Effective start of award program
Just one day after launching the PAFF award program on various fora we have sent out the first chaser and the first activator awards. Uwe DL2ND received bronze chaser award number 1 for working 10 PAFF references and not surprisingly Hans PA3FYG received the first PA-Active activator award for activating more than 10 (17) different PAFF references.
Congrats!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
PG7V was active at PAFF-017 and more
Reports from JanJaap @ PAFF-017 and PAFF-033
In the first weekend of this month JanJaap PG7V was active from Schiermonnikoog - PAFF-017 and IOTA EU-038. Blessed with good weather he worked CW and SSB on 20, 30 and 40m.
Schiermonnikoog does not allow visitors to take their car on the island so you will see PG7V with his bike on his blog: http://www.pg7v.com/category/paff
On his blog he also describes his activities at PAFF-033 and PAFF-012 earlier this year.
In the first weekend of this month JanJaap PG7V was active from Schiermonnikoog - PAFF-017 and IOTA EU-038. Blessed with good weather he worked CW and SSB on 20, 30 and 40m.
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| PG7V @ PAFF-017 |
On his blog he also describes his activities at PAFF-033 and PAFF-012 earlier this year.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Expansion of the PAFF references
25 new nature parks selected
As all the nature parks in The Netherlands have been activated at least once there is room for expansion of the program. With the help of a number of PAFF enthusiasts we have selected 25 new parks to add to the existing list.
Good news today is that the WFF committee accepted the additions and will publish the new references by the end of this month.
The following nature parks will be added to the program:
As all the nature parks in The Netherlands have been activated at least once there is room for expansion of the program. With the help of a number of PAFF enthusiasts we have selected 25 new parks to add to the existing list.
Good news today is that the WFF committee accepted the additions and will publish the new references by the end of this month.
The following nature parks will be added to the program:
- Bergherbos
- Boschplaat, Terschelling
- Boswachterij Dorst
- Boswachterij Sleenerzand
- Buurserzand & Haaksbergseveen
- De Vuursche
- Deelerwoud
- Duinen bij Bergen
- Engbertsdijksvenen
- Kampina
- Leuvenumse bossen
- Loenermark
- Mortelen
- Naardermeer
- Nieuwkoopse Plassen
- Ooypolder En Millingerwaard
- Planken Wambuis
- Rijk van Nijmegen
- Schoorlse Duinen
- Strabrecht
- Ugchelen Hoenderloo
- Vecht en Beneden Regge
- Verdronken Land Van Saeftinge
- Vlieland
- Zuidlaardermeergebied
Friday, August 31, 2012
Activation of PAFF-014 by OZ7AEI
Several days at Lauwersmeer
Jakob OZ7AEI was over at Lauwersmeer enjoying a week of holiday there in July.
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| Some of the local inhabitants of PAFF-014 |
In this week Jakob was on the air four times on 40m and 80m. You can see
his setup with two sloping dipoles below. In total Jacob logged 210
calls.
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| PA/OZ7AEI/P with two dipoles |
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Activation of PAFF-042 by PA3Q
SOTA and PAFF in one go
Wil - PA3Q - activated Terletse Heide (PAFF-042) on August 18. The area is used as an airfield for glider planes. The highest point is just over 100m ASL - which is incredibly high for Dutch standards... this top has in fact a SOTA reference (PA-005).
Wil has put together a nice little video about the activity. Check out this YouTube link.
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| Video by PA3Q |
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
PAFF activities
If you are planning a PAFF activity let us know and we will post the info here. We also welcome (links to) reports of PAFF activities.
Reports of past activities:
Status of the PAFF program
We are launching a new website to promote flora and fauna ham radio activities in PA-land. At the moment Hans is working on an extension of the list of nature parks. As soon as we have finalised this list we will launch our award program for activators and chasers.
...watch this space...
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