ARCTOWSKI Antarctic Award

The "AAA" is issued under the auspices of Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Antarctic Biology in Warsaw.
The President of Polish Amateur Radio Union is the Patron of this Award.
Rules
1. The award is available to OMs and SWLs ho can make evidence to have make 2 way contacts (or SWL reports) with stations HFØPOL, HFØAPAS
and others, operating from ARCTOWSKI POLISH ANTARCTIC STATION on King George Island in Antarctica,
or with operators active from different National Antarctic Stations.
Special event stations such as HF….POL and HF….APAS, will also count.
2. There is no limit of dates, so any contacts any year will be valid.
3. The applicants should collected 15 points according to the following criteria:
a. QSO with HFØPOL, HFØAPAS and other callsigns operating from
ARCTOWSKI Station, count - 10 points,
b. QSO with any other operators, working from other Nation's Bases
in Antarctica , count - 5 points.
c. QSO with Special Event Stations HF….POL, HF….APAS,
also count - 5 points,
d. One QSO with HFØPOL or HFØAPAS; HF….POL or HF….APAS is
obligatory.
e. Repeated/Duplicated QSO/SWL are not allowed.
4. The application (GCR list or QSL card photocopy/scan copy for HFØPOL, HFØAPAS and other Antarctic stations are mandatory)
are accepted in any form and should be sent to the following postal address:
Janusz Slowinski
Bankowa 1,
42-460 Mierzecice,
Poland,
or by email: bonaterra _at_ interia.pl
5. Award is free of charge, but the applicants have to send sufficient postage to cover the Mail costs, such as:
4 Euro or 5USD or 5 new valid IRCs. For SP 10 PLN.

VK100ARV: Centenary goes on air

For the month of November 2011 the special callsign VK100ARV is well sought after and qualifies toward the Amateur Radio Centenary Award.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Amateur Wireless Society of Victoria, formed in 1911, quickly changing its name to the Wireless Institute of Victoria, and today is known as Amateur Radio Victoria.

A special QSL card is on offer for contact with VK100ARV. On the front it features defining words capturing the spirit of the founding of the organisation and a gallery of Presidents and the information panel on the back.

The Amateur Radio Centenary Award certificate has a montage of the organisation over the decades. Both the QSL card and certificate are worth obtaining for display and will show the Centenary logo.

Valid contacts with VK100ARV earn ten bonus points towards the Award. Contact with VK3WI during the Remembrance Day Contest, International Lighthouse and Lightship Week, and the Oceania DX Phone Contest October 1 & 2, and the Oceania DX CW Contest October 8-9 also gained bonus points.

For Australian stations a total of 100 points are required and DX stations 25 points. Valid contacts with members during the celebratory period August 1 to November 30, 2011, earns two points towards the award.

Also in the celebration are stations set up in Victorian National Parks operating under the Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award (KRMNPA) rules, on November Friday 18 through to Sunday 20.

The Award Manager Tony Hambling VK3VTH vk3vth@amateurradio.com.au thanks all who have so registered for VK100ARV or the extended weekend focused on the KRMNPA.

A roster for VK100ARV will appear on the website www.amateurradio.com.au and a list of National Parks and times also.

For the rules of the Amateur Radio Centenary Award and the Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award can be read on the website under Awards.

The Centenary has already featured the successful world's first DATV QSO Party from the digital amateur television repeater VK3RTV. Peter Cossins VK3BFG gave a presentation of the highlights, which by all accounts went extremely well.

HB9SPACE awards

The HB9SPACE-Awards in bronze, silver and gold are delivered to OM’s that have contacted HB9SPACE three, four respectively five times in different years during the World Space Week.

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LY37 award

Rules here

Odessa 217 award & EO1794F

To obtain the award you need to dial 217 points in connection with radio in Odessa and Odessa region. Connection count from 1 September 2011 to August 31, 2012 on all amateur bands, any kind of radiation. Each link gives 20 points. Communication with EO1794F (memorial call from 09/01/2011 to 15/09/2011) gives 50 points. Repeated communications are allowed on different bands. Diploma free of charge. The award is issued only in electronic version (sent by e-mail of applicant) in the form of two identical files, one in PDF, one in JPEG. Application in the form of an extract from the log in a text format are sent to the award manager:

Keyers Igor G. UT5FD

at ut5fd@te.net.ua

It is also possible to request a paper in the form of extracts from appartnogo magazine.

Letter sent to:

Reutov Evgeny lane. Collective, 9

Odessa-62, 65062 Ukraine.

The application MUST be specified E-mail to send the certificate applicant.

Otherwise, the application will not be accepted for consideration.

We invite you to participate. 

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LZ1794MAB

Between 1-st and 30-rd of September 2011, Balkan Sports Club, will use the special callsign LZ 1794 MAB, which has been created in honour of Bulgarian Saint Machenik Atanasii Balgarski.LZ 1794 MAB counts for "All Bulgarian Saints" award and 10 points towards "St. Teodosii Tyrnovski" award. Rules here

BARTG PSK31 Award

Rules

This award is available to licensed amateurs and SWLs on the submission of satisfactory proof of having heard/ worked 40 ARRL DXCC countries using only the PSK31 mode. Contacts for this award are valid from 0001z on January 1, 1999, onwards and contacts on any amateur band are eligible. No crossband or crossmode contacts are allowed, and there are no single band endorsements, or total updates after 40.

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Take a look at the Award holders and note who is at the #1 !

8J1MORSE triple band award

http://8j1morse.a1tokai.net/en/index.html

8J1MORSE is a special memorial station that commemorates the 220th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Morse and the first successful Morse Code communication across the Atlantic Ocean by Guglielmo Marconi in 1901.

With the advancement of radio communication technologies, the Morse Code is placed at the brink of extinction as the modern technology continues to replace the traditional arts of communication. This year, practical Morse Code examinations for amateur radio licenses will be abolished in Japan, as well as in other countries. As the Morse Code technique threatens to disappear even amongst the amateurs, we feel it very important to preserve the Morse Code technique as a thriving and valid means of communication. Contribute to this movement to preserve the art of the Morse Code! Just jump into the Morse Code world; you are always welcome! Let us make sure that the Morse Code never disappears amongst us amateurs.

USSR PREFIX AWARD

USSR PREFIX AWARD.

 

Work different prefixes of  USSR (former USSR) countries:

4J,4L,EK,ER,ES,EU,EX,EY,EZ,LY,R1/FJ,R1/MV,UA, UA0,UA2,UJ,UN,UR,YL.

Class 1-200 prefixes, 2-150, 3-100, 4-50.

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