[SEDXC] New CQ WAZ award !

[MAllphin at aol.com]

Looks like fun...
Bob-K4UEE
 
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: Immediate (September 18, 2009)


CQ Announces 75th  Anniversary Worked All Zones Award

(Hicksville, NY – September 18,  2009) – The November, 1934, issue of R/9 
magazine announced a new operating award for radio amateurs, designed  to 
encourage the growing popularity of contacting stations across the globe,  
what we know today as DXing. The award was called Worked All Zones and was to 
be  granted for making confirmed contacts with hams in each of the 40 zones 
into  which the world had been divided by R/9's editors. Today, 75 years 
later,  R/9 has been succeeded by  CQ magazine and WAZ - Worked All  Zones - 
sponsored by CQ since  1945, continues to be one of amateur radio's most 
prestigious operating  awards.

In celebration of the WAZ's 75th anniversary, CQ magazine is announcing a 
limited-term  "Diamond Jubilee WAZ" award. A special certificate will be 
issued to amateurs  who make contacts in all 40 CQ Zones of the World between 
November 1, 2009 and  December 31, 2010. Certificates will be numbered but 
there will be no  endorsements. Confirmations will not be required. However, it 
is expected that  applicants will continue to uphold amateur radio's 
long-standing tradition of  honesty and self-regulation. Standard WAZ application 
fees will  apply.

Complete details on the Diamond Jubilee WAZ Award will be in  the October 
2009 issue of CQ, and  are posted on the CQ website, <_  
www.cq-amateur-radio.com_ (http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/) >, with a link from the October 
issue highlights  page.

WAZ is the second-oldest amateur radio operating award still  offered 
today. The only current award that is older is the International Amateur  Radio 
Union's Worked All Continents award. The ARRL's DX Century Club (DXCC)  award 
was introduced in 1936. To date, more than 8,600 basic WAZ awards have  
been issued. More information on the WAZ award program is available on the CQ  
website at <_  www.cq-amateur-radio.com/awards.html_ 
(http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/awards.html) >.