{"id":462,"date":"2019-10-06T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T09:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:09:40","slug":"wicklow-mountains-6th-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/other-summits\/wicklow-mountains-6th-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow Mountains 6th October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EI\/IE-005, Kippure \u2013 757m, 10 points<\/h3>\n

\"\"Sunday morning I was promised\u00a0 sunshine by the weatherman but it broke with extensive cloud cover, at least it wasn\u2019t raining.<\/p>\n

I planned to start the day with Kippure.\u00a0 This is probably the easiest 10 point summit ever.<\/p>\n

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There\u00a0is no proper car park but plenty of room at the junction to park three or four cars safely and without obstruction.\u00a0 It\u2019s then just a case of following the access road all the way to the summit.<\/p>\n

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The top was still in cloud when I arrived, reportedly there is a radio mast there but all I could see was the bottom of some guy ropes. I set up the station in the shelter of an old disused anchor block and called CQ.<\/p>\n

It was a bit slow going this morning, possibly because they were reading the IRTS Radio News Bulletin on channel S21 so everyone was listening there.\u00a0 I did eventually manage to make five contacts mostly into Wales with one into England.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-005, Kippure Log<\/h3>\n

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By the time I had finished the cloud had lifted and the sun was shining so I was rewarded with a fabulous view of the radio tower behind me.\u00a0 It was a bit bigger than my aerial that you can see below it.\u00a0 As far as I could tell I don\u2019t think it caused me any reception problems whilst operating unless that was why I was struggling to find the contacts.\u00a0 Possibly I was in below the radiation pattern.<\/p>\n

The return to the car is as easy as the ascent, just follow the road!<\/p>\n

Journey Details<\/h3>\n

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

Parking (Grid) \u2013 O 141 141<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 53.166080 -6.2942943<\/p>\n

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

Antenna \u2013 2 Element Yagi<\/p>\n

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

Contacts \u2013 5<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 10<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 7.1Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 520m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 757m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 2h 02m<\/p>\n

Time Up 0h 40m<\/p>\n

Time Down 0h 31m<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-007, Djouce \u2013 725m, 10 points<\/h3>\n

\"\"A short drive from Kippure took me to the Djouce car park.\u00a0 By now, a bit later in the day and the sun was shining bringing the day trippers out.<\/p>\n

\"\"The path up to the summit initially follows the route of the Wicklow Way, a 131-kilometre long-distance trail that crosses the Wicklow Mountains.\u00a0 This part of the path has been protected by the installation of a boardwalk made up of two parallel railway sleepers taking walkers across the peat bogs.\u00a0 \"\"This is again a very easy route, just follow the boardwalk until the very obvious left turn leading up the final Km to the summit.\u00a0 There is plenty of room on the summit which is fortunate as it seems to be a very popular walk on a sunny Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 I found a quiet spot away from the trig point and set up the station in the shelter of a large rock.\u00a0 I soon had another six contacts in the log before returning the same way to the car.\u00a0 The only difficulty being dodging the tourists along the narrow boardwalk.\u00a0 Another very easy ten points!<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-007, Djouce Log<\/h3>\n

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Journey Details<\/h3>\n

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

Parking (Grid) \u2013 O 168 077<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 53.106988 -6.2562177<\/p>\n

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

Antenna \u2013 MFJ Longranger<\/p>\n

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

Contacts \u2013 6<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 10<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 7.5Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 480m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 725m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 2h 06m<\/p>\n

Time Up 0h 50m<\/p>\n

Time Down 0h 43m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EI\/IE-005, Kippure \u2013 757m, 10 points Sunday morning I was promised\u00a0 sunshine by the weatherman but it broke with extensive cloud cover, at least it wasn\u2019t raining. I planned to start the day with Kippure.\u00a0 This is probably the easiest 10 point summit ever. There\u00a0is no proper car park but plenty of room at the … Continue reading Wicklow Mountains 6th October 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":451,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-irish-summits","category-summits-on-the-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions\/660"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}