While travelling to Harden for the Easter long weekend, stopped at Harden to do a Silo activation. SIOTA, or Silos on the Air is a fairly new portable radio activity, requiring getting in a 1 Km radius of a Silo and activating it on the radio. The ACT where I live has no Silos... so something new for me.
Found the Harden silo easily enough off Albury St, the main street of Harden. This Silo is painted with silo art. The SIOTA reference is VK-HRN2
A better view of the art from the side street. Note there is a fence, you cannot walk right up to the silo as private property.
Looked for a nearby place to operate from. Just over the road a sports oval, Roberts Park. This was easily in the 1 Km radius of the silo. Map from the Silos on the Air website.
Set up on the edge of the oval. Dipole tied up to a railing.
Shack on the tarp. Nice but did get warm out in the sun as no shade.
Got on 40m. As expected in a town quite a bit of electrical RF noise, around S7. Probably should have moved...
Spotted myself on ParksnPeaks, worked
VK2IO, VK3PF
VK2HRX/7 Compton on SOTA summit VK7/NE-001
VK2KBB, VK2MOE, VK5FB, VK5HAA, VK5WG, VK3AMO, VK2FW, VK4NH, VK4DXA, VK2NN. Most good strong signals, just as well as had to copy them over the noise.
As getting warn in the sun and travelling with my partner, did not want to spend too long, so packed up and continued driving on to Junee for the Easter break.
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