WWFF VK5 Parks Worked

Next State to look at was South Australia VK5. A total of 489 active parks.

Far enough away from me to make good use of bands above 40m, although 40m still the most popular band. 20m works well. A total of 235 parks or 48% worked.

There are not that many parks compared to Eastern States, however the ones there are very large, eg Lake Torrens, Flinders Ranges. Map of VK5 parks worked.

WWFF VK4 Parks Worked

Next State to get WWFF park statistics on is Queensland, VK4. From wwff_directory.csv found it has 712 active parks.

Statistics for parks worked on each band

A total of 196 parks worked or 27% of all parks worked. Surprisingly 40m still the most popular band, as Queensland would be workable on 20m or higher bands, suspect most activators stick to 40m only.

To North Queensland 20m and higher would be the better choice over 40m.

Map of VK4 parks worked.

 

WWFF VK3 Parks Worked

Continuing my State analysis of parks worked, used wwff_directory.csv to get a list of all Victorian, VK3 parks. Filtering only active ones got 3112 parks. 

There are a lot of WWFF parks in VK3! I have logged contacts with 665, 21% of them

Once again 40m is the best band, 30m works well too with 49 contacts. 80m is a useful band for Eastern Victoria, not that far away from Canberra. 20m is usually too close, only just far enough away for parks in Western Victoria. Have struck the odd sporadic e opening though, working into Melbourne and Gippsland parks on 20m.

Map of park contacts into VK3 Victoria, pretty much all over the State.

WWFF VK2 Parks Worked

Having done an Awards page in Log4OM for VK1 Parks, decided to do Awards pages for the other VK States and Territories. For a list of parks downloaded the WWFF master directory of all parks in the world, from the WWFF.co website wwff_directory.csv. From this extracted a list of all parks in State VK-NSW and also parks with Status Active only. Ended up with 1011 parks in NSW. Created an award from the list, looking at the QSOs Sig Info field 

Statistics of NSW parks worked per band.

As expected 40m the most popular band. Quite a lot of parks on 80m too as I used this during the last sunspot minimum. 20m is mostly too close but starts to work into Northern NSW into Canberra.

476 parks out of 1011 means I have worked around 47% or almost half of the total parks. 

Map of all parks worked in NSW. Not many contacts into NW NSW, mainly desert and properties.

25 stations from Thailand Award

Award for working 25 stations from Thailand.

USA 250 Award

See there is a new award available for users of QRZ Logbook, USA 250 Award. To commemorate the United States of America 250th anniversary of its founding in 2026.

So far only 1 USA station confirmed on 10m. This band is where I mostly contact the USA. As not many seem to use QRZ Logbook I will probably have to work a lot more than 250 stations to qualify for this award by the end of the year. For comparison last year, 2025 only worked 64 US stations that confirmed. out of 90 contacts.

1750 VKFF Hunter Honour Roll Award

Award for working 1,750 different VKFF areas. Thanks, activators for QSOs.