The CCXD Award - the ultimate award

The Caboolture Radio Club in VK4, has just launched the ultimate award – the CCXD Award.

Here is an award for the Globe-trotting DXpeditioner. For those who have helped so many to achieve DXCC, there is now the opportunity to achieve the ultimate accolade, membership of the most prestigious and exclusive club in Amateur Radio - CCXD – The Century Club of eXtreme Difficulty.

It is no coincidence that CCXD is DXCC in reverse.

• To achieve DXCC you need to work 100 countries from your home country.
• To achieve CCXD you need to work your home country from 100 DX countries.

At the time of writing, no applications have been received.

Certificate number 1 is awaiting presentation. Will you be the first to receive this honour?

More information -  http://www.vk4qd.net

VK9 now SOTA classified

The VK9 (Australian external territories) call area now has summits classified under SOTA as follows -

• 1 summit on Christmas Island.
• 2 summits on Norfolk Island.
• 4 summits on Lord Howe Island

Congratulations to Wayne VK3WAM who gathered his gear together quickly and headed up to a local summit when he heard that the Norfolk Island VK9NT DXpedition had decided to activate the new SOTA summit today (Thursday), earlier than the originally planned Saturday.

Wayne has already posted a blog with pictures describing the action - http://waynemerry.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/activation-of-mt-dandenong-first-summit-2-summit-with-norfolk-island/

Free WARD certificate

Those who participated during the 'World Amateur Radio Day' on 18th April 2013, and made a minimum of 200 QSOs, can obtain a certificate.

It is issued free of charge if requested in electronic format (pdf). To get this certificate, you must send by May 18th, 2013, a log in ADIF format with 200 QSOs to fenyo3jw@yahoo.com

More info -  http://wff-yo.blogspot.com