23 Wednesday Dec 2020
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Let me wish you all merry christmas and a happy new year, but of course especially good health for you and your families. Let´s hope for the year 2021 that the actual strange situation hopefully will be better. Seasons greetings, Manfred DF6EX
15 Tuesday Dec 2020
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After the astounding success of KFF Marathon Challenge 2020, we are excited to announce it will be repeated in 2021.
Beginning January 1, 2021 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.
Good luck hunting in 2021 when propagation should be much better!
Rules can be found at: https://wwffkff.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/kff-marathon-challenge-rules.pdf
Could all WWFF hunters please ensure that your profile is correct… lots of you have the wrong Continent and/or wrong DXCC shown. This makes the analysis a bit of a pain!
30 Monday Nov 2020
The Covid rules across the UK provide a confusing mish-mash of restrictions:
Team GxFF have considered the available information and have decided that decisions whether to perform an activity should be left to the judgement of the activator, with due consideration to the rules in force at their home and at the target reference, and in particular with regards any travel restrictions in place.
Team GxFF reiterate that this is not an encouragement to undertake any activity, and accept no liability for any consequences of any decision by an activator to perform an activation.
We will, of course, keep monitoring any changes in the Rules…
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
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08 Sunday Nov 2020
Some users have reported that they keep getting “logged out” when accessing Logsearch.
This appears to be linked to those using the Logsearch image link, in the home page gallery – but not for those who use the Logsearch menu link!
After investigation, the (with hindsight, obvious) observation was that the gallery links were still non-HTTPS… so that the (secure) login details were not being shared with the (now non-secure) page.
I have now updated the links, and (hopefully) this problem is no longer apparent.
Note: this was not an issue with Logsearch!
04 Wednesday Nov 2020
For the attention of all GxFF activators…
With effect from midnight tonight, GFF activations are suspended until 2nd December (or until the restrictions are lifted).
Other GxFF (excluding GFF) are subject to regional Rules, especially relating to “unnecessary travel”.
31 Saturday Oct 2020
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Wow! Get Your Park ON! Celebrating Earth Science Week just completed, and wow. This is the third year for the event that is run in conjunction with Earth Science Week, a fabulous national and international program sponsored by the American Geosciences Institute advancing educational programs focusing in K-12 schools teaching our youth about responsible stewardship of the Earth.
Lots of KFF activity that was aided by some good propagation to make for quite an event. And there were many, many European hunters too with the top European hunters logging over 100 KFF references during the event. Ironically, the top European hunter logged more KFF references than the top U.S. hunter. I don’t think that is so much a damnation of the U.S. hunters, but a testimony to the good propagation and the international interest that is developing for Get Your Park ON! So, here are some statistics:
The addition of the Special Event Stations (SES) added a nice flair to this year’s event. Hats off to the eleven SESs activators who did an outstanding job in terms of both references activated and the quantity of QSOs. Several Europeans managed to work all eleven of the SESs, quite a feat. Of the group, N9G (N9JF) and N3G (KB3WAV) activated the most references with 16 activated. N5G (N9MM) had the most QSOs logged with 1,628. K6G (W6LEN) deserved recognition for working the European openings from the west coast with approximately 40% of his 582 QSOs being Europe. Top SES goes to N9G who had 14 of 16 qualifying activations and 1,214 QSO. Here are the total SES statistics:
With so much activity, many qualify for the GYPO 2020 participation certificate which requires only working 25 WWFF (not just KFF) references. Also, an endorsement is available for those Europeans working five 1×1 SES stations, or 10 for NA stations. If you’d like one, email n9mm@arrl.net with the total number of WWFF references (and SESs) worked during October 10-18, 2020.
Even before the smoke clears on GYPO 2020, we are thinking about next year when propagation will be even better with the new sunspot cycle. For sure the Special Event Stations will be returning. A couple have already reserved their 1×1 call signs. And it will be great if more European activators join Dave G1OCN, and GYPO becomes a more international event. Remember ALL WWFF Activators and Hunters are invited to participate.
Thanks everyone for making GYPO 2020 so much fun! Until 2021…
