Activating the least activated summit in the South Pennines!

At the time that this video was filmed, Ward's Stone (G/SP-003) was the least activated SOTA summit in the South Pennines.
I decided that I was up for a challenge & activated it in the snow in the middle of winter!
0:00 Intro
The Amateur Radio UK channel is run by UK radio amateur M0GQC (James). As the channel name would suggest, the channel focuses primarily on amateur radio within the UK!!!
#hamradio #amateurradio #sota

[@stirlingpark6145]

James, you deserve a Duke of Edinburgh award for your activations...

[@kennethblackwell1137]

Thanks....well done.

[@nickjh1968]

Nice activation James, military whip is impressive 10w into NYC fantastic 😀

[@IrishHamRadio]

Nice activation James😊. Interesting box of radio tricks near the summit there.. class with the solar and wind.

[@Tommy_Boy.]

Real nice activation James! Great to see the area and follow along. 👍📻⚡Cheers!

[@M0RSF]

Good effort James that looked a fair walk in. Nice choice of seat at the summit. Well done on working NA too. 73. Chris M0RSF

[@lunarbluesmusic]

Nice one James.

[@brianfields4479]

Well done James, some nice contacts on changeable conditions, and the walk up was similar to my walk to school every day hi. 73 mate.

[@m7trsradio]

Great video James. Little bit of a trek. Don't think I will be back out on a hill until 27th & 28th Feb. Hopefully be out both day. Hope to catch you all later. Motters M7TRS 73 👍🏻

[@AmateurRadioUK]

I hope to be out on a hill somewhere on at least one of those two days. It depends if anything else crops up in the meantime.....would be fun to try for a S2S.

[@daveys]

I did this one about 12m ago. Very boggy coming up from Jubilee Tower but a very easy activation on VHF with the IC-705 and a fibreglass pole. If you want a nice strenuous walk, have a go at Stony Cove Pike. That nearly killed me the other week. It’s like walking up the side of a triangle.

[@eduardosturla]

An activation is an activation! Congratulation! You got yourself a new subscriber here! Hope to catch you on the bands! 73 De HI8ESF!!!!

[@AmateurRadioUK]

Thanks, nice to have you on board. We've got quite a friendly little community on this channel.

[@garyh8315]

Nothing wrong with a bit of a walk on a good path. At least you weren't doing a Fraser!! A good vid James, weather a bit better this time.

[@AmateurRadioUK]

I may be a little bit mad but I don't think I can compete with Fraser on the nuttiness scale!!!

[@theradiorover]

@@AmateurRadioUK I'm not nutty. I just haven't found my boundaries 🤣

[@willian.direction6740]

I have seen those antennas and it might be farmers GPS steer systems assuming agriculture machinery is used in that area.

[@lonewolfhamradio]

Was that this weekend?

[@AmateurRadioUK]

I'm not that quick & efficient at editing videos! It can take me a while to get round to editing & uploading stuff that I've filmed. This particular activation was filmed on 17th January according to my log upload on the SOTA database. This is one of two videos which I filmed on my South Pennines trip. The other one was Shining Tor, which I've finished editing but needs to be uploaded & have a thumbnail done for it. That will probably go live in about a week or so. I don't think I'm giving away any big secrets by admitting that most of my content is around a month old by the time I get round to releasing it on KZbin (unless it's time critical such as a collaboration with another channel which needs to be released on a specific date).

[@andriikolesnyk279]

Hello from Appleby-in-Westmorland! M0WTU.

[@AmateurRadioUK]

Hello!