After attending a funeral in Melbourne returned home to Canberra via Gippsland. After leaving Melbourne travelled East on the Princes Hwy. When reaching Sale stopped to activate a couple of parks close to the town, the first one Herb Guyatt Flora Reserve, VKFF-2329. Accessed the park via a left turn into the Ridge Rd off a roundabout, then Wurruck Way, turning off onto Riverview Rd on the right. Note this is a dirt road and ends up going to a farm. Before the farm a gate on the right and a sign for the reserve.
Wandered along a track until finding a spot to operate from, a dead tree on the side of the track, ran the dipole along the track. Dipole ends up high enough to avoid pedestrians, did not see anyone here though.
Checked SWR on 40m, a little high in the band, but good across the band.
Radio on the tarp
Got on 40m. able to spot easily here as good mobile coverage. Worked the following stations. most strong signals, especially the VK3s.
VK3MCA, VK2YAK/VK4YAK, VK3NP, VK3PF, VK3CWF, VK3GJG, VK3UH, VK1AD, VK3VIN, VK7IAN, VK5AYL, VK3ZSC, VK3CJN
A SOTA contact with VK3ZPF Peter on VK3/VN-027 Mt Gordon.
As lunch time and had enough contacts, packed up and headed into nearby Sale for lunch.
No comments:
Post a Comment