This year there are two SDXA Contest Incentive Awards for your enjoyment.<\/p>\n
10 JA Districts<\/strong> – A return of this one.\u00a0 In it you work all 10 JA call sign districts, JA0 to JA9.\u00a0 If you are a Million Points member, you have to do it in a single contest.\u00a0 If you are not a Million Points member, you have all 10 of the contest to do it in.\u00a0 Any mix of bands and modes.<\/p>\n Oceania\u00a0& Caribbean<\/strong> – This is a new one.\u00a0 You need to work 10 DXCC entities in Oceania plus 10 DXCC entities in the Caribbean.\u00a0 Oceania entities are an easy shot for us here in the PNW.\u00a0 Caribbean ones are a bit more difficult, but usually there isn’t an East Coast wall between them and us.\u00a0 Once again, if you are a Million Points member, you have to do it in a single contest.\u00a0 If you are not, you’ve got all 10 of the contests.\u00a0 Any mix of bands and modes.<\/p>\n Work Three Contests<\/strong> – For this incentive you need to operate in three<\/strong>\u00a0of the SSB contests OR\u00a0three\u00a0<\/strong>of the RTTY contests OR\u00a0three\u00a0of the CW contests.\u00a0 Just for an extra bit of fun, in the\u00a0IARU, which is a mixed mode contest, you can use it as a Wild Card <\/strong>to fill in either your needed SSB or CW contest.<\/p>\n The only requirement is that to have a contest qualify you’ve got to make at least\u00a010 Qs<\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0count in that contest.\u00a0 Easy-peasy in the CQWW or CQWPX\u00a0ones where you can get credit for three USA ones then add in KL7, KH6, up to 10 VE provinces, plus PJ2T and you are there.\u00a0 The ARRL DX CW and SSB will require a bit more work because US stations do not count.<\/p>\n No minimum score.\u00a0 No ranking by score.\u00a0\u00a0Just work 10 in each of three contests using the mode of your choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year there are two SDXA Contest Incentive Awards for your enjoyment. 10 JA Districts – A return of this one.\u00a0 In it you work all 10 JA call sign districts, JA0 to JA9.\u00a0 If you are a Million Points member, you have to do it in a single contest.\u00a0 If you are not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16068,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions\/16068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}