R2017F Special Event Callsign

28 Friday Apr 2017

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2017 is the year of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the first state reserve. 2017 is declared in Russia as the Ecology Year. The main tasks of the Ecology Year are solutions for the problems to ensure environmental safety and to preserve the unique nature of Russia. Among the many important events and projects it is planned to open 11 new and expand 2 existing protected areas (specially protected natural areas — nature reserves, national parks, etc).

The Outdoor QRP Radio Group arranged a special callsign R2017F (Russia-2017-Field), and will use it for for amateur radio activity from various specially protected natural areas. Some of those areas have RFF-references (“Russian Flora & Fauna” in the RFF and WWFF ham radio award programs).

R2017F will be active from May 1 to July 31, 2017 only from the territory of various specially protected natural areas (RFF-#### according to the RFF and WWFF award programs) using only QRP-power on different bands and different modes in accordance with the Rules of the “Field Flowers” outdoor QRP Marathon.

Read more on the Outdoor QRP Activity Group website

Logsearch Update – April 2017 #2

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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An second Logsearch update of the month has just been released, featuring a number of new awards:

  • The relaunch of the GxFF awards
  • The addition of the 2017 YUFF awards
  • The launch of a new annual PAFF award for Activators

GxFF Awards

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Adrian M0PAI as the new GxFF Awards Manager.

Unfortunately, the artwork of the previous awards was not handed over by the departing award manager; as such, Adrian has designed a new set of awards.

We have decided to award them in steps of 11, meaning anyone who has one of the ‘old’ awards can claim the new ones… they will be released progressively.

PAFF Annual Award

As an experiment, to (try to) encourage activators to re-activate references, Lars PH0NO has created an award for PAFF activations in 2017.  This will be awarded for 4, 11 and 22 references activated.

‘Apply For Awards’

This update also automates the verifying of profiles, to enable the ‘Apply for Awards’ capability… previously, this had to be assigned manually.

To gain ‘Apply for Awards’, your profile must include your first name, and a primary callsign – note, while your username is usually your primary callsign, this is not necessarily the case, and teh callsign MUST be populated by you the user!

Feedback

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

HOTMAIL !

20 Thursday Apr 2017

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Dear WWFF’ers

We’re still facing major problems with HOTMAIL email addresses. HOTMAIL clearly doesn’t like our WordPress platform. The result is that all email we send to Hotmail addresses is SPAMMED.

If you didn’t receive your password to login, please contact WWFF Helpdesk

We are suggesting not to register with a HOTMAIL address. If you did already you better change it into another email address. You can do this in YOUR PROFILE : TUTORIAL

Sorry for the inconveniences !

 

Logsearch Update – April 2017

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

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Update 2017-04-24: a bug in calculating the Activator QSO count (for the WARD-A award) has been fixed.

An update to Logsearch has just been released, featuring a number of new awards:

  • The launch of the South American Continental Award, CFF:SA
  • The relaunch of the World Amateur Radio Day awards, just in time for WARD 2017
  • The next step in the P2P awards (P2P-A-308)
  • The next step in OMFF awards (OMFF-A-100 and OMFF-H-100)

This update also fixes a number of problems with the confirmation of Park to Park contacts, which has resulted in a further 1,000 P2Ps being confirmed. Unfortunately, nearly 7,000 remain unconfirmed – mostly due to the lack of the corresponding logs 🙁

Finally, this update addresses a number of minor issues:

  • Further layout improvements in the References search results
  • Further layout improvements in the Directory Stats tables
  • A number of minor bugs

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

WORLD RADIO AMATEUR DAY 2017 certificate

13 Thursday Apr 2017

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Hunters

Working during 48 hours (UTC) from 00:00utc 17th to 23:59utc 18th of April 2017    7 different stations in protected areas with reference in WWFF directory and from at least 3 different countries(entities) DXCC countries or states/territory from VK areas.

Apply via Logsearch

 

Activators

In same period you need to make 300 QSOs.

OSOs need to be in Logsearch

Deadline : 15th of May 2017 00:00UTC

Apply via Logsearch > SPECIAL AWARDS

Hope you will make a “great day” from World Radio Amateur Day 2017. See you in bands from any protected area!

PAFF-0015 by PD0PVR/p STORY

11 Tuesday Apr 2017

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On 8 april 2017 we went out for some test witn the HyEndFed antennas.  A test with my mate John, PD0PVR/p, as he wanted to go for his first PAFF activation !

At arround 11:00 utc we met at the Oosterschelde PAFF-0015. And  immediatly starded with some tests. Afterwards we decided to setup  the linked dipola and yes, John started  his first activation !!!  First qso  was arround 12:55 utc on 40m. Continue reading →

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