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<\/a>Parking is not easy either, the road that passes to the south west is narrow and surprisingly busy. There are a few passing places but don\u2019t be tempted to park in these or you will make yourself very unpopular, and it should not need mentioning that field gateways must not be used. There are a few spaces in a small cul-de-sac just as you come into the village of Penmarth which is to the south east of Carrnmenellis.<\/p>\n
There is a footpath marked on the map running parallel to the road that looks like an option but it is not worth it. The path is not marked and is terribly overgrown. It is quicker and easier to walk up the road back to Channel View Farm where you can join the track up to the north east that leads towards the summit. Follow the track until you reach the locked gates which are just past where the track turns to the north west. At this point you will have to head off to the left of the track onto the access land. This is very bad. The ground is rocky but thickly covered with gorse, brambles and long grass which will all grab at you and trip you and if it has rained any time in the last few months it will also soak you. If this doesn\u2019t put you off you will probably twist your ankle when you put it down between a couple of big but unseen boulders, The brambles are at best knee high and at worst past waist height. It\u2019s like this all the way to the top now. Navigation is easy enough, just follow the line of the fence until you come to the sharp right turn at the top. By now you should easily see the radio tower and the trig point in even the poorest of visibility. The last twenty yards to the trig point are a welcome relief being merely broken rock without the thick brambles.<\/p>\n On the day I was there towards the end of October the weather had closed in so I was in thick cloud with visibility of about thirty feet. From the trig point I could see the radio mast , but only just.<\/p>\n I set up my mast and added the antenna on\u00a0 top, then realised that I had forgotten to bring the power regulator for the amp. I had carried the amp and the batteries up for nothing. Never mind, I would just have to operate with the five watts direct from the radio. I put out a call, \u201cCQ sota, CQ sota\u201d, and was almost immediately rewarded by a response from G8NXD booming in at 5\/9. It turned out that he was only a couple of miles away in Four Lanes. Unfortunately that was my only contact I made for this summit so I was not able to claim the point.\u00a0 I called CQ for about fifteen minutes with no response so stopped then for lunch. After lunch I gave it another ten minutes, I could hear someone faintly to the north on S19 but couldn\u2019t break in so eventually I packed up and headed back to the car.\u00a0 On the return trip I took the easier option and followed the track back to the road to return along this rather than bashing through the undergrowth on the marked footpath.<\/p>\n Overall it was an interesting activation, memorable for it\u2019s difficulties rather than it\u2019s success.\u00a0 If you are in the area then have a go at it but be warned, it will not be easy.<\/p>\n Date \u2013 24th October 2017<\/p>\n Postcode \u2013 TR16 6PP<\/p>\n Parking \u2013 SW 701 356<\/p>\n Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n Antenna \u2013 2 ele dipole<\/p>\n Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n Contacts \u2013 1<\/p>\n SOTA points \u2013 1(0)<\/p>\n Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n G\/DC-006 \u2013 Fail If you\u2019ve ever before done a sota summit activation then this will not be the easiest, and if you haven\u2019t done one before then this one will probably put you off ever doing another. 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