WWFF Annual Summary Jan – September 2024. Published by Kim OH6KZP.
Here’s the overview of WWFF ‘s year 2024 so far (Jan – Sep). The idea is to publish these cumulative summaries in about quartely fashion, and to make some of these statistics searchable on the WWFF website.
WWFF activity tends to follow a seasonal pattern, with this year’s peak (so far) in August, aided by the August Activity Month. The >100kQOSs by CY9C are excluded here in order to make months more comparable to each other.
The total tally is over one million QSOs (>21 million QSOs in our database) with almost 1200 activators and over 7000 references (this is nearly 20% from our total >36000 references) QRV from about 50 national programs. It’s also fun to see how the most active hunters make thousand of QSOs over the course of the year. Super FB!
The seventh annual operating event, Get your Park On! Celebrating Earth Science Week will occur October 12-20, 2024. The event is open to all WWFF Activators and Hunters and is sponsored by the U.S. (KFF) affiliate of World Wide Flora and Fauna (WWFF).
This year again will be an International event inviting all Activators through the world to participate. Hunters everywhere are invited to search out and contact Activators everywhere, making this truly a worldwide, DX event.
The list of Special Event Stations (SESs)that will be active during year’s event is shown below. This year will include SESs from VKFF, VEFF, and KFF. KFF SESs will be operating with 1×1 callsigns, e.g., N5G as they have been during previous events. VKs will be using their normal Callsigns. Stuart VE9CF will be using a special callsign VE9PARKS. Hunters are encouraged to work as many of these Special Event Stations as possible, with special recognition given to those working five or more. For a Clean Sweep, activators can work all SESs within VKFF or KFF/VEFF. A bonus recognition will be offered for those working all SESs from VKFF, VEFF, and KFF.
Since October 1998, the American Geosciences Institute has organized Earth Science Week, a national and international event. They do this to help the public gain a better understanding and appreciation for the Earth sciences and to encourage stewardship of the Earth, a common goal shared by World Wide Flora and Fauna. Both programs encourage their participants to get outside and enjoy nature.
GENERAL RULES: Operators are required to follow rules of their countries, within restrictions of their licenses, and to follow rules set forth by WWFF and its national organizations.
ELIGIBILITY: Get Your Park ON! Celebrating Earth Science Week is open to all WWFF Activators and Hunters worldwide.
VALID QSOs: Activators and Hunters throughout the World can exchange QSOs with each other. Park-to-Park QSOs are encouraged between Activators.
BANDS: All authorized Amateur frequencies; however, activity should center on frequencies suggested in WWFF program rules. (https://wwff.co Section 14.5)
MODES: All amateur modes are permitted.
EXCHANGE: Only signal report is required. WWFF Reference ID (e.g., KFF-1234, ONFF-1234, VKFF-1234) may be included by Activators optionally.
LOGS: All Activators are expected to submit their logs to their assigned person (may vary by country) for upload to the WWFF system. Credit for all Hunters and Activators will accrue as normal WWFF QSOs.
ACHIEVEMENT CERTIFICATES: A special achievement certificate will be available for all Hunters working at least 25 different WWFF References and to Activators with successful activations (44 QSOs) from at least 5 different WWFF References. And as is normally permitted, multiple visits can be made to reach 44 QSOs for a successful activation. A special endorsement will be available for those working at least 5 Special Event Stations. Endorsements are available for each increment of 5 SESs and 25 references. Request a certificate by email to n9mm@arrl.net
P.S. You may note that the total number of QSOs from August is now about 147k; that’s mainly because the SPFF log manager uploaded a lot of August logs after the activity month extract (with about 130k QSOs) was taken. Also, I’ve excluded the CY9C log in this draft, so that the monthly statistics aren’t skewed but instead more comparable to “normal” months.
If you want to see the graphes more in details, click right, select open picture in NEW tab. Next you can see the graphes full page.
From Thursday the 1st of August to Friday 31st of August 2024.
WWFF Team would like to invite all WWFF Activators and Hunters to participate in “The WWFF August ActivityMonth”.
The activity event will start at 00:00 UTC on August 1st and finish at 23:59 UTC on August 31st.
WWFF Activators are invited to be active from WWFF areas as much as possible.
A big opportunity for our hunters to work new WWFF areas and increase their score.
We recommend all Activators to use the WWFF Agenda and the WWFF Facebook Group to inform the WWFF Hunter community of their plans.
After each activity the Activators have to send in their logs to the log manager responsible for the areas they activated.
The deadline for sending in logs to count towards this special event is September 9th.
To facilitate the special award processing we ask the activators – especially when using vanity /special event calls or group calls – to make sure the operator field in their logs is populated with their home callsign.
The log uploaders then have a week to check and upload the logs. By September 16th we will start generating the awards and rank lists based on the available data in WWFF LogSearch.
Participation Awards
On September 16th WWFF will publish awards for Activators and Hunters.
ACTIVATOR PARTICIPATION AWARD
For activating WWFF references during “The WWFF August Activity Month “ Activators should accumulate at least 220 QSOs. An extra award is available when an activator makes 1000+ QSOs from valid WWFF reference(s).
Activator award (220+)
Activator 1K award (1000+)
HUNTER AWARDS
For hunting WWFF references during The WWFF August Activity MonthHunters should accumulate at least 22 references. After that base level, the first star is at 44 references with a new star for each 44 references more.
Hunter basic (22)
Hunter 1 star (44)
Hunter 2 star (88)
Hunter 3 star (132)
Hunter 4 star (176)
Hunter 5 star (220)
Hunter 6 star (264)
Each QSO counts towards this special award, except for dupes on same day/same band/same mode/same reference – otherwise hunt them as much as you can!