Chasing after operating awards is one of my main activities in Amateur Radio. In this category on my site you’ll find descriptions of many awards that I’ve received and how you can go about receiving your own.
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
The world gets divided up in many ways. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) carves up the world into three regions for administrative purposes. Region 1 consists of the continents of Europe (including the Asian portion of Russia) and Africa. The FT8 Digital Mode Club (FT8DMC) sponsors the Worked Region 1 Award (WR1A) for working Ham Radio stations in the countries of […]
The lands around the Baltic Sea in Europe have a rich history that includes Vikings and Teutonic Knights. The Activity Group of Belarus (AGB) issues the Baltic Sea Award for Ham Radio operators who make a certain number of contacts with countries that border the historic sea. There are three overall classes of the award. Each class requires a […]
The Canadaward is the Radio Amateurs of Canada‘s (RAC) answer to Worked All States. To obtain the award you need to work one Amateur Radio operator in each of the country’s provinces and territories. That amounts to a total of 13 separate contacts. In addition to the standard all modes and bands basic award, there […]
Japan has one of the largest populations of Amateur Radio operators in the world and FT8 is now one of the most popular operating modes. Combining these two facts, the FT8 Digital Mode Club (FT8DMC) offers the Japanese Stations Award (JSA) for working as many Ham Radio stations in the Land of the Rising Sun […]