The summary
2216 QSOs, 79 DXCC, 5 bands, 2 modes |
The top chasers
The story
PD7YY on SSB in HBFF-0006 |
Quiet area in HBFF-0221 | HBFF-0220 in between trees |
2216 QSOs, 79 DXCC, 5 bands, 2 modes |
PD7YY on SSB in HBFF-0006 |
Quiet area in HBFF-0221 | HBFF-0220 in between trees |
We will arrive in HB0 on Friday evening (CET) May 12. If travel is smooth we might be active in the evening. Otherwise we will start on Saturday morning activating our first WWFF park. We expect to change parks twice activating three locations per day on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday evening CET we will go QRT. All depends on weather conditions as we will have at least one station out in the open.
We will use two radio's in parallel with 100W (CW) to 300W (SSB) output on all bands from 80m up to 6m - depending on band conditions. Antennas include end fed wires and a hexbeam.
We have the following park candidates pre-selected: HBFF-0006, 0124, 0220, 0221, 0222, 0478 and 0479. We don't know if we can access all the locations we selected, so it won't be possible to give a definite location planning. To give chasers an idea of where we are active from while we are there, we will post to the WWFF cluster and agenda and to the YNOMY twitter feed (assuming we have cell coverage). We will also iterate between HB0/PE5TT/P and HB0/PH0NO/P as the main call when changing location. Our third call HB0Y/PD7YY/P will be used as a "bonus call" regardless of location.
It might be possible for us to be active from our apartment in the town of Ruggell. If we are active from there, we will be using the calls without /P - to signify we are not in a park at that time.
As we did in previous activities we will make an award available for chasers. The award will come in three levels based on the points scored: bronze (top 33%), silver (top 20%) and gold (top 10%). There will be a separate league for EU and non-EU chasers.
Points can be acquired working the three different calls (PD7YY/PE5TT/PH0NO) on different bands and modes. Each unique call/band/mode combination is a point (note that we can only use PD7YY on 3 bands). On top of that you can get bonus points for each WWFF nature reserve you worked us in.
Awards will be made available after processing all log info after the activity and will be downloadable from this website (we will post a download form here when the awards are available).
QSLs will be send to all contacts through the bureau by default. The logs will be available through Clublog but only after processing when we are back in PA. There you can request a direct card if you wish.
Note that we will design the QSL after the activity, so allow some time for designing and printing.
It was 2019 that we last went on a foreign trip with the team - to GJ. We have done some special events and WWFF team activities in PA since then, but we concluded with the whole covid thingy fading out it was time to plan a trip to another DXCC again.
Spinning the globe around we scanned for interesting places. 3Y has had so much attention lately it felt too much as a hype and we don't like cold weather anyway. We are still dreaming of an exotic island someday (running a couple of FT8 bots and drinking cocktails on the beach) but with only a weekend to spare, we circled back to a place we have been before: HB0.
In 2018 we were in HB0 for the first time and had a lot of fun together with the HBFF manager HB9TZA. Especially the late night activities on the Friday with an opening to JA on 40m and Sunday with an endless pile-up remain good memories. We logged almost 1700 QSOs and 55 DXCC that time. There weren't that many DX contacts among them but we hope that will be different this time with the sun waking up.
This year we will travel on Friday May 12 and hope to maybe do some small activity in the evening if travel is smooth. We will then be active the whole weekend and drive back north on Monday May 15.
As usual with our activities we will make a special award and QSL card available.
A real "bush activity" from HB0 in 2018 |
On Saturday November 19, YNOMY& friends will be out portable activating two nature reserves in PA: PAFF-0221 and PAFF-0180.
Together with PF5X we will be on the air during the day with three stations on CW and SSB on all bands that are open from 80m up to 6m.
YNOMY is looking forward to a day out on Saturday April 9 activating two new PAFF nature parks - PAFF-0225 and 0226.
We will be using the calls PA225FF and PA226FF and will be joined by Enno PF5X (3 radio's / 4 operators).
It took a while for the fourteen thousand 75FREE QSL cards to be printed but at the beginning of August the boxes arrived. As you can imagine they form a considerable weight together.
The printer we worked with was able to print the QSO details based on our log data - very convenient. This saves us the time we spent after previous operations when we used printed stickers. Applying a dozen stickers is not an issue but when you have to process thousands of cards it take a lot of time.
We have dropped off all the bureau cards at the Dutch QSL bureau and sent off most of the direct cards. The last few will be sent this week.
We hope you appreciate the card and look forward to working you from our next activity.
Overall | Outside EU | ||||
Pos | Call | Pts | Pos | Call | Pts |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 11 12 13 13 15 15 | OH2YV IK2TTJ 9A6W F5NEP EA1LT OM1AX 9A3KG IK2ULS YO6CFB IK6IHU R6AF DL1EJG OZ1BUR SP2PBY HB9OAU F6COW | 117 104 98 97 74 69 68 59 57 57 55 50 48 48 46 46 |
1 2 3 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 12 12 14 14 |
4Z4DX PP7DX N4MM VE3XN W9OO RX9WN EA8WU K2VV KF2O W9RF UN7IT KB1EFS VE3AT 4Z5UY RY9C | 43 31 28 28 27 26 25 21 20 18 18 16 16 15 15 |