07 Tuesday Mar 2017
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“Wortel-Kolonie‘ has a rich history. It was once a home for tramps, nowadays the buildings have a function as a jail. The surrounding forest and fields are ONFF-0046 for WWFF hunters and activators. Some wind and rain showers couldn’t keep me home.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
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Donna (XYL) and I love to go on “Great Adventures” so this time we headed to Big Bend Country in southwest Texas. On the way south from our home in Colorado Springs, we made a stop in Roswell, New Mexico.
Roswell is the site of the 1947 crash of a UFO in a nearby field. If you don’t believe in UFOs, you should visit their International UFO Museum and Research Center. You will be convinced like I was. Hi Hi. That evening I had a problematic attempt to activate Bottomless Lake State Park (KFF-2687) with only 16 QSOs on 40m. The problem turned out to be failed tuning of the vertical causing the K3 to act up. I don’t know why, but a changed vertical tuning made the problem go away. Next day we traveled to Ft Davis TX. Continue reading
19 Sunday Feb 2017
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Another one activation from our team in northen Greece. Weather conditions with clouds and a light cold wind but fortunately not very low temperature! We stayed in the air 4 hours and we made almost 480 qso,most of them on 20 and 40 meters. Continue reading
19 Sunday Feb 2017
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This past Wednesday I woke up at 3:00am, with temperatures just under 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 C) and made my way to the Harrisburg Airport in my home state of Pennsylvania. By the end of the day I was setting up my radio equipment in Oleta River State Park for another WWFF-KFF activation just outside Miami, Florida, where temperatures were 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 C). It’s nice to experience some warm weather in February!
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
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Denise and I got up at 6.30am to walk our dog before having breakfast and setting out for Dunwich on the Suffolk coast.
Dingle Marshes is on the edge of the village and has a large car park so not too far to walk.
Our stations are very minimal both being QRP operators ad consist of Elecraft KX2’s with 2.5Ah Lypo batteries, a couple of camping chairs, a couple of 10m poles one for the half wave end fed vertical (with a 1m extension to the pole) and the other for the link dipole for the 40/20m inverted V.
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
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ONFF-0573 is a very small area in north-east Belgium.
This was the maiden-test for my new home-brew linked dipole. The test was more than satisfying :
257 QSO’s in 4 continents (EU, AS, NA, AF) and 34 DXCC. 5 Park2Park QSO’s and very happy to hear the USA peeps hunting for the European WWFF refs !!! Have about 20 USA calls in the log, signals peaked to real 599.
12 Sunday Feb 2017
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Yesterday (Saturday 11th February 2017), my wife VK5FMAZ and I activated the Angove Conservation Park VKFF-0867, a little 5 hectare piece of scrub in the north eastern suburbs of the city of Adelaide in South Australia. Together, we made a total of 57 contacts on 20, 40, and 80m. Best DX worked during the activation was Danny ON4VT on 40m SSB. Not bad considering I was using just 40 watts and a linked dipole, inverted vee, 7m at the apex. Also nice to get Ken ZL4KD, the ZLFF co-ordinator in the log.
More info & photographs can be found on my WordPress site at…..
73 and ’44’, Paul VK5PAS
