I would think so. The other week I had a s-t-s from Easington fell that was over 100km from my 1w into pcb antenna and a Welsh summit using the handheld with rubber duck.
I havent checked the terrain between Billinge Hill and Gummers how but i dont think there would have been any obstructions.
Like most bands it can throw up pleasant surprises too.
Ian
âŠsounds like built in obsolescence !
Geoff vk3sq
In terms of legs, yes, there were 12 legs to be seen, but as it happens it was just the two bipeds again and two dogs. Paul and I hadnât quite run out of conversation by this point, but any potential silence was interrupted by my daughter phoning to tell me that somehow the carâs key-less entry key had been locked in the car whist it was still running, in the middle of a one-way street in Bowness.
This wouldnât have been such a problem if the spare key hadnât done one about two months ago and couldnât be found. However, the Turkish takeway they had frequented produced a Turkish mechanic and a translator who, after confirming it was fine from a liability point of view, broke into the car using the coat hanger method within about 2 mins and they were on theyâre way again. This kind of thing would always happen - back in the day - when I was working away from home, usually on the Isle of Man.
Spare key still hasnât been located despite and extensive search, although I did swap the CR2302 in the one we do have as soon as I could get my hands on it.
Mark
i was thinking a pennines weekend could be good just the other day. Even NP and SP so more people can attend with less travel, for some.
Would be good to resurrect the all G/SP region in a day.
17 activators with a good mix of easier and harder summits. It had an arranged time for s-t-s within the region on 2m then people could do whatever they pleased before or after the schedules times.
It wasnât perfect , but it sort of worked.
It happened over 20 years ago when 2m was the default operating band. With more available activators it should be easier to organise but probably wouldnât be 
Looks like we were both on Billinge Hill G/SP-017 yesterday Ian, but at non-coincidental times.
I did a couple of hours in the afternoon in-between dropping off and picking up Liam in Liverpool. After the damp squib of 5MHz the previous day, I decided in my mind to ditch the 60m dipole and replace it with the 20m groundplane + quarterwave vertical in my rucksack. Imagine my annoyance upon reaching the summit and finding that Iâd not bothered to actually do that!
I briefly considered returning the very short distance to the car to swap antennas, but then decided that fate had overruled me and wanted me to try 5MHz again. It was slow and uninspiring just like the previous day. 7 QSOs on 60m SSB, including one cadet station - MRE72. 2 QSOs on 60m FT8. It was also raining, increasingly heavily. You know, that horrible fine rain that gets your wet.
Both days I found that fellow radio amateurs were working me reliably and quickly, albeit with a few 43 reports incoming. The cadets however seemed to really struggle. Several QSOs attempts failed with the repeated message coming back âUnknown station, unknown station, weak, unreadableâ. I was hearing them 59 too.
Over the weekend, the cadet stations I worked were: MAF34 (not convinced they were announcing the correct callsign), MRE27, MRE19 and MRE72. Stations heard well by me, but that couldnât RX me well enough to complete were MRE69, MRE82, MRE57 and MRE11.
As I knew that Ham2K PoLo wouldnât accept these cadet callsigns, I took my cheap waterproof notepad. I now know that you get what you pay for! These have not held up well with getting wet, nowhere near the way RITR do.
Can you buy a fuel pump and ECU with your kebab? 
I always wondered what âkeyless entryâ meantâŠ.
23cms is a great band when tropospheric ducting is around. My record is over 600km when running 250mW of SSB from my old homebrew transverter to a 15 over 15 yagi. I even worked Denmark from a hill in Leicestershire using the transverter with 6cm of solder stuck in the N type socket. Never did build the amplifier. 
I would be willing to drive down to deepest Lancashire to activate a G/SP summit should someone organise such an event.
Unless I am mistaken I was there Saturday, and I think you were up there on Sunday. If it was Saturday you were there , I would have waited around had I known.
No, indeed: 60 and 65 minutes drive respectively. I did both this summer. Both are good summits for HF and 2m.
Thanks for the QSOâs. David G0EVV and myself had a great time North West Lakes on Grasmoor LD-009, Grisedale Pike LD-015, and a windy activation atop Mellbreak LD-036 on Sunday to blow Saturdays nights drinks out of the system
Cheers - 73
Finished my version of the LD weekend today by hauling my backside up Claife Heights. Good conditions to the USA. I was using the IC-705, Chameleon MPAS 2.0 @ 10 watts with the Slim-J for 2m dangled off the end.
Longest DX was Randy @ND0C at 6,385 km on both 15m and 10m, excellent chasing, and also of note Bob @AC1Z who was an absolutely solid 59 on 15m.
On 10m I snagged a S2S with Richard @G4TGJ who was a banging 599 on G/NP-032, with a 2m S2S with M0PJE/P working another LD summit G/LD-059 (Muncaster Fell, Iâm still yet to visit!)
It was an enjoyable walk and nice to get some DX which has been somewhat lacking for me recently!
Iâve not been feeling 100% myself for the past month or so. Iâve lost a bit of enthusiasm for SOTA, so couldnât motivate myself for the LD weekend.
Iâm still ticking away in the background though. Iâve been working on a RockMite with titanium housing over the past several weeks. Iâm yet to try the rig on air.
I did make it up Kirkstone Pass on Friday, I took the Traveller down the side of Ullswater and stopped for refreshments in Ambleside.
Traveller looks tiny when parked next to the more modern cars in the car park at Ambleside! (Not guilty for the oil leak on this occasion!)
73, Colin
M1BUU
You were certainly booming in too! Itâs only 72km so perhaps not surprising.
I had similar results, and also with @NE4TN who I instantly know is from Tennessee!
Iâm only one away from equalling your activation count for G/NP-028 so that should get you motivated Colin!
I think you neglected FM.
Impressed with your QSO with G3TCU. I could hear hi OK but my 2W was just not enough to be readable.
Looking forward to the next outing on the ”wave outing.
Stuart - G1ZAR/P
That takes me back Colin. Happy childhood memories! Was green the only colour they came in?
