I spoke to Alan on 2 of his summits the previous day and said i might give him a surprise and join him.I like to put faces to callsigns and see what they use to activate and pick up idea’s.
I parked up at 09:10 and started to walk up the road when a car pulled up and the window opened and said you must be Reg i’m Alan.It took a round 1 hour to get up the visibility got worse the high we went until it was down to less than 50 meter on the summit.
First in the log was Mark M0NOM/P on Red Screes and with all the higher fells in the way was a good contact follow be Geoff GM4WHA–PETER GM3VMB–RICHARD 2E0XGO/P fishing on Bass Lake again a contact you would not expect and STEVE M0XUP/M.
Alan set up his HFgear and and was straight in to a pile up on 17 meters with the best contact a perfect copy both ways in to Australia .
It was worth packing the radio in the tackle box Reg. Relatively clean copy to both yourself and Alan. I took the FT-65 with the 771 antenna. We were about 200 yds South of Scarness Point on the East side of the lake.
Was hearing Geoff and Steve no bother , but I lost Mark on Red Screes after hearing him call on 145.500 .
Richard.
Australia is always impressive - looks like Alan was using an FT-817, so was that a QRP Australian contact?
I had the usual comments from passers by - prompted by the flowerpot antenna - I mentioned that I’d managed Australia from Red Screes, but that felt like perfect place, perfect time - around 5am in the morning on 40m with an FT-857 100w.
I heard a new one when descending Longlands Fell last week Mark The bloke coming up said he thought I was a deer hunter as I approached him , because of my camouflaged gore-tex pants (I remembered to pack them this time Reg) and he thought the poles on my back were a rifle .
Richard
