so i finally did my first WWFF activation last weekend at a state wildlife management area near me, KFF-something i'll have to look it up again. i've been doing POTA for about a year and a half and someone at our club mentioned WWFF so i figured why not try it out since the reference was literally like 20 minutes from my house.

brought the KX3 and a random wire up in a tree, nothing fancy. the activation itself went fine, i made way more than the 44 contacts needed which honestly surprised me because i wasnt sure how many chasers were out there for WWFF vs POTA. spotted myself on the WWFF spotter network and the pileup came pretty quick actually.

couple things i'm fuzzy on though -- do you log WWFF and POTA separately if the reference overlaps? i think this particular WMA might qualify for both but i'm not 100% sure how that works on the backend. also is there a preferred exchange for WWFF or do people just do signal report and reference like in POTA? i kind of winged it and just gave my signal report and the KFF number and everyone seemed fine with it but wondering if theres a more standard way people do it.

congrats on the first one, the 44 QSO requirement trips people up sometimes but it sounds like you had no trouble. yeah you can absolutely log the same activation for both WWFF and POTA if the reference qualifies for both, you just submit to each program separately. the logs dont have to be identical format but the QSOs themselves count for both. i've done quite a few dual-program activations and it's actually great because you get chasers from both communities piling in.

on the exchange -- WWFF is pretty relaxed about it honestly, signal report and the reference number is totally fine and thats what most people do. some operators also mention their name and QTH but its not required. you did it right. the main thing WWFF cares about is getting to 44 and submitting the log in the right format to the WWFF logger.

nice work. i did my first WWFF a few months back and was also surprised how active the chasers were, way more international contacts than i usually get doing POTA. had a couple europeans in the log which was cool for a simple wire antenna setup. what band were you mostly on?