2019-01-26 Tilligerry State Conservation Area – VKFF-1377

Australia Dy offered the opportunity to use the special AX prefix, so after a bit of google earth and google maps/streetview searching I decided on VKFF-1377. Driving up I was watching the outside temperature move to around 38.5 degrees C. Driving up the M1 on the Saturday of the Australia day weekend, google maps decided …

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2018-01-22 Worimi State Conservation Area – VKFF-1399

Second park this year. I decided to head out to one of the Worimi ones. There are three of these along teh beach north of Stockton. VKFF-1399 looked to be the simplest to get to. I remembered to turn on APRS (well about 10km along the M1 I did), so above you can see the …

Belford National Park VKFF-0023

I did some google earth investigation along with checking where Gerard had activated this park. Gerard activated it from the side of the road, which actually manages to be inside the park. I noticed that there was a management trail at the northern end of Kirkton Road that looks like it had potential. At this …

Building a 10m Coaxial Vertical for home

Given some of the activity that I'm seeing on 10m, last night I went to build a quick and dirty 10m vertical dipole but found I was lacking a couple of the bits that I wanted, so given that I was going to ave to buy some things anyway, I decided to make something a …

2018-12-09 Cockle Bay Nature Reserve

I was looking through the list of parks in order of distance from where I live and noticed that I had not done VKFF-1908. It's not in an ideal location being right down on the water with the hills above Gosford not too far away, but I decided to tick it off the list. So …

2018-11-25 Tea Tree Picnic Area (Munmorah State Conservation Area – VKFF-1361)

After yesterdays effort I was pretty tired this morning, but I had made some commitments. First to take my son out to breakfast and second that I'd activate another park today. Well, I got back from breakfast around 10am, and said "I just need to lie down for a moment". The next thing I knew, …

2018-11-24 Watagans National Park (VKFF-0522) – Monkey Face Lookout

Wow, what a day. Today was the first day of both the VKFF activation weekend and the VHF/UHF Field Day. I decided to head up to Monkey Face Lookout in the Watagans National Park to participate. It was about a 45 minute drive drive from home, up the M1, on to Freemans Drive, Mount Faulk …