SOTA GW/SW-015

GW/SW-015 - Mynydd Llangorse - 515m - 2 Points 9 September 2009: 11:01 - 11:43 UTC 23 CW QSO on 7031-7033 kHz 5 CW QSO on 10118 kHz Hiking statistics - uphill only Time: 55min Distance: 2.5km Total Ascend: 173m Total Descend: 29m Temperature: 9 - 17C GW/SW-009 and GW/SW-015 can be climbed from the same car park. Therefore you can find more pictures under the GW/SW-009 report. The track was recorded with a Holux M-241, exported as gw_sw015.kmz and imported to Google Earth.
	QSL card for the GW/SW-015 - Mynydd Llangorse activation.


This is the trig point of GW/SW-015 a bit further than the highest point of Mynydd Llangorse. The peak of GW/SW-001 - Pen Y Fan can be seen on the horizon to the left.	Yes, GW/SW-009 - Mynydd Troed is higher compared to GW/SW-015.

After the incident involving a sheep and my pole I had second thoughts about not activating the second hill on the same day, however, the weather was so beautiful, I couldn't resist. With the 5 lower sections of the pole remaining I aired this two pointer as well. In order to get a decent signal into Central Europe I placed my antenna right at the ridge which adds additional gain with the sloping terrain.	If you look carefully at my antenna wire you can see the strong wind coming up the hill.

With a shorter pole the ladder line was obviously too long. I simply laid it on the ground and let the built in antenna tuner master the task. On 40m an SWR of 1.1:1 with L = 5uH and C = 60pF and on 30m an SWR of 1.1:1 with L = 2.1uH and C = 0pF. The usual tuner readings can be seen on my SOTA pages of GW/SW-016, -020, -026 and -033.	View towards West ...

... North-West ...	... and North with GW/SW-009 - Mynydd Troed.

This is one of the many narrow single file roads I've seen in SW-Wales.

Last Update: 08.10.09

GW/SW-015 - Mynydd Llangorse - 515m - 2 Points