Spot! When you work an activator, spot them. Activators without contacts will lose interest, and each spot results in a small flurry of activity for the activator. Hunters, is there anything special w

That's not entirely true. I use HamAlert and I spot through smartwwff.cqgma.net and those spots come through... for most parks. I did this just last month. The trouble lies in the newer parks: there's

That worked out pretty well overall. VA to FL is a very, very easy drive when you camp at a few parks along the way. In the past, I moved up from 5W to 15W and it made a big difference. This time, mov

6 parks, 2 have never been activated before, the rest have only 50-200 QSOs. KX3, KXPA100, vertical, and doublet (if space permits). Good for CW and SSB (though won't run SSB at night when it might di

Still nothing like Create-a-Log in my Android version. The Change Log and Play Store shows the last update was April 22, 2017. -detrick K4IZ

There's not a WWFF template on HamLog for Android ... I wish there was! As far as I have been able to read up on the subject, the iOS version *will* let you make custom logging templates. I can't just

Hi James, I agree with you. Haven't seen much info on this event. Seems under-promoted to me. Wonder if some of that is due to using Facebook to host the event details? I'd also like to see event deta

Planning to head out to KFF-4588 on Saturday, July 14. Hiking in, looks like about 2 miles up the mountain, hoping to find a good spot to set up on the ridge. Looks like a very nice hike. High temp of

Very good, and thank you for the additional info. Your experience sounded, overall, somewhere between a bad and an average day for me. But I use a KX3 and work primarily CW at 15W. I spent a couple we

A good read, thanks. I was left with a few questions: Power? Mode(s)? Radio? 73, 44, -detrick K4IZ

I find it sad that most of the activity is on Facebook. For me, I won't use it. But it is what it is, and the world doesn't have to cater to me. N1MM+, FLE, and ACL look good. I've used N1MM+ before,

How do you log during your activations? Obvious answers seem to be paper, tablet, or laptop. But is there something specific you use that you've found to make it all go more smoothly? I'm looking for

I've also had positive results posting to the global activation calendar at http://wwff.co. 3pm might be pretty good for some EU contacts, and a lot of folks in the EU especially seem to look for park

I learned today that the SOTA folks have a system that leverages APRS for spotting: https://www.sotaspots.co.uk/Aprs2Sota_Info.php?page_id=1 Does anything similar exist for WWFF? I, for one, would be

I've tent camped and activated once. It's was a nice way to do a little radio while also hanging out with friends. Wake up early in the morning and work the radio for 2-3 hours while everyone else is

> Activators are nothing without Hunters And hunters are nothing without activators. It's a symbiotic relationship. Activators that only pass out 10 QSOs could be less experienced, could be running lo

My wife, also a ham, has basically the same view. Some people activate from inside their vehicle in a parking lot, and that's fine, but they also might be missing out. It's within the rules though, an

I've seen this, and wondered too. The spots are somehow correctly flagged as WWFF, and you can tell they're from the RBN by the "[rbn]" tag in the comments. They show up on the WWWFF dx cluster (http:

Not twitter, but I've thought about using APRS for spotting. I find many times when my cell phone battery is pretty taxed, or I'm in an area that has little or no cell coverage. But if I could have a

The upside to "CQ FF K4IZ FM18" is that it's a standard CQ message, not a free message. It doesn't mess with the automation. My only concern is whether "FF" is too ambiguous ... but if we were to all