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<\/a>A trip over to South Wales for work offered the opportunity to bag a few of the lower Welsh one pointers.\u00a0 There is a good approach to Mynydd Machen from the North West along the service track for the radio tower located on the summit.\u00a0 I parked the car on the road ST 215 907 where there is just room to squeeze one car onto the verge.\u00a0 The track has a gate but it doesn\u2019t look like it is used and whilst I was there a dog walker turned up ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5279-150x150-1.jpg\")
<\/a>and drove straight up the track to park about half way along.\u00a0 The first 300m or so of the track are in good condition and there are plenty of spots along the verge where you could leave a car.\u00a0 Beyond this the track is a bit rougher but still passable all the way to the top.<\/p>\nAt the top there is a trig point located a reasonable distance from the radio tower but close enough so that I was still getting de-sense on the radio.<\/p>\n
As I arrived at the summit I could hear people on the calling channel just using the Nagoya on the HT.\u00a0 Whilst stood there I made five contacts, including two summit to summits before I had even taken off my rucksack, so with this one in the bag I decided to press onto the next one rather than stopping to set up properly.<\/p>\n Date \u2013 30th August 2018<\/p>\n Postcode \u2013 NP11 7PS<\/p>\n Parking \u2013 ST 215 907<\/p>\n Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n Antenna \u2013 Nagoya NA771<\/p>\n Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n Contacts \u2013 5<\/p>\n SOTA points \u2013 1<\/p>\n Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n GW\/SW-030 \u2013 Mynydd Machen A trip over to South Wales for work offered the opportunity to bag a few of the lower Welsh one pointers.\u00a0 There is a good approach to Mynydd Machen from the North West along the service track for the radio tower located on the summit.\u00a0 I parked the car on the … Continue reading Mynydd Machen 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-south-wales","category-summits-on-the-air","category-welsh-summits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314\/revisions\/1125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_5b8e56e20429c.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nJourney Details<\/h3>\n
GW\/SW-030 Log<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWalking Route Summary<\/h3>\n
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