A nice haul from Gummer's How G/LD-050

Activation Reports
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With a bit of time this morning I decided to get out onto a local summit Gummer’s How G/LD-050 to try and chase some of the Yorkshire Day activators. I re-charged my batteries from my lunchtime chase session on Saturday and took the same equipment: 3 x 4.2AH LifePo4, FT-857, SOTABeams 10m compact mast, SOTABeams Band Hopper V and Spectrum Communications SlimJ. I did consider taking the Arrow Alasakan, but this lot was heavy enough and I wanted the option to have power for HF.

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Lake Windermere

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Benchmark looking South

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Equipment

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FT-857

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Begali Traveler Iambic

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No sheep, so you’ll have to make do with a cow

It’s fair to say that both 2m and 20m were working well for me, 80m and 40m were more patchy. With 26 S2S SOTA, one S2S HEMA and 105 total contacts I had a wonderful time on the radio today.

@G8TMV Colin was sounding great on 60m from G/WB-015 on his FT-817/8 with speech compressor and 35 watts via mini amp. Just one transatlantic contact with KD1CT, Bob in in New Hampshire.

Highlights were my S2S with fellow CW Academy student @SA3IEI Stephen on SM/JL-057 and obviously getting a S2S with @G4OBK Phil, wonderful to hear him activating again (with his great sense of humour).

TIME CALLSIGN FREQ BAND MODE RSR RST OPERATOR COUNTRY COMMENT
08:34 GW3UZS 3.775 80m SSB 57 59 Geff Wales AMP: SB Solid State, ANT: Ful
08:38 2E0AGB 3.775 80m SSB 59 59 Alan England
08:40 2E0FEH 3.775 80m SSB 57 58 Kruger England
08:41 G0RQL 3.775 80m SSB 59 59 ROOMES England
08:42 GI0AZA 3.775 80m SSB 59 59 Harper Northern Irel
08:43 M1MCW 3.775 80m SSB 59 59 Stewart England ANT: Inv-L
08:46 MM0XPZ 3.775 80m SSB 59 59 Groves Scotland
08:53 EA1DHB 14.342 20m SSB 55 56 Ricard Spain
08:54 SA4BLM 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Markus Sweden
08:55 SP2SJ/P 14.342 20m SSB 55 53 KUCZYNIECK Poland
08:56 9A2KI 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Kapov - Ic Croatia
08:57 SQ2RBY/P 14.342 20m SSB 51 51 Blonski-Ku Poland
08:59 OH6LS 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 S Finland
08:59 F4WBN 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 SAINT-ARRO France
08:59 HB9DRM 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 MUEGELI Switzerland
08:59 SV2RUJ/P 14.342 20m SSB 57 59 Triadafyll Greece SOTA: SV/MC-010
09:00 F5OUD 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Dupin France
09:01 EA1DFP 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 ALGARRA Spain
09:01 OH3BHL 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 KARTTUNEN Finland
09:01 SP9TBT 14.342 20m SSB 55 59 Borkowski Poland
09:02 IK4IDP 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Tommasi Italy
09:02 OM1AX 14.342 20m SSB 53 59 RABEK Slovak Republ
09:03 CT2GSN/P 14.342 20m SSB 55 53 CUNHA Portugal SOTA: CT/MN-042
09:04 IZ0IJC 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 De Meo Italy
09:04 IK2ECC 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 CIPOLLA Italy
09:05 OH1CM 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Tuominen Finland
09:05 SP1MVG 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 JANCZAREK Poland
09:06 IC8CUQ 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Cappiello Italy
09:06 UT5ZC 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Levchuk Ukraine
09:07 OE5JKL 14.342 20m SSB 57 59 JAEGER Austria
09:07 IK7XGH 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 COLONNA Italy
09:07 DK7RD 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Beissel Germany
09:08 SP9TKW 14.342 20m SSB 58 59 Klimczyk Poland
09:08 SP9AWS 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 KWIECIEN Poland
09:08 I4RHP 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 CAPPELLETT Italy
09:09 DL9SEP 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 LEUSCHNER Germany
09:09 IZ2BQF 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Santacatte Italy
09:10 DL8NDG 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Bienefeld Germany
09:10 EA2DT 14.342 20m SSB 33 59 Spain
09:11 9H1FL 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 BAILEY Malta
09:11 9A3R 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Rudela Croatia
09:11 HG8FH 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 KOVACS Hungary
09:12 OH1TD 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Karvo Finland
09:12 DL1DVE 14.342 20m SSB 57 57 Franke Germany
09:12 UX1IM 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Motsnyi Ol Ukraine
09:13 SQ9JXS 14.342 20m SSB 59 59 Stanik Poland
09:22 G4OBK/P 145.400 2m FM 56 52 Catterall England SOTA: G/NP-009
09:26 M0XCT 145.450 2m FM 54 52 Kevin England
09:26 G6LKB 145.450 2m FM 59 59 WARBURTON England
09:26 G8CPZ 145.450 2m FM 59 59 Barth England
09:27 GW4ZPL 145.450 2m FM 55 55 Barwell Wales
09:28 M1DHA 145.450 2m FM 59 59 Alan England
09:29 GW3YQP 145.450 2m FM 59 53 Hardie Wales
09:29 G0HRT 145.450 2m FM 59 59 Rob England
09:30 G1ACD 145.450 2m FM 59 59 Peter England
09:30 G6AEK/M 145.450 2m FM 59 59 Molyneux England
09:32 2W1PJE/P 145.450 2m FM 59 58 Peter Wales SOTA: GW/NW-015
09:32 M7MCG 145.450 2m FM 55 59 Mic England
09:32 M6MLV 145.450 2m FM 55 59 John England
09:33 M0MZB 145.450 2m FM 55 55 England
09:35 MI6LNP 145.450 2m FM 57 53 Norman Northern Irel
09:37 M0YCJ/P 145.400 2m FM 57 55 Colwny Scotland SOTA: G/NP-010
09:40 2E0XUP 145.400 2m FM 56 57 Davison England
09:41 2E0MOW 145.400 2m FM 59 59 Naylor England
09:44 GM4WHA 145.500 2m FM 51 52 HARPER Scotland
09:44 2E0LBI 145.400 2m FM 59 59 Bell England
09:48 M0XOC 145.400 2m FM 59 52 Cox M0XOC England
09:53 G0MHF 145.400 2m FM 59 58 John England
09:56 G0LWU 145.400 2m FM 59 59 Scarr England
09:57 G0UOK/P 145.400 2m FM 59 59 Dutton England SOTA: G/NP-004
09:58 M7SHZ/P 145.400 2m FM 59 59 Sharon England SOTA: G/NP-004
09:59 G5ZX/P 145.400 2m FM 59 59 Steve England SOTA: G/NP-004
10:16 MW7DTE/P 145.475 2m FM 59 59 Evans England SOTA: GW/NW-006
10:20 G4OBK/P 7.118 40m SSB 59 59 Catterall England SOTA: G/NP-009
10:35 CT2HOV/P 14.290 20m SSB 57 57 Pereira Go Portugal SOTA: CT/BA-010
10:37 G6PJZ/P 145.525 2m FM 43 55 Clift England SOTA: G/TW-003
10:45 SP9MA/P 10.114 30m CW 599 559 Jarek Poland SOTA: SP/SS-012
10:56 G8TMV/P 5.398 60m SSB 59 59 TUCKLEY England SOTA: G/WB-015
11:04 F4HPV/P 14.280 20m SSB 59 57 michel France SOTA: F/AM-396
11:07 I1WKN/P 14.288 20m SSB 59 57 SERA Italy SOTA: I/PM-148
11:11 MS0TA/P 7.150 40m SSB 59 57 Scotland SOTA: GM/WS-242
11:18 SA3IEI/P 14.064 20m CW 559 559 Beaton Sweden SOTA: SM/JL-057
11:25 HB9LEK/P 14.286 20m SSB 55 55 Neukomm Switzerland SOTA: HB/ZH-015
11:26 ES1LL 14.240 20m SSB 57 58 Sergey Estonia
11:29 IU0FBK/P 14.220 20m SSB 57 58 Marco Italy
11:39 OK1SDE 14.310 20m SSB 57 59 Wagner Czech Republi
11:40 G3TQQ/P 14.310 20m SSB 59 59 BOTTOMLEY England SOTA: G/TW-002
11:41 SV1RVJ 14.310 20m SSB 59 43 Ioannou Greece
11:41 EA1DHB 14.310 20m SSB 55 57 Pena Spain
11:42 OH3GZ 14.310 20m SSB 59 55 KOVANEN Finland
11:46 KD1CT 14.310 20m SSB 57 59 Bob United States
11:46 G5ZX/P 14.310 20m SSB 59 59 W England SOTA: G/NP-004
11:47 HB9BHW 14.310 20m SSB 56 59 Hans Switzerland
11:48 YO8AZQ/P 14.310 20m SSB 55 52 DONE Romania SOTA: YO/EC-227
11:49 F4HZR 14.310 20m SSB 55 55 MONDON France
11:49 HB9GHJ 14.310 20m SSB 59 58 Gredig Switzerland
11:50 DL8TV 14.310 20m SSB 58 59 Torsten Germany
11:51 DH8WN 14.310 20m SSB 57 59 Niebel Germany
11:53 DD2ZN/P 14.280 20m SSB 58 59 Pralle Germany SOTA: DM/HE-059
11:55 US3EZ 14.220 20m SSB 57 59 Serge Ukraine
12:12 2W1PJE/P 145.375 2m FM 59 59 Peter Wales SOTA: GW/NW-007
12:16 EA2CCG/P 14.310 20m SSB 53 52 Montoya Ji Spain SOTA: EA2/NV-148
12:19 YO5OTA/P 14.283 20m SSB 52 55 Pascal Romania SOTA: YO/WC-225
12:29 UT1EK 14.247 20m SSB 56 58 Anatoly Ukraine ANT: Wire 3 Ele Delta Loop
12:41 GW7LAS/P 3.776 80m SSB 59 59 Rob England HEMA: GW/HMW-043

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QSO Map

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Highlighting Yorkshire Contacts

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Good contacts into Europe

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Scandanavia

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CW S2S with Stephen, he was only using 5w

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Longest contact of the day

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Well done on a great activation, and a really nice report! Really pleased to have made the S2S and looking forward to the next one.

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Hi Mark,
Congrats for the activation and thanks for the great report with beautiful pictures.
I was sitting not far from Joaquin EA2CCG/P at EA2/NV-148 summit, activating on 2m FM, when you made S2S with him and I could hear you through Joaquin’s rig speaker. I’d have loved grabbing the mike to say hello and make S2S with you, but I had traffic on 2m FM and also sharing that hand microphone wouldn’t have been right from a Covid19 point of view. I’ve already got my 2 shots of the Pfizer vaccine, but my daughter also had her 2 shots and recently got the Delta variant, with very mild synthoms, fortunately, so I don’t trust much and prefer keeping the prophilaxys as much as I can.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes my friend!
73,

Guru

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Well done Mark. One correction if I may, our contact was actually on 2m fm. I was running 50W from an ft-857 into a SOTABEAMS MFD dipole just a meter or so above the ground. I must check the topography between us as it was a (pleasant) surprise!

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Morning Andy @G6PJZ

I was aware of this issue :flushed: but it was too late to correct it last night, so have done so this morning. I think I was so excited to get you in the log on 2m FM that I forgot to log the frequency swap :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:. It was certainly a fine contact for 2m FM and probably shows what a bit of power can achieve, we were both QRO for that one at 50w.

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2m FM QSOs with G3TQQ/P and G6PJZ/P

As suspected there was a fair amount of rock between us:

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Regards, Mark.

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Thanks @SA3IEI Stephen. Just looked at your summit again, 2 points for a 920m summit, that’s rough :scream:

Having said that I’ve done most of the high-point summits here in the Lake District this year, so without travelling advancing towards Mountain Goat is going to be slow going…

Regards, Mark.

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You are absolutely right to be concerned. My wife’s cousin and his wife both caught COVID-19 after being double vaccinated and they both have lost their sense of taste and smell, with Alex’s cousin suffering from reduced lung capacity at the moment.

Regards, Mark.

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Thanks for doing the topo map for me Mark. I did wonder if we’d chanced on a route between all the rocks; but no! The wonders of propagation.

(If anyone was walking on Great Shunner, we probably warmed their sandwiches for them :wink:)

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Well done Mark although I’m really not surprised the way you were booming out.
Best 73, oh nearly forgot, Thanks for contact

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Actually if you look at the route the signal took (approximately) in 3D you can see that there is a path with a lower profile between summits not far to the South which could explain the QSO.

Whilst profiles are great they don’t tell the whole story sometimes.

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Signal Path through the higher ground between M0NOM/P on G/LD-050 & G6PJZ/P on G/TW-003