It’s been a long time coming, but hopefully later today I will have achieved an outstanding goal to have successfully activated all 283 (or 287 in my case as some have come-and-gone - hi!) South of Scotland Summits GM/SS’s.
The last remaining summit is GM/SS-265 on the Island of Bute - yes the ISLAND, so of course should be a GM/SI Summit, and indeed there are a few other anomalies like this in the Scottish listings, but that’s another story.
I had intended this to be a joint Activation with my now departed XYL Anne GM4UXX.
If I am successful, I will Post a fuller ‘story’ of the in’s-and-out’s of how I go there/here.
So, if you get a chance, check my GM Alert (SOTAWatch/Alerts) for later today (April 14th) and hopefully I we’ll be able to have a quick exchange.
I hope all goes smoothly today Jack and I look forward to working you on your last SS, if the fickle conditions allow.
It is many years since I was on Bute, 1971 in fact. I recall trying to get permission to camp on farm land, but the tenant farmers were not willing to grant consent as the Marquis of Bute wouldn’t like it… or so they claimed. We set up camp in an old quarry alongside the road near Ardscalpsie bay and I remember getting horribly sunburnt. Oh those days of ignorance. The radio was good though on 2m AM.