I’m delighted to let you know that I’ve been able to arrange another Upper Park GW/MW-032 activation day. This is a rare opportunity to access and activate such a challenging private summit, and I’m thrilled to share it with you.
After more than 18 months of planning, we now have a confirmed date:
Saturday, 11th April 2026
We’ll meet at around 08:30 (UK time), walk up to the summit together, and enjoy approximately one hour to activate. I will send meeting location and further details nearer the time.
If you’d like to take part, please send me a PM via the SOTA Reflector messaging system only, and I’ll add your name to the list. Please make sure you include your email address in the message you send me.
Important note: Places are limited to 20 participants, on a first come, first served basis. Once the list is full, I’ll take up to 3 reserves and update this thread to confirm when all places have been allocated.
There will come a cost with this activation of £25 per candidate. This will go towards a chosen charity by Powis Estate.
Looking forward to sharing this special activation day with many of you.
Thanks for organising Ben @GW4BML. As you know high on my list to complete mid-wales and Wales Marilyn’s. Very sadly I plan to be operating in Japan and so best I can do is chase !
It’s strange! Ten years ago I wrote to the estate proposing exactly this - well almost! Mine was 25 activators donating £20 each I think! I tried to sell it as a way to significantly reduce the amount of access requests they received while at the same time raising £500 for the Welsh Air Ambulance - Powis Castle’s nominated charity at that time.
Got nowhere!
My opening came during the pandemic when Lord Powis himself read and replied to my communication, rather than his staff.
Anyway, I always thought this was a good idea, so I am glad the concept has been proven. It just took the addition of the @GW4BML aura I guess! (Still Mid Wales’ highest profile TV personality since BBC Countryfile in 2022…)
I was lucky enough to take part in the last group of activation of this summit. Everything was well organised by Ben, and it was great putting faces to some familiar callsigns.
Highly recommended for anyone keen to tick this one off the list.
and so best I can do is chase !
