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2E0YYY
Thanks Mike. Roy said he spoke to you at the rally. Hope you had a good day and moved on plenty of batteries. Keep up the great work digging out the DX! 73, John.
AC2KL
Hello Kevin. Thanks for your comment. Hope you enjoy your time in Britain, but bring your umbrella! The bigger and wilder summits are in GM Scotland but there are plenty of good ones in GW, GI and G too. If you’re stuck for GPS routes I can help you with a few of them. The majority of UK summits have no trees on them, so they can be rather bleak especially in winter.
73, John
G8ADD
Hi again Brian. Yes, there was a vast difference between 160 and 80. Just as great as the difference between Snowdon at just gone 7am and what seemed like another mountain entirely by 2pm. You could be forgiven for thinking quite mistakenly, that the trains were running but they won’t actually be starting until May. They could have run them in April this year, as there was no snow on the line. I can’t imagine Snowdon ever being too popular with you Brian. Too many people and not enough climbing I guess. 73, John.
GW4VPX
My pleasure Allan. So difficult to keep the ‘W’ out of your callsign but you managed it! Thanks for the S2S.
73, John
M6BWA
Hi Viki. Seems I spelled (spelt) your name wrong as well as moving your QTH tens of miles north and called Rod ‘Ian.’ Three errors in one paragraph! Seems the summit ref. was a typo as it’s ‘MW’ in the paper log. Rod is in there too, not Ian. Blame it on old age!
I don’t know about hardy but I am quite used to it. Despite that, this one didn’t come easy. The main difficulty was the wind direction but summer heat is my main enemy.
I haven’t tried or even seen any waterproof paper. G3CWI Richard of SOTAbeams used to sell a thing called a ‘Waterlog’ years ago but it may be discontinued. I was thinking of laminating a blank log sheet for use in this situation. A special pen or pencil would be needed but perhaps it’s worth investigating.
Thanks for the S2S.
73 to you & Rod, John.
MM0FMF
Thanks for the detailed reply Andy. Sorry I didn’t receive your signal. Another S2S would have looked good in the log. We will probably never know for sure what caused the failure to work S2S but please refer back to your UV5 thread at Baofeng UV5 (Post No54).
Best regards, John
G8ADD; N3TWM & G4AZS
Brian, Evan & Adrian, Thanks for presenting a balancing argument as regards the UV-5R-2. As to whether it’s a good or bad rig, I can’t fully decide as yet but please refer to test results carried out on it this week. Baofeng UV5 (Post 54).
All the best, John.