WIA-Awards-Federal

WIA Awards

WIA DXCC Award	Worked All VK Call Areas	Heard All VK Call Areas	Worked All VK Call Areas (VHF) Award
Worked All States (VHF) Award	Australian VHF Century Club Award	WIA Antarctic Award	WIA Grid Square Award

WIA Awards Program

Awards are an important and exciting part of the activity of amateur radio, and the spirit of competition and achievement in earning awards has helped the leisure time activity of amateur radio grow into the marvellous hobby/sport activity it is today. The WIA provides several attractive awards, which are available to all radio amateurs.

General Rules Cost: Free to all WIA members,

VK non-members pay $AUS10.00 or 8 IRCs and overseas applicants pay $US10.00 or 8 IRCs.

Verifications:

Applicants need to hold QSL cards for QSOs claimed.
However, do not send OSL cards with your application.
A list of all contacts is needed which should list the following information:-

date

time (UTC)

callsign of station contacted

frequency

mode

In some cases, country identification may also be required.

Contacts should be listed in alphabetical order of callsign prefix. At the bottom of this list should be a declaration signed by an official of a recognised Society, or by two licensed amateurs, Signatories to the declaration should clearly indicate their names and callsigns.

Applications

Applicants should state whether they are WIA members and, if so, list their membership number.
Where relevant, changes in callsigns and dates of such changes should be indicated.
All contacts for any particular award should be made from the same call area.
Cross-band contacts are not eligible, nor are those made through terrestrial repeaters, from aircraft, or to or from sea-going vessels.
Where a fee is payable this should be sent with the application.
In cases of dispute the decision of the Federal Awards Manager and two officers of the Federal WIA on the interpretation of these rules shall be final and binding.

Applications should be sent to Federal Awards Manager, 4 Brook Crescent, Box Hill South, VIC 3128, Australia.

WIA DXCC Award

This award is available to all amateurs who submit evidence of having worked and confirmed 100 countries, and can be endorsed for various bands and modes. Acceptable countries are those that are acceptable for ARRL DXCC, with the WIA reserving the right to make different decisions in regard to additions and deletions which are listyed from time to time.

Having obtained the DXCC award, holders may register subsequent claims for higher totals and these will be published from time to time in Amateur Radio magazine in the form of a ladder. Stickers are awarded to those who achieve Roll of Honour status.

Should a country be deleted from the DXCC list, credit for that country will be allowed if worked before the date of deletion. The DXCC ladder will show the members tally of current countries and a total of current plus deleted countries eg 200/220 - meaning 200 current countries and an extra 20 that have been deleted at some time, but were worked before the date of deletion. All claimed QSOs must be made from the same DXCC country. General rules apply.

Worked All VK Call Areas

Known as "WAVKCA" this colourful certificate is the WIA's most popular award. There are separate requirements for local and overseas amateurs.

VK applicants require 73 QSOs as follows:

VK0 - 3 contacts from at least 2 different areas.
VK1 - 3 contacts on at least 2 different bands.
VK2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 - ten contacts from each call area on at least 3 different bands.
VK8 -3 contacts on at least 2 different bands
VK9 - 4 contacts from at least 3 different areas

General rules apply except Australian applicants need not hold OSL cards.

DX applicants require only 22 contacts as follows:

VK0, VK1 - 1 contact from each call area
VK2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 - 3 contacts from each call area
VK8, 9 - 1 contact from each call area

Contacts must be made after January 1, 1946. General rules apply.

Heard All VK Call Areas

This is a "heard only" version of the WAVKCA award, available to SWLs on the same basis as to amateurs, the same fees and procedures apply. Again, general rules apply

Worked All VK Call Areas (VHF) Award

Requires 22 contacts on VHF bands as follows:

VK0, VK1 - 1 contact each
VK2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 - 3 contacts from each
VK8, 9 - 1 contact each

Contacts must have been made after 1 January, 1958.

If the applicant moves to a new location and the new location exceeds a distance of 240 km from the old a new application will be necessary for the new QTH. General rules apply.

Worked All States (VHF) Award

Requires 8 contacts on VHF bands (50 MHz and above), one contact with each State and Territory of Australia as listed:

VK1 - Australian Capital Territory
VK2 - New South Wales
VK3 - Victoria
VK4 - Queensland
VK5 - South Australia
VK6 - Western Australia
VK7 - Tasmania
VK8 - Northern Territory

General rules apply.

Australian VHF Century Club Award

Requires 100 contacts on VHF bands (50 MHz and above) with 100 different stations, at least 70 of which must be Australian stations.

Separate awards will be issued for each different VHF/UHF band. Contacts ust have been made on or after 1 June 1948. The same rules apply, as in the previous award, where the applicant moves to a new location in excess of 240 km from the old.

WIA Antarctic Award

Applicants need to make ten confirmed contacts with amateur stations conducting valid operations from Antarctica. The 10 must include stations licensed by at least six different government authorities, and one must be a VK0.

Antarctica is defined as the land mass, including islands and permanent ice shelf, below 60 degrees South latitude. (This., therefore, excludes Heard and Macquarie Islands)

Only contacts on or after 23 February, 1988 are valid for this award. General rules apply.

WIA Grid Square Award

Applicants require contacts with "Maidenhead" grid square locators as listed below. Grid squares are designated by a combination of two letters and two numbers. Minimum requirements are:

All HF bands (including WARC) - 100 contacts
50 MHz - 50 contacts
144MHz - 30 contacts
432 MHz - 25 contacts
1296 MHz - 10 contacts
13cm and above - 5 contacts

Cross-band, repeater, satellite or other relay methods are NOT permitted. Aeronautical or maritime mobile stations are also excluded.

Mobile operation is encouraged to allow such operators to work from 100 different locators.

Only contacts made on and after 1 January 1990 qualify for this award. General rules apply.

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