Tom and Jimmy had White Coombe GM/SS-030 down for today but the GM WX decided they’d had enough proper SOTA fun. I got a text saying they were coming to do Cairnpapple Hill GM/SS-254 which is about 20mins drive for me and they were 30mins away. I was still mincing about the house in a dressing gown although I’d been up out of bed for 3.5 hrs. I pulled on some clothes and drove up to the car park and Tom and Jimmy were a bit delayed by the rubbishy lunchtime traffic around here.
We set off and in under 5mins we were at the summit. Tom’s comment “This is taking the mick… it makes The Cloud look like a proper summit!” Anyway they setup and Jimmy worked plenty on 2m FM, well this summit does overlook Glasgow and Edinburgh and a lot of the Central Belt. Tom did 20m CW and then 40m SSB. There was some really ominous WX moving in so they shutdown and started packing up but not before we all chased Alan MM0VPM on Meall Glas GM/CS-033 on 2m FM. That’s a unique and complete in waiting for me now 
Jimmy is perplexed by his poor reception and studiies the 817 display… maybe connecting the antenna would help! Actually he’s packing up and started this before Tom in case he had to leg it because of the imminent rain. Wise move.
Tom was very impressed by Ed DD5LP’s head mounted whip antenna and so decided to go one better with a head mounted Alex Loop. I’m not sure how it attaches, probably best left to our imagination where that pole is going…
Ed DD5LP and the original head mounted whip, that just attaches to the headphone band, obviously.
It was nice to have another waffle with Tom and Jimmy. And a complete/unique now awaits me. A good day all round. 