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© 2010 Arctic Diamonds - TF4M
I received my 160 WAZ Certificate in the mail today.
I have worked and confirmed 38 Zones, still missing Zones 2 and 37. All contacts were made using CW.
Jouko, OH1RX who was on a Salmon fishing trip visited my area with his group and operated TF4X in the IARU contest.
Conditions were rather poor, but this was to be expected at this time of the year.
Antennas and equipment performed without incidents.
Jouko commented to the contest organizers:
“Great experience to work agn from ultima thule at Thors fantastic station. Bands are never kind to the ops above 64N, but his time it was a real uphill. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoyed couple of low band mults from TF!
CUL agn de Jouko OH1RX”
It was an honour to have such an accomplished contester operate my station.
I hope to see OH1RX again perhaps for a serious effort one day.
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.
