My apologies to all who called me on EI/IN-084 on Saturday 18/06/2022 between 15:30z and 16:15z.
The attempt was in good faith, but I now know that I was outside the Activation Zone, so not a valid activation.
Stations that I logged:
40m: @2E0ESY @F4WBN @DG1NPM @G4OIG @OM1AX @G4IPB
(more to follow in the next post, apparently a maximum of 10 can be mentioned in one post)
Sorry!
What happened:
Earlier in the day I activated Arderin - no doubt about that one, I was on the summit!
I then decided that I just had time to travel back through Athlone, where we were staying, and up to Slieve Bawn EI/IN-084, which would be a new one for me.
My favourite bookshop in Athlone (Easons) stocks OSi maps, but they didn’t have sheet 40, which includes Slieve Bawn.
After a few navigation errors on the road up, I arrived in the car park 20 mins later than hoped. Still time to activate. Head up to the ridge, and find a nice picnic table near the summit cross and commercial radio mast. I can see the true summit further along the ridge, and my GPS tells me that I am only 5m lower (vertical accuracy on these consumer grade devices is not good, as discussed in other threads, but this would have been within the margin of error).
Set up and play radio on 40m and 20m, all good - or so I thought.
As I walked off, I had an uncomfortable feeling that the coll between me and the true summit might be unhelpfully deep, though with time running out it was too late to investigate in detail.
Back home now, I ordered a map which arrived today, and confirmed that the coll is at least 32m below the summit, so that’s it I’m afraid
The only good news is that I now know the way, and hope to be back to do it properly before too long!
73
Adrian
G4AZS