World Wide Flora & Fauna - Australia
  • WELCOME
  • ABOUT AUSTRALIA's PARKS
  • ABOUT AUSTRALIA's FLORA & FAUNA
  • VKFF TEAM
    • Treasurer and bank account
    • Donations
    • Former VKFF Team members
  • VKFF RULES
  • HOW TO GET STARTED IN WWFF
    • Activators
    • Hunters
    • SWL's
  • HOW TO WORK ACTIVATORS
  • SPOTTING AND ALERTING
  • ALL ABOUT WWFF LOGSEARCH
  • HOW TO REGISTER WITH LOGSEARCH
    • Troubles with registering
  • HOW TO APPLY FOR AWARDS
  • HOW TO CREATE AN ACTIVATOR LOG
    • Video on how to create logs
    • Naming of log files
    • Log upload process
    • ADIF files
    • CSV template
    • Fast Log Entry
    • Port-a-log
    • Log errors and corrections
  • QUALIFYING AUSTRALIAN PARKS
    • Australian Capital Territory (VK1)
    • New South Wales (VK2) >
      • VK2 Qualifying parks
    • Victoria (VK3) >
      • VK3 Qualifying parks
    • Queensland (VK4) >
      • Qualifying VK4 Parks
    • South Australia (VK5) >
      • VK5 qualifying parks
      • Deleted VK5 parks
    • Western Australia (VK6) >
      • VK6 qualifying parks
    • Tasmania (VK7) >
      • VK7 Qualifying Parks
    • Northern Territory (VK8) >
      • Qualifying VK8 parks
    • Other Australian areas (VK9 & VK0)
  • AWARDS & RECIPIENTS
    • VKFF Activator >
      • Australian VKFF Activator recipients
    • VKFF Hunter >
      • Australian VKFF Hunter recipients
    • Overseas recipients of the VKFF Award/s
    • VKFF Honour Roll >
      • Australian recipients of the Hunter Honour Roll
      • Overseas recipients of the Hunter Honour Roll
      • Honour Roll Activator
    • Boomerang Award >
      • Activator recipients
      • Hunter recipients
    • VKFF DX Hunter >
      • VKFF DX Hunter award recipients
    • OCCFF Hunter Award >
      • Australian OCCFF recipients
      • Overseas OCCFF recipients
    • Murray River Parks Award >
      • Murray River Parks Hunter certificate recipients
      • Murray River Parks Activator certificate recipients
    • VKFF Worked All Australia
    • Special awards >
      • Greater Blue Mountains Area
      • 2020 National Bird Week
      • Barrington Tops National Park
      • 2019 National Bird Week
      • 2019 National Wattle Day
      • National Parks & Wildlife Service VK5
      • National Tree Day
      • World Ranger Day 2019
      • Gondwana Parks Award
      • NSW NPWS 50 year celebrations
      • 2018 National Bird Week
    • Global awards >
      • Park to Park Award
  • Top VKFF Activator
  • Top VKFF Hunter
  • Top VKFF Foundation Activator
  • Top VKFF Foundation Hunter
  • TOP WWFF ACTIVATOR
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  • Facebook and You Tube
  • LATEST WWFF DIRECTORY
  • VIDEOS OF AUSTRALIA
  • WWFF Mapping
  • Other informaiton
  • 'OUT AND ABOUT IN VK5' NEWSLETTER
  • Strong supporters of WWFF
  • HISTORY
    • WFF / WWFF History
    • History of the VKFF program
  • VKFF TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
    • 2020 results
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    • 2018 results
    • 2017 results
    • 2016 Results
  • VKFF ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
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  • VKFF ACTIVATION WEEKEND
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  • ANNUAL VKFF NATIONAL GET TOGETHER
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2017

Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th November 2017
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This was the third year of the VKFF Activation Weekend, which is all about having fun and promoting the World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) program in Australia.


A total of 2,307 QSOs were made over the weekend.  A total of 865 Park to Park contacts were made.  That is about 37.5 % of all contacts.

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Graph showing the number of parks activated in each State/Territory

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Audio file - appearing on WIA broadcast and Newswest VK6

The following amateurs took part as activators:-

  1. Jim VK1AT/2
  2. Ian VK1DI
  3. Garry VK2GAZ
  4. Gerard VK2IO
  5. Gerard VK2JNG
  6. Peter VK2KNV
  7. Mark VK2MOH
  8. Liz VK2XSE
  9. Dave VK2ZK
  10. Nick VK3ANL
  11. Alan VK3ARH
  12. Warren VK3BYD
  13. Brett VK3FLCS
  14. Nik VK3NLK
  15. Marc VK3OHM
  16. Peter VK3PF
  17. Mick VK3PMG
  18. Peter VK3TKK
  19. Tony VK3XV
  20. Peter VK3ZPF
  21. Rob VK4AAC
  22. Matt VK4FMHT
  23. Neil VK4HNS
  24. Grant VK4JAZ
  25. Rob VK4NHH
  26. ​Mark VK4SMA
  27. Ade VK4SOE
  28. Adrian VK5FAJH
  29. Marija VK5FMAZ
  30. Norm VK5GI
  31. Greg VK5GJ
  32. Gordon VK5GY
  33. Les VK5KLV
  34. Paul VK5PAS
  35. Phil VK6ADF
  36. Hills Amateur Radio Group VK6AHR
  37. Nick VK6FSEA
  38. Mike VK6MB
  39. Michael VK6MMB
  40. Bob VK6POP
  41. Hans VK6XN
  42. Angela VK7FAMP
  43. Helen VK7FOLK
  44. Jonathan VK7JON
  45. Tony VK7LTD
  46. VK8ZKZ

Participation certificate

All activators who took part in the weekend (who provided logs), received a Participation Certificate.
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