Lord Arthur's Hill

Another early morning start, and another opportunity for a pre-work SOTA activation. Last week I did Coiliochbhar, but it was too wet and windy to go across the road to do Lord Arthur's Hill, and so I decided to head back today. The weather was lovely, clear blue skies, and only a gentle breeze.

Last time around, I climbed it from the south, through the estate. I thought I'd try another route, and a common one is from the east. The track up is very straight forward and it's a land rover track the whole way up.

Looking across to the big Cairngorm summits

I was trying to time my summit with Fraser, MM0EFI, who was across the other side of the Cairngorm's National Park trying to tick off some of those summits. He ended up being later than me, so I did HF first, and then hung around for a bit to get a S2S with him over 2m.

I'd setup on the trig point, as I didn't think there'd be anyone else coming up this morning. I used the random wire, starting on 40m and then moving to 20m. Both bands were good this morning.

Ref	Name	Height	Pts	UTC	QSOs	Bands
GM/ES-062 ✓	Lord Arthur's Hill	518	2+3	08:13–08:40	23	40m20m2m

Ref

Name

Height

Pts

UTC

QSOs

Bands

GM/ES-062 ✓

Lord Arthur's Hill

518

2+3

08:13–08:40

40m20m2m

Contacts

40m 11

20m 11

2m 1

23 contacts, 22 stations · 1 summit-to-summit · best DX EA8DDW, 3,385 km on 20m

Log

UTC	Call	Band	Mode	Sent	Rcvd	km	Ref
08:13	G5OLD	40m	SSB	59	59	648
08:14	GW0PLP	40m	SSB	55	57	585
08:14	MW7MWZ	40m	SSB	55	55	458
08:15	M0VAZ	40m	SSB	59	51	431
08:16	DG2GTG	40m	SSB	41	31	1,207
08:16	M0LZH	40m	SSB	59	57	413
08:18	G4IAR	40m	SSB	59	59	510
08:18	ON7ZM	40m	SSB	59	56	918
08:19	DL3BOB	40m	SSB	59	57	1,342
08:19	G6AEK	40m	SSB	57	56	375
08:20	LY2NZ	40m	SSB	59	55	1,491
08:23	F4WBN	20m	SSB	59	59	1,536
08:24	DL1GZH	20m	SSB	59	59	1,269
08:25	DG2GTG	20m	SSB	59	55	1,207
08:26	3Z9VI	20m	SSB	59	55	1,677
08:26	OK1KT	20m	SSB	59	59	1,452
08:27	F5PYI	20m	SSB	59	59	1,422
08:28	OK2PDT	20m	SSB	57	55	1,371
08:28	EA8DDW	20m	SSB	59	55	3,385
08:29	EA3ARP	20m	SSB	53	52	1,793
08:29	SQ9MDF	20m	SSB	59	55	1,633
08:30	EA2CKX	20m	SSB	59	53	1,584
08:40	MM0EFI/P	2m	FM	57	57	87	GM/CS-086

Lord Arthur's Hill

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