How Do I Get Started with WWFF & POTA Parks ?
Sign up for accounts on http://pota.app and https://wwff.co.
Note: For WWFF, you must use your call sign as your username.
- POTA: http://parksontheair.com
- WWFF-KFF: https://wwff.us
- WWFF for others: https://wwff.co/awards/national-programs
Whether you already enjoy POTA, or have been considering it, take some time to become familiar with BOTH park programs. Use their resources, their similarities, their differences, and play into the strengths of both programs to provide yourself with a more enjoyable operating experience while you are outside playing Ham Radio Operator/Portable.
Where Do I Hunt for WWFF and POTA Park Activators?
You can find scheduled activations at:
You can find active spots at:
Try to work the Activators that you can hear and get yourself into their logs. Look for some SOTA, GMA, and IOTA spots while you are logged in and remember to throw your fellow Ham a QSO just for being out there and doing what they enjoy.
Guess what? In doing this, you already expanded your base beyond that of a single awards program and you are on your way to earning awesome wallpaper from multiple organizations!
Where Do I Schedule My POTA & WWFF Activations?
Before you go out on your activation, you should schedule the activation on both sites. By scheduling your activation, you give your chasers a heads up on approximately when you will be activating, and, as a result, will increase your chances of success by giving you more QSOs.
- To post a POTA alert: https://pota.app/#/ then click Add Activation
- To post a WWFF alert: https://wwff.co/agenda/ then click Add
- To post a SOTA alert: https://sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/
Note: You should create shortcuts for the WWFF and POTA spot and schedule page on your phone or computer.
If you have a cell signal, you can spot yourself from your phone or computer while at a park.
How Do I Spot Myself for WWFF, POTA, and SOTA, Activations?
If you are on a CW activation and have alerts posted on POTA and WWFF, you will be automatically spotted on the spot pages for each of these services when you start calling CQ. As soon as the Reverse Beacon Networks picks up your CQ call, the three services will parse this data and if you calling CQ within the alert hours, they will spot you, and keep re-spotting you about every 5 minutes, 10 minutes for WWFF. If you change bands, they will spot you again.
If you are on SSB, you will have to spot yourself on each program’s spot page.
You can spot yourself at:
- POTA: https://wwff.co/dx-cluster/
- WWFF: https://wwff.co/dx-cluster/
- SOTA: https://sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/
Consider re-spotting the SOTA, GMA, IOTA, Hams you work when applicable.
For USA, consider https://CountyHunter.com – Because it continues to bring in the QSOs.
Become familiar with https://www.reversebeacon.net and https://www.pskreporter.info/pskmap.html – Save them to your phone or laptop and use them to see where you are being heard.
So How Do I Dual-Activate a Park for POTA and WWFF?
In the Americas, I recommend that you run the Dual- Activation like POTA. Why?
- You can call CQ POTA or call CQ PARKS [I much prefer the latter] on CW and SSB. Both of these statements are widely understood, neither are considered offensive, and neither will earn you a free POTA wrist-slap or a lifetime ban either.
- The majority of your Park to Park QSOs will favor the POTA number anyway. Your Scheduled Activation, Self-Spotting, and the Re-Spotting by others, makes it known that you are activating a US-Park for some and a KFF-Park for others – Get Some “P2P2P” – PARK TO PARK TWO PROGRAMS!
- These CQ methods involve far less effort than having to explain and re-explain what WWFF is and how two programs exist. Please include this website URL in your select post-activation emails, should you be interested in spreading the word about WWFF and the additional awards waiting for a fellow Ham.
The Stuart, VE9CF, gives some tips on dual park activations and on using Ham2k Polo POTA & WWFF logger.
What to Do When the POTA & WWFFActivation is Over?
Be sure to upload your log to POTA & WWFF n a timely manner.
- To submit your log to POTA: https://pota.app/#/user/logs
- To submit your log to WWFF: WWFF does not have a log upload program. You need to email your log to the appropriate Upload Manager:
- For Callsign Area 0, 3, 5, 7: N3KAE – Al Zelna, n3kae@cqparks.net
- For Call sign Area 1: W7AFF – Matt Rau, w7aaf@arrl.net
- For Call Sign Area 2, 4, 6, 8, 9: Bob Gedemer ka9jac@marac.org
- To submit your log to SOTA: https://www.sotadata.org.uk/en/upload
For those activations that occur in a location that cross-references both programs, simply attach your POTA .adi log in an email addressed to your WWFF Log Manager.
- No file modification
- No additional effort
- Nothing more than an email with a log attached
Should your references exist in the POTA and WWFF databases, your logs will be reviewed, converted, and uploaded with feedback provided by an email.
Rinse and Repeat the next time you head out – Bring more fun to your “Ham Radio /p” operating.
Email your WWFF Log Manager and discuss submitting previous 2025 POTA logs and earlier for additional WWFF credit. Logs that do not cross-reference should not be submitted and will be discarded. Also, POTA “Ef-fer”, “Goof-fer”, “n-Fer” logs should not ever be submitted for conversion because they are nothing more than manufactured program credit with no QSO value outside of the POTA program.