17th February 2005
GM/CS-070 - Geal-charn Mor - 824m - NH837124 - 4 points
1 QSO: 40m CW - 1
Thanks for anyone who may have been listening out for me on CS-070. It
was quite wild wx condx and this made it difficult to do anything
very constructive with antennas. On arrival, I couldn't get in my bivi bag
fast enough and in the morning after a few calls on 40m at 0730 all I had in
mind
was getting off the hill and out of the wind!
A grand total of 1 QSO with EC2AHL/QRP in Northern Spain at a little after 2130. He didn't hear me call when on the dipole (in fact he started calling CQ on top of me doing the same) but came back straight away when I switched to the vertical (which was only the slinky stretched about 2.5m, the top part of my vertical was abandoned because of the high wind). So only one data point for my experiment! On receive, however, I thought the dipole was better.
The hill is an easy and accessible one with a very good track (almost road) from near Aviemore (NH875110) leading to within 125 vertical metres of the 824m summit, then a straight forward wander to the top. Deep snow made it hard going .... oh how I envied those ski tracks running along besides me as I floundered along! This is classic back country skiing territory.
