Much appreciated. Thankfully I’d qualified it on 40m, with 16 QSO’s, but it is always nice to use 2m in the central belt.
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Thanks for the photos. I’ll have to reread the appropriate Ian Rankin/Rebus novels now I know what all those places look like!
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Hmm, I don’t see the haggis, but maybe it’s that brownish bit beyond the tomato. On a plate that colour it is easily camoulaged. Anyway, what’s with the beans? Bad English influence…
Super photos of the city in the morning light with minimal humanity around. Makes you want to do this kind of thing again. 
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It was in there somewhere. I like beans but I found the mushroom to be offensive!
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I’ve heard of a Hamstick antenna, was what you created a Drumstick? 
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And the sausage is the wrong shape.
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It turns out my December 2024 Christmas meal will be in Glasgow. So, no Arthur’s Seat this year.
Suggestions for a quick SOTA accessible from Glasgow using public transport please?
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That’s a wee bit harder…
How about a train: Glasgow Queen Street to Bathgate is 44mins. Then walk across Bathgate and up to Cairnpapple Hill GM/SS-254 which is 4km (8km round trip) and 180m ascent. About 1hr walking.
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How about catching a nice warm train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley (less than an hour) and activate eh! GM/SS-272, Arthurs Seat.
Less than a 2km walk to the summit (4Km round trip and less than 251m of ascent!
Fishmarket Close remains an option!
Adios
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That’s not a bad idea actually. I think Mo is visiting friends in Livingston, so that could fit in nicely.
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I can’t do better than Cairnpapple Hill for ease.
Best i came up with was Duncolm from Kilpatrick station (30 minutes on the train) but you still have a 6+km walk
Or
Ben Bowie from either Craigendoran or Helensburgh (45 minutes on the train), but again with 5+km walk to the summit.
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Don’t forget Fraser will be doing this activation in his brogues, best bib and tucker. Bowie has a bit of a thrash up thjrough the trees. 
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I thought about the same summits as Iain but thought they would be much worse under foot. Tom & Jimmy did Cairnpapple earlier this year and Tom said that walking from the car park to the summit was such a joke it made The Cloud look like a proper walk
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That was last year Andy actually. However my dad Tom @M1EYP did activate Cairnpapple Hill GM/SS-254 earlier this year before travelling home from his and my brother Liam’s GM/SS road trip.
Jimmy M0HGY
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When you are sort-of retired then this year, last year and next year all merge into the same year.
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When you’re sort of old as well.
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Fraser, you’ve got it all to come. 
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Already happened Gerald
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