WASABE Winners!

[D. Leeson]

NCCC WASABE Award to JA's in CQWW

At Dayton in 1992, KM9P suggested an award from W6 to encourage JA 
participation in CQWW.  The following two messages summarize the result:

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To:  JE1CKA

De:  W6QHS

Re:  WASABE!

Hello Tack...

Your W6 friends in the Northern California Contest Club have missed the 
great participation in the past of many JA stations in the CQWW contest.  In 
order to encourage more JA stations to take part in this year's CQWW (October 
24/25 and November 28/29), we will be offering a bonus award, the "Worked All 
Sixth Area Bonus Event" (WASABE) award.

The WASABE award will be a certificate for 50 U.S. Sixth Area QSO's and an 
imprinted award tee-shirt for 500 Sixth Area QSO's.  Valid QSO's are as 
defined in CQWW rules - one QSO for each band/mode.  We will also work with 
our members to get better QSL response to JA stations.

Lists or logs should include only U.S. Sixth Area stations worked in both 
modes (disk or paper lists copied from CQWW logs ok), and should be mailed to 
WASABE, W6QHS @ callbook address.  We hope to make this a yearly award.  
Details are being finalized this week with WZ6Z, W6OAT, N6IP and N6TV, but I 
wanted to let you know about WASABE for your JA magazine columns and 
newsletters.

More to come...

73, Dave W6QHS  9-92

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To:  JE1CKA

De:  W6QHS

Re:  WASABE Winners!

Hello Tack...

Here are the winners of the Northern California Contest Club WASABE (Worked 
All Sixth Area Bonus Event) awards for CQWW 1992:

Tee-Shirt   #1       JA0QNJ, Kazu

Certificate #1       JQ1NGT, Kenji (SSB)
            #2       JP1RZS, Hiro
            #3       JH0ZHQ, Barbecue Enthusiasts (SSB)
            #4       JQ1NGT, Kenji (CW)
            #5       JR5SWZ, Yasu
            #6       JK1GKG, Yoshio
            #7       JA4ETH, Norio
            #8       JA1NLX, Akira

The award numbers are in order of receipt of results (Tee-Shirt 500 QSO 
winner postmarked 15 Feb. 93, received Apr. 93).  Awards will be sent soon, 
and we are hoping to increase QSL returns.  We're pleased with the response 
on short notice.

We will repeat the WASABE award with the same rules again for CQWW 1993.  
See you in the pileups!

73, Dave W6QHS  7-93

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