[RTTY] WPX Award for Digital!

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

CQ Announces Expansion of WPX Award Program
Digital Modes Added Along with New Bands
 
      (Hicksville, NY, Feb. 14, 2008) -- CQ magazine and WPX Awards Manager
Steve Bolia, N8BJQ, have announced several changes to the WPX Award program in
response to feedback from program participants. The changes, effective
immediately, add new bands and create a new Digital WPX Award.

      Under the new rules, contacts on all bands between 160 and 6 meters will
count for WPX award credit. In addition, new band endorsements will now be
available for 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 18 MHz, 24 MHz and 50 MHz contacts. A separate
Digital WPX Award has also been added, for contacts made on RTTY, PSK and other
keyboard modes, with 300 confirmed prefixes required for the basic level of the
award. Digital-mode contacts will also count toward the existing Mixed award,
as will those prefixes worked on the newly added bands.

      Details on these and other changes will be published in the March 2008
issue of CQ magazine and are posted along with the March issue highlights on
the CQ magazine website at < http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com>.

      The WPX Award Program recognizes amateurs for making confirmed contacts
with the many callsign prefixes used by radio amateurs around the world. Top
achievers are eligible for the WPX Honor Roll and the WPX Award of Excellence.
General information and complete rules are available on the CQ website at
<http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/awards.html>.

      CQ magazine sponsors a variety of operating awards and on-air
competitions to encourage amateur radio operators to sharpen their operating
skills and to recognize those reaching high levels of achievement.