The first update for May has just been released, featuring a number of new awards:
- The migration of the Directory Manager
- Next step in the GxFF awards (level 22)
Directory Manager
I am pleased to announce that I have completed the porting of Directory Manager to be an integral part of the WWFF Logsearch plugin.
For the majority of users, this is an entirely transparent move – however, it now means that the Directory Master is an integral part of THIS site, rather than being managed through the ‘old’ Logsearch site, and periodically sync-ed… this should mean there are fewer delays ion getting changes made to the ‘live’ Directory, and in particular it means only one code-base to be maintained.
My thanks to Danny ON4VT for helping test this.
With this, the ‘old’ Logsearch will now be decommissioned, once an for all 🙂
Directory
The expansion of the North American directory continues apace, with the addition of a further 265 State areas, in IL, IN and WI.
Feedback
Any problems, or new feature requests, via the Help Desk Forum please.
Hi ALL!
As (hopefully) the support team increases, we need to clarify the way that support requests are made.
All National Coordinators and WWFF officials are doing a very big job to collect all logs also from these stations.
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).