Tracking Fred Fish Memorial Award (FFMA) Progress
The Fred Fish Memorial Award was created in honor of Fred Fish, W5FF (SK), who was the first amateur to have worked and confirmed all 488 Maidenhead grid squares in the 48 contiguous United States on 6 Meters; 26 of the 488 grid squares have portions in Canada, and 16 have portions in Mexico. The award will be given to any amateur who can duplicate W5FF's accomplishment.
To obtain an FFMA progress report, click the FFMA button in the Other progress reports panel on the Main window's Check Progress tab.
FFMA is a 6m, continental US subset of the VUCC family of awards, so enabling realtime award tracking for VUCC will facilitate the pursuit of FFMA.
Identifying Active Stations With Whom a Confirmed QSO Would Advance Your FFMA Award Progress
Any 6m grid needed for VUCC will also be needed for FFMA. To see only active stations operating from needed FFMA grids in SpotCollector, filter the Spot Database Display with this SQL expression:
(Needed LIKE '*G*') and ((DXCCPREFIX='K') or (DXGRID IN ('EN29', 'EN28', 'EN38', 'EN48', 'EN58', 'EN67', 'EN76', 'EN82', 'EN83', 'EN85', 'EN86', 'EN92', 'FN02', 'FN03', 'FN14', 'FN24', 'FN25', 'FN35', 'FN45', 'FN46', 'FN56', 'FN57', 'FN64', 'FN65', 'FN66', 'FN67', 'EL15', 'EL06', 'EL07', 'DL98', 'DL99', 'DL88', 'DL89', 'DL79', 'DM70', 'DM61', 'DM51', 'DM41', 'DM31', 'DM32', 'DM22', 'DM12')))
Generating Outgoing QSL Cards or Labels for QSOs With Whom a Confirmed QSO Would Advance Your FFMA Award Progress
Filter the Log Page Display to contain worked-but-unconfirmed 6m QSOs whose FFMA grid squares are unworked for VUCC with this SQL expression:
(Band = '6m') and ((DXCCPREFIX='K') or (GRIDSQUARE IN ('EN29', 'EN28', 'EN38', 'EN48', 'EN58', 'EN67', 'EN76', 'EN82', 'EN83', 'EN85', 'EN86', 'EN92', 'FN02', 'FN03', 'FN14', 'FN24', 'FN25', 'FN35', 'FN45', 'FN46', 'FN56', 'FN57', 'FN64', 'FN65', 'FN66', 'FN67', 'EL15', 'EL06', 'EL07', 'DL98', 'DL99', 'DL88', 'DL89', 'DL79', 'DM70', 'DM61', 'DM51', 'DM41', 'DM31', 'DM32', 'DM22', 'DM12'))) and EXISTS (SELECT VUCCProgress.M6 FROM VUCCProgress WHERE (VUCCProgress.Grid = GRIDSQUARE and VUCCProgress.M6 ='W'))
After filtering the Log Page Display with the above expression, click the Add All button on the Main window's QSL tab to populate the QSL Queue with these QSOs so that outgoing QSL cards or labels requesting confirmation can be generated.
Generating an FFMA Submission
To generate an FFMA-only VUCC submission, filter the Log Page Display with this SQL expression:
(Band = '6m') and ((DXCCPREFIX='K') or (GRIDSQUARE IN ('EN29', 'EN28', 'EN38', 'EN48', 'EN58', 'EN67', 'EN76', 'EN82', 'EN83', 'EN85', 'EN86', 'EN92', 'FN02', 'FN03', 'FN14', 'FN24', 'FN25', 'FN35', 'FN45', 'FN46', 'FN56', 'FN57', 'FN64', 'FN65', 'FN66', 'FN67', 'EL15', 'EL06', 'EL07', 'DL98', 'DL99', 'DL88', 'DL89', 'DL79', 'DM70', 'DM61', 'DM51', 'DM41', 'DM31', 'DM32', 'DM22', 'DM12')))
After filtering the Log Page Display with the above expression, invoke DXKeeper's VUCC submission generator to produce an FFMA submission comprised of 6m QSOs with stations in the continental US whose grid squares are confirmed but not yet marked has having been granted VUCC award credit.
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