SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

The migration to the new server is complete.

There will, undoubtedly, be some teething issues, but please bear with us – for example, some links are not working (yet).

Once the DNS has fully propogated, we will be adding SSL encryption for an even more secure site.

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

On Thursday 27th August from (approx) 14:00utc the WWFF.CO website will be unavailable for a few hours, to allow migration to a new server.

of attitude for specially protected natural areas demonstrates the RO3M team, which will be active since 10 UTC of August 28 until 12 UTC of August 30 from the Levashovsky zakaznik  (natural reserve), RFF-0994 (ATNO!) on 160–10 m and 2 m CW and SSB.

Transceivers FT-950, IC-746, FT-991 and Flex 6200, an ACOM-1000 power amplifier will be used, antennas Inverted Vee for 160–80–40–30 M bands and Spiderbeam for 20–17–15–12–10 M bands will be deployed.

QSOs with RO3M/p during this period are also valid for:
– RRNA: Knyaginya river R-46-0090;
– RAFA: Levashovo airfield HA2Q;
– RDA: Nekrasovsky district YR-20.

But what is the “great example”? Great example is in the fact that the RO3M team will clean from garbage area within a radius of 500 m from its location, for which they are prepared 100 garbage bags.

Recently, the programs for digital modes have been enriched by the achievements of K1JT with FT8 / WSJT-X, as well as the derivatives made on this suport (JTDX, MSHV). This was followed by FT4 which allows a higher rate of connections over a period of time.WWFF operators have also joined these new possibilities. They have been hit by limits on the length of messages sent, which cannot support any combination of numbers and letters.
There are a number of 7 common variants that can be used:
TX1 (His_call) {Own_call} Own_locator
TX2 (His_call) (Own_call) (report)
TX3 (His_call) (Own_call) R (report)
TX4 (His_call) (Own_call) RR73 or RRR
TX5 (His_call) (Own_call) 73
TX6 CQ (Own_call) Own_locator
TX7 free with 13 signs (letters or numbers, including pauses)
The question is how we can transmit the information required for the WWFF, namely:
1 – how to call stations interested in WWFF
2 – how to inform about your own WWFF reference number
The first, FF can be added to the previous TX6
TX6 CQ FF (Own_call) Own_locator
where “FF” stands for “Fauna & Flora”
For information on its own reference number TX5 could be used as follows:
TX5 XXFF-0000 73 or TU
This text can be used on TX7 too
They can be accessed also from the F1 … F7 keys.
Another way to make the presence known in the band, and implicitly the WWFF reference number, is to announce our presence through a DX Cluster. But this implies the possibility of having access to a DX Cluster, both the activator and the hunter.
I would dare to recommend using FT4 which is faster and under normal conditions there is no difference in efficiency compared to FT8.
It is also considered beneficial to define dedicated frequencies for WWFF. These could be 2 kHz below the current frequencies agreed in different bands (example instead of 7074 kHz in 40m, to be at 7042 kHz for WWFF, aso)
This is a proposal. If you have other ideas, please come up with suggestions
Pit, YO3JW