Announce an activation

Planning an activation? Announce it, so hunters are ready. The announcement goes to the WWFF agenda on Spotline.

Three ways in

• Agenda in the bottom bar.
• + Announce on the Agenda tab of the Spots screen.
• Announce an activation in the panel of an area: the reference is then already filled in.

Step by step

1. Check the activator’s callsign and your own callsign. Someone else may announce for an activator.
2. Fill in the WWFF reference, for example ONFF-0104.
3. Choose start and end. You pick them on the clock of your own device; Diana converts them to UTC before they leave your device.
4. Optional: tick the bands and modes (several are possible, for example 40 m, 20 m · CW, SSB) and add a remark.
5. Tap Check, and when it is accepted, Send announcement.
6. Write down your PIN.

Keep your PIN

The PIN is the only way to change or cancel this announcement later, on Spotline’s own site. Diana cannot do that for you, and a lost PIN cannot be recovered. That is why Diana keeps a list under the form of everything you announced from this device (reference, date, PIN). Tap ✕ to remove a line. That list lives only on this device.

Limits

• At most one month ahead, and the end not before the start. Spotline applies the same rules.
• At most 16 announcements a day from one device through Diana, to protect the shared budget. Normal use stays far below that.
• There is no “old way” for announcements. If it does not work, try again later.

Which bands the list offers (all, or HF only) is a setting: Band list when announcing.