[RTTY] WPX Award for Digital!
Michael Trowbridge
ka4rru at hughes.net
Fri Feb 15 19:24:49 EST 2008
Do you know if there will be a change to dx4win to have the digital wpx
award?
Thanks,
Mike
On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> 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.
>
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