Buckleboo Conservation Reserve VKFF-1689 and Buckleboo silo VK-BCO5

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My next activation for Thursday 11th April 2024 was the Buckleboo Conservation Reserve VKFF-1689 and the Buckleboo silo VK-BCO5. Buckleboo is about 32 km northwest of Kimba and about 495 km from Adelaide.

Above:- Map showing the location of the Buckleboo Conservation Reserve. Map c/o Google Maps.

The Hundred of Buckleboo was proclaimed on the 1st day of June 1922. The name was adopted from an adjacent pastoral run held by John Love and R Love from 1864.

Above:- John Love. Image c/o State Library South Australia.

The government town of Buckleboo was surveyed in November 1924 and proclaimed on the 17th day of December 1925 by Tom Bridges, the Governor of South Australia. The Buckleboo school opened in 1929 and closed in 1949. (Place Names 2012)

Above:- Proclamation of the town of Buckleboo. Image c/o SA Govt Gazette, Dec 17, 1925.

The railway line reached Kimba in 1913, two years before the town was declared. In 1926 the line was extended north to Buckleboo. Until 2005, Buckleboo was the railhead for one branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway, a narrow gauge railway that principally hauled grain via Kimba and Cummins to Port Lincoln for export. The last train to Buckleboo was in 2005. (Kimba Visitor Guide 2019)

Above:- Railway lines of the Eyre Peninsula, 1953. Image c/o Wikipedia.

The Buckleboo Conservation Reserve is separated into seven sections around the old town of Buckleboo.

Above:- An aerial view of the Buckleboo Conservation Reserve. Image c/o Google Earth.

The reserve is about 281 hectares in size and was established on the 13th day of September 1990. (CAPAD 2022)

The Buckleboo silos are located alongside the old railway line, between Donaldson Road and Railway Terrace.

I parked on Donaldson Road within the activation zone of the silo. I ran the Yaesu FT857, 40 watts, and the 20/40/80m linked dipole.

Above:- the activation zone at the Buckleboo silos. Image c/o SiOTA website.

I worked the following stations on 40m SSB:-

  1. VK8ZWM
  2. VK5MAZ
  3. Vk3PF
  4. VK2USH/p (Mole Creek Karst National Park VKFF-0322)
  5. VK3BBB
  6. VK2CCP
  7. VK2IO/p (Deua National Park VKFF-0138)
  8. VK5TUX
  9. VK5FB
  10. VK5IS
  11. VK5KLD
  12. VK5LA
  13. VK5KAW
  14. VK3CEO
  15. Vk3PJR
  16. VK3DL
  17. VK5AHA
  18. Vk5AUS
  19. VK5IU

I worked the following stations on 20m SSB:-

  1. VK7XX
  2. VK1AO
  3. VK2MET
  4. VK5MAZ
  5. VK7HBR
  6. VK3EJ
  7. Vk5QA/p
  8. VK3CLD/p
  9. KG5CIK
  10. VK4NH
  11. VK4DXA
  12. OH1MM
  13. VK3SQ
  14. VK2BD
  15. VK3PF
  16. VK3KAI
  17. VK3CEO
  18. VK6LK/p (Penguin Island Conservation Park VKFF-1436)
  19. VK3DL
  20. VK2VW
  21. VK2HFI
  22. VK2AKA
  23. Vk2BUG
  24. VK4MUD
  25. VK4EMP
  26. VK4TI
  27. VK4PDX
  28. VK3SX
  29. OH1PA
  30. VK2QM
  31. VK2IO/p (Deua National Park VKFF-0138)
  32. VK3EY
  33. VK3APJ

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.
  2. Kimba Visitor Guide, 2019
  3. published.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au. (n.d.). A Compendium of the Place Names of South Australia. [online] Available at: https://published.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/placenamesofsouthaustralia/.

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