VKFF Team Championship

The 2016 inaugural VKFF Team Championship was held on Sunday 16th October 2016.

​The 2019 VKFF Team Championship will be held between.....

0000 hrs Saturday 26th October 2019 - 2359 hrs Saturday 26th October 2019.

**Please note the change in times.  The event has now been extended to 24 hours.
This event is made possible by the generous nature of various sponsors.  These include both individual amateurs who donate money towards trophies, and commercial sponsors including Pages of Cobram, and Future Systems. 
Glass etched trophies are on offer for winners of particular sections of this event.  The trophies are provided by Awards and Trophies.com.au in Queensland.

General rules.......


  • Create a team of 2 or more amateurs (maximum of 4 amateurs)
  • Individual activators do not qualify.  This is a team event. 
  • Create a name for your team (please be sensible)
  • Register your team with the VKFF co-ordinator, Paul VK5PAS (failing to register will make your activation void for the VKFF Team Championship).
  • The 2018 event will be held over a 24 hour period.  A maximum of 6 hours can be used on air during that 24 hour period.  This can be spread out as desired by participants, e.g. a continuos 6 hours, or 2 hours and then 4 hours later in the day, etc.
  • Activate from a qualifying VKFF park or parks.   The team can operate from more than one park.  However, the team MUST be in the same park at the same time. 
  • Make as many contacts as possible within the 6 hour maximum period.
  • Stay in the park for as long as you like.....6 hours, 3 hours, 1 hour.  What ever you choose.  But remember 6 hours is the maximum time allowed.
  • Operate on as many bands (excluding the WARC bands) as desired (but remember VKFF rules, in that repeaters, IRLP, Echolink do not count for valid VKFF QSOs).
  • Operate as many stations as you would like, e.g. one op on 40m, another on 10m, etc.
  • You are permitted to use a single call sign, e.g. a club call sign, or individual call signs.
  • Ensure you abide by all VKFF rules.
  • a station may be worked only once on the same band or the same mode 
  • There is no requirement for a contest exchange, e.g. 5/9 001.  Just simply log your contacts.
  • Suggested call: CQ VKFF Team Championship
  • Combine your QSOs together if you operated as a team under different call signs.
  • At the end of the VKFF Team Championship, submit your log/s to the VKFF co-ordinator, Paul VK5PAS.  Please include in the email what the name of your team was and what section you are entering into.
  • Logs can be sent individually if you operated using your own individual call sign.  Or a single log if you used one callsign.
  • The log/s MUST be in ADIF format or by using the CSV file template.

2019 Sections

General section

This section is open to all bands and all modes (subject to WWFF/VKFF rules).

Two ops/single transceiver/40m & 80m/wire antenna/100 watts or less

This section is limited to 2 operators, using a single transceiver, on the 40m and 80m bands, using wire antennas, and using 100 watts output or less.

QRP

This section is limited to a power output of no greater than 5 watts.

Foundation

This section is limited to teams of Foundation licence holders only.

Participants.....

  • 'The Tassie Devils' - Helen VK7FOLK and Jonathan VK7JON.
  • 'The VK4 WIPeouts' - Mark VK4SMA & Murray VK4MWB.
  • 'The Walky Talkies' - Paul VK5PAS and Marija VK5FMAZ.​
  • 'QRS Dot Dash' - Ian VK5CZ and David VK5PL.
  • 'The VK4midables' - Rob VK4SYD and Scott VK4CZ.
  • 'TechoGeeks' - Sue VK5AYL and Richard VK5ZNC.
  • 'QRParktivators' - Gerard VK2IO and Alan VK2MG.