A cold day on the Great Orme, Llandudno

It’s March the 11th 2025 and it might look sunny outside, but it isn’t, it’s freezing —so cold that even penguins would be like, “Nah, I’m staying in.” But did that stop David Morgan (GW6MLI) and Martin Moyse (2W0NKS) because when the radio waves call, you answer, even if your fingers are so numb they feel like frozen fish sticks.

So there we were, braving the elements like a couple of poorly dressed explorers, determined to set up a radio station. Why? Because the world needed our voices! Or at least, someone needed to hear something other than static.

The wind howled, mocking our every move. The cables fought back, as if they had made a pact with the ice to stay tangled forever. And the metal equipment? Oh, it was colder than our will to live at that moment and on top of that the pump up mast had lost the will to live and kept dropping down thus allowing the G5RV antenna to droop on the ground!

Legends aren’t made in warm studios. They’re made in the freezing cold, holding a wrench with three fingers that still have circulation, and grasping a microphone in the other hand wondering why we didn’t choose a hobby like baking instead.

But we persevered. We battled the frostbite, we outwitted the stubborn connectors, kept pumping the mast back up, and when that first signal crackled through the air, we knew—it was all worth it.