Tuesday 23 July 2019

Saltwater National Park VKFF-0439

Took a couple of weeks off work to head up to Northern NSW, and escape the Canberra winter for a while.😄 After driving through Sydney and stoppinbg overnight at Port Nelson drove to my first park, Saltwater National Park VKFF-0439. This is located South of the town of Old Bar. Sign for the park..


View from the headland. Nice but a bit public to operate from.


Drove into the picnic area. Lots of nice open grassy spots for a station. Found a nice secluded area. The picnic tables were not good for mounting a squid pole to so used my own...


Looking back the other way


Operating spot. Map from Protected Planet


Shack on the table


Got on 40 m. Fairly quiet as a week day. Still a steady flow of callers

VK4TJ, VK4/AC8WN, VK4/VE6XT
VK3PF
VK2XSE/m
VK4RF/VK4HA
VK5FANA
VK4HNS

Saw a spot on ParksnPeaks that VK5BJE John could not hear me on 40 m. So went to 20 m and worked him easily with a 52 signal.No other calls though on this band.

Added in the 80 m extension wires and gave this band a go. 2 more contacts

VK2LEE Lee in nearby Scone, very strong.
VK2VW Brett

Packed up and headed for my next stop, North Brother SOTA summit.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Ian
    Thanks for the change of band. It often means getting a contact rather than missing out. I like your photos.
    73
    John D
    VK5BJE/VK5PF

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  2. Thanks John. Yes with propagation poor I need to use 20 and 80 m to fill the gaps... 40 m is not reliable. 73 Ian

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