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“Russian Flora and Fauna” (RFF) and WWFF

2024-06-01T00:01:00+00:00

Colleagues, I regret to inform you that the “Russian Flora and Fauna”, RFF, is suspending its participation in the “international” WWFF program until at least a new, more sober and realistic WWFF committee is in place.

RFF-H award applications already approved in WWFF Logsearch will be completed, new RFF-H applications through WWFF will not be temporarily accepted.

The uploading of logs for activating RFF references to WWFF Logsearch is temporarily suspended. The logs for activation of RFF-references are accepted and processed exclusively within RFF.

Appropriate comments will be made on references to the WWFF in all publications on the RFF website.
Subsequently, the RFF website will be fundamentally rebuilt.

The Russian Flora and Fauna program exists and continues to operate, the actual RFF reference book is published only on the RFF website.
Awards for QSO with RFF will be issued directly by the RFF program itself.

Discrimination of Russian radio amateurs, “amendments” to Russian laws, Russophobia and inaction of the WWFF-Committee are unacceptable to us.

To paraphrase the phrase of our President:
“The destiny of Russia will be determined by ourselves only…” — The destiny of RFF will be determined by ourselves only.

For all changes, additions, news of RFF, except our site, follow:
– in the corresponding thread on the Russian amateur radio forum QRZ.RU;
– in RFF telegram-channel.

73! RN3ANT, Vitaly
RFF coordinator

Activity rating of the RFF program is published

2024-04-11T22:53:00+00:00

In challenging weather and other conditions, we already had as many as 10 activated references by the beginning of April. That is why we are starting to publish the activity rating of the RFF program.

Season 2024 is opened!

2024-03-10T21:40:10+00:00

Congratulations to everyone who cares about the RFF program on the opening of the 2024 season!

Special thanks to very first activators:
– Ulyana RY0AAN for activation of RFF-0084, Krasnoyarskie Stolby National Park;
– Valery R7KFF (who would have doubted it!) for activation of RFF-0424, "Plachushchaya Skala" Habitat Preserve area!

I hope that this year we will show noticeably more impressive results than last year.

For my part, I can announce a significant addition to our reference directory coming in the near future.

There is not enough raw data for the 2024 rating yet, I will start it when there is enough data.

I wish everyone good health, great mood, excellent propagation and many new references in the individual scores.

73 & 44! Vit, RN3ANT

Activity rating of the RFF program is published

2023-07-30T18:48:16+00:00

Due to both known objective and various subjective reasons, this year's activity is extremely low.

Only now we have accumulated some data to publish at least some activity rating of the RFF program.

WWFF August Activity Month

2023-07-13T16:57:35+00:00

WWFF Team would like to invite all WWFF Activators and Hunters to participate in “The WWFF August Activity Month”:

The activity event will start on Tuesday, August 1^st at 00:01 UTC and finish on Tuesday, August 31^st at 23:59 UTC.

WWFF Activators are invited to aired from as many as possible WWFF areas.

A big oppertunity for our hunters to work new WWFF areas and increase their scores.

We recommend for all Activators to use the WWFF Agenda and the WWFF Facebook Group to inform the WWFF Hunter community about their plans.

After each activity the Activators have to send their logs to the log manager, responsible for the areas they activated.

The deadline for sending logs to count towards this special event is September 9^th.

To facilitate the special award processing we ask the activators — especially when using vanity/special event calls or group calls — to make sure the «;operator» field in their logs is populated with their home callsign.

The log uploaders then have a week to check and upload the logs. By September 16^th we will start generating the awards and ranklists based on the available data in WWFF LogSearch.

Participation Awards

On September 16^th WWFF will publish awards for Activators and Hunters.

ACTIVATOR PARTICIPATION AWARD

For activating WWFF references during “The WWFF August Activity Month“ activators should cummulate at least 220 QSOs from valid WWFF reference(s).

HUNTER AWARDS

For hunting WWFF references during The WWFF August Activity Month:

One more star for each 44 WWFF references hunted!!!
6 Stars — 264 WWFF references hunted
5 Stars — 220 WWFF references hunted
4 Stars — 176 WWFF references hunted
3 Stars — 132 WWFF references hunted
2 Stars — 88 WWFF references hunted
1 Star — 44 WWFF references hunted
Half Star — 22 WWFF references hunted

New references in RFF Directory

2023-05-08T15:43:37+00:00

New RFF references have been added to the Directories on WWFF and our website. These are RFF-1184…1406 for Specially Protected Nature Areas (SPNA) in 30 entities of Russian Federation.

Most of references were added in Krasnodarsky Krai R6A - 25.

This is followed by Krasnoyarsky Krai R0A - 24,
Volgogradsky oblast R4A - 18,
Sverdlovsky oblast R9C - 16…

Kirovsky oblast R4N - 14,
Amursky oblast R0J - 13,
Vologodsky oblast R1Q - 12,
Voronezhsky oblast R3Q - 12,
Republic of Tatarstan R4P - 11,
Nenetsky Autonomous Okrug R1P - 10.

Also few RFF-references were added to each of remaining 19 entities of the Russian Federation (R0L, R1A, R1C, R1O, R1T, R1Z, R3A, R3D, R3E, R3M, R3N, R3S, R3U, R4F, R4U, R4W, R6H, R9S, R9U), largely for protected areas created during last three years.

For the detalied list of newly added RFF references, see the RFF Directory.
For the credit boundaries of territories (GPX-files), both newly added and existing ones, please contact the RFF coordinator RN3ANT by е-mail or in the Telegram: “Russian Flora and Fauna”

Putorana! RFF-0077

2022-07-14T18:56:08+00:00

This coming weekend, an amateur radio expedition is expected to one of the most inaccessible and rarely visited places, the Putorana Plateau, Lost World, the land of waterfalls and 25,000 lakes, located to east of Norilsk city in the Russian Arctic in the northwest of the Central Siberian Plateau.

Putorana, Putoramo, Petaromi, Kutaramo and even Paiturama — the most unexplored mountain range in Russia has almost more names than the number of locals. This grandiose lost world seems to have collected all the incredible records.

Here is the geographical center of Russia and Russia's Pole of Inaccessibility — the most remote from transport routes and hardest to reach point of our country. Winter here lasts eight months of the year, the temperature - as out plane's board - minus 55 degrees, and there is no frost-free period at all. And in very short but juicy summer thousands of waterfalls thaw, including Talnikovy, the highest in Eurasia. Because of the hardest accessibility of these places to explore, geographers still do not agree on the exact height of the waterfall. According to various estimates, it ranges from 480 to 700 meters).

Read more about Putorana…

Team camp will be located on the south shore of Lama Lake, one of the largest and deepest lakes in Russia, ~140 km to east of Norilsk

QRV is planned on 20, 15 and 10 m bands only, CW, SSB and FT8, expedition call sign R0BI/p. Estimated QRV time is 17 UTC 15 July — 07 UTC 17 July.
Equipment: Expert Electronics SunSDR2 DX transceiver, PA Acom-1010, Robinson RR-33 beam antenna (bands 20, 15 and 10 m)

QSO with the expedition is valid for RFF-0077 — «Putoransky» State nature reserve. QSL via RW3RN

More about Putorana (in Russian)

More photos of the Putorana Plateau

Discussion of the expedition on the Russian amateur radio forum QRZ.RU (in Russian)

New references in RFF Directory

2020-06-07T15:43:37+00:00

After a two-year break another new RFF references have been added to the Directories on WWFF and our website. These are RFF-1084...1183 for Specially Protected Nature Areas (SPNA) in 6 regions of Russia mentioned in our previous message about new references:

Republics of Udmurtia (R4W), Karachay-Cherkessia (R6E), North Ossetia-Alania (R6J), Samara (R4H), Astrakhan (R6U) and Omsk (R9M) regions...

In addition, references are assigned to several SPNAs in the Urals, which are the summits for the SOTA program, for our friends — supporters of the SOTA program in the Republic of Bashkiria; with a view to the expected soon a big trip of Evgeny RX3AMI around Sakhalin Island — all coastal SPNAs on Sakhalin Island, as well as several new, created in recent years, the national parks, Species Preserve areas and the Vasyuganskiy Nature Reserve.

The overall view looks like this:

R1O — 1 — in total 17
R1Z — 3 — in total 10
R3D — 5 — in total 103
R4H — 12 — in total 15
R4W — 13 — in total 16
R6E — 7 — in total 10
R6J — 7 — in total 10
R6U — 7 — in total 10
R6W — 2 — in total 6
R9A — 1 — in total 6
R9H — 1 — in total 16
R9M — 12 — in total 15
R9O — 1 — in total 17
R9W — 11 — in total 19
R9X — 1 — in total 14
R0F — 14 — in total 18
R0Q — 1 — in total 8
R0U — 2 — in totalо 5.

Next time attention will be paid to R1P, R3E, R3Q, R3R, R4C, R4L, R4N, R4P, R4U, R6A, R6I, R6L, R6Q, R6R, R9S, R9Z, R0H, R0K and R0S, wich still have 4 or less RFF references each.

The reference boundaries in the form of GPX files are still available upon request.

Moneron Is., RFF-0193

2021-05-09T20:21:35+00:00

* * *

Due to the illness of some of the members, the expedition is preliminarily postponed to August

UPD.09.IX.2021

Unfortunately, the expedition has been postponed indefinitely. Stay tuned. . We wish to the expeditioners a speedy recovery from illness and good health in the future!

DXpedition to Moneron Island, reference RFF-0193 will take place from 15 to 31 July 2021.

It is planned to operate with RI0FM callsign on all bands in CW, SSB and FT8.
The recent and most detailed information about the expedition, plans, dates, team, equipment — on the expedition website RI0FM.

QSO with the RI0FM expedition — a unique opportunity to get into account the rarest RFF reference, as well as the Russian Federation entity and the Federal District for Sanctuary Russia Award Program.

Moneron is a picturesque hardly accessible island up to 3.8 x 7 km in size in the Tartar Strait, 50 km to west of the southern tip of the Sakhalin Island.

Moneron Island completely, together with the adjacent islands, rocks, reefs and stones, is part of Russian first marine natural park, the SPNA Moneron Island Natural Park, which is the only Russian horn-billed puffin (lat. Cerorhinca monocerata) nesting site. There are colonies of other birds on the adjacent islands and rocks, and there are sea lions and seals rookeries in some parts of the coast. Forests cover only about 20% of the island's territory, the rest of the territory is covered with "grape" meadows, where the height of grasses entwined with wild grape vines, reaches 2.5 meters.

There is no permanent population on the island.

More detailed about Moneron Is. (in Russian but there are lot of pics):
Moneron Is. (LiveJournal)
Moneron Is. (wikipedia)

Our site is online again!

2021-03-20T21:52:24+00:00

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

2020-08-26T10:49:12+00:00

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 rv3mp [AT] mail [DOT] ru

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

2020-03-15T01:14:10+00:00

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.

Award applications are generated on the basis of QSO autoscoring and are sent to award manager automatically by clicking on the “RFF-H” (“RFF-A”) button in the “National Awards” section of your personal WWFF Logsearch account on wwff.co. Paper QSL, electronic confirmation like LoTW, eQSL, etc. are not required and are not accepted.

RFF-A — for activators of Russian references

The table below lists the numbers of all issued “RFF-A” awards with their own numbering for each degree. Sorting, searching and filtering by callsign and numbers are provided (it is enough to enter even 2–3 characters).

CALLSIGN	RFF-A-5	RFF-A-10	RFF-A-20	RFF-A-30	RFF-A-40	RFF-A-50
UA3LMR	0001	0001	0001	0001	—	—
RU5A	0002	0002	—	—	—	—
UA4AVN	0003	—	—	—	—	—
R5AF	0004	—	—	—	—	—
RC8SC	0005	0004	—	—	—	—
RU9SO	0006	—	—	—	—	—
R7KFF	0007	—	—	—	—	—
UA3LNM	0008	0003	—	—	—	—

RFF-H — for hunters on Russian references

The table below lists the numbers of all issued “RFF-H” awards with their own numbering for each degree. Sorting, searching and filtering by callsign and numbers are provided (it is enough to enter even 2–3 characters).

CALLSIGN	RFF-H-11	RFF-H-22	RFF-H-33	RFF-H-44	RFF-H-55	RFF-H-66	RFF-H-77	RFF-H-88
UA3LMR	0001	0004	0007	0007	0005	—	—	—
YO6LB	0002	0008	0002	0033	0008	—	—	—
F4HZR	0003	0019	0027	0018	0010	—	—	—
OH6GAZ	0004	0027	0006	0003	0001	0010	—	—
RU5A	0005	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OM3CND	0006	0065	0016	0013	0003	0005	—	—
ON4VT	0007	0053	0023	0011	0007	0008	—	—
LZ2AF	0008	0045	0061	0043	0028	0012	—	—
DL4EAM	0009	0050	0035	0022	0022	—	—	—
OK1VEI	0010	0122	0033	0005	0019	0023	—	—
YO3JW	0011	0056	0038	0031	0043	0026	—	—
9A4FM	0012	0066	0014	0010	0013	0006	—	—
S58AL	0013	0041	0001	0012	0009	0013	—	—
SP1MVG	0014	0007	0028	0047	0011	0011	—	—
HA8TG	0015	0005	0005	0009	—	—	—	—
DL8NDG	0016	0016	0010	0019	0038	—	—	—
OZ4RT	0017	0010	0044	0027	—	—	—	—
LY2KM	0018	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
LY1SR	0019	0012	0004	0002	0017	0022	—	—
UT5PI	0020	0031	0020	0008	0014	0004	—	—
OH7JHA	0021	0001	—	—	—	—	—	—
SY2BEW	0022	0046	0030	—	—	—	—	—
LZ3SM	0023	0036	0047	0072	0037	—	—	—
DL2ND	0024	0047	0021	0001	0004	0015	—	—
SA2CLU	0025	0070	0063	—	—	—	—	—
LY2NZ	0026	0111	—	—	—	—	—	—
DK3RV	0027	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
YO6OGY	0028	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL1EJA	0029	0028	0025	0004	0034	0020	—	—
IZ2BHQ	0030	0088	0013	0025	0021	—	—	—
YO3BR	0031	0165	—	—	—	—	—	—
OH6RP	0032	0017	0034	0046	0040	0007	—	—
DL2YBG	0033	0034	0019	0036	—	—	—	—
LZ2OQ	0034	0014	—	—	—	—	—	—
OM3YCA	0035	0024	0054	0034	0030	0001	—	—
DL1SWB	0036	0117	—	—	—	—	—	—
YO6CFB	0037	0013	0026	0026	0002	0021	—	—
ON5SWA	0038	0042	—	—	—	—	—	—
ON3YB	0039	0083	0037	0023	0039	—	—	—
ON3EA	0040	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP8LEP	0041	0003	0062	0044	0033	—	—	—
IK7XGH	0042	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DK5AL	0043	0109	0041	0048	0032	—	—	—
KD1CT	0044	0074	0060	0042	0036	—	—	—
ON4RO	0045	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP2SV	0046	0006	0032	0050	0027	0025	—	—
E77O	0047	0125	0075	0057	—	—	—	—
SP5DZE	0048	0076	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP5X	0049	0092	0043	0030	—	—	—	—
SP5ICQ	0050	0011	—	—	—	—	—	—
9A2KI	0051	0127	—	—	—	—	—	—
YL2TQ	0052	0021	0076	0058	0020	—	—	—
UT5ZC	0053	0038	0039	0028	0035	—	—	—
EW6FW	0054	0009	0071	0054	—	—	—	—
I3VAD	0055	0020	—	—	—	—	—	—
HA8DD	0056	0091	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL5MO	0057	0147	0049	0015	—	—	—	—
RX4HJ	0058	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
WK2S	0059	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OH3BHL	0060	0081	0088	0069	—	—	—	—
UR5AMJ	0061	0057	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP9TBT	0062	0069	—	—	—	—	—	—
F5NEP	0063	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL1ASF	0064	0162	0087	0068	—	—	—	—
R6AC	0065	0026	0011	0021	0006	0016	—	—
UA6HGY	0066	0061	—	—	—	—	—	—
HA0ML	0067	0035	0031	0045	0026	—	—	—
ON4CB	0068	0071	0022	0015	—	—	—	—
IZ8DFO	0069	0033	0042	0064	—	—	—	—
UB3YCJ	0070	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OK1FQT	0071	0078	—	—	—	—	—	—
SM4BNZ	0072	0103	0012	0014	0015	0003	—	—
ON7YZ	0073	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
ZL1TM	0074	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
I7PXV	0075	0067	0065	0049	0029	—	—	—
RN1CW	0076	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
RC8SC	0077	0163	—	—	—	—	—	—
OK3DM	0078	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP4GDC	0079	0095	—	—	—	—	—	—
I2CZQ	0080	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
YO2ADQ	0081	0025	0053	—	—	—	—	—
UA9FAR	0082	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OH8UV	0083	0059	—	—	—	—	—	—
RU9SO	0084	0136	—	—	—	—	—	—
ES1IP	0085	0137	—	—	—	—	—	—
DH2PL	0086	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
UR7ET	0087	0063	0080	0062	—	—	—	—
IK1DFH	0088	0110	—	—	—	—	—	—
YO8DOH	0089	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
IK4IDP	0090	0023	0029	0071	—	—	—	—
DG0DRF	0091	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP5CCK	0092	0018	0040	0039	—	—	—	—
OH1LD	0093	0043	—	—	—	—	—	—
RK9DO	0094	0120	—	—	—	—	—	—
OG55W	0095	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SM5CBN	0096	0002	0024	0006	0016	0009	—	—
9H1FL	0097	0015	—	—	—	—	—	—
SQ2LKY	0098	0022	0073	—	—	—	—	—
UT0VE	0099	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP5Z	0100	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
LZ2HT	0101	0084	—	—	—	—	—	—
IN3NJB	0102	0029	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP5ZIM	0103	0030	—	—	—	—	—	—
OK1DLA	0104	0032	0077	0059	—	—	—	—
IK6OCX	0105	0037	0089	—	—	—	—	—
YU1MI	0106	0039	0036	0056	—	—	—	—
UY2ZZ	0107	0040	—	—	—	—	—	—
IZ8EFD	0108	0044	0045	—	—	—	—	—
ON3ANY	0109	0048	0057	0038	—	—	—	—
IW6NOB	0110	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OZ5HP	0111	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
R7FW	0112	0119	0008	—	—	—	—	—
UR5MCQ	0113	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
IK1GPG	0114	0049	0015	0024	0012	0002	—	—
RA6YJ	0115	0051	—	—	—	—	—	—
UA1OJL	0116	0052	—	—	—	—	—	—
ON5JK	0117	0054	0048	—	—	—	—	—
SP5BLI	0118	0055	—	—	—	—	—	—
IZ1JMN	0119	0058	—	—	—	—	—	—
OH1XT	0120	0072	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP4NKU	0121	0060	0069	0052	—	—	—	—
SQ2WKQ	0122	0062	0003	—	—	—	—	—
OK1RO	0123	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
YU7RQ	0124	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SM7SPG	0125	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
RU9US	0126	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP5KD	0127	0064	—	—	—	—	—	—
PA9CW	0128	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL9RNV	0129	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
EC5KY	0130	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
RM2D	0131	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DD6UDD	0132	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
G3NFV	0133	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SQ2EEY	0134	0068	—	—	—	—	—	—
LX1CC	0135	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OH1NPW	0136	0070	—	—	—	—	—	—
SM7EDN	0137	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
OH1MM	0138	0073	—	—	—	—	—	—
F8NUH	0139	0085	0017	—	—	—	—	—
SM7BEP	0140	0075	0046	—	—	—	—	—
Z35M	0141	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4Z4DX	0142	0077	0088	0070	—	—	—	—
SO5CAL	0143	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
EA1DHB	0144	0079	—	—	—	—	—	—
OZ7PR	0145	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
ON7LO	0146	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
CU3EJ	0147	0082	—	—	—	—	—	—
HA7BJ	0148	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
G1OCN	0149	0106	—	—	—	—	—	—
PA2CVD	0150	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
YT6M	0151	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL5EBG	0152	0086	0050	0017	0023	0018	—	—
UX2MF	0153	0087	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL1LQR	0154	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DL3HXX	0155	0089	0056	0037	—	—	—	—
OH4MFA	0156	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
LY3A	0157	0090	—	—	—	—	—	—
S58MU	0158	0093	0052	0032	0024	0014	—	—
R3RB	0159	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
F4GYM	0160	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
HA7NB	0161	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
SP5BR	0162	0094	—	—	—	—	—	—
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RFF-0176 — the “Severnyi Polyus” Drifting Ice Polar Station

2020-03-14T00:42:27+00:00

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.

The future of the “Barneo” ice camp is unclear, and because of the catastrophically shrinking ice area in the Arctic Ocean, the possibility of establishing a QSO with any other drifting ice camp in the future is becoming increasingly doubtful. Thus, in a month there will be a unique chance to add on score the RFF-0176 — the “Severnyi Polyus” drifting ice polar station.

Martina and Thomas will be active SSB on the 40, 20 and 17 M bands with an emphasis on 20 m band, most likely around WWFF frequencies of 18.144, 14.244 and 7.144 kHz ±QRM, as well as FT8 on 40–30–20–17 M bands.
Yaesu FT-991 100 watt transceiver with LiFePO₄ batteries and vertical dipoles antennas will be used.

A short (~30 min) activity is planned from the Pole itself by the special callsign DP0LE (not RFF-0176) during the raid to the geographic North Pole.

Martina and Thomas will arrive to Svalbard (Longyearbyen town and airport) on April 10 and, pending a flight to “Barneo”, it is very likely they will appear on air as JW/DF3TS and JW/DC8TM until April 13 — IOTA EU-026 and, perhaps, some Norwegian WWFF reference not far away the town (there are 7 LAFF references on Svalbard, 5 of which have never been activated before).

You can find out about this trip more detalied and precisely on the page of Thomas https://www.qrz.com/db/DC8TM

Photo: Martina and Thomas during their trip to VK-land

Prizes 2019 are mailed

2020-03-04T14:39:45+00:00

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.