GW/SW-003 Fan Brycheiniog

Summit Information for 

GW/SW-003  Fan Brycheiniog 

 802m, 8 points

Association: Wales  Region: South Wales   

Latitude: 51 52 56 N, Longitude: 3 42 30 W

Grid Reference: SN 825218, QTH Locator: IO81DV 

Today's Sunrise: 07:10 UTC, Today's Sunset: 17:45 UTC 

Saturday 14th Feb.  GW6OVD/P & GW7RKC/P

It's been a very busy couple of months since my last post in October and it doesn't look like things are about to change any time soon.  Never the less I've still managed to squeeze a few activation's in and now its time to get the blog going again.

Today Andy (GW7RKC) and I set off for one of our favorite summits, Fan Brycheiniog  SW-003.  This summit has an amazing view over the lake and the valley below,  or so I am told! This is my forth activation of SW-003 but on every previous visit visibility has been very poor.

As we arrived at our usual parking spot SN 852 217 the WX was not looking very promising. Visibility was down to 100m and it was raining.  Drawing on past experience I decided to ditch the walking boots in favor of wellies as the approach to the lake is wet under foot at the best of times and we've  had quite a lot of rain recently.

As we approached the frozen edge of Llyn Y Fan Fawr the rain had stopped but visibility was down to about 20m.  From here the path climbs steeply to the summit 200m above, As a lot of work has recently been done to improve the path it should have been an easy climb, but recent deep snow drifts on the face of the mountain had totally obscured the path.
  

We carefully made our way up but with no path or footprints to follow it took us a further half hour to reach the summit.  Once there We took advantage of the cairn to get out of the cold wind and got the kit set up for a 2m activation.

                                                                                



Andy working a S2S contact with Viki, MW6BWA/P       who was up on Cordon Hill  GW/MW-013.
We were also lucky enough to work S2S with Allan GW4VPX/P who was on Drygarn Fawr, GW/MW-003
and Rod M0JLA/P on MW-013

Along with many of our regular contacts and some new ones it all came together to make a very enjoyable day.

The visibility did improve briefly giving us a glimpse of lake Liyn Y Fan Fawr 200m below but it wasn't to last.

 Date:14/Feb/2015 Summit:GW/SW-003 (Fan Brycheiniog) Call Used:GW6OVD/P

Time	Call	Band	Mode	Notes
11:23z	MW0PJJ	144MHz	FM	phil
11:27z	GW7MMG	144MHz	FM	Phil
11:28z	GW0GVY	144MHz	FM	Chris
11:33z	GW6DGU	144MHz	FM	Roy
11:34z	GW4VPX/P	144MHz	FM	Allan S2S GW/MW-003
11:38z	MW6BWA/P	144MHz	FM	Viki S2S GW/MW013
11:39z	MW0JLA/P	144MHz	FM	Roy S2S GW/MW-013
11:42z	GW4KYT	144MHz	FM	Brian
11:43z	EI9GLB	144MHz	FM	Jim
11:46z	G0LGS	144MHz	FM	Stewart
11:48z	G0RQL	144MHz	FM	Don
11:59z	G4AZS	144MHz	FM	Adrian
12:00z	GW0IRT	144MHz	FM	Phil
12:08z	M0KRP	144MHz	FM	Rod
12:11z	MW0CXH	144MHz	FM	Peter
12:16z	2E0ZST	144MHz	FM	Steve
12:24z	MW0PJJ	144MHz	FM	Phil
12:25z	MW3DLA	144MHz	FM	Aled
12:27z	G7JMZ	144MHz	FM	John
12:30z	MW0WEE	144MHz	FM	Andy
12:32z	G4EIA	144MHz	FM	Martin
12:36z	MW6WFB	144MHz	FM	Laurie
12:37z	MW0COD	144MHz	FM	Cliff