My trip to Norfolk Island is sadly over and I am back to reality. Marija and I flew over to the island on Monday 23rd May 2016, via Air New Zealand. We had 5 days of looking around beautiful Norfolk leading up to the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) AGM.
Whilst on Norfolk I managed to get on air as VK9PAS on 6 occasions as follows…..
- Mount Bates VK9/ NO-001 and VKFF-0392, Monday 23rd May 2016 –25 QSOs
- Mount Pitt, Monday 23rd May 2016 –56 QSOs
- Puppies Point, Tuesday 24th May 2016 – 120 QSOs
- Selwyn Reserve, Thursday 26th May 2016 – 107 QSOs
- Emily Bay, Friday 27th May 2016 – 59 QSOs
- Anson Bay Reserve, Sunday 29th May 2016 – 232 QSOs
I made a total of 599 contacts.
DXCC entities worked were:-
- Alaska
- Australia (VK1, VK2, VK3, VK4, VK5, VK6, VK7)
- Canada
- Canary Islands
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Italy
- Japan
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norfolk Island
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovak Republic
- Slovenia
- United States of America
A reminder that if you would like a QSL card, here are the QSL details (as per the VK9PAS QRZ.com page)……
VK’s
Direct with your QSL card and a stamped self addressed envelope to….
PO Box 169, Mount Barker, S.A. 5251
or via eQSL / LOTW
DX
via M0OXO (Bureau or Direct)
or via eQSL / LOTW
VK5PAS 
Hi Paul, I am looking forward to the VK9PAS qsl card. Getting ready to get all the contacts confirmed. How many of your locations were in the National Park? When I posted you on your last activation I showed you as being in the Park. You might want to confirm that please. I am glad you both had a great time and I am quite envious and looking forward to an eye ball contact (when you settle back in).
Cheers
John D
VK5BJE/VK5PF
Hi John,
Fire me off a card and I’ll send one back to you, or maybe we can do an exchange next week when we catch up for coffee. The whole of Norfolk is VKFF-0392. Only 2 of my 6 activations were actually from within the National Park.
Cheers,
Paul,
VK5PAS.
Awesome that the whole island is a VKFF! Good work bloke. Hope to catch up when I get back.
Chris
VK4FR/P
Hi Chris,
Would love to get back there some time soon. It is a very interesting place. I could see myself retired there, but I don’t think that will go down too well with Marija.
Cheers,
Paul,
VK5PAS.