Announcing the “Meet the WWFF’ers” post series

14 Saturday Jun 2025

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Many callsigns familiar to WWFF’ers are heard activating and hunting on the bands daily. Likewise, WWFF national program volunteers keep the local wheels turning and churn out new ideas to develop their programs.

We would like to do a series of brief WWFF blog & Facebook posts that help us get to know each other better, and that enable the sharing of ideas between individuals and national programs. Posts such as “Meet Karl, DL1ABC”, or “Meet the Canadians: VEFF”.

==> We are now looking for one or more volunteer “editors” to manage this recurring post series (for example once a week). As a foundation, we plan to have a battery of questions that can be distributed to selected individuals/programs so as to help in composing the brief posts.

Interested?? Please e-mail OH6KZP at kim.ostman@gmail.com. Thanks!

KFF’s Get Your Park ON! Mosquito Madness

13 Friday Jun 2025

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Event: Get Your Park ON! Mosquito Madness
Dates: June 21–22, 2025 (0000–2359 UTC)
Hosted by: WWFF-KFF
Website: https://wwff.us/?page_id=237

Highlights:

Open to all WWFF Activators and Hunters worldwide
Celebrates the summer solstice by providing hunters everywhere with the opportunity to boost their reference totals
Features Special Event Stations (SES), using 1×1 callsigns (e.g., N5G).
Hunters are encouraged to contact multiple SESs, with recognition for working 5+ SESs, or achieving a “Clean Sweep” of all SESs
SES station details and QRZ pages will be updated at event start.

Certificates of Achievement:

Hunters: Contact 10 WWFF references and/or 5 SESs (in increments of 5)
Activators: Activate 2 WWFF references with at least 44 QSOs each
Certificate Request: Send email to n9mm.norm@gmail.com with total references worked, or activated, and # SESs stations logged. No log data required.

WWFF Monthly Pulse – April 2025

05 Thursday Jun 2025

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The WWFF stats for April 2025 are in! To make them more comparable with other months, I’ve here removed some 50k QSOs made by the large HD8G DX-pedition (HCFF-0004).

Most numbers are slightly down from March, although there were more national programs QRV. We are now heading into the northern hemisphere’s summer months, and the associated band condition changes may lead to funky effects in the bandwise breakdown.

Don’t forget to take a look at the WWFF 2025 Marathon stats too. They provide fun full-year and monthly (from the drop-down menu on the top left) breakdowns from several points of view: https://wwff.co/marathon-standings/

Spotline launching now

31 Saturday May 2025

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Spotline

WWFF’s new Spots and Agenda service is launching this weekend on Sunday, June 1st. You will find the service as subframes on the https://wwff.co website as usual.

The direct addresses are:

* https://spots.wwff.co (full-page web service with a comprehensive info page)

* spots.wwff.co:7300 (DXSpider clone for logging program integration)

The addresses will become operational during Sunday. For any bug reports and feature requests, please use https://wwff.co/reporting-bugs-request-new-features/

Happy spotting and WWFFing!

Reminder: Spotline is coming soon!

23 Friday May 2025

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Spotline

Spotline, WWFF’s new Spots & Agenda service, is coming soon. It will replace the current WWFF Cluster and Agenda, with the plan being to have it up and running on June 1st, 2025.

Among other things, Spotline features a telnet server that mimics DXSpider. This means that you can connect to “Spotline” as a cluster node to receive WWFF spots into your favorite logging program.

Steps are also under way to integrate Spotline with HamAlert, PoLo, and Port-A-Log. Stay tuned!

Announcing Spotline: WWFF’s New Spot & Agenda Service

09 Friday May 2025

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Spotline

We are excited to unveil Spotline, a major component of WWFF’s new IT development. Activator spots and agenda items are the backbone of WWFF’s daily buzz, and Spotline will offer streamlined access to them for both desktop and mobile usage. It will also offer integration of WWFF spot information into logging programs, personal websites, and other third-party tools.

Spotline has been developed by Jouni, OH3CUF, with multiple test users providing feedback. It will replace the current WWFF Cluster and Agenda beginning June 1st, 2025, at a new address.

At this moment we wish to extend our sincere gratitude to CQGMA for providing WWFF with Cluster and Agenda services for several years. They were developed particularly by Mario, DL4MFM, who deserves our warm thanks.

More screenshots and further information about Spotline are forthcoming.