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PAFF weekend April 9 & 10

03 Sunday Apr 2022

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Next weekend PAFF will host a WWFF activity weekend. The same weekend a number of new references will be added to the PAFF program.

The activity runs on Saturday April 9 and Sunday April 10. All QSOs count towards the regular PAFF and WWFF awards but we will make a special award available for chasers of this activity weekend. There will be three levels for the chasers: gold, silver and bronze. We will have a separate category for EU and DX chasers.

Points for these awards can be collected by working a participating activator at a PAFF location (5 points for each new combination) and revisiting that activator on other bands or modes (2 points for each new band or mode). The top 5% in both categories (EU and DX) will receive a gold award. Silver will be offered for scores in the top 5-10% while the top 10-20% will receive a bronze award.

The participants and their plans can be found on the PAFF website (in Dutch): PAFF activity weekend

Weather forecast is not brilliant but we are looking forward to a lot of activity.

RFF-0175 Solovki on air

08 Saturday Sep 2018

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Solovetsky Kremlin

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

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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)

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Get Your Park ON!

06 Monday Aug 2018

 

 

Hello fellow WWFF Country Coordinators and others….

I am writing to let you know about a new WWFF event, sponsored by KFF (USA), VEFF (Canada) and XEFF (Mexico) called Get Your Park ON!.
During the week of October 14-20, 2018 we will have as many North American WWFF parks on the air as we can. In turn we are encouraging ham radio operators world wide to reach out to make contact with all activated parks in North America during that week. The sponsor groups also have a cross promotion agreement with the Earth Science Week program taking place that same week to bring attention to the protected nature areas of our world.
We are asking you to share the information for Get Your Park ON! throughout your country organization and encourage your operators to participate in this first time event. Planned North America park activations will be listed on the Get Your Park ON! Facebook group at http://getyourparkon.com.
As details are finalized about this event they can also be found at that same location. All operators are encouraged to join the Facebook group at that same location.
Attached you will find a press release and a graphic that you may use to promote Get Your Park ON! in your region.
NOTE: While this year we are focused on North America WWFF parks, we hope to expand the participation to other countries and regions in future events of this type–perhaps including the entire WWFF global family. Please freely share this with any operators that you feel would be interested.
I will be active as an Activator and a Hunter during Get Your Park ON! and we hope that we have wonderful participation from around the world.
Thank you for being a part of World Wide Flora and Fauna.
73/44,

Kraig D. Pritts, KA2LHO

WWFF-KFF Coordinator

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ZV8FF active from PYFF-0209

21 Saturday Jul 2018

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Expedition Fauna & Flora and Contest IOTA

PS8RV – Ronaldo Val, will be in a new expedition in the Island of the Canaries, Delta of Parnaíba for joint operation in the Diploma WWFF and Contest IOTA. The operation will be carried out in the period from July 27 to 28 in the HF bands (80 to 10m) with a ZV8FF sign.

WWFF – PYFF – 0209 – DELTA DO PARNAIBA & IOTA SA- 072 (Caju Archipelago)DX Expedition & Contest IOTA – 28,29 July, 2018

Operator: Ronaldo Val – Callsign: ZV8FF Power – 100 WATTS – Bands – 10 – 15 – 20 – 40 – 80 meters – Mode SSB

More information: www.qrz.com/db/zv8ff

 

The voices from bygone times of dimly remembered world

21 Thursday Jun 2018

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Please be informed that the FF-activity of R25RFF call sign, scheduled for June 23 – July 5 — has nothing to do with RFF by WWFF. The announced “new one” RFF-200 and RFF-211 references are not valid for WWFF and RFF by WWFF, and references RFF-099 and RFF-067, even though they correspond to WWFF Directory, highly likely will not be credited for WWFF also.

The above-mentioned activity of R25RFF is held in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Russian Robinson Club (RRC), who was the initiator of the Flora and Fauna movement in amateur radio, but abandoned their award program, at least about 5 years ago. QSO with R25RFF are valid only for anniversary RRC awards. For more information, contact the RRC directly.

The activity of RZ9SFF in the same period from the RFF-446 reference is announced under the WFF (not WWFF) program, therefore, highly likely it will not be credited for WWFF as well.

73! RN3ANT, national RFF coordinator.

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

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