The WWFF program was created in November 2012, so to mark the 10th year Anniversary an activity weekend was announced for 19th and 20th November. With poor weather for Canberra over the weekend I went out Saturday morning only to activate a local park, the Pinnacle Nature Reserve VKFF-0862.
Parked off Springvale Dr in Hawker, just a few Km from home. Sign for the park.
Walked into the park and headed left, until spotting a fence suitable for squid pole support after a short distance. Ran the 40m dipole along the fence.
Shack on the trap in the grass. Long grass after recent rain. As close to the car I carried my new 40aH battery pack in, to run the FT857D at 50w.
Got on 40m. Disappointingly about an S5 of noise from a nearby mobile phone substation.
Started by working a few parks already active
VK5PAS/7 Paul and VK5MAZ/7 Maria in VKFF-1812 Little Peggs Beach State Reserve
VK2BYF/VK2HQ Bob in VKFF-2698 Parma Creek Nature Reserve
VK3BEZ Peter in VKFF-0480 Tarra-Bulga National Park
After spotting on 7.160 worked several hunters
VK2EXA, VK3NDG, VK2VW/VK2HFI, VK3SQ. Another couple of P2Ps
VK2IO Gerard in VKFF-3246 Barrenjoey Head Aquatic Reserve
VK3TUN David in VKFF-2285 Burgess Swamp Wildlife Reserve
Then hunters VK3UH, VK2JRO, VK4TJ, VK3UAO
VK2MET Alan in VKFF-1410 Port Stephens - Great Lakes Marine Park. Also had call VK1AO.
VK2OKR Richard in VKFF-0595 Hunter Wetlands National Park
VK2JPR, VK3APJ, VK3SMW, VK2LEE, VK3ZPF, VK2FBRU, VK3VIN
VK1ACE Rod in VKFF-0985 Gigerline Nature Reserve. A new park for me as only activated this.
VK2HRX, VK2PKT, VK3GJG,
Tried 20m, only 1 contact with ZL1BQD.
As lunch time and the wind was picking up, packed up and headed home after 31 contacts. Not enough for the 100 contacts needed for the WWFF 10th Anniversary award, but 8 unique P2Ps, plus a few more at home so at least had qualified for the 10 needed Bronze hunter award.
10th Anniversary Activity Weekend | WWFF
My battery pack had dropped from 100% to 90% capacity, good for a one-and-a-half-hour activation running 50w.
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