Cleland Conservation Park (VKFF-0778) and Mt Lofty

I parked in the Cleland wildlife park car park and noticed that between the car park and the fence of the wildlife part there was a nature strip about 20 metres wide. I walked along that area for a minute and came across two wallabies, very friendly, soon after that I found a spot quite suitable with a fallen tree that made a great seat for me.


















The yellow X in the google map image above shows the location where I setup.


The antenna kit below are all the components for the 20/40 vertical.  It is designed to be able to fit into a suitcase  







Above is my operating position.
 

Below is a close up of the feed point at the base of the vertical. 







 


Wallabies in the background observing what must look out of place to them. 



On the short walk back to the car I spotted a Koala with a Joey on its back.  It walked across the car park and up one of the tree close to were I was setup.  You can see the fence to the wildlife park in the background.

List of Contacts
40 metres
VK4CZ/p Scott who was VKFF-1578
VK3PI Mark
VK3PF Peter
VK5FSAM Sam
VK1DA Andrew
VK3SQ Geoff
VK4FDJL Deryck
VK2YK/5 Adam
VK5GA Adam (2nd callsign)
VK4TJ John
VK3BWG Peter
VK2IO Gerard
VK2QR Rob
VK3YV Tony

80 metres
VK5PAS Paul
VK5CZ Ian
VK5HAA John
VK3KYF 


Mt Lofty
I then drove about 10 minutes up to mount lofty which is a SOTA location (VK5/SE-005). This is also within the Cleland Conservation Park.  There were large trees in between each car park section so I selected a tree and use the golf ball and fishing line to pull up the 10 metre vertical wire and used the loading coil for 80 metres with two 10 metres ground wires.





The yellow X in the google map image below shows the location where I setup



After this short activation it was dark so I walked up to the lookout to check out the view of Adelaide at night.





List of contacts
80 metres
VK3PF Peter
VK4TJ John
VK5PAS Paul
VK5HAA John
VK5FMAZ Marija
VK2YK Adam
VK5CZ Ian
VK2IO Gerard

Location: Cleland Conservation Park, Cleland SA 5152, Australia

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