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from the FOC website.
G3PJT (Chairman of FOC, the First Class Operators’ Club) has proposed the following “DX CODE OF CONDUCT”:
- I WILL LISTEN, AND LISTEN, AND THEN LISTEN SOME MORE.
- I WILL ONLY CALL IF I CAN COPY THE DX STATION PROPERLY.
- I WILL NOT TRUST THE CLUSTER AND WILL BE SURE OF THE DX STATION’S CALL SIGN BEFORE CALLING.
- I WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE DX STATION NOR ANYONE CALLING HIM AND WILL NEVER TUNE UP ON THE DX FREQUENCY OR IN THE QSX SLOT.
- I WILL WAIT FOR THE DX STATION TO END A CONTACT BEFORE CALLING HIM.
- I WILL ALWAYS SEND MY FULL CALL SIGN.
- I WILL CALL AND THEN LISTEN FOR A REASONABLE INTERVAL. I WILL NOT CALL CONTINUOUSLY.
- I WILL NOT TRANSMIT WHEN THE DX OPERATOR CALLS ANOTHER CALL SIGN, NOT MINE.
- I WILL NOT TRANSMIT WHEN THE DX OPERATOR QUERIES A CALL SIGN NOT LIKE MINE.
- I WILL NOT TRANSMIT WHEN THE DX STATION CALLS OTHER GEOGRAPHIC AREAS THAN MINE.
- WHEN THE DX OPERATOR CALLS ME, I WILL NOT REPEAT MY CALL SIGN UNLESS I THINK HE HAS COPIED IT INCORRECTLY.
- I WILL BE THANKFUL IF AND WHEN I DO MAKE A CONTACT.
- I WILL RESPECT MY FELLOW HAMS AND CONDUCT MYSELF SO AS TO EARN THEIR RESPECT.
To express your constructive comments and support this initiative, please email Bob directly: g3pjt[at]btinternet.com
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.
