Father's Day gave me the chance to take my portable kit to a family picnic and work a good number of summits while enjoying a nice bottle of wine and a sumptuous lunch. SOTA activity has certainly picked up now that VK2 and VK4 are up and running and it was great to work a number of VK2 summits and welcome a number of new activators to the fray. All up I worked 11 activators on 9 summits over 2 periods on Father's Day. Not a bad effort and certainly good for racking up chaser points. At this rate I will attain Mountain Goat status in a few weeks.
My first VK2 summit contact was with Andrew VK1NAM/p on VK2/ST-001. A little later I worked my first VK2 station, Andrew VK2 ONZ/p on VK2/IL-017. Other VK2 summit stations worked included John VK2YW/p on VK2/RI-026, Rod VK2LAX/p & ED VK2JI/p both on VK2/HU-093,Bernard VK2IB/p on VK2/RI-004. Great to hear a good number of stations working VK2 summits for the first time. If it wasn't for Father's Day, I would have expected even more would have been on the air. Well done Guys.
My first VK2 summit contact was with Andrew VK1NAM/p on VK2/ST-001. A little later I worked my first VK2 station, Andrew VK2 ONZ/p on VK2/IL-017. Other VK2 summit stations worked included John VK2YW/p on VK2/RI-026, Rod VK2LAX/p & ED VK2JI/p both on VK2/HU-093,Bernard VK2IB/p on VK2/RI-004. Great to hear a good number of stations working VK2 summits for the first time. If it wasn't for Father's Day, I would have expected even more would have been on the air. Well done Guys.