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2018

Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November 2018

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This was the 4th year that the event had been held.

A total of 33 different callsigns participated as activators.  This was down from 46 in the previous year.

The total number of QSOs made over the weekend was 2,068, which was slightly down from 2017 when 2,307 QSOs were made.

A total of 757 Park to Park contacts were made.

A total of 60 unique parks were activated over the weekend in VK1, VK2, VK3, VK4, VK5, & VK6.


PDF document  Report on the 2018 VKFF Activation Weekend 

2018_vkff_activation_weekend-compressed.pdf
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Graph showing the number of parks activated in each State/Territory

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The following amateurs took part as activators:-

  1. VI2WG50
  2. Chris VK1CT
  3. Ian VK1DI
  4. Gerard VK2IO
  5. Peter VK2KNV
  6. Alan VK2MG
  7. Rob VK2QR
  8. Liz VK2XSE
  9. Adam VK2YK
  10. Alan VK3ALN
  11. Nick VK3ANL
  12. Fred VK3DAC
  13. Brett VK3FLCS
  14. Nik VK3NLK
  15. Malcolm VK3OAK
  16. Peter VK3PF
  17. Peter VK3TKK
  18. Tony VK3XV
  19. Peter VK3ZPF
  20. Rob VK4AAC
  21. Steve VK4FNOR
  22. Neil VK4HNS
  23. Matt VK4PZZ
  24. Mark VK4SMA
  25. Ade VK4SOE
  26. John VK5FLEA
  27. Marija VK5FMAZ
  28. Les VK5KLV
  29. Andy VK5LA
  30. Steve VK5MSD
  31. Paul VK5PAS
  32. David VK5PL
  33. Phil VK6ADF
  34. Hans VK6XN

Participation certificate

All activators who took part in the weekend (who provided logs), received a Participation Certificate.

​The certificate features the coastline of the Mornington Peninsula National Park (photo taken by VK5PAS).

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