Aussies light up for ILLW

The Liverpool and District Amateur Radio Club VK2BTT will be putting the retired MV Cape Don, a purpose-built vessel to service navigational aids including manned lighthouses to air Next weekend, Lighthouse Weekend

Brian VK5BC and Richard VK5UK will be activating the Corny Point Lighthouse, Southern Yorke Peninsula over the International Lighthouse Weekend the 18th & 19th August. They will be using the Callsign VK5CPL.

Two lighthouses in Western Australia will be active.
VK6CNL Cape Naturaliste and VK6CLL Cape Leeuwin Lighthouses in the south west of the state.
If you are interested and in the Margaret River area feel free to go along to the Lighthouses and see the teams in operation. Whale watching is also possible from the coast at the lighthouses.

WICEN in Tassie will visit Cape Bruny for the weekend, they depart Kettering on the 7.45am ferry, and remind those in the south that more day visitors are welcome.