I took my radio to the park for my first POTA/WWFF activation today. I worked a bunch of VKs on 40m SSB eager to help an activator fill the log, much appreciated.
After that I did some listening around on other bands. I couldn't believe how good the conditions and noise floor were compared to working from home. EU and US stations were booming in on 20m.
Finnish Flora & Fauna activations live at Finnish National Broadcast teletext pages! (YLE Teksti-TV).
Based & run on @zouppen 's teletext-system.
Honestly, I would never expect this to happen :O
https://codeberg.org/jii/ohff-teletext
https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=590#11
#tekstitv #ohff #wwff #yle #radioamatoori #radioamateur #teletext
Good news!
Afaik, #POTA started as a hostile fork of #WWFF back in the day.
So far, so normal. But for years, a piece of bad news was that POTA used to have a hostility-preserving rule in its code of conduct. See my almost three year old toot ๐งต = https://mastodon.radio/@dj3ei/111609707966648623 for details.
The good news: As I learned today, the POTA people removed that rule. October 14 last year, they did.
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Our #hamRadio neighborhood turned a bit friendlier!
I will try out POTA myself, finally.
Activated WWFF (OHFF-2158) today. Nice small island.
15m was totally rocking today! Quite a bunch of SSB QSOs too, CW of course.
Thanks to all hunters.
ps. It seems I took the least portable / forest-atypical coaxial I have in my shack :D
WWFF on new server
Thanks to the work of the IT team - notably Hugo CT7AOV and Edwin PD0SOT - the WWFF website and Logsearch environment are now running on a new server,
The server is kindly provided by DARC and ensures a long
Hamish M (VK3FSB)
Jouni OH3CUF
Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him
ON4BB Luk
Joe AI5DD