A bit of tropo lift at the weekend so I took a walk up my local SOTA with my 5W handheld and talked to someone sitting in their car 227 miles away, 59 both ways. Now I wished I'd taken the FT-857 and 6 ele beam! Very happy with that contact though.

Also, and quite unusually for me because normally I never win anything, I won a LoRa APRS tracker in the raffle which I'm dead chuffed about!

Just come back from a lovely weekend in Wales with family and managed a couple of SOTA summits along the way.
GW/NW-046 Rhialgwm
GW/NW-012 Cadair Berwyn

I would have gone on hf but it was too windy (30+ mph) for all that antenna support and wire.

Sunday 27 April

Afternoon: 20km mountain biking around Mortimer Forest including a SOTA activation of High Vinnalls G/WB-012.

Evening: one hour on the microlight over Shropshire with a newbie in the other seat.

Had a lovely day out on Sunday exploring Stiperstones. Usually it's number 4 out of 5 of the day and I just go straight to the trig point, do my SOTA thing and then back to the car. It's a great place, especially when the sun is shining, which it was.
#SOTA
#G/WB-003

Was in Cornwall over the weekend and ticked another 2 summits off the SOTA list. G/DC-002 Brown Willy and G/SC-003 Beacon Batch on the way home. Just about managed to qualify both on VHF.