I will be on holiday in County Wexford, based in IO62om during next week 7-11th August for the final family break of the summer. I’m planning to activate the following EI/IE summits at some point during the week. Other hills also possible, depending on the co-operation of the children and the WX!
EI/IE-006 Blackstairs Mountain
EI/IE-004 Mount Leinster
EI/IE-020 Brandon Hill
EI/IE-048 Coppanagh
I’ll post alerts on the fly as the activation opportunities arise. 2m FM/SSB to GW/GK should be a possibility from these hills so I will try to make some contacts using a portable 5 el yagi. I note M1EYP is in GW next week also, so maybe s2s possible? I will also be qrv on 7/14ssb and 10cw.
Nice to hear some activity from EI. Always nice to work SOTA from EI. I have been there a lot of times. We contacted from EI/IS-065 last week. Next week I will be in DM/BM and OK/JC and OE/OO, so maybe we will make some S2S on 10 MHz.
It is hard to believe no-one has been up IE-020 Brandon Hill and IE-048 Coppanagh since my activation dating from 2010! They are some of my favourites SOTA in EI: nice walk, beautiful surroundings, quiet location. Perfect for SOTA.
On IE-004 Mt Leinster I had some breakthrough / desensing on 2m from the very powerful RTE transmitter on top. Worth taking a LPF / BPF.
Good luck with your activation, enjoy your holiday.
Thanks for the contact last weekend. I only noticed your videos of IS-065 and IS-075 afterwards - I think you had better wx than I did. Pardon my rusty CW on 30m
Yes, I am looking forward to next week. I expect the hills will be nice and straightforward, no awkward access issues, and it is a quiet part of the country. There hasn’t been a lot of activity in this area recently - most EI/IE activity obviously occurs around Dublin. If all the ducks fall in a line, I may also get to IE-060 Gibbet Hill which I see you’ve activated recently and IE-038 Slieveboy.
Thanks for the advice on Mt Leinster - maybe one for HF only.
I hope you have a good holiday in County Wexford and hope to work you summit to summit while activating in Snowdonia with my dad Tom M1EYP on 2m fm.
There are only 3 unactivated EI/IE SOTA summits and are not too far from where you will be based, these are Spinans Hill EI/IE-040, Cushbawn EI/IE-042 and Tinoran Hill EI/IE-059, will you be activating these 3 remaining unactivated EI/IE SOTA summits on your holiday?
Hopefully our activations will coincide during the week and a summit to summit will be possible.
I don’t have plans to activate any of the outstanding unactivated EI/IE summits. Although, they aren’t particularly far away, from what I gather, there may be access issues/difficulties, particularly forestry plantations to contend with. Having been ripped to shreds in the past, I have a particular dislike for navigating toxic pine forests!
At the same time I will be on a tour across CT land.
I will have my gear with me and I expect activate some summits.
Hope to have a S2S with you, especially now that you move to CW: Nice move from your part!
Except on the EI/IS-004 Galtymore Mountain, it was vy cold and windy.