Bondi Gulf Nature Reserve VKFF-2535

With a Labour Day holiday long weekend decided to head down to Victoria and do a few new parks. Friday afternoon drove down to Cooma. Saturday morning headed South of Cooma on the Monaro Hwy through Nimmitabel, then Bombala, and then turned off onto Gulf Rd on the right to Bondi Gulf Nature Reserve.

Eastern Boundary track on the left looked a bit rough so headed further along Gulf Rd on the right, until coming to Northern Boundary track junction.

Set up in the scrub behind the sign. The road is outside the park so needed to be in the scrub.

Operating spot in the park, map from Protected Planet

Shack on the table.

Got on 40m. Could not hear many on, conditions seemed very poor. Could hear the Riverland radio net on, most of the stations low signals or not audible. As had mobile coverage spotted myself on the park call frequency 7.144 Mhz and started calling. Worked the following on 40m

VK2ZVG
VK2VW
VK4HNS
VK7FRJG

As not getting any more callers QSYed to 80m, managed a couple more contacts

VK3PF
VK3SQ

Both quite strong. No more callers on 80m so went back to 40m to try and get to 10 contacts.

VK5HSX
VK5PAS/m
VK4TJ
VK4HNS

Made it to 10 contacts to count for VKFF. As conditions not good and still some distance to travel, packed up and headed South on the Monaro Hwy into Victoria and to Cann River.