Tag Archives: WWFF

Andrew White ZL3CC Memorial SOTA Activity Day

Posted on 2018/09/22 by

Saturday 15 September 2018 Warren ZL2AJ, the Association Manager for ZL, organised an activity day to remember Andrew White, who had died suddenly earlier in the year. Several VK operators were planning to participate by activating summits locally. It was … Continue reading →

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A trip to Parks near Sale

Posted on 2018/08/27 by

Saturday 25 August 2018 The weather forecast was for a fine day after a cold start. With much of the previous week and previous weekend having been quite cold, wet and very windy, it was an opportunity to get out … Continue reading →

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VKFF Hunter Award Honour Roll 1250

Posted on 2018/08/22 by

Despite the propagation conditions being experienced over the last few months, I still continue to hunt Parks activators from home and when in the field. I have reached the next step in the local Hunter Honour Roll: 1250 unique references … Continue reading →

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More WWFF / VKFF certificates

Posted on 2018/08/13 by

I have been able to work some more new Parks, thanks to those getting out and activating. Perhaps the only frustrations have been those activators out and about at relatively close range – typically in Victoria, southern NSW or the … Continue reading →

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Three Parks beyond Stratford

Posted on 2018/07/30 by

Saturday 28 July 2018 I activated a couple of today’s target Parks in November last year, but did not attempt to get to a full WWFF quota of 44 contacts from each. On Saturday morning, the weather started out cold … Continue reading →

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New Activator certificates plus next level in VKFF Hunter Honour Roll

Posted on 2018/07/17 by

There are several Activators enjoying the warmer temperatures in northern NSW and Queensland, plus some braving the cooler conditions in more southern regions. I guess that I fall into the later category, but I try to pick days that are … Continue reading →

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A day in Bass Coast

Posted on 2018/07/16 by

Sunday 15 July 2018 The weather forecast was for a fine day after a cold start. I decided to head out to attempt to activate three Nature Conservation Reserves (NCR) located in Bass Coast Shire, plus a third NCR nearby … Continue reading →

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Another step in VKFF Hunter Honour Roll

Posted on 2018/07/10 by

I had a very busy weekend over 6 – 9 July 2018, being the Chair of the 21st GippsTech event. GippsTech is the Gippsland Technical Conference, which has its main focus on weak signal VHF, UHF and microwave amateur radio … Continue reading →

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More WWFF & VKFF certificates

Posted on 2018/06/30 by

There has been a small number of Activators getting out into the Parks of late. I am some of them are enjoying warmer weather than here in Gippsland….. I occasionally check into Logsearch to see how my Hunter tallies are … Continue reading →

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Two new Gippsland summits plus a Park

Posted on 2018/06/21 by

Wednesday 20 June 2018 After a very cold and wet weekend, a high pressure system started to move in across Victoria. I had spent much of the weekend, Monday and Tuesday working on preparing files for the Proceedings volume from … Continue reading →

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