You may pay the CQ award fees via PayPal (you may use your credit card with PayPal) or with a check made out to Steve Bolia, or cash (US $). You will not need to send me any additional paperwork. Here are the LoTW instructions from ARRL There are additional instructions in the files section of the CQ WPX AWARDS page. You may uncheck any endorsements that you already have credit for or do not want. NOTE: If you already have credit for the band or continent endorsements, it is not necessary to apply for those again. All applications claiming credit for LoTW prefixes must be submitted via the LOTW system. LoTW will send me a notification email once you have completed the LoTW application and have paid the necessary fees for the LoTW credits. LoTW will not let you apply for an award or endorsements if you do not have enough credits. The CQ award fees are separate and are to be paid when I finish processing the files that LOTW provides. You will pay the LoTW credit fees to ARRL when you complete your application.
If this is your first LoTW application, an account update should be done.įollow the instructions to select the awards or endorsements that you wish to apply for. If you don't think that the totals shown are correct, send me an email or click on on the Link Accounts button on your LoTW page and I can manually insert an account update into the system. You can find your WPX totals for all of the possible WPX Awards and endorsements at the bottom of your LOTW AWARDS page. You may use the excel application or send a plain ASCII file with a listing of your calls. Paper applications are still accepted (please print legibly so I can read it). Separate, distinctively marked certificates are available for SSB, CW, Digital (RTTY/PSK, FT8, FT4 and most other recognized digital modes) and Mixed (CW, SSB/Phone, Digital).Į-mail applications are encouraged. The CQ WPX Award recognizes the accomplishments of confirmed QSOs with the many prefixes used by amateurs throughout the world. The WPX Awards are sponsored by CQ Magazine. Hope I was able to get you in the log.Welcome to the CQ WPX Awards Program. Great time working my favorite mode and at QRP levels.
There were quite a few others that fought it out to get me in the log despite the weak signal, the QRN, and quite a bit of QRM. Don’t quite remember how many times we went back and forth, but it was quite a bit.
ON6NL gets the award for sticking it out the longest to get my serial number copied correctly. I did manage to see one of my Dutch friend’s call signs, PA1JIM, while he was working NR5M. I find that sleeping at night while 15 meters is dead, works really well for me! It also looks like I managed to work about 50 DXCC entities. Overall, I managed to work 320 contacts and 235 different prefixes for a total score of 137,240. Frankly, the antenna made all the difference with my QRP 5 watt signal trying to get into Europe or nearly any other station. So I set it up Saturday morning, in the dark, before the European stations started on 15 meters. I had some serious thoughts about the advisability of setting up the beam as it was snowy, about 30 degree F, and dark by the time I got home from work. I decided I’d do a 15 meter single band QRP entry using my Moxon 15 meter beam.
This weekend I entered the CQ WPX RTTY Contest.