Yehrip Bushland Reserve VKFF-4273

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Our first activation for Tuesday 21st November 2023 was the Yehrip Bushland Reserve VKFF-4273. The park is just 7 km to the northwest of Avoca and about 188 km northwest of Melbourne.

This was the first time the park was activated for the World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) program.

After leaving Avoca we headed north and crossed over the Avoca River.

Our drive took us through beautiful farming country with views of the Pyrenees.

Yehrip is a Parish in Victoria. Yehrip is an aboriginal word for paperbark. (Blake 1978)

Above:- Map showing the Parish of Yehrip. Map c/o Mapshare Vic website.

Parks Victoria has a page on their website for this park but it contains no information about the park other than a park boundary image.

The park is about 7 hectares in size and was established on the 24th day of August 1982. (CAPAD 2022)

We set up in a clearing amongst the scrub off the Robinson-Percydale Road. We ran the Yaesu FT857, 40 watts, and the 20/40/80m linked dipole. I used the special event callsign of VI10VKFF.

Above:- An aerial view of the park showing our operating spot. Image c/o Google Earth.

Band conditions on 40m were absolutely terrible and we scraped up just 11 contacts each on that band. At least we qualified the park for the VKFF program (10 contacts), but this is a park we will need to return to at some stage to get the required 44 QSOs to qualify the park for the global WWFF program.

Marija worked the following stations on 40m SSB:-

  1. VK1DI
  2. VK3CLD/p (Kosciuszko National Park VKFF-0269)
  3. VK2IO/p (Namadgi National Park VKFF-0377)
  4. VK1AO
  5. VK2MET
  6. VK4NH
  7. VK4DXA
  8. VK7PSJ
  9. VK4KLA
  10. VK7ZA
  11. VK5HAA

Marija worked the following stations on 80m SSB:-

  1. VK3PF
  2. VK3KAI
  3. VK3SQ
  4. VK2BD
  5. VK3APJ
  6. VK3UAO/p (Wood Point Flora ReserveVKFF-2489)
  7. VK3BEL
  8. VK2DG

I worked the following stations on 40m SSB:-

  1. VK1DI
  2. VK3CLD/p (Kosciuszko National Park VKFF-0269)
  3. VK2IO/p (Namadgi National Park VKFF-0377)
  4. VK1AO
  5. VK2MET
  6. VK4NH
  7. VK4DXA
  8. VK7PSJ
  9. VK4KLA
  10. VK7ZA
  11. VK5HAA

I worked the following stations on 80m SSB:-

  1. VK3PF
  2. VK3KAI
  3. VK3SQ
  4. VK2BD
  5. VK3APJ
  6. VK3UAO/p (Wood Point Flora ReserveVKFF-2489)
  7. VK3BEL
  8. VK2DG

I worked the following stations on 20m SSB:-

  1. VK1AO
  2. VK2MET
  3. VK4NH
  4. VK4DXA

References.

  1. Dcceew.gov.au. (2023). Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2022 – DCCEEW. [online] Available at: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad/2022 [Accessed 1 Mar. 2024].‌
  2. Leslie James Blake, 1978, Place Names of Victoria.

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