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WAS Simple Wire Antenna Award

Comments:

It's just the classic WAS award with some modifications for QRP/CW.


Time Frame For Qualifying QSO's:

January 1, 2004 0000Z through the present


Basic Award Premise:

Contact all 50 or "Lower 48" USA states within the time frame using QRP, CW, and simple wire antennas.


Categories:

A - 50 USA states.
B - 50 USA states 2X QRP
C - "Lower 48" USA states QRPp


Equipment:

YOU:
Power:
A,B - QRP
C - QRPp
Antenna:
A,B,C - Simple Wire Antennas by NAQCC standards

HAM YOU WORK:
Power:
A,C - Any
B - QRP
Antenna:
A,B,C - Any


QSOs:

Any type of QSO is permissible - rag chew, DX, contest, net, etc.


Other:

None.


Certificate:

Issued for each category. A certificate sent to you via email is FREE. You may make a monetary donation, only if you wish to do so. There is no obligation to do so. If you want us to print your certificate and send it via regular mail, the fee is $3.00 per certificate.


Web Site Listing:

All categories will receive a listing on the web site.


Endorsements:

For any category completed using a single band for all QSO's.

For adding KL7 and KH6 to category C.

Endorsements are FREE if applied for at the time of issuing the original certificate and will be added to the certificate and listed on the web site.
If applied for later, you have the following choices which are FREE:
1. A web site listing only
2. A new certificate with the endorsement added sent via email
If you want us to print and mail a certificate with the endorsement, there is a $2.00 fee.


Logs:

Send a list with one QSO per line containing at least the following sorted in ascending order by state:
Date, Time, Call, Band, State, (His power for category B).


See General Award Rules for information applying to this and all other awards.