10th Anniversary Activity Weekend

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In November 2012, the World Wide Flora and Fauna in amateur radio program was born, when a number of dedicated portable radio operators decided to establish WWFF from the remains of WFF.

A website was created and most importantly at that phase, Andrew M0MYA shared his expertise to build a very intuitive WWFF LogSearch database.

Rules were written, awards were created, and a number of leading activators joined to develop and grow the WWFF program.

Starting with a core group of mainly European countries more and more countries across the world joined the program. Currently we have 59 countries that run there own national program within WWFF. National coordinators supported by log, directory and award managers run their programs based on WWFF rules.

Our database contains more than 31,000 references in 144 countries across the world and until now more than 17 million QSOs!

As WWFF was established in November 2012, therefore we celebrate its 10th birthday with a big activity party – note: this is NOT a contest!

The WWFF 10th Anniversary Activity Weekend

On Saturday the 19th and Sunday 20th of November, WWFF Team would like to invite all WWFF Activators and Hunters to participate in the WWFF 10th Anniversary Activity Weekend.

  • The party will start at 00:01 UTC on November 19th and finish at 23:59 UTC on November 20th.
  • We hope many WWFF Activators will be on the air from many WWFF areas. We also hope many WWFF Hunters will work them.
  • We recommend all Activators to use the WWFF Agenda and the WWFF Facebook Group to inform the WWFF Hunter community of their plans.
  • After the activity weekend the Activators have to send in their logs to the log manager responsible for the areas they activated, as usual. The deadline for sending in logs to count towards this special event is November 27th.
  • To facilitate the special award processing we ask the activators – especially when using vanity calls or group calls – to make sure the operator field in their logs is populated with their home callsign.
  • The deadline for sending in the logs is November 27th. The log uploaders then have a week to check and upload the logs. By December 3 we will start generating the awards based on the available data in WWFF LogSearch.

Participation Awards

On December 4th WWFF will publish awards for Activators and Hunters.

Activator Participation Award

For activating WWFF references during the WWFF 10th Anniversary Activity Weekend:

  • Activator – at least 100 QSOs made from valid WWFF reference(s)

Hunter Awards

For hunting WWFF references during the WWFF 10th anniversary activity weekend:

  • Diamond – 60 WWFF references hunted
  • Gold – 50 WWFF references hunted
  • Silver – 25 WWFF references hunted
  • Bronze – 10 WWFF references hunted
  • Green – 5 WWFF references hunted

Enjoy!

WWFF Activator Points Awards (Update)

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Further to the recent announcement, the WWFF Committee are pleased to confirm the launch of a new award for Activators… the WWFF Activator Points Award.

As previously announced, this will launch on 2020-01-01 00:00:01utc – only QSOs made on or after this time shall be valid for the new award (but, obviously are valid for the other WWFF awards.

Points will be awarded as follows:

  • One point for each 44 QSOs from a reference (up to a maximum of 10 points, for 440 QSOs or above) per calendar year.
  • Five points for each DX Entity where a reference has been sucessfully activated from, per calendar year.

Certificates will be issued for 11, 22, 44 and 88 points… higher levels will be determined in due course. Thanks to Francois ON5SWA for taking on the role of Award Manger.

Logsearch is already configured to report the points running total… applications will be enabled shortly…

EIFF ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2022

25 Saturday Feb 2023

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Their is 2 sections in the EIFF Annual Awards.

  • 1st EIFF Park Chaser
  • 2nd EIFF Park Ranger

The winners of the Park Chaser is:

1st place DL2ND Uwe, 760 points,

2nd place IK1GPG Massimo, 730 points,

3rd IK3HMB Giorgio,730 points.

The winners of the Park Ranger is:

  • 1st place EI9HQ Declan, 165 points
  • 2nd G7SQW Andy, 45 points
  • 3 people on 30 points for 3rd place. GIAZA, EI3HGB and EI5IMB

We used the total number of qso’s made from all the parks activated during 2022 to separated them.

Out on top for 3rd place was EI3HGB . 2022 AWARD standings list are on the website and rules for the annual awards.

Well done to everybody for taking part.

KFF Marathon Challenge – 2023

30 Friday Dec 2022

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We are excited to announce the fourth annual KFF Marathon Challenge for 2023.

Beginning January 1, 2023, KFF again sponsors a KFF Marathon Challenge, a yearlong activity wherein we will recognize the achievers who work, or activate, the most KFF References during the calendar year. There are categories for Top North American Hunters, Top DX Hunters, and Top Activators. The effect of the Marathon Challenge will be that on January 1st, for the sake of the Challenge, everybody’s KFF counter will reset to zero, and all KFF References will be “New” again. This opens a whole new world for Hunters and Activators alike.

The KFF Marathon Challenge Award rules remain unchanged from 2022.

Good luck hunting in 2023 when propagation should be much better!

WWFF turns 10 years old

11 Friday Nov 2022

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 In 2012, after a series of consultations, it was decided to transform what was “WFF” into the new formula, that of “WWFF”

On the WWFF website you can find information about the actions that will take place on this occasion. https://wwff.co/2022/09/10th-anniversary-activity-weekend/

The YOFF group collaborated, both in the development of the program, and with a set of diplomas that were and are issued to those who participate in the WWFF programs.

On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, YOFF offers a set of diplomas for the participants from November 19 – 20, 2022 to the “weekend activity WWFF” regardless of the country they are from.

Thus, for those who will activate (Activator)  protected areas will be the following:  Novice Class with 2 activated areas; Standard Class with 4 activated zones and Expert Class with 6 activated zones. From each activated zone, a minimum of 44 QSOs must be made between November 19, 2022 at 00:00 UTC until November 20, 2022 at 23:59 UTC. 

For those who will seek to work on those from the protected areas (Hunter) there will be the following: Novice Class for 10 different areas; Standard Class for 20 different areas and Expert Class for 30 different areas. A special diploma will be awarded to the station with the most protected areas worked during the “weekend activity WWFF”

We hereby invite you to try to leave the house, for a few hours, together with a radio equipment and activate one or more protected areas from the WWFF list. Not only in this “WWFF activity weekend” but also on any other occasion. If you have done this, do not forget to send the log with the connections made, in ADIF format, to fenyo3jwATyahoo.com

On the site  wff-yo.blogspot.com you can find a lot of information, you just have to view it! 

Pit, YO3JW

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