2019 Single-Operator Cass Award - Janusz Wegrzyn (SP9FIH)

Janusz Wegrzyn, SP9FIH, has won the 2019 Single-Operator Cass Award. Sponsored by Club Log, DXLab, and the Northern California DX Club, the Cass Awards encourage DXpedition operating excellence by recognizing DXpeditions that work the most unique call signs. This marks Wegrzyn’s third year as the Single-Operator Cass Award winner. As E44WE, he is credited with working 7,518 unique stations during a 14-day DXpedition to Palestine.

The unlimited Cass Award went to the 5K0K team of Petr Bohacek, OK1BOA; Petr Spacil, OK1FCJ; Pavol Halek, OK1CRM; Pavel Novak, OK1GK; Rudolf Sedlak, OK2ZA; Ludek Odehnal, OK2ZC; Karel Odehnal, OK2ZI; David Beran, OK6DJ, and Rob Rey, HK3CW. In 2019, they worked 20,744 unique stations from San Andrés, setting a new record for the Unlimited Cass Award.

Presented annually, the Cass Awards encourage DXpeditions to maximize the number of DXers worked. Award sponsors say that the annual awards “honor the wisdom and spirit of Cass Cassidy, WA6AUD (SK), whose stories in the West Coast DX Bulletin taught a generation of DXers that DX IS!”

Intrepid-DX Group Invites Nominations for Intrepid Spirit Award

The Intrepid-DX Group is seeking nominations for the individual or group that most displayed their “Intrepid spirit” in 2020. For the purposes of this award, “an Intrepid spirit is bold, courageous, dedicated, innovative, fearless, generous, resolute, and visionary in their approach to amateur radio,” the organization says. “We want to recognize those individuals or groups that activated the rare, difficult and dangerous places” in 1920, exhibiting “an unshakable commitment to the amateur radio DX community.”

Submit nominations via email by 15th February 2021. The Board of Directors of the Intrepid-DX Group will evaluate the nominations, and the award will be presented in May 2021

Intrepid-DX Group - http://www.intrepid-dx.com/

Radio Society of Christchurch (New Zealand) Centenary Award

The Christchurch ARC (NZART branch 05) have announced an informal award to celebrate the club’s centenary.

A special callsign of ZL100RSC will be active throughout February. You can use any band and any mode, including repeaters, digital voice reflectors, EME, Satellites, VHF, UHF, and HF. Endorsements will be available for working all contacts on a single band or mode.

The award is free! Send your logs to awards@nzart.org.nz or zl3dw@outlook.co.nz

A Certificate will be emailed out to any station achieving 100 points during February 2021. ZL100RSC is a compulsory contact worth 25 points, the club station ZL3AC is worth 10 points and Christchurch ARC (branch 05) members are worth 5 points each. Double points will apply on 15th February 2021(UTC for DX stations), the 100th anniversary of the first club meeting.