{"id":355,"date":"2019-01-19T20:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T20:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:58:12","slug":"craig-y-llyn-mynydd-carn-y-cefn-coity-mountain-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/welsh-summits\/craig-y-llyn-mynydd-carn-y-cefn-coity-mountain-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Y Llyn, Mynydd Carn-y-cefn & Coity Mountain 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

GW\/SW-010, Craig y Llyn \u2013 600m, 4 Points<\/h3>\n

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We started the final weekend of our Brecons odyssey at Craig y Llyn.\u00a0 Parking is available either at the view point car park or there is plenty of room in the entrance to Cefn Glas which is a bit less exposed.<\/p>\n

Having learnt the lesson last year, we avoided the footpath marked on the map and followed the road North to the corner where we picked up the track heading West to the hill.\u00a0 It is an easy route to find and this year due to the better weather it was not too muddy either.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There was about fifty cm of snow lying on the top path in places but not enough to cause any problems. The trig point is still hidden deep in the woods so we set up on the highest bit of ground we could find on the edge of the track with a clear(ish) takeoff.<\/p>\n

Having seen how well Richards MFJ Long Ranger aerial had performed previously, I have bought myself one, this was the first time I tried it out on a SOTA activation.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-010, Log<\/h3>\n

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The aerial worked well and we soon had six entries in the log so with a long weekend ahead packed up and returned to the car by the same route.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-010, Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 19th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 CF44 9UE<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SN 923 027<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 MFJ 1714 LongRanger<\/p>\n

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

Contacts \u2013 6<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 4(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-010, Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-010,\u00a0Altitude Profile<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-014, Mynydd Carn-y-cefn \u2013 550m, 2 Points<\/h3>\n

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Onto Cefn yr Ystrad.\u00a0 Having struggled last year to find easy access to the mountain and then found it on the way back down, I thought it would not be a problem this year.\u00a0 Unfortunately I got it wrong again and ended up hacking up through the same scrubby wasteland behind the houses once again.\u00a0 At least this time I was able to avoid the steep grassy slope marked as a path on the map and instead found the footpath zig zagging it\u2019s way up to the North of the marked path. \"\"<\/a>The top was in thick cloud so finding the trig point was a best guess but it soon appeared out of the mist and we were able to set up on the trig point inside the moat.\u00a0\u00a0Once again I used the MFJ and soon had seven contacts in the log.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-014, Log<\/h3>\n

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The return was uneventful and once again we found the easy route back to the car.\u00a0 Perhaps next year I will get it right?<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-014, Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 19th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 NP13 3DD<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 196 083<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 MFJ 1714 LongRanger<\/p>\n

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

Contacts \u2013 7<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 2(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-014, Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-014,\u00a0Altitude Profile<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-012, Coity Mountain \u2013 578m, 2 Points<\/h3>\n

Just across the road from Cefn yr Ystrad\u00a0is Coity Mountain.<\/p>\n

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There is plenty of parking iat the picnic area car park on the North edge of Cwmtillery but I knew from last year that there is also room in a lay-by about another Km up the road to the North.\u00a0 We headed up there and found the lay-by empty so that saved us about 2Km of flat boring walking on tarmac.\u00a0 Again from experience last year I also knew that there was a path up on the North side of the valley which is much better than the one marked on the map up the centre.\u00a0 Once on top we were again in thick cloud.\u00a0 We followed the track as far as the bend then set off accross country to try and find the summit.\u00a0 There is a spot that is less than a metre higher than the surroundings which is the summit.\u00a0 It\u2019s aboput 70m East of the point marked on the SOTA maps.<\/p>\n

We set up on the summit and soon had nine entries in the log.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-012, Log<\/h3>\n

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The return to the car didn\u2019t take long, all together a good day out SOTAing.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-012, Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 19th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 NP13 1LR<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 221 067<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 MFJ 1714 LongRanger<\/p>\n

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

Contacts \u2013 9<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 2(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-012, Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-012, Altitude Profile<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-010, Craig y Llyn \u2013 600m, 4 Points We started the final weekend of our Brecons odyssey at Craig y Llyn.\u00a0 Parking is available either at the view point car park or there is plenty of room in the entrance to Cefn Glas which is a bit less exposed. Having learnt the lesson last year, … Continue reading Craig Y Llyn, Mynydd Carn-y-cefn & Coity Mountain 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-355","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\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions\/1016"}],"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=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}