Marija VK5FMAZ and I are home from our short trip away to the Fleurieu Peninsula for the 4th year anniversary of the VK5 National & Conservation Parks Award.  As always, we had a terrific time and enjoyed our stay south of Adelaide.  This year we stayed for 2 nights in the homestead located within the Deep Creek Conservation Park.  We can highly recommend this accomodation.

We activated a total of 4 Conservation Parks over the weekend and made a total of 532 QSOs.  This included a total of 99 Park to Park contacts.

Sadly, participation by VK5 activators was down from previous years.  But it was very pleasing to see a number of interstate park activators heading out to take advantage of the Park to Park opportunities for World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF).  We also logged numerous activators for the Summits on the Air (SOTA) program.

Here is a summary of our activity…..

Friday 31st March 2017

Deep Creek Conservation Park 5CP-054 and VKFF-0780

• VK5FMAZ – 1 QSO
• VK5PAS – 74 QSOs

Saturday 1st April 2017

Talisker Conservation Park 5CP-223 and VKFF-0790

• VK5FMAZ – 60 QSOs
• VK5PAS – 98 QSOs

Deep Creek Conservation Park 5CP-054 and VKFF-0780

• VK5FMAZ – 26 QSOs
• VK5PAS – 60 QSOs

Sunday 2nd April 2017

Waitpinga Conservation Park 5CP-243 and VKFF-0940

• VK5FMAZ -46 QSOs
• VK5PAS – 51 QSOs

Eric Bonython Conservation Park 5CP-062 and VKFF-0877

• VK5FMAZ –  47 QSOs
• VK5PAS – 69 QSOs

Thanks to everyone who took part in the weekend, both activators and hunters.  I hope everyone had as much fun as we did.  I will prepare some stats about the weekend over the coming weeks and place on the VK5 Parks Award website, Facebook page, and Yahoo group.  I will also place some additional information here about each of our activations.   And don’t forget to send me your logs so I can upload them to the WWFF database, Logsearch.