Motorsport and hills in GW/NW

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As I was heading for a weekend at https://www.angleseycircuit.co.uk/ for a weekend of Motorsport doing recovery it was good timing to go and activate the only two SOTAs on the Island.

Mynydd Bodafon - Yr Arwydd GW/NW-071 and Holyhead Mountain - Mynydd Twr GW/NW-069

Mynydd Bodafon - Yr Arwydd GW/NW-071

A bit windy on the hill and signs of either a previous fire or a controlled burn of the some brush
Got setup on 2m’s and struggled with some contacts (wind blowing the RF away ? :slight_smile: )
Switched to 14mhz and made a few more and got the hill qualified.

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Job done. Back down to the Landy for a brew and off to the next hill

Holyhead Mountain - Mynydd Twr GW/NW-069

After finding a parking space in the RSPB car park and paying what seems a lot for a bit of parking a nice stroll to the top of the hill was had.
Not as windy at the top of the hill as the previous hill - which was nice.
Found a space and got setup. 2m was the order of day and this time some better success.

A few on 2m FM and then prompted by a chaser I moved over to 2m SSB and made 4 more contacts.
A contact into EI land and then contact of the day was 2m SSB into Devon :slight_smile: with G0RQL

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Motorsport pictures
4 cars into the corner known as Rocket In did not go too well for these racers

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A bit if a shunt from behind left this Caterham with a fuel leak, knackered tyre and suspension plus body work damage - Full lift needed.

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Parc Ferme with Caterhams

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Cheers all.

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One of my favourites is Mynydd Bodafon. Great place to spend a summers day playing radio. Finding places to guy a mast is the only hard part.

There was a fire last year that destroyed most of the vegetation.

Good to hear its recovering.

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There is not a lot of room to guy a mast, I used the flat area just behind the trig point. Verticals are the best bet if the summit is busy.

The vegetation is slowly growing back (or was it weeds…) either way, there was some green poking through.

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Nice skies in the photos. There’s a bod who lives 5mins walk from me who has a Caterham Seven with a CBR1000RR Fireblade engine in it. He says “it’s quite quick” :wink:

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Cheers.
I worked with someone a few years ago (30) and he had a caterham style car but(being an engineer) he decided to squeeze two engines in. One front and one rear….twin engine 4x4 :slight_smile:

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Also has its own song.

Not sure about google translate though of the Welsh Lyrics.

Glywaf y gog yn galw ar Fynydd Bodafon
Lle bydd yr eithin per ar odrau arwydd fawr

Goodgle says :-

I hear the cuckoo calling on Bodafon Mountain
Where the gorse will be on the udders of a big sign

At the risk of derailing the topic, are there any other songs naming a Sota summit?

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On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

G/NP-028 is named Rombalds Moor but the summit is on Ilkley Moor.

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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud - William Wordsworth

Around The Wrekin - Fitzroy Holt

Lord Snowdon - They Might Be Giants

I Won’t Black Down - Tom Petty

Hergest Ridge part 1 - Mike Oldfield

Hergest Ridge part 2 - Mike Oldfield

68 Guns - The Alarm

Old Pendle - The Pendlefolk

Meet Me At The Pillar - Sean & Frank O’Meara

Ben Nevis - The Macc Lads

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Nah, needs a Hayabusa motor - easy 250bhp

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:grin:

A Fireblade would be 128bhp and a Seven is c. 500kg or 256bhp/tonne. From driving a 180bhp/tonne car I can imagine a 256bhp/tonne level of performance. I’m not sure I can comprehend what 500bhp/tonne would be like!

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As an ex biker, that sort of power to weight ratio seems normal :wink:

My last one was a Honda Blackbird - dynoed 140bhp at the rear wheel, so including the rider about 450 bhp/tonne …

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