VK2ABP callsign

 In September, I organised an additional callsign,  I picked up VK2ABP, which was Bob Paton's callsign  prior to him becoming SK in 2012.  it is now  registered  at address for QF46pu, (locality Gowan) for which Bob often operated field portable from, for many HF Contests on the mountain top. 

As I also frequent the same site for contests I thought it only fitting to get another callsign for when I am operating from there and the obvious choice was to get Bob's old callsign and operate it in his memory as he was absolutely fanatical about contesting and DXing.  Bob would often spend the entire nights on the mountain top working the HF Contests.    Bob also operated at Davis Base in Antartica as VK0BP (1nov2008 to7mar2009) and his first callsign was VK2FBOB.

Looking up the history of the callsign VK2ABP, it was first licensed to the Broken Hill ARC prior to and post World War 2, then later to a RG Dunford of Coonabarabran in 1950's.