Category Archives: Awards

Recent VKFF Award certificates – May 2023

Parks activation activity has been high over the last couple of months in Australia. Combined with reasonable favourable propagation, my Hunter tally of VKFF references has increased. I qualified for 2075 step award on 1 March 2023, the 2100 step … Continue reading

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Two Gippsland HEMA summits

2 April 2022 Saturday 2 April 2022 was promoted as International HEMA Day. Despite the poor weather outlook locally, I decided to head out to activate a HEMA summit in West Gippsland. I have submitted a list of candidate summits … Continue reading

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VKFF 2021 yearly Awards

I recently received two awards from the VKFF National Representative. Each year, the VKFF team recognises the top 10 Activators and Hunters for the previous calendar year. In 2021, there was a high number of activations, despite the various lockdowns … Continue reading

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Latest certificates earned

Several certificates have arrived in the past few days via email or logging on to the POTA website. Below are some examples. SOTA Shack Sloth Chaser 40,000 This certificate marks reaching a Chaser score of 40,000 points earned by working … Continue reading

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A notable contact with VK0

The latest issue of Amateur Radio magazine (Vol 89, No 5 2021) has a theme of Australian amateur radio involvement in Antarctica. A link appeared on a Facebook group to a QSL card for two contacts made on 50 MHz … Continue reading

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