NEW CONTEST: Ten JA Districts Award
Ten JA Districts Award
I. Objective: For SDXA members to make contact with all ten of the Japanese call sign districts during any combination of the seven remaining 2022-2023 PNW DX Competition contests or two digi contests between January 1, 2023 and August 31, 2023.
II. The Seven PNW DX Contests:
- ARRL RTTY Roundup, January 7 and 8, 2023, UTC
- CQ WPX RTTY, February 11 and 12, 2023, UTC
- ARRL DX CW, February 18 and 19, 2023, UTC
- ARRL DX SSB, March 4 and 5, 2023, UTC
- CQ WPX SSB, March 25 and 26, 2023, UTC
- CQ WPX CW, May 27 and 28, 2023, UTC
- IARU, July 8 and 9, 2023, UTC
III. The Two Digi Contests:
- ARRL International Digital Contest, June 3 and 4, 2023, UTC.
- World Wide Digi DX Contest, August 26 and 27, 2023, UTC.
IV. Bands: Bands are the ones allowed in each particular contest. All have 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 m. Some include 6 m and 160 m so check the rules for each contest.
V. Modes: SSB, CW, RTTY, FT4, FT8 or any combination of the five.
VI. Entry Categories:
- Non-Million Point Club members may count contacts made in any of the nine contests.
- Million Point Club members must contact all ten JA districts in a single Which contest is your choice. You don’t have to choose the contest in advance.VII.
VII. Log Submission: Simply submit a list with the date, time, mode, and the JA call sign to [email protected].
VIII. Award:
- Non-Million Point Club members will receive a coffee cup with the name of the award and their call sign.
- Million Point Club members will receive a certificate with the name of the award and their call sign.
IX. Notes:
- You do not need to find the location of the JA operator. We will use the numeral after the prefix as the district.
- If the JA station has a forward slash (/) in the call, you can choose which numeral you want to use. An example is JJ2JQF/1. It is your choice to use this station as a 2 or as a 1.
- JA districts 5 and 9 are not as common as the others.