Day 3 - Monday 22nd July 2013 (part one) added.
GD/GD-002 Slieau Freoaghane
Day 4 - Tuesday 23rd July 2013:
GD/GD-005 Mull Hill
(yes, a second activation of this one).
This page also records our visit to Ramsey, where I used to live (briefly) in 1974.
In reply to M1EYP:
Thanks for the contacts Tom
Looking at those who chased you on the most summits I am in good company so I am very happy with my placing
12m is incredibly noisy here, & it is all due to local electronic rubbish, hence my 12 operation is dictated by other peoples TV viewing habits etc. Sometimes the CW portion is wiped out, other times the PSK portion. Very rarely are they both clear, but by some miracle they were on a day you were over in GD. Sadly, the sproggy I have around the most common 12m SSB SOTA frequencies never seems to move
Thanks for the contacts & best 73,
Mark G0VOF
You’re most welcome Mark!
Day 5 - Wednesday 24th July 2013:
GD/GD-001 Snaefell
The completion of the association for us, and the completion of the “UK” national highest peaks for me and Jimmy - with Jimmy achieving the first. (Inverted commas inserted for the pedants).
With a few pictures of the summit restaurant and mountain railway.
Tom M1EYP
Days 6 to 8 Thursday/Friday/Saturday 25th to 27th July 2013:
Three more activations of Mull Hill GD/GD-005
Now uploaded on my website:
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M0HGY:
Belated congratulations to Jimmy on getting the 5 highest G* association summits. I realised that I’d got 4 of the 5 earlier this year without making a deliberate effort. Tentative plans for next year might get us the 5th, since Martyn got me a book in walking in the Mournes for my last birthday.
Caroline M3ZCB.
All the best with that Caroline. It seems English activators regularly invade the summit areas of Wales, Scotland and even the Isle of Man, but rarely venture into GI. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Great place with some excellent hills.
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
The result is that I can now confirm that Jimmy M0HGY is the first
person to have activated the highest peak in each of the five UK
associations:
Well done Jimmy… but as a consolation Tom, I presume you are the first to do so under a single call-sign?
Andrew
M6ADB
Hey nice one Andrew. I hadn’t thought of that, but will delight in winding Jimmy up with it when he eventually gets out of bed!
Although perhaps I can’t claim the single callsign thing either …
(M1EYP/P, MW1EYP/P, MM1EYP/P, MI1EYP/P, MD1EYP/P).
Cheers!
Tom M1EYP
Hi Andrew and Caroline,
Thank you for congratulating me on being the first to activate the 5 UK’s highest mountains.
Both of us have used different callsigns to activate the 5 UK’s highest mountains, so this still means that I am the first to activate the 5 UK’s highest mountains.
Jimmy M0HGY
I’m the first to have done it all with the same suffix…
In reply to M1EYP:
Well done Jimmy (and Tom)
The next challenge is to activate:
G/LD-058 Arnside Knott
GW/NW-072 Mynydd Enlli
GI/MM-017 Cairngaver
GD/GD-005 Mull Hill
GM/SI-222 Muldoanich
No one appears to hold this accolade yet.
I’ll leave it to you to work out why it’s significant…
Hmmm, interesting Pete. Yep, I see what you did here!
And me and Jimmy are just one summit away from this set as well - game on!
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
ISTR SI-222 is the hardest of the Barra outliers to activate. More to do with landing and getting off the boar more than anything.
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to MM0FMF:
More to
do with landing and getting off the boar more than anything.
It’s a real pig.
In reply to G3CWI:
A total swine,just like these Android keyboards.
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to M1EYP:
I still maintain my observation is correct - at least as I understand it, the prefixes Gx/Mx/2x are “Regional Identifiers” not separate call-sign prefixes
But this bit of banter should in no way disparage the achievements of BOTH of you
In reply to M6ADB:
Yes they are a regional identifier and you use them to identify the region. A bit like they way you used to have to put the call area number on a US call when you operated elsewhere in the states. K5FMF in Texas would be K5FMF/9 when in Illinois. These requirements are local to the issuing body.
However, my license doc says MM0FMF not M0FMF. That means that my callsign is MM0FMF not M0FMF and I have to use my callsign as it appears on the validation document when I’m outside of the UK. So I was HB9/MM0FMF/P when in Switzerland recently not HB9/M0FMF/P. Which is strange that I had to say I was in Scotland whilst in Switzerland! So it would appear that they are now separate callsigns prefixes aswell.
Andy
MM0FMF
We will be doing a presentation about our GD SOTA DXpedition tomorrow (Monday) evening at Macclesfield & District ARS, 8pm.
All welcome.
Tom M1EYP