Amateur Radio Awards Programs and Achievements
Validate your ham radio operating achievements with awards for DX contacts, geographic entities, and special event participation.
Amateur radio operators pursue various awards programs to validate their operating achievements and enhance their DXing experience. These awards recognize accomplishments such as contacting specific geographic entities (e.g., countries, islands, lighthouses, castles, beaches, summits, counties), operating during special events, or achieving a certain number of contacts under specific conditions (e.g., satellite contacts). Programs like Summits on the Air (SOTA) and Beaches on the Air (BOTA) encourage portable operations from unique locations, while the Worldwide Antarctic Program (WAP) focuses on contacts with stations in the Antarctic region. Many national and international organizations, including the Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club (MARAC) and AMSAT-NA, sponsor diverse award schemes.
Awards range from basic contact confirmations to complex multi-tier achievements. Examples include the Alexander The Great Award from Northern Greece, the Islands Of Croatia Award (IOCA), and the Geratol Net's 75 Meter 2-letter Extra Class WAS Award. Some programs, like the AGB Trophy program, offer elaborate physical plaques. Resources such as ADXcluster assist operators by verifying callsign compliance with award conditions. Operators can find detailed rules and application procedures for awards from various entities, including national amateur radio societies like ORARI (Indonesia) and regional groups like ARI Tuscany.
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Original PSK31 awards by the 070 Club -
Ten-Ten International Net, or 10-10 for short, is an organization of amateur radio operators dedicated to maintaining high levels of amateur radio communications on the 10-meter amateur band (28.0-29.7 MHz). -
AGB - Activity Group of Belarus have Awards and Trophy programs - 19 color award of Belarus and World team. Rules and pictures. -
Trophy program have 15 plaquiettes of expensive wood. -
Alexander The Great AWARD from Northern Greece Contest Team -
Managed by BARC Award Committee -
Make 1000 two-way contacts with any station on any satellite -
The ARRL DXCC Challenge is a new program for all band DXers -
Awards issued and managed by OEVSV -
Warszawa 2000 Award, Mazowsze (Mazovia) Award, Vistula) River Award, All Baltic Islands Award, Maritime Mobile award, Baltic Sea lighthouses award -
"The CW Awards are issued by the CWSP ""Grupo de CW de Sao Paulo"" Brasil" -
D.I.C. Diploma Isole Campane from Italy -
D.I.CE diploma islas de chile. -
Radio Club de Costa Rica -
The Islands Of Croatia Award -
The Luis Trenker Award, issued by the Amateur Radio Club Ladinia, recognizes contacts with five Alpine countries and a club member, valid since 1990. -
Jarl web english page about jarl issued awards -
You can find all about awards and dx in argentina -
Ivo presents a list of LZ Awards and Bulgarian Lighthouses -
MARAC was organized in 1970 as a Kansas Nonprofit Corporation, as a support group for county hunting and mobile activity -
New award Diploma Monumentos Historicos de Espa?a (DMHE), with info in historic monuments activated. -
Links to US local emergency service local units -
Portuguese islands plaque -
Pictures and information about polish awards -
Summits on the Air is an exciting new award scheme for radio amateurs which encourages operation in mountainous and wilderness areas. The sceme is designed to grow into an international awards. -
TA2J Turkish Ham Award will be awarded to those hams who make contact with TA amateurs using TA / TC / YM prefixed callsigns. -
issued by the members of YO2KJI -
The Washington Totem Award is issued by the Western Washington DX Club for confirmed two-way radio contacts with the state of Washington. -
To gain Tonga DXpedition Award it is necessary to have QSL confirmed contacts with two amateur radio expeditions from Tonga (A35), on two bands, with two diffrent modes. Available also to SWLs -
WAU Worked all Ukraine award by UT4UW -
UKSMG Awards Programme, Worked All Europe Award, Worked North America Award Worked Africa Award -
The large listo of USA counties -
Amateur award plaque for contacting at least 200 different prefixes fron the US or its possessions. -
Work 19 departments of RepAblica Oriental del Uruguay -
The earliest known historical record of the name Uzice is found in a document in the Ragusan archives, dated October 9th, 1329. In memory of this date, October 9th is now Uzice City Day. Earlier settlements in the vicinity date back to the Neolithic times. Throughout history, this area has been at a crossroads connecting economies and cultures North-South and East-West. To this day, Uzice is an important economic, industrial and cultural center. Award is active from October 1st to October 16th each year. To win you have to collect enough points making contacts (QSOs) with amateur radio stations which base locations are in the Uzice City Area. -
W9DC North America Amateur Radio checkpoint for IOTA Islands on the Air and WLH World Lighthouse award applications and award instructions; Island and lighthouse award links for international radio operator activities -
Worked All Norwegian Communes Award -
The WAU award is issued by the "RadioAmator" magazine for contacts with amateur radio stations in all regions of Ukraine, cities of Kiev and Sevastopol made after 01.01.1993. -
Wireless Institute of Australia Awards program -
Worked other amateur stations in each of the six continental areas of the world using Collins equipment two-way -
The WAS (Worked All States) Award is available to all amateurs worldwide who submit proof with written confirmation of having contacted each of the 50 states of the United States of America. -
Issued by the Irish Radio Transmitters Society -
Amarteur Radio Society Of India, the national society, is issuing Worked Republic of India (WRI) Award to VU and Dx operators. -
The YASME Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation organized to conduct scientific and educational projects related to Amateur Radio, including DXing and the introduction and promotion of Amateur Radio in underdeveloped countries. -
Indonesian Awards -
New Zealand, the information has been taken from the New Zealand Call Book, published annually by NZART -
DX Award from Switzerland -
Beaches On The Air is an award scheme for radio amateurs that encourages portable operation from beaches. You can participate from any country or region around the world. Our beach lists currently contain more than 30,000 beaches and aim to be as exhaustive and objective as possible, and are often based on official sources, such as environmental protection agencies. -
This map was created from the need to have a map for WWFF activity. The thanks go to the people from WWFF who provided the very first data. At the beginning it was a simple map that didn't work on a mobile phone. Later I added more features, better backend and frontend and other data sources such as POTA, SOTA etc. -
The ARI Tuscany Regional Committee sponsor a special Award during the 2013 UCI Road World Championships held in Tuscany from 22nd to 29th September 2013 -
The Award promotes portable activity from South Australia's National & Conservation Parks. This award follows in the tradition of other successful parks awards in Australia -
Worldwide Antartic Programs WAP is an online antartic award program. If you like wap stations, watch live antartic activity videos. -
The Worked All Britain Awards Group (W.A.B.) was devised by the late John Morris G3ABG in 1969. This was to promote an interest in Amateur Radio in Britain and to sponsor a series of awards based on the geography of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
