However Black Hill gained the accolade of SOTAs 24th most popular
summit, certainly beats me!
Good road, easy parking and a paved path all help. And there’s LOTS of room for HF aerials
Not one of my favourites, but certainly not one for the “never again” list. Though, having said that, it probably won’t get done again; I like a bit of adventure on my hills if I am driving any great distance to get there.
My last activation produced mixed results, 65 contacts on 2m FM and 7 on 2m SSB all on the collinear, although, these took almost 5 hours! The biggest surprise, only one single contact into GW and he was /P on high ground.
The only bright spot was 3 very pretty girls, probably in their mid twenties (one of them an absolute stunner) sat with me at the Trig Point to watch what was going on and ask questions. Certainly brightened up, what was up until then, a pretty average day
Good road, easy parking and a paved path all help. And there’s LOTS
of room for HF aerials
Not one of my favourites, but certainly not one for the “never
again” list. Though, having said that, it probably won’t get
done again; I like a bit of adventure on my hills if I am driving any
great distance to get there.
Well, I’m certainly in no hurry to do it again, Rod.
You are absolutely correct Peter. Thanks for pointing it out. For the benefit of future visitors to this topic, I will edit my first post to include it.
