GW/SW-015 – Mynydd Llangorse – 515m – 2 Points

9 September 2009: 11:01 – 11:43 UTC

23 CW QSO on 7’031-7’033 kHz
5 CW QSO on 10’118 kHz

Car park: 51.947105N / 3.222508 W

Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 55min
Distance: 2.5km
Total Ascend: 173m
Total Descend: 29m

Temperature: 9 – 17C

GW/SW-009 and GW/SW-015 can be climbed from the same car park. Therefore you can find more pictures under the GW/SW-009 report.

: This is the trig point of GW/SW-015 a bit further than the highest point of Mynydd Llangorse. The peak of GW/SW-001 – Pen Y Fan can be seen on the horizon to the left.

: After the incident involving a sheep and my pole I had second thoughts about not activating the second hill on the same day, however, the weather was so beautiful, I couldn’t resist. With the 5 lower sections of the pole remaining I aired this two pointer as well. In order to get a decent signal into Central Europe I placed my antenna right at the ridge which adds additional gain with the sloping terrain.

: If you look carefully at my antenna wire you can see the strong wind coming up the hill.

: With a shorter pole the ladder line was obviously too long. I simply laid it on the ground and let the built in antenna tuner master the task. On 40m an SWR of 1.1:1 with L = 5uH and C = 60pF and on 30m an SWR of 1.1:1 with L = 2.1uH and C = 0pF. The usual tuner readings can be seen on my SOTA pages of GW/SW-016, -020, -026 and -033.