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Usually all rules/conditions are OK, but this file may occasionally have
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ARGENTINA Diploma "Sistemas Hidrograficos de Cordoba" Sponsored by the Club Villa María for contacts after 30 May 2009. SWL OK. Earn the award by contacting at least 10 stations operating close to rivers, reservoirs, lakes and lagoons in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. There are endorsement for each additional 10. All bands and modes. Each river, reservoir, lake and lagoon has a refenrence number DSHC 001 ect. GCR list and fee of US$ 10 (endorsements US$ 5) to Radio Club Villa María, Casilla de Correo 7, código postal 5900, Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina. E-mail : noticiasàraradioaficionados@yahoo.com.ar Here is a partial list of the qualifying rivers, reservoirs, lakes and lagoons valid for the award. A complete list which will be updated once it is completed may be found at: http://www.radioclubvillamaria.org.ar Rívers Altautina, Ancasmayo, Anisacate, Calabalumba, Candelaria, Carcaraña, Chico, Chocancharaua (ex Rio Cuarto), Conlara, Cosquin, Cruz del Eje, Ctalamochita (Ex Rio Tercero), De la Candelaria, De la Cruz, De las Barrancas, De las letanias, Del Medio, De los sauces, Dulce, El Durazno, Guasapampa, Grande, Las Tapias, Los Espinillos, Los Molinos, Los Reartes, Mina clavero, Panaholma, Pichanas, Piedra Blanca, Pintos, Popopis (Ex Rio Quinto), Quillinzo, Quilpo, Rugapampa, Saladillo, San Bartolome, San Francisco, San Gregorio, San Ignacio/Dolores, San Jerónimo, San Marcos, San Miguel, San Pedro, San Roque, Santa Rosa, Soto, Suquia (Ex Rio Primero), Tabaquillo, Xanaes (Ex Rio Segundo), Yuspe. Dams, Reservoirs Arroyo corto, Boca del Rio, Cerro pelado, Cruz del eje, El Cajon (H. Algañaraz), El Mal Paso, El Portecelo, Jose de la Quintana, La Falda, La Quebrada, La Viña (Medina Allende), Los Alazanes, Los molinos, Paso de las Campanas, Pichanas, Piedras moras, Piso Huasi, San Jeronimo, Rio tercero, San Roque. Lagoons Mar Chiquita (Mar Chiquita), El Camoatí (Viamonte), José María (Onagoity), Jumel (Corral de Bustos), La Amarga (El Tambito, Serrano), La Brava (La Carlota), La Chanchera (La Carlota), La Salada (Viamonte), La Tunita (Etruria). Internet http://noticiaspararadioaficionados.obolog.com/diploma-permanente-sistemas-hidrograficos-cordoba-277994 or www.gratisweb.com/.../Diploma_Sistemas_Hidro_Cordoba.html Tks PA3CUZ 2/2010 AUSTRALIA The VK9 AWARD The award is sponsored by the Redcliffe and District Amateur Radio Club. Contact each of the "VK9" DXCC entities using any or all bands and all modes. Band and mode endorsements are available on request. SWL OK, though their applications must show the call signs of both stations heard. The VK9 DXCC entities are as follows: Send GCR list and fee of 5 AUD, 2 IRC’s or $US5 to James Fleming VK4TJF, 4 Murchison Ct., Murrumba Downs, 4503 QLD Australia. Internet: http://www.redclifferadioclub.org.au/ BULGARIA BULGARIAN FLORA FAUNA AWARD (LZFFA) Sponsored by the Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs ( BFRA ) and available to all amateurs and SWLs to introduce the National Parks, the Nature Parks, the Nature Reserves, the Biosphere Reserves and the Upheld Nature Reserves, recognized by the Bulgarian Ministry of the Environment and Water. The rule follows the outlines of the " WFF – World Flora Fauna " Award (http://www.wff44.com). The guiding list of LZFF references is available at http://lzffa.mtt.org and at http://www.wff44.com/en/list . There are 3 Classes of Award:
There is no fee if the award and stickers are requested to be in electronic format. It will be sent in pdf format . Contacts on all amateur radio bands, from 2 to 160 m ; SSB, CW. Digital modes are valid. For the Award there is no differentiations of mode or band. No use of repeaters. Contacts with stations from LZFF references on or after January 1st., 2000. Applications and correct fee should be sent to: Award Manager ( Todor Dikov, LZ1HA ) LZFFA Manager, P.O. Box 830, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria or via e-mail to: lz44ffa@gmail.com . Each request for the award either hunter or activator must be based on WFF LogSearch Application http://ew4dx.org/WFFsearch.html, eLog of expeditions sent to Award Manager or to be based on QSL received in any form. Claim also can be made using a completed Application Form which can be downloaded from the web site: http://www.lzffa.mtt.or The hunterr (for QSOs) : does not have to send QSL cards to claim the Award but all the contacts must be shown in the LogSearch at http://www.ew4dx.org/WFFsearch.html All the claimant has to do is to send the Application Form and payment.. If the contacts are not shown in the online log, then you may send scanned QSL cards via E-mail or to send actual QSL cards, SAE and postage via regular mail. A separate set of rules has been established to guide Activators of the Parks and Nature reserves. Refer to the WWW site. E-mail: : lz44ffa@gmail.com Tks OH3GZ 1/18/10 CZECH REPUBLIC The Three Emperors Battle Award The award is issued to all amateurs on the occasion of the 200th anniversary (Dec. 2nd 1805) of the "Battle of the Three Emperors" near Austerlitz. Earn a total of 200 points working stations or areas noted below using all bands and modes, but only one time, since July 1st 2005. Point Values: Send GCR list showing call sign, date, UTC, Band and mode) with fee of OK/OM 50Kc(/70Sk), EU / DX 7 IRC, and 5€ or $US7 to: Jaromír Klaška OK2SW, Pratecká 186, 664 51 Kobylnice, CZECH REPUBLIC, EUROPE. Internet: http://ok2sw.kobylnice.net/english.php Tks W9GL 2/2010 DENMARK Halmstad - Helsinge Diploma This diploma was created in a collaboration between Swedish radio amateur club SK6SP in Halmstad and OZ9HEL EDR Helsinge department for Ramløse-repeater. The award consists of a hand-painted oval plaque with the two amateur radio clubs' logos and can be acquired as follows: Make 25 contacts with Swedish licensed radio amateurs and one contact with club station SK6SP plus 25 contacts with Danish licensed radio amateurs and one contact with club station OZ9HEL to acquire diploma. All bands and modes may be used. Repeaters are OK. Contacts on or after 7 Jan 2000. Send GCR list with all QSO details and fee of 200 Danish Kroner plus postage to Bente, Lodberg OZ1DLJ, Tisvildevej 3, DK-3210 Vejby, Internet: http://www.oz9hel.dk/ Tks OH3GZ 2/2010 FRANCE MILITARY Amateur Radio Clubs AWARD Available for any French or foreign amateur radio operator who holds a regular licence for contacting 5 French Military radio clubs. (SWL OK). No beginning date. The French Military amateur radio clubs – Army, Navy, Air Forces - may be located either in Metropolitan France (including TK- Corsica) , in French overseas Departments , Collectivities or Territories, or in foreign countries where the Radio Club is permitted under International agreements or treaties with France. In those cases where a French unit stays under the NATO or UNO authority, the QSO’s with its ARC, using a regular licence of the country in which they serve , will also count for this award. * Four classes possible : MIXED MODE, CW, SSB and DIGITAL. Send list of contacts and the cards plus fee of 2 IRCs to: LAIGU Freddy F5IRO, 28° RT - 2° Cie Quartier De Bange F-63505 Issoire Cedex, France. Tks F5IRO 1-2-10 GERMANY Oberems-Diplom The DARC-Ortsverband Rheda-Wiedenbrück, DOK N 47, offers this Diploma for contacts after 1 January 2010, SWL OK. Form the words RHEDA WIEDENBRUECK with the suffix letters from stations of the N District. From each station’s call only one letter may be used. Of the 17 letters (stations) at least 7 letters from stations of the DOK 47 are required. A contact with the club station DK0RE or contest station DP4D may be used once as a Joker (substitute) for a missing letter. All bands and modes except none via Packet Radio and Echolink. Send a GCR list and fee of 5€ to Wilfried Schwabe DG6YDJ, Lippestrasse 2, D-33378 Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany. Internet: http://www.ov-n47.de/oberems-diplom Tks PA3CUZ 2/2010 GERMANY Titisee-Diplom Sponsored by the German Amateur Radio Club eV, Ortsverband Titisee, DOKA34, for contacts after 1 January 2008 with members of DOK A34 and Club stations from the district of Baden (A DOK). SWL OK. Earn 20 points. Each contact with A34 and the club stations there = 1 point and on in CW = 5 points. The A34 club station DK0TI = 5 points. All bands and modes, except that Packet Radio and Echolink may not be used. Fee of the diploma is 10€. Germans may send funds electronically to DARC OV Titisee, Konto 19596800, BLZ 68090000, Volksbank Freiburg. Send GCR list and fee to Alfred Spitzer, DF9JD, Am Reichberg 10, D-79843 Löffingen, Germany. E-mail: aspitzer@t-online.de Tks PA3CUZ 2/2010 KYRGYZSTAN KYRGYZSTAN FLORA FAUNA Award (EXFFA) Contact specially protected natural areas, parks or nature reservations as listed by the International WFF Program, or activate such areas on or after 31 August 1991. Available in 4 levels: Applications are issued through an automated log search and cards are NOT needed. (Logs for almost all WFF operations are kept at the following web-site: http://ew4dx.org/WFFsearch.htm . If you wish to make a paper application, you should send certified copies of the appropriate QSLs to EXFF award manager: Narynbek Junushev EH8AV, PO Box 1855, Bishkek, 720000, Kyrgyz Republic. [Write in advance for fees, since at this writing, they have not been confirmed.] Internet: http://www.wff44.com/ru/news/show/900/ or www.wff44.com Tks OH3GZ 1/19/10 POLAND "SP Great Cities" Award Earn the award by making QSOs with stations located in the principal
cities of Poland. The award is available in 3 classes: Class 3 - for QSOs with 15 different cities No time limits. SWL OK. Internet: (rules): http://www.awards.pzk.org.pl/html/Polskie_Miasta.htm Tks SM6DEC 2/25/10 POLAND Poland on Long Wave – 136 kHz Award (This is an addition to the PZK awards series.) Contact Polish stations on the limited very low frequency 136KHz band on or after 1 March 2003. Class 1 - 3 two-way QSOs with SP stations. You must possess the QSL cards. Send GCR list and fee of 5€, $US5 or 5 "new" IRCs. to PZK HQ Secretariate, Award Manager - SQ7B, PO Box 54, 85-613 Bydogoszcz 13, Poland. Tks SQ7B 1/19/10
ROMANIA
ROMANIAN FEDERATION OF RADIOAMATORISM
(FRR) Series ROMANIA YO Fauna Flora Award The Award is issued by Societatea Romana al Radioamatorilor - YO FF Group. Contact stations operating from Romanian Nature Parks and Reservations listed valid for this award. All bands and modes OK. Romanian stations need 8 different parks, Europeans need 5 and all others 3. Endorsement stickers are available for additional contacts. Romanians need 8 more, Europeans need 5 and all others need 3. Fee for the endorsements are 2€ each by mail, but if it is placed on a "diploma" by electronic modes, there is no charge. Special Trophy is being made available if you have contacted all 25 parks. The special trophy is available only by mail and the fee is 20E. Send list of contacts and fee of 5€. There is no fee if the award is requested in electronic format (pdf or jpg). Apply to Fenyo Stefan, PO Box 19-43, RO-033210 Bucuresti 19, Romania or fenyo3jw@yahoo.com . E-mail: fenyo3jw@yahoo.com Tks YO3JW 1/18/10 RUSSIA --Chuvash Regional Branch of Union of Russian Amateurs Series -- General Requirements: This is a series of three awards with nearly identical requirements differing only in the option to work a special memorial station different for each of the three. The identical requirements are: to make 10 contacts with stations located in the Chuvash Republic on HF or, just 1 QSO on VHF bands. All the contacts must be with different stations .Send GCR list and fee of 100 rubles for Russians, $US5 or 10 IRCs for CIS countries and $US8 or 16 IRC for all others. E-mail: ua4ye@mail.ru Tks OH3GZ 2/25/10 Chuvashiya Award The award may be earned as noted above or by just one HF contact with UE4YWI on or after 1 January 1990. V.I. CHAPAEV Award The award honors the memory of General Vasily Chapayev. Chuvashiya Space Diploma Awarded to honor the cosmonauts from Chuvashiya: the twice
Hero of the Soviet Union A.G. Nikolaeva, the Hero of Russia, N.M. Budarina
and the long time Hero of the Soviet Union living in Chuvashiya, M.H.
Manarova. SERBIA LAJKOVAC AWARD Sponsored by the Radio Club "Zeleznicar" YU1GTU on the 90th anniversary of the Railway in Lajkovac. SWL OK. Contact Lajkovac stations on or after 1 Sept 1998, all bands or modes. No use of cross0-mode, digitpeaters, satellites or repeaters. Each station may be worked one time. YU's need 3 QSO's, other EU 2 and all others just 1 QSO with members of RC "Zeleznicar" YU1GTU. YU and EU's must work the club station YU1GTU or special call YT1L. The award is free, but YU stations must send 2 IRCs, EU 3 and all others 4 IRCs for postage. Send GCR list and fee for postage to: Radio Club "Zeleznicar" - YU1GTU, PO Box 5, YU-14224 Lajkovac, Yugoslavia. List of members: YU1GTU (special call YT1L), YU1AB (YU4A), YU1CM, YU1SL, YU5B, YT1DL, YT1DOS, YT1GSM, YT1MIT, YT1MBZ, YU2MAX, YT1SEN, YT1SMC, YT1VBR, YT1VVK and YT1WIN. Internet: http://solair.eunet.rs/~yu1ab/awards/lajkovac.html Tks YU1AB 2/2010 UKRAINE Bunkers of Kiev Hardened Shelter Area During the early days of WWII, responding to the German invasion of their country, the Ukraine built a series of concrete bunkers in concentric rings that surrounded Kiev. In memory of this desperate defense measure, an award was developed to encourage radio "expedition" operations from within or near the site of the bunkers which still exist, albeit as overgrown and empty memorials of the horrors of the "Great Patriotic War". Conditions: Refer to the website for rules applicable for activators. Look for activity from the operators between June 22 to September 19 of each year, since 2008. The applications should be in the form of an e-mail to the award manager UT4UBL addressed to award@ham.net.ua. SWL OK, but must include the call sign of the calling station and the bunker data. The diploma is sent only by E-MAIL and is free-of-charge Your award will show an image the actual BUNKERs you worked, the brief information on these structures, and also information on the competitor, number of the diploma, date, signature of the members of expeditions if possible. Internet: http://krc.ham.net.ua/articles.php?lng=en&pg=1146Additional information about expeditions, etc found at: http://qrp.ham.net.ua/ and http://krc.ham.net.ua/Information about the bunkers: http://relicfinder.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119 http://doti.org.ua/, http://qrp.ham.net.ua/forum/forums.php?forum=11 Tks K1BV research 3/3/2010 UKRAINE Diploma Old Kiev Sponsored by the Radioclub Delta. Contact 10 stations from Kiev and the Kiev region within 24 hours. Repeat contacts with same station are allowed if made on different bands and modes. Send log and fee of $US3 to: Sergey Mikhailovich Beresnev UR7UT, P.O. Box 73, OBUKHOV-2, Kievskaya oblast, 08702, Ukraine. E-mail: ur7ut@mail.ru Tks PA3CUZ 2/2010 VENEZUELA Diploma Faros Venezolanos (Venezuelan Lighthouse Award) Sponsored by the RADIO CLUB VENEZOLANO, available to any amateur radio operator or SWL for contacting different lighthouses of Venezuela on or after 1 January 1980. The award may be endorsed for contacts made on Phone, CW, Digital or mixed modes. The following contacts will not count: cross bands or modes, repeaters, nodes, relays or via Internet (echolink, iLink, etc). Satellite QSOs are OK. Contacts must be made with stations operating from the official list of lighthouses using any valid band or mode assigned to amateur radio. Foreign stations (SWLs) need 20 different Venezuelan lighthouses. Contacts made by two different stations, both on the same lighthouse, will be considered valid for the object of this award. Those contacts made with portable stations will be considered valid, whenever they are within the effective legality. Your applicaton must include the QSLs, without any no type of amendments or corrections, and include the following data: Station worked (heard), lighthouse reference number, UTC time and date, mode. Foreign stations only should send the list of the contacts certified by any society member of IARU. The D.F.V award fee for Venezuelan stations is 20 Bs F. Fee for foreign stations is 12 $ ó 24 IRC. Apply to: D.F.V., RADIO CLUB VENEZOLANO, Comisión de Concursos y Diplomas Apartado Postal 20285, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela. The official list of lighthouses valid for this award is found on the internet reference below. Internet: http://www.radioclubvenezolano.org/dfvru.htm Tks YV1DIG 1/19/10 USA The IARU Region 2 Award In October 2009, IARU's Region 2 announced a new award -- the IARU Region 2 Award -- available to amateurs and SWL’s who submit confirmed QSLs with 20 Region 2 countries or entities. Contacts on or after April 16, 1964 -- the date when IARU Region 2 was founded. US applicants must submit QSL cards -- along with the application and certification form -- to either the ARRL Awards Branch or ARRL Card Checkers for certification; non-US hams must submit their cards, application and certification form to their IARU Member Society to be approved. Applicants will also need to provide an envelope with sufficient postage affixed so the person checking the cards can forward the application and supporting materials to the IARU Region 2 Awards Manager in Venezuela (from the US, postage is approximately 98 cents). Applicants may also submit photocopies of the QSL cards (front and back) that have been authenticated by both the applicant and an appointee of the ham's IARU Member-Society, or the original QSLs (no authentications necessary) to the IARU Region 2 Awards Manager. Both methods require sending the application form. The IARU Region 2 Award Manager may one or more of the QSLs. Electronic QSLs -- such as Logbook of The World (LoTW) or eQSL -- can not be used for this award. Contacts can be made using the following bands: 160, 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, 10 and 6 meters. You can make all your contacts on one band, or mix it up and use them all -- it's up to you. Contacts can be made using phone, CW, digital or satellite modes. All contacts must be made from the same location using any official call letters that belong to the applicant (including special licenses for contests or events) and must be bilateral or two-way. Contacts in crossed modes and/or bands will not be accepted, except for satellite mode. The IARU Region 2 countries are: Anguilla, Antigua y Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Granada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucie, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turk & Caicos Islands, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. Internet: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/02/11/11335/?nc=1 Tks The ARRL Letter for February 11, 2010 USA Worked All Ohio State Parks Award Contacts stations operating from the US state of OHIO State Parks on or after 1 Sept 2008. The contacts must be verified by either a traditional QSL card or EQSL. The card ard must clearly specify the Ohio State Park claimed for credit. All bands and modes OK. Repeater contacts are not eligible for this award, nor can a repeater be used to solicit contacts. Stations submitting proof of contact with all 74* Ohio State Parks will receive a numbered certificate, the first 10 of these applicants will also be eligible for a plaque. Stations who submit proof of traveling to and activating all 74* Ohio State Parks will receive a numbered plaque. All stations submitting for a certificate must forward a WAOSPA application along with a 9X13 SASE. All stations submitting for a plaque must forward a WAOSPA application along with a $7.95 money order payable to: WB8LCD – Thomas R. Sly,to pay for shipping and handling. (WB8LCD is the WAOSPA sponsor) * There are currently 74 Ohio State Parks. This number can change as the number of Parks changes in the future. "All Ohio State Parks" will be defined as all current parks at time of application for the award. Look for activity each year in the month of September. Check the website below. Internet: http://parks.portcars.org/ospota/?p=173 Tks N8OFS 2/12/10 VHF - IRELAND The Brendan Awards The Brendan Awards are designed to encourage experimentation with two-way trans Atlantic communications by radio amateurs using the Two Metre Band. Such an event would establish a historical record. The Brendan Trophies and Brendan Shields will be presented to each of the operators of the two amateur radio stations which first establish two-way communication in the relevant category between the continents of Europe and America (North or South) within the Two Metre Amateur Band. The Brendan Plate will be awarded to the Receiving station, or to both the Receiving and Transmitting station where the Transmitting station has specifically attempted a trans Atlantic contact. The specific rules and conditions under which the award will be made are laid out in great detail on the IRTS website: Internet: http://www.irts.ie/cgi/brendan.cgi Contacting the Awards Panel: Write to The Brendan Trophies Awards Panel, Irish Radio Transmitters Society, P.O. Box 462, Dublin 9, Ireland. Internet: http://www.irts.ie/cgi/brendan.cgi Tks EA3GHZ 1/2010 VHF - USA Pacific NorthWest VHF Society Grid Exploration Award Program General Requirements: 1. Contacts made via man made satellites or repeaters are not eligible. Application Procedure: E-mail: secretary@pnwvhfs.org Program Goal: To encourage VHF+ activity in the greater Pacific Northwest (the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and the province of British Columbia) and to honor the achievements of operators within its boundaries as well as the stations who work them. The goal of the award program is to work or activate all grids with land mass in the Pacific Northwest. Award Certificates will be issued for confirmed contacts from 50 Mhz to light. Certificates will be numbered in the order stations are qualified and confirmed. A list of certificate holders and plaque holders will be posted on their web site. Home Station Certificates and Plaques 2. The Chinook Certificate 3. The Mountain Bluebird Certificate 4. The Spirit Bear Certificate 5. The Homestead Plaque 6. Outpost Certificates Portable / Mobile / Rover Certificates and Plaques END FILE
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