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Happy to achieve this Romanian award for contacting the special event station YO160ITU. See here for details.

Thrilled to have worked the special station J42A from Greece on three different bands. A commemorative award was issued. Click here for details.

The Polish IARU Society PZK has been issuing this award to commemorate its 95th anniversary & the IARU centennial. See here for further details.

The Spanish IARU Society URE is also activating some IARU 100 stations. An award is available. Click here for details.

The French IARU organization REF celebrates its 100th anniversary. Working a series of special event stations may eventually may lead to an award. Click here

The Hungarian Amateur Radio Society MRASZ is taking part kin the IARU 100 celebrations with a series of special event stations and award. Click here

As the IARU is celebrating its 100th anniversary, several member societies activate special event stations to commemorate this event. Some of them are issuing awards

The Natal Digital Group granted me this award for contacting 10 Brazilian states in digital modes.

During my daily amateur radio activity, I worked enough stations for the “Diploma 27th Volta International Memorial Day.” Click here for further info.

On the occasion of its 91st anniversary, the Brazilian Society of Radio Amateurs is issuing a certificate. Very happy to hold it by working their

After working all of the ARI Fidenza’s special event stations month after month during 2024 I managed to achieve this commemorative award. See here for

400 Year Post Anniversary Event of the Experimenterende Danske Radioamatoerer.

Happy to receive this award for participation in the 2024 edition of the Swiss Castles.

Just before the turn of the year, thanks to the YOTA contest, I managed to achieve the platinum YOTA Award.

Happy to have be granted the bronze award at the occasion of the 38th European DX Foundation (EUDXF) activity month.

December is Youngsters On The Air month. Happy to qualify for their gold award for contacting the YOTA 2024 special event stations. Click here for

Happy to add the TC93HARP special event station award. Click here for details.

Happy to achieve this Spanish award in the gold class. The special event station AO100RBCN is aired to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Radio

Happy to add this German award to my collection Click here for the rules.

Having worked the Bosnian special event station E7BOASNIA on three different bands, I was able to achieve this commemorative award. Click here for details.

Very happy to achieve the Canadian Century Club Award for working 100 Canadian stations in all provinces & territories. Have a look here for the

Happy to achieve the OT80CLM award on their first day of activity. The station is active from the Belgian North Sea Coast at the occasion

Happy to endorse my Rhein Ruhr DX Association 60th Anniversary award with 120 points. See here for details.

Very happy to add the Goyder Bell Aard to my collection. See here for details.  

Especially in these difficult times, I am particularly pleased to achieve a new certificate from Ukraine.

Happy to add the V28 Activity Award from the German DARC club Ludwigslust. See here for details.

Happy to have received a certificate for working the Slovenian special event station S580IFTC.

Happy to achieve the “Baltic Way 35” award from Latvia. Click here for details.

Happy to have achieved the commemorative award at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Swissair Amateur Radio Club. Click here for details.

Estonia is celebrating 100 years of amateur radio. The special event station ES1924TE is being aired from this Baltic state. A commemorative award is available.

The DARC Greifswald local division is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich by airing the special event station DL250CDF. A

An international gathering of female amateur radio operators is taking place in Brno (Czech Republic). A commemorative award is being issued for working their special

The amateur radio club in France is issuing two award series at the occasion of the 2024 Olympics. The first one is the “Olympic Flame

The Romanian DX Club is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a special event station and an award. Details can be found here. It seems I

Just received this award for having worked and confirmed 500 members of the “Activity Group CW”. Click here for details.  

Due to other commitments, the “Semi Finals” certificate will be the last one I achieve in this series. It became a challenge working all four

Glad to have achieved the bronze class of the Austrian Summits On The Air (SOTA) division. Click here for more details.

Despite the cruel war inflicted by the Russian regime upon Ukraine, the Ukrainian section of the remarkable award hunters club club DIG (Diploma Interests Group) is

The Australian IARU Society WIA granted me this award for having worked over 1,000 Maidenhead grid squares. Click here for details.

Happy to have achieved the “Worked All VK Call Areas” from the Australian IARU Society WIA.

After the “Euro 2024 – Group Stage” certificate, I had to forfeit the “Round of 16” certificate because of my presence at the HAM Radio

The Australian IARU Society WIA is issuing an award for working Australian inlands. The basic award can be achieved for 20 islands with incremental endorsements

The Australian IARU Society WIA is issuing this Oceania DX Award for working at least 25 stations in Oceania. Endorsements for extra five incremental countries

An award for working the HQ station from the ÖVSV throughout the years.

Very happy to add the Italian “Historic 1000 Miglia Award 2024” to my collection.

About the only thing I know about soccer is that 22 people kick a ball. But of course, if there is any activity in the

A commemorative certificate was issued for contacting the 4X2DS DXpedition operating from the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth.

The Czech radio club Velvary, OK1OFF, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Happy to add this commemorative certificate to my collection. Discover here how you may

The Polish DX Club is celebrating its 65th anniversary. Five special event stations are being aired and a commemorative certificate is available for working all

Having worked the British special event station GB6WW on three different bands, I was granted a certificate.

Happy to add the “Relais de la flamme olympique” award to my collection

A commemorative award is being issued for making contact with the Polish special event station HF100ZLOTY.

Two special event stations are being activated to commemorate 100 years of Radio Belgrado. A commemorative award is available for working them on several bands.

The Italian ARI section of Pinerolo is celebrating its 50th birthday.

The special event station HF25NATO is active at the occasion of 25 years of Polish membership in NATO. Because of Russia’s brutal aggression and war

It’s been 75 years since the Berlin Airlift took place. A commemorative award is being issued for working the three special event stations DL0TXL, DL0GWW

It had been a while since I had requested some awards for contacts in FT8 mode via the “UltimateAAC” tool. Here is a selection of

Several Czech special event stations using the OL87 prefix are active at the occasion of the 87th Ice Hockey World Championship. A commemorative award is

Very happy to receive this commemorative award from Chile.

At the occasion of the 2024 World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) HAMs in Greece are activating SZ0WARD. A commemorative award is issued for working the

The UBA WARD 2024 award for working OP24WARD & OR24WARD in 20 different band/mode slots. See here for details.

Having worked the Greek special station SX100D on five different bands, I was granted this award in the gold class.  

Just received the Cast-Iron award for working the Finnish special event station OF60IRON in several band/mode spots.

“75 Jahre Amateurfunkgesetz in Deutschland” A commemorative award is issued by the DARC. Click here for more info.

The Spanish IARU society URE is celebrating its 75th anniversary. A bunch of special event stations using the AO75 prefix are active and a commemorative

FT8 & FT4 QSOs seem to be more popular than ever. Personally, I prefer tuning the CW portions of our bands, but except for DXPeditions

The Italian Navy Coastal Stations event is over. Happy to have worked the complete set of special event stations.

The Polish section of the Diploma Interests Group (DIG) has renewed its award design of the W-DIG-SP. The rules may be found here.

Having worked the special event station HI180RD, I was granted a commemoration certificate for the 180th anniversary of the independence of the Dominican Republic. See

The Croatian radioclub of Zagreb celebrates its 100th anniversary. A commemorative award is available for working two special event stations. Details may be found here.

Traditionally, the Antarctic Week Event takes place in February. This award has been granted for working several special event stations. See here for details about

A late Christmas present 😉 The pennant for working LY23XMAS on several band/mode slots.

Happy to achieve the DIG 55 from my favorite Diploma Interest Group Club. See here for details.

The URE is celebrating the centenary of amateur radio in Spain. Throughout the month of Feb ’24 the special event station AO100RADIO is aired.  

I  feel ambiguous about this one. To achieve a competitive score, it was required to work the same stations day after day during the month

Just received the “Marconi Was Here” award from ARI Fidenza.

The Rhein Ruhr DX Association (RRDXA) is celebrating its 60th anniversary. As a member, achieving the commemorating award was a must 😉  

Happy to add the Danish “Queen/King” award to my collection.  

Diplom Interessen Gruppe: my favorite club. Uninterrupted member since 1978 (DIG#2068). With melancholy I remember the numerous meetings in Gemünd (Germany), Podborany (Czech Rep.)  and

At the occasion of the 310th birthday of the Lithuanian poet Kristijonas Donelaitis, the special event station LY310KD is aired. Having worked the station in

Another year over, so time to check my CW-OPS 2023 members score.

I achieved an award for hunting Swiss castles during 2023.

Celebrating its 37th anniversary, the EUDXF activated several special event stations in 2023. A commemorative award was issued.

2024 marks exactly one hundred years since the “German Funk-Kartell” was founded. To celebrate this, a number of special stations are active to which the

With the month of December ’23 behind us, we look back on YOTA activities. Each December the youth within the amateurradio community organizes a month

The American ARRL organized an event called VOTA. The goal was to work throughout 2023 as many ARRL members. Each contact with individual members earned

Just before the turn of the year, I worked my fifth band/mode slot with DK70BAD so that I could still earn this award from the

Managed to work the special event station OL750HOL on the last band/mode slot right in time before the end of the year. Celebrating 750 years

December is YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) month. A bunch of special event stations have been active since Dec. 1st. A series of awards is

Could add these two Turkish certificates to my collection.  

Just received a commemorative certificate for working the Ukrainian special event station EM80UPA.

Managed to achieve the SZ65RAAG award in the diamond class for working the special event station on six different bands. SZ65RAAG is aired to commemorate

Ho ho ho… it’s the time of the year again…

The Greek Telegraphy Club is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Just received this commemorative award for working the special event station SX25GTC on five different bands.

Received this certificate for working D4C on 5 different bands during the CQWW CW Contest 2023.

The Bavarian Contest Club celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2023. A commemorative award is available for working at least 40 members. I just achieved the

Achieved for working at least 75 German stations, including DL75BRD, originating from all 24 DARC Districts. See here for details.

Just downloaded my Italian Navy Ships Radio Stations 2023 Award.

A commemorative award for contacting the Greek special event station SX480SNB aired to commemorate the Salamis Naval Battle.

After previously achieving the “DLD – Deutschland” Diplom 1000 on both 80 & 40m, I now also hold the 160m version in the DLD-100 level.

Happy to have received my certificate for working the EG5VCE special event station activated at the occasion of the Spanish 2023 Vuelta cycling competition.

Just received the certificate of the 2023 edition of the “13 Colonies” event. First time I managed a clean sweep for working all 13 colonies

Just achieved some new awards from the YB6 DX Community.

Just achieved the German “langwellen Sender Europe 1 Denkmal” certificate. See here for details.

Just received my certificate for participation in the Spanish SDC 2023. See here for details.

Just received the HB75ZRH award. This certificate is being issued to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Zürich Airport.

A new Indonesian award was added to my collection.

Just received the King Charles Coronation Award from the RSGB. It seems the certificate was the 1st one issued hi…

Happy to add this Italian award to my collection.

A new Spanish award for my collection: Gjion Fiesta del Cielo 2023.

Just received this French award for working TM84/TM230 stations at the occasion of the 230th anniversary of the French Departement Vaucluse.

Just received four new awards from the FT8DMC club.

Whow… I could add two new awards to my collection: Lituanica 90 Award in Gold 14th Hill Climb Limanowa

Just added the Limes Award to my collection. Info can be found here.

Just received the 100 CRO award in bronze.

Several special event stations are being activated throughout May ’23 to commemorate the event. An award is available as well. Needless to say, ON4CAS has

The DARC advised the HAM community that the updated DA0HQ awards are now available for download. So far, ON4CAS made 177 contacts with DA0HQ, the

Early April ’23, some Spanish special event stations were active to commemorate Pablo Picasso. Today, I received the bronze award in CW mode in the

3,141 Amateur radio operators worldwide managed to contact the special event station W1W aired at the occasion of the 2023 World Amateur Radio Day. ON4CAS

Another addition of awards from the FT8DMC Club.  

Another new one from the FT4DMC club for working all Japanese call areas in FT4.

Yes, that’s right. Another two new awards were achieved in FT8 mode. It seems the FT8DMC club and other offer awards for almost any contacts

DL17UBOOT is a special event station on the occasion of the transfer of the former German Navy submarine U17 of the German Armed Forces. The

Another two awards from the FT8DMC club could be added to my award collection.

The special event station ZX89L was activated by the Brazilian IARU Society LABRE celebrating its 89th anniversary. A commemorative award was issued to the deserving…

Managed to work 100 different members of the Bavarian Contest Club during its 40th anniversary. See this link for information about the BCC.

Today I received the Deutschlanddiplom 1000 – 40m for having confirmed 1,000 different DOKs on 7 MHz. One of the award which takes many years

Today another four new awards for the popular FT8 mode were achieved.

The huge amount of awards available for the digimode enthousiast is a bit “over the top” I guess. Nevertheless, I do apply whenever I see

Just got a new award from the FT8DMC…

Another short-term award could be added to my collection. See this link for more info about this Romanian certificate.  

Please note that, effective Feb. 24, ’22, I am NO longer chasing any Russian or Belarusian awards. Most of the clubs and organizations in both countries

Just in: the 2023 edition of the Italian Navy Coastal Stations award. See this link for more information. I had a great time chasing the

Thanks to my participation in the Bavarian Contest Club QSO Party I could upgrade my WABCC Award to “80 Members Worked”.

Just in: the WABCC 40 Award for working 40 members of the Bavarian Contest Club during its 40th anniversary year 2023. Have a look at

Long-term work: the WAE trophy # 58 Issued by the DARC for working all European WAE countries on five different amateur bands. See here for