Monthly Archives: May 2014

New WWFF Award

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Yesterday I received via e-mail my latest World Wide Flora and Fauna (WWFF) global award.  The certificate is for making contact with 132 different WWFF references.

These certificates are available for free by applying on line via the WWFF LogSearch facility.  As such, it is heavily weighted on Activators submitting their activation logs.

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RealHF Mobile Yahoo group

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I have recently joined the RealHF Mobile yahoo group, which can be found at…..

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/REALHFMOBILE/info?tab=s

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RealHF Mobile is “an International group for mobile and portable amateur radio operators”.  The discussion forum is for all aspects of portable and mobile radio operation in Amateur Radio, i.e. HF Pedestrian Mobile (/PM), HF Portable Operating from a Remote Location (/P), HF Near the sea, HF Picnic Table or HF Mountain Top,Train,HF Car Mobile (/M), HF Bicycle (/BM),HF Motorcycle Mobile, HF Ship (/MM), HF Canoe Mobile …… or any other HF mobile variants.

The group is well worth joining.  There are some very interesting discussions, photos, and files to have a look at.

 

WWFF becoming more popular in Australia

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The World Wide Flora and Fauna program (WWFF) is increasing in popularity here in Australia.  Tony VK3VTH and Peter VK3ZPF have been very active on the bands including 20 m, working large amounts of stations in Europe during our afternoon (long path).  I have received a number of very favourable e-mails from mates in Europe wanting me to pass on my thanks to Tony & Peter for their efforts.

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And in the past week, SOTA guru Andrew VK1NAM, has provided me with all his logs in ADIF format which have been uploaded to the WWFF LogSearch facility.  It appears Andrew has now also been hooked on WWFF.

Andrew VK1NAM has a great blog about his SOTA and parks activities.  Here is a link to what he wrote recently about the WWFF program…..

http://vk1nam.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/wwff-and-vkff-national-parks-awards/

Activators forward me as the VK representative, their activator log, and I upload these to the WWFF LogSearch.  Hunters do not need to upload anything.  Activators and Hunters can track their progress on LogSearch, and also apply for awards.  There are also Honour boards on the LogSearch page.  Here is where you can find LogSearch…..

http://logsearch.wwff.co/index.php

Basically, there are 2 award systems in WWFF…..

  • Global awards
  • National awards

The WWFF global awards system requires activators to have 44 contacts over a 2 hour period (this can be done over multiple activations).

The Australian (VKFF) award requires only 10 QSO’s over a 30 minute period.  In Australia, the qualifying parks are National Parks.

Other National awards are on offer from other participating countries.

There is also an Australian (VKFF) Yahoo group which can be found at…..

https://au.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/wwffaustralia/info

Ian VK1DI has just started compiling KML files which can be uploaded to Google Earth, so you can view.  At this stage, the following States have been completed: VK5, VK7, VK8.

So why not activate a WWFF park, or combine a SOTA/WWFF activation, for twice the fun.  There are plenty of very nice certificates on offer to wallpaper the shack walls.

More information on the WWFF program can be found at the WWFF global website at…..

http://www.wwff.co

Or at the Australian (VKFF) website at…..

http://www.wwffaustralia.com

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Should you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact me.