Bournemouth but little else), and including our meeting and joint activation with David G3RDQ.

New stuff on the pages for G/SC-0012, G/SC-013 and G/SC-008.

http://tomread.co.uk

Tom M1EYP

In reply to M1EYP:

New stuff on the pages for G/SC-0012, G/SC-013 and G/SC-008.

I can see the new stuff on the first two, but G/SC-008 is showing me nothing more recent than 2010.

73, Rick M0LEP

In reply to G8ADD:

Woodshedding Brian - nice one. I hadn’t heard that most descriptive term before.

Maybe come the winter when there is more free time I will pick it up with a teach yourself book or CD teaching method and have another go with the bass.

I’ve had it for about 8 years now and the XYL is getting tired of dusting it!

73 Phil

Sorry Rick, I hadn’t seen your comment, or noticed myself that the Win Green page hadn’t been updated.

However, now it has and the photos of the joint activation with Jimmy M0HGY and David G3RDQ should be visible now.

Also added are the webpages and photos from my October 2013 activations of Bardon Hill G/CE-004 (damp), Normanby Top G/TW-005 (finally found the trig point after 7 years of searching) and Bishop Wilton Wold G/TW-004 (after dark).

http://tomread.co.uk

[Use the SOTA index]

Tom M1EYP

I have now added:

Stiperstones G/WB-003 (filming of TX Factor)
Heath Mynd G/WB-007 (with horrid soup)
Corndon Hill GW/MW-013 (pointless)
Long Mynd-Pole Bank G/WB-005 (at night)

All at http://tomread.co.uk

Tom M1EYP

Just added the Great Orme GW/NW-070 activation from November 2013. This was actually on the day of the Wales Rally GB stage on the Orme, and so motor sport fans may particularly enjoy the photos.

As I had already activated this summit twice in 2013, scroll down the page a bit to see the action!

http://tomread.co.uk

Tom M1EYP

November 2013 activation of Kinder Scout G/SP-001 uploaded. Photos of G3CWI and M1EYP doing activating (not very interesting), and photos of aeroplane wreckage, chips, beer and Coronation Street things (more interesting).

http://tomread.co.uk

Tom M1EYP

December 2013 activation of Foel Goch GW/NW-039 and Mwdwl-eithin GW/NW-047 uploaded. Photos of G3CWI and M1EYP doing SOTA. No photos of beer or chips on this one I am afraid, though there is a picture of my flask.

http://tomread.co.uk

Tom M1EYP

All blogs, logs and photos for my three local SOTA summits - Shining Tor G/SP-004, Gun G/SP-013 and The Cloud G/SP-015 - now complete for up to the end of 2013.

Select ‘SOTA’ from the left-hand menu, then choose the summit from the list.

These three pages may initially appear empty (until I populate them with some 2014 content), but if you scroll down and click on the …2013 buttons, you’ll get there.

All at http://tomread.co.uk

Right, now to start on the 2014 pages.

Tom M1EYP

In reply to M1EYP:

Hopefully the new forum thing will have a special dark corner for this sort of thing…

The December activation of Shining Tor G/SP-004 is not showing on your website Dad.

Jimmy M0HGY

In reply to M1EYP:

Can you add Enchanted Rock, in Texas?

I’d like to activate this in September

In reply to K5TED:

That looks like a question you should put to the W5T association manager. My website is just a blog and photo album of summits I have personally activated.

Tom M1EYP

In reply to M1EYP:

That looks like a question you should put to the W5T association
manager. My website is just a blog and photo album of summits I have
personally activated.

Yes, Tom, but the thread title always confuses me and makes me thing it’s something official to do with “New summit website pages”. It’s obviously having the same effect on others.

Colin G8TMV