Are you looking for another way to incentivize making lots of contacts with Japan on HF? The FT8 Digital Mode Club (FT8DMC) has you covered. You can get your first Worked All Japan Grid Squares Award (WAJGS) by working Japanese stations in at least 25 different grid squares. Three versions of the award, bronze through […]
The Activity Group of Belarus (AGB) offers a large number of Amateur Radio operating awards. Several of their awards are based on the zones of the world created as part of CQ Magazine’s Worked All Zones program. Zone 14 covers much of western Europe. AGB offers up the Zone 14 award for working Ham Radio stations just […]
The European Ros Club issues the Worked Grid Argentina award for working stations in 5 different grid squares that cover Argentina. But there’s much more to the program than just that. You can receive additional awards for every 5 or 10 additional squares up to the maximum, which appears to be 120. That adds up to 13 different certificates. […]
Here are few QSL Cards from contacts made with “countries” that no longer exist (deleted DXCC entities). It’s not as though they were erased from the map. Rather, they no longer count for a separate DXCC credit as they once did. The Abu Ail lighthouse in the Red Sea had been under French or British […]
The Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line of latitude along the surface of the Earth. It lies along the northernmost points where the Sun can appear directly overhead at the time of the June solstice. The FT8 Digital Mode Club (FT8DMC) sponsors the Tropic of Cancer Award for working Amateur Radio stations in countries […]
The FT8 Digital Mode Club (FT8DMC) offers the Worked Oceanian Stations Award (WOSA) for working a given number of stations across the vast Oceanian Continent (Australia plus most Pacific Islands). WOSA can be called a continental award, but could also be termed a Pacific Ocean based award. Some countries on the periphery of the Pacific […]
Maidenhead grid squares are a popular way to divide up a geographic area for VHF/UHF activity and now more commonly via the FT8 digital mode. The FT8 Digital Mode Club sponsors the Worked US Grid Square Award for those operators who contact American stations in at least 25 grid squares. You can chase additional certificates […]
Here are a few of the more interesting QSL cards to come my way in the last couple of months. A glimpse into how I keep my QSL Cards safe and secure once I get possession. My sentry cat Oliver is hard at work, as always. I had confirmed contacts with Sao Tome and Principe […]
For administrative purposes, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) divides up the world into three different zones. Amateur Radio’s International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) organizes itself along similar lines. These zones consist of: ITU Zone Area 1 Europe (including the part of Russia that lies in Asia) and Africa 2 North America and South America 3 […]
The FT4 Digital Mode Club (FT4DMC) issues for the Grid Square Award (GSA) for working stations in at least 100 different Maidenhead Grid Squares around the world. You must make all contacts using the FT4 digital mode. After working 100 grids for the initial award you can obtain additional awards for working 500, 1000, 2000, […]