The following CQ award was announced by W2VU, Rich Moseson, this past
weekend at the Carolina DX Association Dinner. Complete rules will also be
in the April issue of CQ. CQ also plans to make another announcement at
Visalia and a third at Dayton. Each will be in the May and June issues of
CQ.
73
Bernie, W3UR
CQ Communications, Inc. / 25 Newbridge Rd. / Hicksville, NY 11801 / Phone:
(516) 681-2922 / Fax: (516-681-2926) / e-mail: w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com
NEWS RELEASE
For more information, contact:
Richard Moseson (W2VU)
Editor, CQ Amateur Radio
(516) 681-2922 / w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com
FOR RELEASE: Monday, March 14, 2005
CQ Introduces the "CQ DX Field Award"
(Hicksville, NY - March 14, 2005) -- CQ Amateur Radio magazine
today
announced the introduction of a new operating award, the "CQ DX Field
Award," recognizing achievements in contacting at least 50 of the world's
324 10x20-degree "grid fields." This is the first of three new programs to
be announced by CQ over the next three months with the goal of revitalizing
ham radio's core activity of DXing, or contacting stations in faraway
places.
The CQ DX Field Award is based on the Maidenhead Grid Locator
system, already popular among VHF DXers and contesters, in which the world
is divided, based on latitude and longitude, into 324 10x20 degree "fields"
and each field is broken up into 100 1x2 degree "grid squares" or
"locators." CQ DX Awards Manager Billy Williams, N4UF, has calculated that
there are 177 fields with which the active ham stands a pretty good chance
of making a contact, noting that many fields are in Antarctica, the Arctic
or wholly within oceans.
Williams estimates that a ham who has achieved the basic levels of
the traditional CQ DX Award program and/or the ARRL's DXCC program - both
of which require confirmed contact with at least 100 DX "entities" - will
probably also qualify for the basic CQ DX Field Award level of 50 confirmed
fields. Endorsements will be issued for each additional 50 fields up to
150, then in increments of 25 fields to a final level of all 324 fields.
Contacts made on or after January 1, 1980 (the year in which the
grid system was adopted for amateur radio use) will count toward the new
award. Complete details and rules will be published in the April 2005 issue
of CQ magazine and posted on the magazine's website at
<http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com>. In addition, Williams has developed an
online cross-reference guide for converting countries to fields. It will be
accessible at <http://home.earthlink.net/~bfwillia/gridfieldsx.html>.
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CQ Amateur Radio magazine is published by CQ Communications, Inc.
of Hicksville, New York. CQ Communications also publishes CQ Radio Amateur
(Spanish), CQ VHF, and Popular Communications magazines. CQ sponsors the CQ
DX Awards, the CQ Worked All Zones Awards, the CQ WPX Awards, the USA-CA
(Counties) Award, and a variety of contests including the world-renowned CQ
World Wide DX Contests.
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