For those amateurs interested in satellite awards, the following is probably 'right up your street'
http://ukw.cqun.kz/award_kosmos.html .......................................................................................................................................
THE SPACE AWARD.
Issued by the VHF Committee of the Kazakhstan Federation of Radiosport and Amateur Radio - for communications via amateur satellite or EME.
The diploma has three categories as follows ...
Category 3.
100 two way contacts via amateur satellite. 50 for EME.
Category 2. 250 two way contacts via amateur satellite.150 for EME.
Category 1.
500 two way contacts via amateur satellite. 300 for EME.
Contacts via repeaters are not valid.
Contacts may be CW, voice or digital. Each category may be mixed or endorsed
seperately.
The diploma is numbered and is issued in paper form.
The application for the diploma with attached QSLs (eQSL acceptable), certified by two licensed radio amateurs together with 5 Euro's for Kazakhstan or 10 Euro's for foreign stations should be sent in paper form to ...
UN9GW Igor Afanasyev AinaBulak-1 Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
or ...
For applications in electronic form ...
[email protected] Box 239 . Almaty. 050000 Kazakhstan
The award is valid from 01.01.2007.
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Thanks to RW3XL for making me aware of this award.
73 John. [email protected]