Yesterday I applied for my latest VKFF award certificate. It is the VKFF Hunter Honour Roll 1,700 issued for having worked 1,700 different VKFF references.

Thanks to all of the VKFF activators and thanks to Adam VK2YK the VK5 VKFF State Rep for the certificate.

On Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September 2022, I operated with the special event call of VK90ABC to celebrate the 90 year anniversary of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

I made a total of 502 QSOs on 10, 15, 20, 40, & 80m SSB. This included 53 different DXCC entities.

The vast majority of my contacts were on the 20m band with 359 QSOs. This was followed by 61 QSOs on 40m, 38 QSOs on 15m, 37 QSOs on 10m, and just 7 QSOs on the 80m band. I tried 80m briefly on both nights, but the band was so noisy with static crashes. As a result there were few callers.

The maps below show my contacts around the world. The different pins show the bands.

• Green – 10m
• Blue – 15m
• Orange – 20m
• Red – 40m
• Blue – 80m

I worked the following DXCC entities:-

1. Andorra
2. Australia
3. Austria
4. Belgium
5. Bulgaria
6. Canada
7. China
8. Corsica
9. Costa Rica
10. Croatia
11. Cyprus
12. Czech Republic
13. Denmark
14. East Malaysia
15. England
16. European Russia
17. Federal Republic of Germany
18. Finland
19. France
20. Hawaii
21. Hungary
22. Indonesia
23. Ireland
24. Isle of Man
25. Italy
26. Japan
27. Latvia
28. Malta
29. Mexico
30. Mozambique
31. Netherlands
32. New Zealand
33. Northern Ireland
34. Norway
35. Philippines
36. Poland
37. Portugal
38. Puerto Rico
39. Republic of Korea
40. Romania
41. Scotland
42. Slovak Republic
43. Slovenia
44. South Africa
45. Southg Cook Islands
46. Spain
47. Sri Lanka
48. Sweden
49. Switzerland
50. Trinidad & Tobago
51. Ukraine
52. United States of America
53. Wales

Conditions into Europe and the United Kingdom on the long path on the 20m band were the best I had heard in a number of years.

The map below shows my European/UK QSOs.

I also worked 37 of the 50 US States. These contacts were made on the 10m, 20m, and 40m bands. Short path propagation on 20m into the USA during the evening was very good.

There was a very nice opening to Japan on 15m on Thursday afternoon.

The highlight for me was working a number of South African stations on 40m.

Thank you to everyone who called. It was another fun 2 days. Thanks also go to the organisers of VK90ABC who allowed me to use the call ocne again.