VKFF-0784 by VK5PAS STORY

On 17th February 2017 I activated the Mount George Conservation Park VKFF-0784 which is located in the Mount Lofty Ranges, east of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.

Unfortunately the weather forced me to go QRT early and I only logged 15 stations from VK, including one Park to Park contact with VK3HSB in the Lake Eildon National Park VKFF-0625 in Victoria.

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Mount George Conservation Park 5CP-147 and VKFF-0784

73 and ’44’,

Paul VK5PAS

 

ONFF-0488 by ON5SWA/p STORY

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After a few rainy days its was time to go out for another activation. I decided to go to Demerbroeken, a large protected area in JO21LA. The last part of the trip I had to go by bycicle. I can put all the gear on the bicycle and drive a few miles.
After putting up the inverted-V (20-40-80m) I took some pictures from the area and from my GPS coördinates.
Starting on 80m I received very good inter-ON sigs. After a coffeabreak it was very busy on 40m as usual.
A visitor asked me what it was all about, so we were talking more then an hour about hamradio and other stuff. I always have some flyers with me for people who are really interested.
20m band was like calling in the dessert but a few nice contacts were made. Finally ended the activation with about 200 qso ( 6 P2P qso).
This was my 100th activation, having 24000 qso in my portable log ( 81 dxcc/ 61 confirmed, 464 P2P / 331 confirmed)
and I still enjoy the portable work. Going out, meeting people and visiting all those beautiful protected nature areas.
I always send EQSL, also LOTW and log is on QRZ.COM. Bureau cards are also going out but 4 times a year max.
So …up to the next activations. Enjoy WWFF!

73 44 ON5SWA/P Swa (Frans / François)
PS: EQSL SEND TO ON5SWA/P AND NOT TO ON5SWA PSE

LAFF-0357 by LB0OG/p

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It was a sunny and warm day, so my Friend Mario and I decided to go on a trip combined with a park activation.

Our target was a nearby island, so we took a ferry and reached it in half an hour. All necessary equipment was packed into our backpacks so no sooner had we got there , than we started climbing up the mountains to reach our destination point. We accomplished at about 2 p.m. Continue reading

WWFF Logsearch Update

An update to Logsearch has just been released:

  • The next step in the P2P awards (P2P-A-264)
  • The next step in OMFF awards (OMFF-A-50 and OMFF-H-50)
  • Latest Logs now displays 100 (was 44) latest
  • Layout improvements in the References search results
  • Layout improvements in the Directory Stats tables
  • A number of minor bugs

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

OHFF-0205 by OF7JHA/p STORY

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Nice, sunny weather, mild -6C and no wind. Perfect weather to activation. My wife and I went with skies to Pihlajavesi nature protected area, OHFF-0205. Pihlajavesi have thousands of islands and it just a small part of great lake area Saimaa. We skied about 3 kilometers over ice to small islet near Snake Island. I had old army skies and plastic sled. All radio stuff was packed on the sled. Nowdays I can ski just slow speed but no problem, every step is forward. Continue reading

Correct eQSLing for portable activations

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eQSL.cc is a partner of WWFF. It’s a very green way of QSLing, very fast and with many possibilities. Disadvantage: eQSL is not valid to get awards (except those from eQSL). But be honest, how many of your paper cards are you really using to apply for an award ?

eQSL is free if you choose for a standard eQSL lay-out (most of them are really not very attractive).

If you want to upload your own eQSL lay-out the Bronze level costs you 12$ a year. Higher levels gives you more benefits.

Enter your callsign to see if you have an eQSL waiting!


How to eQSL correct for portable activations ? In this tutorial we will describe two different ways to eQSL : one if you send always the same eQSL lay-out, a second one if you make a different lay-out for every activation. Continue reading

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