SOTA – Tumorrama Hill

Saturday 4 May 2019. Earlier today I activated Mount Tumorrama VK2/SW-027 followed by Billapaloola State Forest VK2/SW-034. I’ve been trying to activate Tumorrama Hill since 2014 where on previous attempts my efforts were thwarted by forestry logging operations in an adjacent pine forest. With two summits under my belt, I am making my way to…

SOTA Activation – Bramina Range

Bramina Range VK2/SW-074 1264 metres ASL 8 Points, Kosciuszko National Park VKFF-269 Bramina Range is a new SOTA summit included in the recent VK2 SOTA update coordinated by Andrew VK2UH and later implemented by SOTA MT on 1 December 2014.  The summit’s status is unactivated.  I surveyed the summit in August last year and now…

SOTA Activation Mount Tumorrama – 22 April 2014

Mount Tumorrama VK2/SW-027 1218 metres ASL, Bondo State Forest Continuing on with the plan to activate three summits Yankee Ned Hill, Mount Tumorrama and Billapaloola the next summit is Mount Tumorrama.   My plan is to activate the summit at 01:30 UTC looking for a summit to summit (S2S) contact with fellow VK1 SOTA activator Al…

SOTA Activation Yankee Ned Hill – 22 April 2014

Yankee Ned Hill VK2/SW-026 1237 metres ASL, Bondo State Forest I have taken three days leave from work to take advantage of the Easter break and a short working week which concludes with the ANZAC Day public holiday on Friday 25 April. Today I am heading out of Canberra to the South West Slopes region…