Sgor Gaoith

Today the dads get to go off on a big walk! I had looked at a route doing Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Sgor Gaoith in one go, but it was pretty long, about 40 km, and would take all day. So we settled on a shorter route of Sgor Goaith - another Aviemore side summit - and also another munro, although not a SOTA summit, Mullach Clach a' Bhlàir.

Road from the car park to the start of the route

Station setup - mast wedged in a crack in the rocks

HF was okay on 40m, and 15m got Ukraine straight way. The most excitement was from 2m, just using my RH-770 and getting a S2S with Alan, MM0VPM, on Arran and then a QSO with MM6OEC in the Outer Hebrides 200km away. Then it was off to our second munro.

We were back at the holiday house by 2:30pm and then off to Boat of Garten bike pump track with the kids...who had all been winding up the mums during the day. So probably good we didn't do the all day route!

I have to say Mullach Clach a' Bhlàir is the most boring munro I've been to so far, but I can tick it off and never visit again! It is a HEMA summit and I did think of trying to activate it, but I wasn't that interested and didn't really have time.

On air

Ref	Name	Height	Pts	UTC	QSOs	Bands
GM/ES-009 ✓ GB-0835 GB-0836 GB-0908 GB-3004	Sgor Gaoith Cairngorms Cairngorms Invereshie and Inshriach The Cairngorm Mountains	1,118	10	08:43–09:35	16	40m20m15m2m

POTA: GB-0835 Cairngorms — 16 QSOs ✓ · GB-0836 Cairngorms — 16 QSOs ✓ · GB-0908 Invereshie and Inshriach — 16 QSOs ✓ · GB-3004 The Cairngorm Mountains — 16 QSOs ✓

Contacts

40m 7

20m 1

15m 3

2m 5

16 contacts, 16 stations · 2 summit-to-summit · best DX EA7GV, 2,220 km on 15m · 1 without a locator not shown on the map

Log

UTC	Call	Band	Mode	Sent	Rcvd	km	Ref
08:43	G0FEX	40m	SSB	55	55	519
08:43	2M0RVZ	40m	SSB	59	59	93
08:44	SQ9CWO	40m	SSB	41	44	1,595
08:45	GI4TAJ	40m	SSB	57	55	291
08:46	MW0CBC	40m	SSB	59	57	599
08:46	EA2CKX	40m	SSB	53	53	1,565
08:47	DG1NPM	40m	SSB	55	56	996
08:50	UR5CDD	15m	SSB	59	57
08:51	EA7GV	15m	SSB	59	52	2,220
08:51	F4WBN	15m	SSB	59	55	1,521
08:57	OE5HDN	20m	SSB	41	21	1,556
09:06	GM4OAS	2m	FM	57	53	120
09:08	GM5JET	2m	FM	57	54	55
09:09	MM6OEC	2m	FM	59	53	199
09:14	MM0VPM/P	2m	FM	59	59	184	GM/SI-008
09:35	MM0EFI/P	2m	FM	41	21	80	GM/ES-077

On air

Route

Contacts