so i've been doing SOTA for about a year now and someone in my club mentioned WWFF and i kind of fell down a rabbit hole reading about it. decided to just go for it last saturday at a state forest near me that's apparently already in the database as a reference, KFF-something i forget the exact number right now.

overall it went really well, ran about 2.5 hours on 40m and 20m with my KX2 and a random wire up in a tree. got way more contacts than i expected honestly, people were really hunting me which was cool since im used to SOTA where sometimes you're calling for a while before anyone picks up. ended up with like 47 QSOs which i think is more than enough for a valid activation.

my questions though — do i need to submit the log anywhere specific or does it just go through ADIF upload somewhere? and also i saw something about needing a certain number of contacts with hunters to count as activated, is that 44 contacts or is the 44 thing something else i read wrong. also can you activate the same reference multiple times or is it a one and done deal like some parks programs

congrats on your first one, WWFF is a great program and honestly i think it's a bit more relaxed than SOTA in some ways since you're not hauling gear up a mountain haha. for the log upload you want to go through the wwff.world portal, you create an account if you dont already have one and upload your ADIF there. it usually takes a day or two to process and show up on the stats page.

the 44 contacts thing is correct — you need 44 QSOs to get a valid activation logged. below that it still counts toward hunter totals for the people you worked but it won't show as a full activation on your record. and yes you can absolutely activate the same reference as many times as you want, each one counts separately and some people have activated the same park dozens of times. the reference number is just the location, not a one-time thing. sounds like your 47 puts you comfortably over the threshold so you're good

nice, ive been wanting to try WWFF too. did you have any trouble finding the reference number for your location before you went out? thats the part that confuses me, like how do you know if a place is already in the database vs you having to submit it as a new one