14 Saturday Jan 2017
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Hi all hunters and activators
After your work over the year 2016, finally here are the results for the TOP 44 in 2016. Congratulations to all of you, even if you are in the list or not. Now that 2017 started you can go for the TOP 44 2017. Good luck to every one!
11 Wednesday Jan 2017
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OZFF New Year Hunt 2017
At the autumn of 2016 OZ0JD Jens came with the idea ”Why don´t We try to be many Activators at the same time and the Hunters can have an Award for working us”.
Jens got his HF-license in the Summer of 2016 and have been very active as Activator the last half year.
In May 2015 we did an similar event and it´s a good good situation to make some promotion of Flora Fauna in Denmark.
The date and name was planned with Jens as Event manager. Clubs and Hams were invited. We hoped to have 5-6 areas in the air, but ended up with 10 registered OZFF areas / Activators. A few of them were first time Activators.
A simple tool for checking callsigns in all the logs for the Award was maked by OZ3FI Finn. Application was maked at www.ozff.dk
10 Tuesday Jan 2017
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For those who are active in the WWFF program, we can make you a custom made badge (PNG-file) with your call and WWFF logo. Nice to put on your web or QRZ page etc … Show the world you are a WWFF fan !
Drop a mail with your call and choice (hunter, activator or both) to newsletter@wwff.co
06 Friday Jan 2017
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First activation 2017 by ON5SWA/P
They said it would be could and it was cold the morning of 6th january.
Before leaving the house I had to use salt because there were very slippery frozen spots on the ground. The area ONFF-0529 is not far from my house, about 20 minutes drive.
I found a nice spot were I could strech the legs from the inverted V antenna (19.7m left and 19.7m right) The difficult part was the frozen ground, but I managed to get the pickets in the ground.
After checking the antenne, I saw that SWR was too high. The antennawire has 8 connections, the 7th connection I inspected was the bad one.
It took a little longer to fix the connection with cold fingers (I cannot work with gloves and a screwdriver hi). Continue reading
06 Friday Jan 2017
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It was a cold morning for us, 41°. We scraped the frost off the windshield and headed out at 0830PT
We got to Fisk Mill Cove shortly after 0900 and were calling CQ by 0950. My Elmer, KE6WC, spotted me and I know that’s how I got the 3 out of state contacts on 20. Thanks, Ken! There was a lot of noise on 20. I was able to hear 2 local stations and 1 each from CO, KS and TX. Guess who the one from Texas was? John, AE5B! Thanks, John, it was great to talk with you! You all know how active John has been for WWFF and NPOTA.
It was pretty slow so I had plenty of time to look around while calling CQ. I saw rainbows reflected off grass as the frost melted, ferns at the edge of the pine trees, acorn woodpeckers flying from pine tree to pine tree (someone needs to tell them acorns are in oak trees!) and several small birds that flitted so fast I couldn’t identify them. I had a filtered view of the ocean but I didn’t see any whales today. Often we do this time of year so I’ll be looking next time we’re there. Continue reading
05 Thursday Jan 2017
Announcing the third update in three days, I am pleased to advise that the Reference Activation Statistics are now available in “new” Logsearch.
Note: the All-Programs/All-Time report lists 13,249 activated references, and as such is quite slow to load… and at 7MB is quite a bandwidth consumer, so I may remove this one!
Some improvements in layout will follow, as will the inclusion of the Unactivated report.
04 Wednesday Jan 2017
I am pleased to report that, after much deliberation and experimentation, we have overcome the problems that have prevented the reliable generation of the Top Operator pages.
As such, these should now again be generated overnight (UTC).
Thanks to Manfred DF6EX for his assistance!
Note: the results do not (at present) differentiate between single-operator and club-stations. I hope to resolve this in due course.
As before, these are intended to be indicative, and are not intended to be definitive – they work by aggregating the OPERATOR and HUNTER fields within logs… so activators, when using a club- or special-event callsign, please remember to correctly populate the OPERATOR field!