First Worked All Zones (WAZ) – 160 meters from Iceland

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update March 15th 2010:  I have been awarded certificate number 342 for the 160 Meter WAZ award.

The certificate will be endorsed with this statement: ”  1st 160 WAZ from Iceland “.

To give an idea of the difficulty of this award, the 5 band WAZ Certificate has been awarded to 1674 stations (80m,40m,20m,15m,10m) and only 806 stations have worked all 200 zones.

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I have applied for the Worked All Zones Award for 160 meters.   This is one of the oldest and most prestigious award in Amateur Radio – having its start before WWII, and 160m is the most difficult band to accomplish the award on.

Only 335 stations have qualified for the basic award and only 143 stations worldwide have accomplished contacts with all zones on 160 meters.

I applied for the basic award (30 Zones) with an endorsement for 36 Zones confirmed.

Since I applied for the award, I have received the QSL card from XE2WWW (Zone 6) and I have requested QSL cards from several stations in Zone 9 bringing the total number of Zones worked on 160 meters to 38.

I am still missing Zones 2 and 37, which should be fairly “easy” to work once there is activity from these areas.

This is the first WAZ 160 issued to a TF station.

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  • http://www.CQDX.ru Sparky

    Congrats Thor,

    Very serious achievement. Great (!)
    The ZONE#37 is really Die Hard.

    73 Andrey RW3AH

  • http://www.timprosserfuturing.wordpress.com Tim Prosser, KT8K

    Congratulations, Thor. Your achievements are as great as your photos.

    I have a 2 wavelength loop for 160m ranging from 4 to 20 meters off the ground, zig-zagging up and down through the trees, and I hope someday to make it into your log. I am very pleased to say that, with my wires in the trees and Orion running 5 watts I am hanging onto 8th place N. Am QRP in the recent ARRL DX SSB contest – the conditions were truly brutal, but I survived. ;-)

    Thanks for this great blog and all your hard work.
    73 – Tim, KT8K (the mandolin maniac)

  • Óskar Sverris., TF3DC

    Congratulations Thor !!!

    First DXCC 160m Iceland
    First WAS 160m Iceland
    First WAZ 160m Iceland

    What a performance of a great
    station and operator on Top Band.

    73

    Óskar, TF3DC

  • http://jbdevelopments.biz John Beauont

    Hi Oskar,

    I am keen on 160m, love your web pages, I have 36 zones confirmed,
    2 unconfirmed, and still await to wrk 2 more one one of which is z37.

    Previous dx ant 160 m full size cobwebb, present ant 24m shunt fed grounded vert, 6 beverages plus 2 loops for rx

    regards

    John G4EIM

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