First snow in the Lake District this year?

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I got out early this morning for an activation of Loughrigg Fell G/LD-047. The WX forecast was for rain from around 10am.

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This was quite an achievement as last night we were celebrating a posthumous birthday of a good friend we lost earlier in the year. The Bootleggers venue has reopened in Kendal - a popular spot for live music, although I’ve never been previously. Last night was a band called Antiks a heavy rock/metal band who were as loud as I can remember experiencing, we had to retire to the main bar area after a short while!

As I was activating the weather started coming in over Crinkle Crags and as I left I noticed that there was a dusty white covering of the higher fells, as predicted. It was around 4 degC at lake level, so probably just above freezing on the fell. With no appreciable wind it was quite pleasant, except for cold hands.

Thanks to all the chasers, I took the FT-817ND and the MiniPA50 amp for a spin with the SOTABeams Band Hopper IV. I couldn’t work out whether there was an issue with the amp, I ended up plugging the 4S LifePo4 direct into the FT-817ND for 5w and disconnected the amp. Should really have tested this combination in the warmth of the shack as I’d not used them for a while.

From a tech perspective I’m trying to use Hyprland under the Wayland graphics system running in Arch Linux. It is a tiling window manager that uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts, it is taking some getting used to!

I’m also using FLEcli but for some reason the mysota keyword isn’t resulting in an entry in the resulting ADI file, need to look at that.

Mark. M0NOM.

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TIME CALLSIGN BAND MODE RST RSR OPERATOR SIG REF
08:57 DL8DXL 20m SSB 59 57 Fred
08:58 F5PYI 20m SSB 59 59 Laurent
08:59 DG0JMB 20m SSB 59 57 Joerg
08:59 SQ9CWO 20m SSB 59 57 Jan
09:00 DL1DVE 20m SSB 59 57 Thomas
09:02 EA3ARP 20m SSB 55 52 Joan
09:09 M7PNN 40m SSB 58 58 Paul BOTA B/G-1159
09:13 GM4WHA 40m SSB 58 57 GEOFF
09:15 G4HQB 40m SSB 59 55 Phil
09:15 M0MDA 40m SSB 59 59 Michael
09:16 G6AEK 40m SSB 55 57 David
09:26 G7CDA 2m SSB 59 59 Douggie
09:27 M0KNP/P 2m SSB 59 59 Clive
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Hi Mark, great report with photos! Did you work out the problem with the amp?

Geoff vk3sq

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Used to use i3, then bspwm, now it’s just gnome and fullscreen programs :sweat_smile: tmux if I need multiple terminal windows.

Nice views today!

It’s not the first snow in the Cairngorms this year…that was back in September, but tonight has been the first snow in Aberdeen…so probably 6’ on the mountains :sweat_smile:

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