Easington Fell G/SP-012, Apologies for QLF

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I challenge myself to chase Richard G4TGJ on his activations and I try to do summit to summit QSOs if I can.

Richard alerted for Pendle Hill G/SP-005 this morning, so I thought I’d chase him from a small summit. The weather forecast that I saw suggested gusty winds and cold temperatures. I opted to activate Easington Fell as the drive is around 35 minutes from home and the summit has a large activation zone which can easily accommodate even the largest antenna.

At the last minute before leaving the house, I decided to grab my Kanga Products Rooster 40m transceiver. I’d built the kit quite some time ago but never tried it.

I got to the summit (G/SP-012) and set up my gear, it was at that point that I realised that the Rooster doesn’t have a built in keyer. I’d only taken paddle keys with me. I had to use my Palm Pico as a straight key.

I’m not so good with a proper straight key, so using a paddle key wasn’t exactly ideal.

Apologies for the QLF on 40m and thanks to the 9 stations who managed to work out what I was attempting to send!

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I managed to work G4TGJ/P on G/SP-005 on both 30m and 20m using my MTR.

The weather was far nicer than the forecast suggested, at times the wind was noticeable by it’s absence.
What a difference a day makes, it was absolutely freezing on Great Coum yesterday!

73, Colin

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Thanks for the S2S Colin. It was definitely windier on Pendle Hill! I was wearing my down jacket in my tarp sheltered by the wall and I was actually quite warm, except for my feet which got really cold. I need to find a way to keep them warm in winter.

There had been some geomagnetic and solar activity and I found 30m fairly quiet (9 QSOs) but 20m was pretty lively (47 QSOs).

I also managed an S2S with G5AIB/P on Great Knoutberry Hill G/NP-015 just using the 2m handheld. After setting up the flowerpot on the mast I called CQ on S20 but didn’t get any response. 2m seems to have gone a lot quieter recently.

My LoRa tracker also picked up your tracker Colin.

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