WWFF Bungonia National Park VKFF-1163

With a nice sunny Friday off work decided to activate a new WWFF park for me, VKFF-1163 Bungonia National Park. The park is located to the East of Goulburn, and took me about 1.5 hours to drive to. The entrance to the park on Lookdown Road.

A short distance past the sign was a car parking area near the rangers office, and a ticket machine for the entrance ticket. It costs $8 a day. Note if you don't have the correct coins it takes credit cards, which I ended up using. Just past the rangers office was a picnic area that I used for activating later. Continued on as wanted to have a look at the views first. View from the Bungonia Lookdown lookout at the end of the road. Spectacular view to the East down into Bungonia Gorge.

View to the North. The quarry is Marulan Quarry.

Returned to the picnic area. This is known as Kerrileau Car Park. Map of the park here.

Set up the radio shack on one of the picnic tables in the shade.

Another view of the shack.

Radio this time my newly acquired IC7300. As with most LCD screens a bit hard to read the radio display in sunlight, however the main frequency stood out in white okay.

I dropped the power down to 20 w to conserve the battery. As a week day not a lot of signals on 40 m, however did manage to start with a park to park contact, with VK3TKK/p Peter in VKFF-0952 Point Addis Marine National Park with a good 58 signal.

Worked Karl VK2GKA in nearby Picton, and Peter VK3PF. Then another park to park, VK3FLCS/p Brett in VKFF-0765 Lerderderg State Park. Brett was struggling getting contacts, had no mobile coverage so gave him a hand with a spot on ParksnPeaks.

Continued on. Slow going on a weekday, working VK2s, VK3s and VK7s. Quite a few of the callers running FT817s and 5 w, quite good signals into the park on 40 m.

Went for a drive after lunch to check out the other lookout in the park, Adams lookout. Looking down into Slot Canyon and the Marulan Creek.

Returned to the picnic area. and continued working 40 m park hunters, a few VK5s now. Briefly tried 20 m, heard VK5YX come back to me but very weak, the band wasn't open enough for a contact.

Gave it away and headed home around 4 pm. Only 33 contact so need to return some time for the 44 needed for WWFF points, also Bungonia State Conservation Area nearby, must activate this park the next time.