SOTA Expedition to Titterstone Clee Hill G/WB-OO4 Thursday 2nd May
Watched by probably 2 thousand sheep and dwarfed by the looming presence in the fog of the radio and radar installations Clive M0KNP aided by his able assistant John M6KET activated Titterstone Clee Hill yesterday (G/WB-OO4) and were rewarded by some instant contacts on 2 metres with Clive’s Yaesu FT70d hand and a single 40m SSB contact with GM4ZMK nr Glasgow.
The operating station (no room for the morse key on there)
Clive in assembly mode
Conditions on 2m were good with stations worked and heard in Malvern, Telford, Shrewsbury, Redditch and portable in Wales
40m SSB was more challenging on the FT 817 and despite posting- and hearing stations in Belgium and Germany only GM4ZMK was worked.
M6KET provided adequate secretarial assistance recording all QSO’s , but declined the CW opportunity citing cold hands and failure to remember his flask of coffee still standing on the kitchen table at home as a weak excuse.
Eventually the challenging conditions took their toll and the expedition retreated down the mountain by a safer route (tarmac road and gravel footpath) and dispersed happy to have achieved at least 4 SOTA contacts without frostbite and falling off the edge into Ludlow.
QSO’s 2m: MW0BG/P (Sota to Sota), M7SDO, M6NSV, M7WUK, M5JRC, G0EYO.
40m SSB (7090) GM4ZMK
Radios FT 817. FT70d
Antenna SPX 300 mounted on a camera tripod (G0EYO design)
Coming next…..
ASK THE PANEL EVENING: TUESDAY 7 TH. MAY 8.00 START VIA ZOOM OR IN PERSON. WYTHALL HOUSE.
PLEASE NOTE EARLIER STARTING TIME.