After such a great day the weekend before, it wasn't going to be long before we were back out again, some questions during the week about which day would be best weather wise. We picked Saturday.
Only three of us this time Denis, Graham and Myself, the route up taking us about an hour, there was still quite a bit of show about and some very muddy / boggy patches. The streams crossing the path being fun to cross.
We walked up following the pennine way, North to South to the 'trig point' on the summit.:-
The top of Black Hill is quite interesting, you might expect to see the trig point from some way off, but you are almost on top of it before you can see it.
Some views from the Summit ;
Again I took my trusty, wouxun, and sota beam, 18 QSOs were soon, carried out. Put out a couple of CQs on 2m - nothing was coming back. The wind was now quite strong and it kept moving my beam back to the same direction.
I thought that it was about time I had some lunch and went over to see what Denis and Graham were upto.
I found Denis working a pileup on 40m - quite a number of people asking for his WAB Locator. Denis was using his homebrew 40m dipole and his FT-817 and on 5 watts was working Scotland, Ireland, and Parts of Europe.
Above showing Denis (M0USV) working 40m, (sotabeam in the back ground) and Graham (2E0TRU) (pictured) and myself causing some local QSB (HI).
Had a great time again, this Sota stuff is addictive ! Had quite a number of people stop and ask what we were doing, have to take some info next time !
Also had chance to use my map reading skills, was able to give help and advise to a number of walkers.
