Today I took the chance to visit GFF-0336 South Bents to Tynemouth South Pier Head, which is located 4 miles north of the city of Sunderland on the north east coast . My location was at Souter Lighthouse and overlooking Marsden Rocks which is a excellent location of visiting seabirds at nesting season .

The North East coast is covered in GFF sites for over a hundred miles from the border of Scotland and to the North Yorkshire Moors .

I was operating with my Yaesu FT-817nd 5watts and my homebrew 1/4 dipoles for 20 & 40m , conditions did not look good with the poor K index and I started on 40m with calls from around Europe and even some from the UK which is rare at the moment with current conditions , I did work  M0YMA/M at GFF-0292 and PA2CVD/P at PAFF-0089 Total of 40 QSO on 40m .

We, the ” Lupi della Majella Team” , IW6NZY Silvino, IZ6YLM Fiorello, I2JJR/HB9TZA Augusto, went yesterday to the IFF-0982 , “Parco Territoriale Attrezzato dell’ Annunziata” a new reference, near the Franciscan Monastery DAI-AZ0101 .

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Another one activation from our team in northen Greece. The group gathered around 9 in the morning of Sunday and started for Paiko mountain area. What we had to decide was the location point,as the area is large and there were many good choices. After discussing we decided to stay in the space of forest recreation after Kastaneri village where there also the church of Prophet Elias. The plan for today was to install two separate stations so that we work two different bands and make as many contacts we can. But the propagation was not with our side. Under these conditions the number of 400+ contacts οf previous activation(svff-0122) could not be approached.

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On Saturday 18th March 2017 I activated the Totness Recreation Park VKFF-1754 as part of the John Moyle Memorial Field Day, an annual Field Day down here in Australia.

I made a total of 241 contacts over a 6 hour period.

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73 and ’44’,

Paul VK5PAS.

On Friday 17th March 2017 I activated the Wiljani Conservation Park, which is located about 55 km north east of the city of Adelaide in South Australia.  The park is right on the southern fringe of the world famous Barossa Valley wine growing region.  Wiljani is the name of an aboriginal tribe which previously occupied this area.

I made a total of 99 contacts on 20, 40, & 80m SSB, including three Park to Park contacts.  There was a small opening on 20m on the longpath, with a total of 18 stations from Europe logged.  DX on 40m included New Zealand, French Polynesia, Tuvalu and the USA.

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73 and ’44’,

https://vk5pas.org/

Paul VK5PAS