Carn Daimh before Amy

Just a quick outing today, to this little hill up in the Whisky area. It’s on my list to do for the Eastern Scotland (ES) region, and Fraser, MM0EFI, to get a complete. So he came out too, up another hill nearby, although turned out there were some bigger hills between us and our 2m contact was a bit sketchy. Was a nice walk, easy, and took about an hour to get to the top. Surprisingly, there were other people at the top but they didn’t hang about long. I setup by the fence and started with HF. Bands weren’t great due to all these CMEs hitting the Earth but got a couple of contacts on 40m and 20m before Fraser was on 2m.

I could see the rain (with the wind of Storm Amy) coming from the west, so I packed up and headed down. I went back a different way to make it a loop, although it was through fields with cows and quite muddy, but was sheltered from the breeze. I was home in time for school pickup, and the wind and rain had reached us by then. This evening the rain has eased off, but the wind is very gusty, 80 mph here according to the met office. Hopefully, next week I can get out and do a bigger trip before the school holidays come around again. See what the weather is like though.

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