QRP Awards of the World

AUSTRALIA
Milliwatts per Kilometer Award

Sponsored by the CW Operators QRP Club. The goal of the award is to popularize working the farthest distance with the least output power. OK CW and SSB modes. Contacts must be on or after 1 Jan 1999 over distances equal or greater than:

Applicants should specify full details of output power (key down for CW, and PEP for SSB), latitude and longitude, grid squares, GPS location or map reference (preferably two or more) and photocopies of the cards sent and received.  Fee for Australians is $A5 or 5 IRC’s (or 5 $1 Australian postage stamps) for VK’s. Fee for DX is $A10 or $US6 or 6 IRCs. Apply to: CW Operators QRP Club, Awards and Contests Manager, Ian Godsil VK3JS, 363 Nepean Highway, Chelsea 3196, Australia.

E-mail: vk3js@vkham.com 
Internet: http://www.users.on.net/~zietz/qrp/club.htm 

(Chg 3/2005)

CANADA
Canadian QRP Award

Contact all 13 provinces and territories of Canada on 2-way QRP after 25 January 1972. QRP is defined as using not more than 5 watts CW or 10 watts PEP SSB. Endorsements available for CW, SSB, Digital, 2-way QRP, QRPp and Single Day. GCR list and fee of $US3, $C5 or 5 IRCs to: Jeff Heatherington VA3JFF, 139 Elizabeth St. W, Welland, Ontario, Canada L3C 4M3, Canada. 

E-mail: va3jff@rac.ca 
WWW:  http:www3.sympatico.ca/wjhetherington/cqa.htm 

(Chg 6/2008)

CROATIA
-- 9A QRP Club Series

General Requirements: One time member fee of DM15, $US13 or £10. Members restrict themselves to output power of 5 watts on CW and 10 watts PEP SSB. GCR list and fee of DM5 or $US4 for each award. Special application form for 1 IRC from sponsor. Contacts after 10 April 1994. Apply to: Denis Vincek 9A3Z, K. Tuskana 8, HR-49218 Pregrada, Croatia. (Applications for membgership to: 9A QRP Club, Franjevacka 5, 42220 Novi Marof, Croatia).

(Chg 10/2005)

W-QRP DXCC Award - Available to any licensed amateur for working 20 different DXCC countries. Separate awards for each added 20 countries.

W 2-Way QRP DXCC Award - Same as above, but both stations must be using QRP.

W 9A - QRP Members Award - Issued to any radio amateur who has contacted and confirmed 10 different members. Separate awards each added 10 members.

W QRP 6 Continents Award - Issued to any radio amateur for having confirmations from all 6 continents using QRP power.

W-QRP Zones Award - Issued to any licensed amateur who has contacted and confirmed amateurs from 10, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 40 CQ Zones.

W - CW QRP Station Award - Available to members only who have contacted and confirmed 250 different stations in CW. Higher level awards every added 50 stations.

W - QRP - CW WPX Award - Available to members who have contacted and confirmed 50 different prefixes on CW. Endorsements each added 50 prefixes.

W - 2 Way - QRP CW WPX - as above, but both stations have to be using QRP.

CZECH REPUBLIC
OK-QRP Award

Awarded to any licensed QRP station or SWL for confirmed contacts with 20 (10 for non-EU) members of the OK QRP club after 1 Jan 1984. Endorsement stickers for each 10 members (5 for non-EU). Issued for CW, SSB or mixed modes. A QSO with OK5SLP counts for two member contacts. All bands. Both stations must use QRP (CW maximum of 5W output or 10W input, SSB maximum output 10W or input 20W.) GCR list must include power used input/output which was used on both sides of the contact plus fee of 5 IRCs or 1 IRC for endorsement sticker plus SASE to award manager: Liboslav Procházka, Restoky 135, 53833 Trojovice, Czech Republic.  

Internet: http://okqrp.fud.cz/awards.html 

(Chg 3/2008)

ENGLAND
        ---G-QRP Club Series---

General Requirements: QRP is defined as not more than 5W RF output CW or 10W PEP SSB. Applicant must hold all cards claimed. GCR list is acceptable. Enclose a signed statement with application that when making ontacts, your power did not exceed QRP as defined above. Fees: UK applicants send three first class stamps; overseas applicants enclose 3 IRCs. The entire contact must be made using QRP. Apply to: G-QRP Club, c/o Mr. Gus Taylor, 37 Pickerill Road, Greasby, Merseyside, England L49 3ND.
(Chg 10/05)

Internet: http://www.interalia.plus/q_awards.htm 

CW Novice Award

Available to any amateur who during the first 12 months of holding a license contacts 50 different stations while using CW. For the Class A award, QRP must be used and the necessary statement included. For the Class B award, any licensed power may be used. Available to All Amateurs.

The following 5 awards are available to G QRP members only (why not join if seriously interested in QRP?)

Worked G-QRP Club Award

Both stations must be QRP. Basic award for working 20 members; endorsements for each further 20 members.

QRP Countries

Applicant must be QRP, other stations at any power level, Basic for working 25 DXCC countries; endorsements for each further 25 countries.
(Chg 10/05)

Two-Way QRP

Both stations must be QRP. Basic for working 10 DXCC countries; endorsements for each further 10 countries. Class A award for two way QRP contacts, Class B for working stations with other power levels. 
(Chg 10/05)

QRP Master

Awarded to any member who holds awards for contacts with 60 members, 75 DXCC countries and 20 countries with two-way QRP.

(Chg 11/2005)

FINLAND
OH/QRP Award

The OH/QRP award is sponsored by Ham Finland  for contacting with Finnish QRP stations on or after 1 January 2000. SWL OK.  Stations contacted must be OH stations with /QRP extension. Extension may also be /P if operator announces power to be at QRP levels. QRP powers are considered a maximum of 5W CW and 10W PEP SSB. You do not have to be QRP station.

Available in three classes:
     Bronze 15 x QSO with OH/QRP -stations
     Silver 30 x QSO with OH/QRP -stations
     Gold 72 x QSO with OH/QRP -stations

QSL cards are not required. No band restrictions. Signed application should include a log of the contacts. Each OH QRP station may be listed only once in the application. For example: OH5X/QRP and OH5X/P are the same station.  Endorsements are available for all:      Two way QRP contact, Operating mode (CW, SSB, digimodes), QRPp (own power less than 1W) or contacts made during one day (within 24hrs)The award is free. However, a voluntary payment (at least for postage) may be included in the application. Apply to: Ham Finland ry, Heikki Eskola, Kammekantie 2, FIN-45120 Kouvola, Finland.

Internet: http://www.oh5x.com/award.htm 

(Chg 4/07)

ITALY
I-QRP Award

Earn a minimum of 50 points by contacting at least 25 Italian QRP stations. If both stations use QRP, each QSO = 2 points, if only you use QRP, the contact is worth 1 point. All bands may be used, even WARC. Each station may only be contacted one time. GCR list and fee of 7€, $US7 or 7 IRCs to: Marcello Surace IK7HIN, via Dante 239, I-70122 Bari, Italy.

E-mail: marcello.surace@tiscali.it 
List of I-QRP members: http://www.arimontebelluna.it/i_qrp/callbook.htm 

(Chg 9/2008)

NETHERLANDS
Benelux QRP Club Award

Contact 10 club members after 1 Jan 1983. At least one of the QSOs must be with a BQC member in a second BeNeLux country. Only 2-way QRP contacts. Output cw 5 watt and SSB 10 watt. SWL OK. GCR list and fee of 3€ or $US3 to: A.T.G. Willeboordse PA0ATG, Wilgenlaan 86, 4871 VE Etten Leur, Netherlands. 

(Chg 07)

General Requirements: The North American QRP CW Club will award the following certificates to all licensed radio amateurs who qualify: Only simple wire antennas (a single element antenna like a dipole, G5RV, random wire, inverted V, inverted L, mobile whip, or vertical) may be used, no loops, beams, yagis, or any other multi-element or gain type antenna. CW mode only may be used, no RTTY, PSK-31, or other digital modes and certainly no SSB, AM or FM activity. Contacts must have been made on or after 1 Jan 2004 unless otherwise noted in the rules. All of the above awards are also available to SWL's. The SWL must use a simple wire receiving antenna. The stations heard must be running CW and QRP. All other rules are the same.

Submit verification of all qualifying contacts. QSL cards are not necessary, however, copies of log book entries (paper or electronic) must be sent for verification. DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL LOG BOOK! Include a description of all antennas used in making the qualifying contacts. Cost for each certificate is $US3 or 3 IRC’s. Apply to: John Shannon, K3WWP, 478 E. High Street Kittanning, PA 16201, USA or Tom Mitchell, KB3LFC, RD 6 Box 122A, Kittanning, PA 16201, USA.

Internet: http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel/awards_current.html 

Work all 50 states while running QRPp power, that is less than one (1) watt and simple wire antennas. 

   WAC

Work a station from each of the six inhabited continents (AF, AS, EU, NA, OC, SA) using QRP and simple wire antennas. Same three categories as above.

   DXCC

Work 100 different DX entities using QRP and simple wire antennas. Same three categories as above. (QRPp awards issued for 25, 50 and 75 DX entities). 

  1,000-Miles-per-Watt Award

Work any licensed radio amateur station while operating QRP and simple wire antennas and achieving a distance of 1,000 or more miles per watt. Links to distance calculators may be found at http://home.alltel.net/johnshan/links_ss_misc.html 

An award endorsement will be issued for single band WAS, WAC, and/or DXCC. 

2-WAY QRP Award

Work 2-way QRP QSOs with other stations on or after 1 July 2005.  Award may be worked in levels of 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 points.  Any antenna may be used.  Rag-chew, DX and contest QSOs are acceptable as long as you are certain the other station is using QRP.   
Point values:
NAQCC members = 2 points.
Non members = 1 point.
QSOs with DX NAQCC member = 4 points
QSOs with DX non-member = 3 points. 

DX for North American operators (The U.S., Canada or Mexico) is considered as any contact outside the North American Continent, including the Caribbean. For European, South or Central American or Asian operators, DX shall be considered as any QSO involving a distance of 3,000 miles (4,828 Kilometers) or more.

30-30 Award

This is presented as an alternative to the QSO-A-Day Award for those who can't get on the air each and every day for a full month.  Beginning of 1 January 2006, make 30 QSOs on 30 meters during a calendar month making as few as 1 day up to as many as 31 days to get the QSOs.   Category A = a single month.  Category B = Three Months (30-20 Magnum).  You must use QRP, stations you contact may be using any power level.   Rag Chew and DX QSOs are OK.  However, just sitting on a net and making QSOs is not permissable.  You may count a maximum of two net based QSOs each month.  You may earn as many as 12 single month awards per year or as many as 30-30 Magnum awards per year.  See fees in General Requirements above. 

Alphabet Prefix Award

This is a simpler version of the popular CQ Magazine WPX Award.  Work as many different letter and number combinations taken from the first two characters of a station's call sign.  Contacts on and after 1 January 1990. May be comprised of WORLD (including USA) and USA only.  You must be running QRP and your antenna must be a simple wire antenna by NAQCC standards. See their website for examples of valid prefix combinations. Since only the first two characters are used, the total possible number of combinations is estimated at 1196 world wide and 120 for the USA. See fees in General Requirements above. 

QSO - A - Day Award

This is an annual award, designed to encourage hams to spend more time on the CW bands.  Time frame: 1 January 0000Z through 31 December 3400Z of the current year. The goal is to make at least ONE QSO per day. You must make the contacts using QRP, the other station has no limitation on power.  Award fee - see above. 

Categories:
1. FULL YEAR - Make at least one QSO on each of the 365 days during the calendar year.
2. PARTIAL YEAR - Make at least one QSO on each day of the following number of calendar months in the calendar:
    2A = 11 months.
    2B = 10 months.
    2C = 9 months.
    2D = 8 months.
    2E = 7 months.
    2F = 6 months.
    2G = 5 months.
    2H = 4 months.
    2I = 3 months.
    2J = 2 months.
    
3A. 1 MONTH - make at least 2 QSOs on each day of one calendar month in the current year. 
4A. 30 DAYS - make at least 2 QSOs on each day of a consecutive 30 day period during the year.  The 30 days can span months. 

Work current members of the NAQCC either before or after they joined the NAQCC beginning on 1 January 2005. You must have been a member at the time of the QSO.   Earn 200 points; all QSOs = 1 point, but only one QSO per member. Endorsements at each 100 points beyond the basic 200.  Send a list of all members worked and total points in order of call sign or NAQCC number.  A minimum of call sign and number must be included.  When applying for endorsement, ALL QSOs must be listed, not just the ones giving the latest 100 points. 

NAQCC Advanced Worked Members Award

Work as many members as possible getting to know them a little better along the way on or after 1 January 2005. You must have been a member at time of QSO.  It is not necessary to exchange numbers during the QSO.  QSO with current member before they became a member = 1 point.  QSO with a member consisting of only RST-QTH-NAME-RIG-WX = 1 point.  QSO with a member in a contest = 2 points.  QSOs where you go beyond the ususl RST-QTH-NAME-RIG-WX and actually find out something about the person you are communicating with = 4 points.  Basically anything not rig or weather related.  (other hobbies, kids, professions, family). Endorsements each additional 100 points.  

(Chg 2/2008)

Tks DF1DV

USA 
                    -- -QRP ARC Series ---

General Requirements: QRP is defined by the club as 5 watts output CW and 10 watts pep output SSB. The following awards are available to any amateur operator. Application forms on the club's website: http://www.qrparci.org/arciawds.html . The fee for all awards or endorsement certificates for W/K amateurs is $US4 or for non-W/K $US5 or 10 IRCs. Make checks or money orders (preferred) payable to Thom Durfee. Cash is acceptable, but sent at your risk. For the 1000 mile per watt award, if you would like an award certificate sent to the ham at the other end of the QSO (the one with the good ears who made your QSO possible) please enclose an additional $4 or $5. e-QSLs are now accepted. QRP ARCI member numbers are now published online. Hence, the member number need not be shown on the QSL for QRP25 awards. You must include the member number of each contact with your application. Endorsements for band and mode, etc. QSOs for the awards involving multiple contacts (WAS, DXCC, WAC QRP25) must be made from within a 25 mile radius. Apply to: QRP ARCI Awards Chairman, Thom Durfee WI8W, 3509 Collingwood Avenue SW, Wyoming, MI 49509.

E-mail: wi8w@arrl.net 

QRP-25

Issued to any amateur for working 25 members of QRP ARCI while those members were running QRP. Endorsements for 50, 100 and every 100 thereafter. Send list in numerical order. (QSLs, e-QSLs or e-mail confirmation now required for this award). 

WAC-QRP

Confirm stations in all six continents while running QRP.

WAS-QRP

Confirm contacts with stations in at least 20 of the 50 states while running QRP. Endorsements at 30, 40 and 50 states confirmed.

DXCC-QRP

Confirm contacts with 100 ARRL countries while running QRP.

1000-Mile-Per-Watt

Issued to any amateur transmitting from, or receiving the transmission of a QRP station such that the Great Circle Bearing distance between the two stations, divided by the QRP stations power output equals or exceeds 1000-Miles-Per-Watt. Additional certificates may be earned with different modes and bands. 

(Revised Tks W3HF 1/15/02 )

USA        
---   QRP Milliwatt Series ---

General Requirements:

1. Net or List situations: all qualifying contacts must be initiated, maintained and completed by the QRP station. The DX station must locate, recognize the call and communicate directly with the QRP station without assistance of NCS or list control station, other than the former telling the DX station that a QRP station is next on the list.

2. Applicants must describe the method used to measure r.f. output power, and the measurements made. In the event of an un-modified stock commercial transceiver is used, and that unit is known to be unable to exceed the specified power output, then the use of the unit will serve as de-facto proof of the power.

3. A signed affidavit attesting to the veracity of the applicants claim that all contacts were completed within the given power limit is needed with applications.

4. Fee is $24US to offset the cost of the 28-inch trophy, which constitutes the award plus postage. Foriegn stations send equivalent currency.

5. Cards are required and should be sent by certified mail. A listing of the 100 contacts alphabetized by prefix should accompany the cards.

6. Applicants in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia may be sent to the US or to the Official Milliwatt DX Awards Program DX Representative, A.D. Taylor G8PG, 37 Pickerill Rd., Greasby, Merseyside, L49 3ND, England. Submit only the cards and list to Mr. Taylor and once he has returned them, the list may be submitted along with the other application material to: Ade Weiss K8EEG/W0RSP, 83 Suburban Estates, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA.

(88)

DXCC Milliwatt Trophy

Submit proof as outlined above of two-way contacts with stations in 100 ARRL DXCC list countries while not exceeding one (1) watt r.f. output from your transmitter. (88)

DXCC QRPp Trophy

As above, but r.f. output power may not exceed five (5) watts. (88)

DXCC 200 QRPp, DXCC 200 Milliwatt

As above for both Milliwatt and QRPp, but require 200 such countries. The list of contacts qualifying an applicant for the 100 country level award is kept on record and the applicant for lthe 200 level need only submit a list and QSL verifications for the additional countries. An applicant may submit their initial application at the 200 level. A handsome, suitably engraved plaque constitutes the 200 country award. (88)

USA              
 ---  QRP Operating Awards Series ---

General Requirements: This series of awards is designed to encourage QRP operators by recognizing significant accomplishments in low power 2-way communications. This is an "on-your-honor" program -- if you made the contact, you may count if for the certificates. Neither cards nor lists are required.QRP means not more than 5W cw or 10W PEP SSB. Endorsements for any mode or band upon request. Multiple endorsements may be listed on the certificate. Simply write to the sponsor stating that you have made the contacts for the specified award and enclose $US1 for each certificate requested. Apply to: Colin Neal AA3LM, 264 Miner St., Malvern, PA. 19355.

(TKS AA3LM)(96)

Worked 25 States
Worked All 50 States
Worked All 6 Continents
Worked 25 Countries (from valid DXCC list)
Worked 50 Countries
Worked 100 Countries
Worked 200 Countries
Worked 300 Countries

USA 
QRPp Low Power Award

The purpose of this award is to promote the enjoyment of low power operating while demonstrating its usefullness and practicality. Any authorized amateur frequency and mode of communication may be used. The applicant must demonstrate the following:

1. that your transmitter output power was accurately measured to be less than one watt (QRPp).
2. that the distance communicated was over 100Km (63 miles)
3. that no artificial means of active relay was used to complete the communications. (i.e., repeaters, satellite transponders, digi-peaters, landlines, etc. However reflections off the ionosphere, mountains, tropospheric ducts, auroral curtains, meteors, the moon, satellites, buildings, aircraft bodies and other passive reflectors are acceptable and encourage.

Application:

1. send a signed statement to the manager that the power used was less than one watt, the distance greater than 100Km, and that no artificial means of active relay was used.
2. provide the manager with a photocopy of either the station log, or QSL card, clearly showing the date, time, mode and frequency on which the qualifying communication took place.
3. if desired, provide the manager with information concerning any desired endorsements such as longer distances, lower power levels, WAC, WAS, WAZ, etc that you want listed.
4. Mail $US4 ($US5 DX) along with application materials to EFT, Low Power Award, PO Box 460101, Aurora, CO. 80046-0101.

(Worldradio)(95)

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