2018-09-22 Lane Cove National Park

This one (VKFF-0281) has been hanging over me for almost a month. I still had 18 to get to qualify the park so I decided to give it a go today. Today I elected to go to a different area of the park. This time up the top of the hill near Macquarie Park, specifically …

2018-09-14 Glenrock State Conservation Area

I headed out to VKFF-1319. After some discussion with Gerard VK2IO, I decided to use the same activation location. I had some other options but it was not clear if there were breaks in the canopy or safe places to park on Dudley Beach Rd and there were power lines at the Scout camp entrance. Discarding …

2018-09-06 Awabakal Nature Reserve

Headed out again to VKFF-1882 today to qualify this park, needing 20 contacts. Set up slightly differently to ensure that there was always a bend with the wind in the pole (see the picture with the dipole layout. Wind was from the NE). As a result I had zero pole collapses today. I thought that …