Our site is online again!
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For technical and other reasons, our website has been closed for a quite long time. But now it has been restored almost in full and is back in service.
What will meet us in the nearest future:
- albeit with some delay, the results of 2020 will be published in the coming days;
- a small official amendment to the Rating Rules, coming into effect already this year. It does not in any way affect the current activity, but only has to do with summing up the results of the year;
- debts for sending electronic RFF-H awards will be eliminated within the next few days;
- new references, as previously announced
- “Donation” button for those who wish to support the RFF program and the work of its website.
Great example
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of attitude for specially protected natural areas demonstrates the RO3M team, which will be active since 10 UTC of August 28 until 12 UTC of August 30 from the Levashovsky zakaznik (natural reserve), RFF-0994 (ATNO!) on 160-10 m and 2 m CW and SSB.
Transceivers FT-950, IC-746, FT-991 and Flex 6200, an ACOM-1000 power amplifier, antennas Inverted Vee for 160–80–40–30 M bands and Spiderbeam for 20–17–15–12–10 M bands will be used.
QSOs with RO3M / p during this period are also valid for:
– RRNA: Knyaginya river R-46-0090;
– RAFA: Levashovo airfield HA2Q;
– RDA: Nekrasovsky district YR-20.
A free commemorative mini-pennant will be mailed free of charge for 5 QSOs with RO3M/p (QSOs on different bands or different modes). Send your GCR and mailing address to
But what is the “great example”? Great example is in the fact that the RO3M team will clean area from garbage within a radius of 500 m from its location, for which they are prepared 100 garbage bags.
UPD.06.IX.2020
We congratulate the RO3M team on their successful debut in RFF (WWFF), having conducted 1132 QSOs from the Levashovsky zakaznik, RFF-0994.
The story of how this was happening is published (in Russian) on the website of the Yaroslavl Regional Public Association (ROO) of the Union of Radioamateurs of Russia (SRR).
Keep it up! Thanks!
Certificates of the “World Wide Flora and Fauna” series (WWFF) issued
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In accordance with the award program, WWFF series certificates are issued in the electronic form — JPG files of 3510x2480 pixels size (~ 3.16 MB), sufficient for printing the certificate in A4 size with a standard quality of 300 dpi. Each certificate for printing comes with a “screen” version of 1080x763 pixels size (~ 250 kByte).
Certificates have their own numbering for each award degree. When applying for a higher (22…88 references for RFF-H or 10…50 for RFF-A) the applicant automatically “gets” all previous degrees in the form of “stickers” included, if they were not applied before; each degree with its own numbering in lists below.
Read more: Certificates of the “World Wide Flora and Fauna” series (WWFF) issued
RFF-0176 — the “Severnyi Polyus” Drifting Ice Polar Station
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UPD.26.III.2020 A week ago Thomas informed that their trip to Barneo is postponed for at least one year. Due to the global pandemic of the coronavirus, the Russian scientific drift ice camp will not take place this year.
Sorry for bad news. Hope for next, 2021 season…
On April 14–17, during their trip to the North Pole, Martina DF3TS and Thomas DC8TM will be active on air from the “Barneo” drifting ice camp as RA/DF3TS/p and RA/DC8TM/p.
Read more: RFF-0176 — the “Severnyi Polyus” Drifting Ice Polar Station
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Prizes and remembrance certificates were mailed to all winners of the RFF Rating 2019 Top-10 activators and Top-44 hunters, thereby the line under the 2019 results is finally drawn.
Welcome to the year 2020. The new RFF 2020 Rating charts have already been published, anyone interested — stay tuned.
GPS tracks. What, how and why
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Introduction
More than six months have passed since we included GPS-tracks as necessary evidence (confirmation, proof) of the activator's stay in the activated territory.
Almost one and a half hundred logs provided with GPS-tracks were accepted from two dozen operators during this period.
The GPS-tracks were not always perfect, sometimes requiring additional effort and time to verify, and sometimes it was not at all clear even what, where and when it was.
The main complaint from potential activators was: “Why are you make things more complicated?! Make it easier and get more activators!”
I can not agree with these complaints. Although this is just a hobby, in WWFF, as in any other game, there are certain rules and conventions that must be followed if you decide to play this game.
“Russian Flora and Fauna”. Results of 2019
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Results of radio amateurs activity in the RFF (Russian Flora and Fauna) award program for 2019 are summarised.
Comparing to results of previous year, the results of 2019 can be represented in one picture:
New references in RFF Directory
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On 18–25.VII.2019 new references RFF-0916…0965 were added to the Directories on the WWFF and our web site for SPNA in 14 Entities of Russian Federation, mainly at the request of prospective local activators:
