Summits located in the Namadgi NP
Saturday 16 May 2019. I am joined by Andrew VK1DA for a joint activation of Booroomba Rocks VK1/AC-026 at 1382m ASL in Namadgi National Park. Starting from Booroomba Rocks car park, the ascent to the summit is 267 vertical metres over 2.4 km taking one hour. Andrew plans to qualify the summit using CW in…
Saturday 15 April 2017 – QRP activation of Booroomba Rocks 1382 metres (4534 ft) ASL, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory. Purpose of today’s Summits on the Air (SOTA) activation is to: experiment with 5 watts on the 17m band (18 MHz) SSB experiment with low power output at 500 mW on the 30 and…
Saturday 24 September 2016, planned SOTA activation of Mt Domain, 1506 metres ASL Namadgi National Park Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44KM I’m out with Al VK1RX, our focus for this SOTA activation is to have fun and for Al to pick up 9 activators points to pass through 1000 points for the SOTA Mountain Goat Award.…
Sunday 11 September 2016, planned SOTA activation of Boboyan Divide, 1510 metres ASL, and Pheasant Hill 1455 metres ASL. Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44MC and QF44LD I’m out with Al VK1RX our focus for this SOTA activation is to have fun, earn 16 SOTA activator points and complete a combined 17 km walk starting at 07:45…
Saturday 30 July 2016, planned SOTA activation of Honeysuckle Mountain, 1360 metres ASL, 4 points Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44LJ Possible Summit to Summit contacts: Al VK1RX and Andrew VK1MBE have plans for a joint activate of Booroomba Rocks VK1/AC-026. Tony VK1VIC has plans to activate Livingstone Hill VK2/SM-093. Honeysuckle Mountain SOTA 70cm activation Radio: Yaesu…
Sunday 17 July 2016, planned SOTA activation of Boboyan Range, 1489 metres ASL Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44ME Parks Reference: VKFF-0377 Namadgi National Park Possible Summit to Summit contacts: Al VK1RX has plans to activate VK2/ST-003 Devils Peak, Brindabella National Park for 8 activator points. Matt VK1MA has plans to activate Mt Ainslie VK1/AC-040 for 1…
Saturday 9 July 2016, planned SOTA activation of Mt Tennent VK1/AC-025, 1384 metres ASL Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44MK Parks Reference: VKFF-0377 Namadgi National Park Possible known Summit to Summit contact: Tony VK3CAT has plans to activate VK3/VC-025 Mt Dandenong in Melbourne for 2 points. Others may be lerking on hilltops, the activators who don’t post…
I have been working on this post for a few months, sorry I am really late in publishing this post, I have been having way too much fun operating radios from mountain peaks for the SOTA 6 & 10m Challenge 😉 Saturday 26 September 2015. I have been planning this day for about 6 weeks,…
Monday 28 December 2015. Tidbinbilla Mountain VK1/AC-013 1615 metres ASL, Namadgi National Park A new summit as the benchmark for assessing the difficulty of a SOTA peak ascent. Until today, Mt Tennent 32 km south of Canberra GPO was my personal benchmark with an ascent of 780 vertical metres over 7 km taking 2 hours…
Thursday 7 January 2016, planned SOTA activation of Booroomba Rocks VK1/AC-026 1382 metres ASL on 432.2 MHz USB and 439.00 MHz FM. Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44LK. Radio: Yaesu FT-857D and Yaesu FT-60R dual band HT Antenna: 70cm Slim-Jim supported by a 5 metre telescopic pole (known as a ‘squid pole’) Power Level: FT-857D 15 watts,…
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