Antarctic Award
Award Description
Recognition of at least 10 confirmed contacts with Amateur Radio stations conducting valid operations from Antarctica.
Antarctica is defined as the landmass, including islands and permanent ice shelf, below 60 degrees south latitude.
(This excludes Heard, Macdonald and Macquarie Islands as qualification for the award, being sub-Antarctic).
Rules
General Rules:
Applicants should state whether they are W.I.A. Members and, if so, list their National membership number. Where relevant, changes in Callsign and dates of such changes should be indicated.
Applications (Official Hard copy or Computer file) should be sent to the W.I.A. Awards Manager. Contacts for the awards can be made from all call areas, pertaining to the same country unless otherwise stated.
Crossband contacts do not qualify, nor are those made through terrestrial repeaters, aircraft, internet (IRLP etc), or operations to or from sea-going vessels (maritime mobile or stationary). Exception for permanently registered docked exhibition vessels or historic ships considered land based. All contacts must have been made after 1st. January 1946, unless otherwise noted. In cases of dispute, the decision of the W.I.A. Awards Manager and two Directors of the W.I.A. Board on the interpretation of these rules shall be final and binding.
Application and Verification
1. Applicants are required to hold QSL cards as confirmation for all QSO's claimed, unless specifically noted for a particular award.
2. Electronic QSL methods such as eQSL, LoTW, Fax and email are not at present accepted as confirmation of QSO's for WIA awards.
3. Do not send QSL cards with your application for a WIA award, unless previously specifically agreed by the WIA Awards Manager.
4. There are downloadable spreadsheets appropriate to each WIA award in the specific area in the WIA website relating to that award. While it is not essential that these are used for an application for a WIA award, it is very much preferred that they be used.
5. Either in the downloadable application or other application, all two-way contacts claimed are listed as follows: prefix, entity, callsign of station contacted, date (DD-MM-YY), time (UTC), RST (optional), mode and frequency.
6. The information listed must match the information on the QSL cards.
7. All information supplied in an application for an award must be double-checked and free of any duplication. Where computer generated dates are used, they should be set to the DD-MM-YY format.
8. Contacts must be listed in numerical, alphabetical order i.e. (1A-9Z, A2-ZS).
9. Each data sheet submitted in support of an application for a WIA Award must have at the bottom of the sheet a declaration that all the data on the sheet has been verified against the QSL cards as described above, and must be signed either by an officer of an IARU member society or two licensed radio amateurs or such other person(s) as previously agreed by the WIA Awards Manager. The name, position (in the case of an officer of an IARU member society) and callsigns of the persons signing the declaration, and the date of the declaration must be printed below each signature on each sheet.
10. The WIA may undertake an audit to verify any declaration submitted in support of an application for a WIA Award before issuing the award.
11. Applications for a WIA Award that do not substantially comply with these rules, or contain duplicates or otherwise are considered unacceptable may be rejected and shall be returned to the applicant with the invitation to resubmit the application once the defects have been corrected.
Rules Specific to this Award:
Australian and DX or Overseas applicants.
1. Applicants need to make ten (10) confirmed contacts with amateur radio stations conducting valid operations from Antarctica.
2. The ten contacts must include stations licensed by at least six (6) different Government Authorities, of which one (1) must be a VK0.
3. Only contacts made on or after the 23rd February 1988 qualify.
Notes:
Antarctica is defined as the landmass, including islands and permanent ice shelf, below 60 degrees south latitude.
(This excludes Heard, Macdonald and Macquarie Islands as qualification for the award, being sub-Antarctic).
Recent Award Recipients
How To Apply For The Award
View the file in 'Files for Download' for the Award Application and Award Data Sheet.
WIA Awards Manager
Po Box 2175
Caulfield Junction
Victoria 3161
Australia
Email: awards@wia.org.au
Files For Download
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