{"id":342,"date":"2019-01-06T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:57:35","slug":"waun-fach-mynydd-troed-and-mynydd-llangorse-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/welsh-summits\/waun-fach-mynydd-troed-and-mynydd-llangorse-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Waun Fach, Mynydd Troed and Mynydd Llangorse 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

An early start for a longer day completing the Black Mountain three peaks challenge.<\/p>\n

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Note this route includes the drive between Waun Fach and the col between the two Mynydds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GW\/SW-002, Waun Fach \u2013 811m, 8 Points<\/h3>\n

The walk up Waun Fach was going well until our navigator decided to take a short cut straight up the side of Pen Trumau, which was rather hard going.\u00a0 We reached the top just in time for a summit to summit contact with Vicki, MW6BWA and Rod MW0JLA, both on SW-014.\u00a0 This was quickly followed by another summit to summit with David on NW-043, a busy day out on the hills.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-002 Log<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-009, Mynydd Troed \u2013 609m, 4 Points<\/h3>\n

Back down from Waun Fach it was a quick drive around to the col between Troed and Langorse for the second assault of the day.\u00a0 This time I tried the route anticlockwise around the mountain which I think was a bit shorter than the usual clockwise and also missed out the infamous gate.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long to reach the top.\u00a0 The steps in the mud seem to be getting more pronounced and as the weather had been fairly dry recently they made the climb up much easier.\u00a0 This time I set up the beam on top and soon had 9 contacts in the log including Vicki and Rod again for a second summit to summit over to SW-012.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-009 Log<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-015, Mynydd Llangorse \u2013 515m, 2 Points<\/h3>\n

We were soon back at the col, didn\u2019t stop though and pressed on straight up Langorse.\u00a0 An easy two point walk to finish the day although more of a challenge radio wise.\u00a0 This is well known as a difficult summit to work VHF as it is largely surrounded by taller peaks.\u00a0 We set up short of the true summit as that is another 600m walk and back to gain only about another 5m height.<\/p>\n

I set up the beam and soon worked Vicki and Rod once more, they were still on SW-012.\u00a0 I also managed Emyr on SW-006 and then just as I was leaving the summit I caught Roger over in England on WB-016, luckily I was only just out of the activation zone so I quickly ran back up into the zone for a nice final bonus S2S contact.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-015 Log<\/h3>\n

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Altogether another fine day out on the hills and 23 extra SOTA points earned.<\/p>\n

Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 6th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 LD3 0EU &\u00a0 LD3 7UL<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 186 290 &\u00a0SO 160 283<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74 + 50W PA on 2m<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 2 ele dipole &\u00a0Nagoya NA771<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 5 + 9 + 8<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 8 (+3) + 4\u00a0(+3) +\u00a082(+3) = 23<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself, Peter & Richard<\/p>\n

Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n
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Note, this includes some driving time & distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An early start for a longer day completing the Black Mountain three peaks challenge. Note this route includes the drive between Waun Fach and the col between the two Mynydds GW\/SW-002, Waun Fach \u2013 811m, 8 Points The walk up Waun Fach was going well until our navigator decided to take a short cut straight … Continue reading Waun Fach, Mynydd Troed and Mynydd Llangorse 2019<\/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-342","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\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions\/1038"}],"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=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}