Yes, not a lot of these awards awarded. Mine is #64 dated 19 November of 1996. Congratulations! :-) That is a serious amount of effort you have put forth. Good luck with the Sexagesimal Award and above all, HAVE FUN !
I am not sure if they are even available any more, but the USSR used to have something called the COSMOS award, and the JARL had the FUJI award.. also the South Africans had a nice award for 20 QSOs through the LEOs.. no idea where to even begin looking for info on these now or even if they are still awarded. A long time ago, and many, many orbits....
73 de Bob W1ICW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Congratulations on the VUCC award. I got mine in 2004 and it is numbered 135. Not alot of folks getting them I guess. I am surprised what with all the grids being passed out on the FM birds now days. 73's << John
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ulip ?eljko Zeljko.Ulip@plinacro.hr wrote:
Hello SAT friends, A little self promotion: Few days ago I founded in my post office box the VUCC Satellite Award # 197. Very nice piece of paper. The next award project is AMSAT Sexagesimal Award. For SAT DXCC I must wait for the P3E. Best regards & 73
? ?Zeljko 9A2EY
Hi Bob!
I am not sure if they are even available any more, but the USSR used to have something called the COSMOS award, and the JARL had the FUJI award.. also the South Africans had a nice award for 20 QSOs through the LEOs.. no idea where to even begin looking for info on these now or even if they are still awarded.
Can't speak to the COSMOS award, but the other two you mentioned are still available. The South African award is now handled by AMSAT-NA:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/awards/
JARL issues the Fuji award, at:
http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/4_Library/A-4-2_Awards/Award_Main.htm
I was able to have a JARL card checker take my application and fee payment for the award at Dayton last year. JARL didn't have any of those certificates at Dayton, so JARL mailed the certificate to me a couple of weeks later. A nice certificate.
One of these days, I'll get around to writing out my application for a satellite VUCC. I've got at least 350 grids confirmed at home, and have not used my free time to deal with that application. More time for radio and writing out QSL cards.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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