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- Waun Rydd - April 22nd 2012
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| Waun Rydd - April 22nd 2012 | |
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| Topic Started: 22 Apr 2012 - 22:34 (308 Views) | |
| Offplanet | 22 Apr 2012 - 22:34 Post #1 |
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Despite the weather, I took a trip up to the top of Waun Rydd in the Brecon Beacons today 769 m (2,523 ft) - sun, rain, hail and high winds, I had it all today  Quite a trek too with 1.5hrs there with around the same back - it'd probably been easier to do the London Marathon instead. Unfortunately we had Olga on Ch32 for the Sunday DX, but did land some tidy contacts, with the best one being Phil Kingfisher over in Buckinghamshire (120miles). PMR446 was excellent with several contacts into Swindon (70 miles) and a monster 89 mile contact with Wayne CT148 on the Coombe Gibbet on a Goodmans 0.5w handie (bit of a bugger though as we thought we'd gone over the ton on this QSO!). Should have some video coming soon, but here's some pics for now    
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| 26-CT-1096 | 23 Apr 2012 - 08:11 Post #2 |
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Gary well done the views are outstanding, I'm hoping to have a treck over the Pennine way soon and hopefully one of my kids can come with me and spend a night over with the radio. who needs to go abroad when you have views like this in your own back garden. 
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| Leurbost2006 | 23 Apr 2012 - 09:28 Post #3 |
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Well done gary,looks amazing!! up their...Hopefully in the near future i will be giving this a go,been doing a bit of local hill walking to build my strength back up after hurting my back in December... 
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| Cherokee | 23 Apr 2012 - 10:01 Post #4 |
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Well done Gary! The WX here in South Wales was pretty disgusting at times yesterday, so you did very well to make the trip. There can certainly be no claim of you being a "Fair Weather DXer"! It is a shame that overnight camping is not permitted* in the Brecon Beacons National Park as that'd be a hell of a view to wake up to. * = It is not permitted without formal, written, authorisation which involves ten yards of Paperwork, agreement six committees, two-sub-committees and a quango, and signed permission slips from all four grandparents. |
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| Cozzmik | 23 Apr 2012 - 10:16 Post #5 |
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Top work as usual Gary  Great to see the pics and look forward to the video
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| Offplanet | 23 Apr 2012 - 14:38 Post #6 |
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Thanks for the comments and good luck for those looking to give it a go soon - I also spent a couple of months preparing for the higher ones. We are lucky in the UK with locations - our mountains are small in comparison to those in many countries, but are difficult enough to be a challenge and you don't have to be a budding Chris Bonington to get to the top of them  Here's a couple of vids from the day: First one up is the location and second is the 89 mile QSO with Wayne CT148 http://youtu.be/FltHpDPeFhs http://youtu.be/n1LeHxWSECc |
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| Deleted User | 23 Apr 2012 - 19:42 Post #7 |
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As always Gary, a top effort
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| Yagi 3 | 1 May 2012 - 08:34 Post #8 |
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All good and interesting Gary, thanks for sharing. 
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| 29AMK32 | 6 May 2012 - 11:36 Post #9 |
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i love what your doin lads wish there was enough members here to do the same here.. i love it its really my kind of thing to do puts a great twist to using radios.. instead of sitting in a shed or room you can hump your gear to the to of a hill get good DXing done and have a good day out. |
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