So ive been doing POTA for about a year now and someone at the club mentioned WWFF and i went down a rabbit hole last night reading about it. Looks like there's a nature reserve about 20 minutes from my house that's a valid reference, ONFF-something, and im thinking of heading out this weekend with the FT-891 and a linked dipole thrown in a tree.

My question is mainly about logging — do i need to use a specific app or logger for WWFF or can i just use paper and upload later? And does the contact count toward POTA too if the park overlaps? I think this one might be a dual reference situation but im not 100% sure how that works. Any help appreciated, dont want to show up and realize ive done something wrong halfway through the activation.

yeah dual references are totally a thing, if the area is registered in both POTA and WWFF you just activate it for both at the same time, same contacts count for both programs. You'll want to spot yourself on both the POTA app and the WWFF spotter which is at wwff.cc i think, or just use hamspots. Getting spotted early makes a huge difference, especially for WWFF since the hunter community is a bit smaller than POTA so you want every eyeball on you you can get.

For logging i just use a paper log in the field and then type it into ADIF master when i get home, upload the adif to the WWFF logbook upload page. It's not as slick as the POTA app but it works fine. Make sure you get at least 44 contacts for the activation to count, thats the WWFF requirement, different from POTA's 10. Some references are pretty remote so you might want to plan for a couple hours of operating rather than a quick 20 minute thing.

oh man i just did my first WWFF a few weeks ago and honestly it was so much more relaxed than i expected. The nature reserve i went to was super quiet, had the whole picnic area to myself, strung up a random wire in a big oak tree and just called CQ for a couple hours. Ended up with like 60 contacts which felt amazing for a first time out.

one thing nobody told me beforehand — bring bug spray lol. i was absolutely eaten alive and trying to log while slapping mosquitoes is not ideal. also the WWFF community on facebook has a really active group where people post their activation plans ahead of time and hunters will literally schedule time to listen for you which is pretty cool.