Nothing from Tom this morning but worked an “invading” norwegian later :o)
Another first for me with 10w . Worked state of Tennessee in Cw this afternoon on 17m. Happily surprised with that one.
Peter
In reply to F6ENO:
Very exiting 
Thanks Alain, and cuagn.
Mike
In reply to F6ENO:
In reply to LA5SAA:
Mike, test this link http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
73 Alain F6ENO
Hi Mike and Alain.
Yes, I meant this one.
73!
Janos,HA4FY
I must have been tired after yesterday’s excellent SOTA day with LA1KHA, LA1ENA and LA1TPA (and M3EYP) because I knowingly missed Match of the Day and went to bed at 9.40pm. At least I was up bright and early again, at 5.30am this morning. The weather was rubbish, but I didn’t care.
I enjoyed a breakfast of Crunchy Nut Bites while reading about Sean M0GIA’s latest antenna project, then was on the road by 6.15am. By the time I was pulling in on Cloudside, the wind and rain was really whipping up, but still full of enthusiasm after the previous day, I marched on up the path.
I noticed my headtorch seemed a bit dim. Then I noticed it wasn’t working. OK, so now I know that it lasts about five hours on my rechargable NiMH AAs. I continued using one of the two spare LED pen torches I keep in my coat pocket.
The summit was a pretty inhospitable place, but with a strong south-westerly wind, I could shelter out of most of the wind and rain by the side of the topograph facing the trig point. First though, I had to get the 80m antenna up, quite a challenge in these conditions - and still dark!
My eventual QRV time was 0612z, on 3.557MHz CW, and it was LA5SAA first in the log. He was followed by SM6CMU, G0TDM, HB9DOT and G3CWI. Richard asked me how the weather was, but I suspect he did so only to fulfil his own ghoulish humour given that he was barely seven miles from me!
I then went to 3.655MHz SSB, and Richard G3CWI found me, sparing me the need to self-spot. However, no-one else called in, so it was just that one QSO on SSB. Similarly, there were no replies to my calls on 2m and 70cm, not that I was sorry.
I only realised how good my choice of shelter was when I got up to pack away the gear. I had only just told Richard “It’s not that bad actually”, but when I stood up into the wind and rain, I realised that it was - and getting worse!
There’s definitely more life on 40m CW in a morning, than there is on the combined 80m CW + SSB. However, I’ll stick with 80m this week and try to build something up. Thanks to those who called and spotted.
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
Hi Tom.
Brave boy you are ;-). I realized that it took some seconds before you replied to the cw-callers, and I understood that things were not very comfortable on the summit. Well, what else could one expect working from an English cloud on a nasty autumn morning?
Your sigs on cw were ufb - you came up to s9 before you announced your qsy.
G3CWI had a nice signal in Norway when he worked you in SSB. However, the qrm/splatter from German and Swedish rag chewers close to your qrg covered your sigs completely in my qth.
Hope to work you again tomorrow.
73
Mike
In reply to M1EYP:
Hi Tom
Unfortunately my indoor antenna here in Cornwall does not cover 80m, but I am flying home tomorrow and will give you a call on Wednesday morning.
I am overlooking the English Channel and the waves have been crashing against the rocks in driving rain all morning, fortunately the weather forecast says that things can only get better, so GL on 80m for the remainder of the week.
73
Roy G4SSH/A
Fowey
Thanks Mike. Perhaps the area around 3.660MHz is no longer the place for me to go. Is there another part of the band (below 3.7MHz) that you generally find to be clearer?
I enjoyed my day with your fellow LA ops yesterday. Any idea which summits they are heading for today?
And I’ve just realised - Roy, Fawey - rhymes!
Tom
In reply to M1EYP:
Missed your alert this AM Tom… Read the spots too late at 1900 UTC. But it even looked a but wild down here. Rather you than me Will try and switch on for 80m CW tomorrow.
73 Marc G0AZS
Whoever is my 2nd contact tomorrow morning - will be my 2000th activator contact from G/SP-015…
In reply to M1EYP:
Good luck Tom - won’t be me 
Neither Susan nor I are working tomorrow so a lie in
Roger G4OWG
Have I just set myself up for the mother of all deafening silences to my initial CQ call…?
In reply to M1EYP:
Whoever is my 2nd contact tomorrow morning - will be my 2000th activator contact from G/SP-015,
You could have had this a few weeks ago but you dont, show up on 145mhz any more, im still around on GB3VT & GB3MN, making my way north up the A50 & M6 junction 16, when i turn off at 7-30am,
Good luck catch you soon,
Steve m0sgb
In reply to M1EYP:
Someone with two callsigns is on a winner here Tom. They work you with their 1st call and then can tail end their own sign off perfectly with their 2nd call.
Job done! 
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to M1EYP:
Thanks Mike. Perhaps the area around 3.660MHz is no longer the place for me to go. Is there another part of the band (below 3.7MHz) that you generally find to be clearer?
No Tom, I don’t think so. Everybody in Western Europe seems to rag-chew in the morning below 3.7.
I enjoyed my day with your fellow LA ops yesterday. Any idea which summits they are heading for today?
No, I have no idea which summits they activate. Unfortunatly I had qrl after 0800 UTC today, and I missed them again.
73
Mike
but you dont, show up on 145mhz any more…
Not true, I still do plenty of 145MHz activating Steve, check out the log.
I always call on 145.500MHz and 433.500MHz from The Cloud in the mornings as well. This is usually around 7.40am, which may explain why you don’t hear me.
Not sure how I could have had the 2000th contact weeks ago, regardless of whatever band or mode I use. There are only so many hours in a day!
Cheers, Tom M1EYP
Hi Tom. You were very weak in Thornton in Craven this morning.I posted you on Dx Summits cluster I wonder if it made any difference ATB Geoff
Hi Tom
Did not hear a whisper… even on CW. I was tuned up and waiting from 0550 UTC but I only knew you were QRV when I heard Mike LA5SAA work you.
I was so surprised but I waited and then listened again later but nothing at all heard here. Most peculiar… even if the skip was long, I would have expected to hear something from you on 80m.
Sorry I didn’t catch you, I wonder who number 2000 was?
73 Marc G0AZS
Hi Tom,
We listened out for you this morning. Didn’t hear you in Bury St Edmunds. We’ll keep trying though!
Cheers!
James G7MLO & Tom M3XFG
Thanks to all for posting the interesting information above. Very strange conditions. Two-way reports were good on both CW and SSB between SP-015 and LA, but nowhere else it seems!
It was very cold, but without the rain of yesterday, with new batteries in the headtorch and bright moonlight, it was much easier and quicker to set up. I was QRV by 0601z.
1999 was LA5SAA on 3.557MHz CW.
2000 was LA5SAA on 3.662MHz SSB.
2001 was M0SGB/M on 145.550MHz FM.
And that was it. I did many more calls on 80CW, 80SSB, 2FM and 0.7FM, all to no avail. Shall we all try again in the morning?
Cheers,
Tom M1EYP