GM/WS-106 - The Fara - 911m - NN598844 - 6 points
QSOs: 80m CW - 2, 40m CW - 2
This is a very undemanding hill. From the roadhead near Dalwhinnie Railway Station the track alongside Loch Ericht takes you past a new Gatehouse and a new Lodge. Just above the latter (at NN615835) is a firebreak through the plantation above which old fence posts lead to the summit.
A nice covering of summit snow glowed pink in the sunrise and clear views were had in all directions across the central highlands.
I was experimenting using a slinky again. From the ATU I took 10m of wire to the top of the walking poles which was then connected to the top of the slinky which sloped steeply to the ground on a guy. With a 20m counterpoise it presented, sans ATU, a near perfect match on 3.560MHz (not by design!) where I worked GM0AXY (80miles) and EI7BA in Cork (395miles) both good signals.
160m was very quiet and the only thing I heard on the band was a Beacon on 1854 (CZECH I think, an OK0). 40m CW raised EI7CC and later ON5AG.
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