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The USA Counties Award is managed by the MARAC organization and was implemented after CQ folded with some changes from CQ's award.
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One major change is we do not require written confirmation of contacts for the award, ie QSL cards.? The fact that the organization has no Awards Manager is correct BUT we have an Awards Secretary that does all the work managing the awards. The MARAC board of directors comprised of hams from different districts guide the Awards Secretary and make the primary decisions that the Secretary implements. More information on the USA Counties Award and other county hunting awards can be found on their website. marac.org 73 NA8W Great Lakes Director marac.org ? CQ Magazine is an ex-magazine, it is no more. As the magazine business expired, things basically fell apart and a few bits fell off the perch. It is not easy to find definitive information on the web: presumably the heavy burden of administering awards, contests, contest plaques and certificates reduces the enthusiasm/energy for maintaining websites and pages. Here's what I've found with an hour's Googling this morning ... Some of the CQ awards and contests are still going: * LoTW still supports WAZ and WPX awards but ... * Administration of WAZ awards has been taken up by Jose N4BAA who presumably has some way to verify applicants' LoTW or eQSL confirmations and QSL cards, and has been getting creative with the plaques - see * WPX award is moribund/AWOL, with mixed reports/complaints about late or non-arrival of plaques * Anyone planning to apply for the CQ awards via LoTW is well advised to check with ARRL HQ before parting with any money [Hint: eQSLs are free!] * The USA Counties Award is now run by the Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club ... that evidently lacks an awards manager - see * Various CQ contests are now being administered by the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation - see * CQ WPX, CQ WW and CQ 160m contests have been extremely popular and look set to continue * I'm not sure the "CQ" name will endure but for now at least it remains 73 GL Gary ZL2iFB<> Logger32<> beater/tester & scribe<> DXCC<> Honor Roll & QSL card<> checker On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 at 03:08, Bob via groups.io<> <k4cy@...<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It looks like a long time ago I introduced a bug that causes the WAZ award window to not show Confirmed and Granted credits. This is fixed for the next update. As no-one has previously reported this, I assume WAZ is of little interest. Does the award still exist, didn't I see/hear somewhere that CQ is history?. SeventyThree(s) On 04/07/2025 3:10 PM EDT John A. Scott <k8yc@...<mailto:k8yc@...>> wrote: It seems that Logger32 tracks the "main" WAZ Awards 5BWAZ, and WAZ for Mixed, SSB, CW, RTTY, and Digital. (Yes, WAZ treats RTTY as a distinct mode.) I recently earned the WAZ award for 12m, all in digital mode. There does not seem to be a way to mark that award as "Granted" for any of the QSOs in that award submission using the panel for updating awards. I get a warning that it cannot be done because a Primary Administrative region is unspecified, but that seems to be a wayward notice. It seems that the WAZ award may not be activated for reporting individual bands. If that's the case, OK. (There are numerous WAZ award categories with unique awards available for almost all modes on all bands--perhaps more programming than anyone would like to undertake an retain one's sanity!) |
