One of my favourite summits in the Lake District - and with the weather being foul all week except today I made the most of the day with two activations, my go-to SOTA summit G/LD-050 Gummer’s How and in the afternoon G/LD-027 Place Fell.
I was using the FT-817 5w with 2200 mAH LifePo4 battery in a PowerPort case (carried on the hip) with SOTABeams 10m compact mast and SOTABeams Quad-band linked dipole.
I enjoyed that summit… quite a few years ago now…started at Bridgend. Looks like you had a really nice day. In lockdown here with no hope of any activations for another week and it’s been raining for several days with another storm hitting us tonight☹
Place Fell has seen more than its fair share of ascents from me, as it has two climbing huts and the Side Farm campsite at its foot - and one of my favourite pubs in your third picture!
I listened for you on 80m but didn’t hear anything.
I took my son up illgill head yesterday and whilst we didn’t have all that sunshine we did get the C130 mucking about below us as we went off whinn rigg. Too slow with the camera to catch it on film. Looked like an older H to me but then again its been a long time since I worked on them.
Hi, Place Fell isn’t too bad from Rooking, there is a nice path all the way up and it is about an hour to ascend, a bit less to come down again. Well worth the effort!
Great photos. I was there last year and was planning visit for October this year, but not such luck. Anyway thanks for QSO. I hope next year I will be able to enjoy these views in person. I love Lake District.
