Bobundara Nature Reserve VKFF-2531

Spending a few days doing WWFF parks and SOTA peaks in the Snowy Mountains. My first park was Bobundara Nature Reserve VKFF-2531. This is a small park about 30 Km SSW of Cooma, on the side of Maffra Rd, and had not been activated before. The park was obvious from the change from open grassland to woodland, however was hard to confirm the park as the sign was small and off the road in the trees.

Driving South along the park boundary eventually saw a likely place to activate from, an old disused quarry. An old fence post provided squid pole support.

Set up. The 40m dipole SWR checked out okay.

Location of my operating spot. Map from Google Maps

Radio on the table. 

Got on 40m. Seemed rather quiet with not many stations on, but got some coming back after spotting myself on ParksnPeaks. Worked

VK2VW, VK2HFI

VK3SQ

VK3PF

VK3ARH, VK3HRA

VK2YE

VK2VH, VK4AAC/2

VK2HHA

VK2IO

VK3SRC

VK5PAS

With 13 contacts had at least enough to qualify for the VKFF activation, 10 needed, so packed up and headed South to my next park, Ironmungy Nature Reserve