Activations of HBFF, Swiss and Liechtenstein Parks Awards, and WWFF Rules

29 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by Luk ON4BB in Awards, Divisions

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The WWFF Rules are generally intended for WWFF , for World Wide activities, but are of course superseeded by National Awards Rules, where there are.

This, although clearly stated in the WWFF Rules at 2.1 (… In countries where a National WWFF program exists, then any existing National rules take priority over the global rules) is very often not known by activators going in other countries.

So it may happen that operators coming from countries where the Activation requirements are different, believe honestly that they may do activities in other countries following their country rules. This is not exactly so! The same is for the Awards: he must follow the local rules, as recalled also by the above stated point 2.1 of the WWFF Global Rules.

Our HBFF Switzerland and Liechtenstein Flora Fauna difference.

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P2P Conversions – Request for Corrections

22 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by Andrew M0YMA in News

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Previously, I’d reported that had added some monitoring to the P2P confirmation process. This now appears to be stable-enough and correct-enough to use!

I have generated a PDF document, containing 1,556 non-confirmations!

Please check this file for your callsign(s) and post any corrections to the appropriate thread on the forum – please follow the instructions there, to help the team!

RFF-0175 Solovki on air

08 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by RN3ANT in News, Upcoming Activation

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IOTA, RFF, Sanctuary_Russia, WWFF

Solovetsky Monastery Kremlin on sunset

Dima UA1OLM is QRV as RK1OWA/p from RFF-0175 Solovetskiy museum-zapovednik on Solovetsky Islands (IOTA EU-066) in spare time on his business trip until the end of September. Paper QSL via RZ1OA.

Most likely, he is announcing on air the only IOTA activity, but we will upload his logs to WWFF Logsearch after completing of the trip.
If you meet, spot him as WWFF for our community.

73! RFF Team

Hard-to-reach and rare RFF-0015 is coming soon.

08 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by RN3ANT in News, Upcoming Activation

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IOTA, RFF, Sanctuary_Russia, WWFF

RFF-0015, hard-to-reach rare Bolshoy Arkticheskiy zapovednik is coming soon!

“Apostol Andrey” Yacht in the Arkhangelsk port water area.

As you know, a high-latitude sea expedition to the islands in the Kara Sea was started from Arkhangelsk (White Sea, R1O) in late August. On the “Apostol Andrey” yacht — an experienced captain, on board — a serious team of radio amateurs. Expedition plans, among other things, include working in the air as RI0B from several groups of Arctic islands: IOTA AS-054, AS-121, AS-104, AS-068, AS-087, AS-005.

All of these islands are part of the Bolshoy Arkticheskiy zapovednik (Great Arctic Nature Reserve) RFF-0015. This Nature Reserve was on air at the last time in 2010. Will it sound on the radio amateur air somewhen else in future — it is unknown.

Now the expedition is very close (4-5 days) to start RI0B activity from the most distant island.

RI0B operators will announce RFF-0015 reference number on air, it will be indicated on the QSL-card too. And we will upload the log of the expedition to WWFF LogSearch after the completion of the expedition and the safe return of all participants home.

We wish to all of you to conduct successful QSOs with new islands and a rare Nature Reserve! Besides that, this is also a good chance to catch up a still rare entity and Federal District for “Sanctuary Russia” Award and rare district for RDA.

73 & 44! RFF Team

More info:
http://legendsarctic.com/ekspediciya_ri0b_ostrova_v_karskom_more

https://www.qrz.com/db/ri0b

(the photo is taken from the expedition web site)

4th OPEN DAY OF SERBIAN FF MEMORIAL GORAN SAVIĆ YT2A

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by (YT2T) in News

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MEMORIAL GORAN SAVIC YT2A (22.09.2018. 00:00 – 23:59)

This year marks six full years since our dear friend Goran Savić YT2A has left us. Those who followed of Goran’s radio-amateur work, know that he was honestly dedicated to the program of Flora and Fauna, a pioneer of these activities in Serbia, and our first great activator.

The YUFF team has chosen the date of his tragic death to be the Day of Serbian flora and fauna and memory of Goran, thus showing the respect for everything he did for us and our cause.

This year Serbian Flora and Fauna team has expanded the list of references and new references will be valid from 22. September 2018 . This is a chance to confirm new references.

Rules for YT2A memorial you can see at : http://yuff.co.rs/yt2a-memorial-2018-rules/

Announced activations : http://yuff.co.rs/rezervacije-2018/

73,44 Marko YT2T

P2P confirmations

31 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by Andrew M0YMA in Logsearch, News, Park-to-Park

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Previously there has been a lot of discussion regarding P2P confirmations, or rather the lack of.

I have added a bit of debug to the over-night P2P confirmation script… which provides the following information (as of 07:00BST 2018-08-31):

19,237 QSOs with an unconfirmed P2P claim
18 of these could not confirm due to potential duplicate matches, outside of a time tolerance (I can look into those)
2,482 QSOs cannot confirm due to band, mode or reference discrepancies!

Once I’ve validated the script, I’ll publish more details to users… but the key point here is: PLEASE CHECK YOUR LOGS!

Logsearch Update – August 2018

29 Wednesday Aug 2018

Posted by Andrew M0YMA in Logsearch, News

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Just in time, the August 2018 update (v0.0.3) has just been released…

The headline is the addition of the CUFF award, together with a number of framework updates to support ongoing work.

In particular, attempts to detect problems that prevent (potential) P2P confirmations will be ongoing.

Issues Addressed

This addresses the following GitLab issues:

Issue #00004 – Directory Manager
- Address issues with slashing and unslashing of special characters
Issue #00005 – P2P Confirmation Error flag (*)
- Framework put in place for future updates
Issue #00006 – hunterHomeCall (*)
- Framework added – used to simplify Top Operator calculations
Issue #00007 – Directory SpecialFlags (*)
- Display of specialFlags
Issue #00008 – CUFF Award
- Added at entry level

(*) = Framework for ongoing development

Open Issues can be found in the GitLab Issue Tracker.

Personal Note

Development of Logsearch has to fit around family and work commitments! This is particularly the case as I’ve recently started a new job which means I’m on the road a lot!

Feedback

Any problems, or new feature requests, via the Help Desk Forum please.