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FISTS Down Under - Awards
Rules for FISTS Down Under Inc. Gold Award There are
currently well in excess of 100 FISTS Down Under Inc. members in VK and ZL with
many thousands of FISTS members worldwide. The Gold Award is open to ALL FISTS members. There are
three classes of Awards: Gold 25 Award, Gold 50 Award and Gold 75
Award. 1. The
FISTS Down Under Inc. Gold (25, 50, 75)
Award is achieved when a FISTS member makes contact and exchanges callsign,
FISTS number and name with (25, 50, 75) different FISTS members. 2. The FISTS
Down Under Inc. club call, (VK2FDU) nor any special-event callsign cannot to be
used for any of the Gold Awards.
However, you may use the callsign of the actual station operator, provided that
you have not already used that operator’s callsign previously. 3. Both
parties in the QSO must be FISTS members at the time of the QSO. 4. All
callsigns used to achieve any of the Gold
Awards can only be used once for that purpose. That is; if the call sign VK3FGE
is used for the Gold 25 Award it
CANNOT be used again for either the Gold
50 Award or the Gold 75 Award. 5.
Contacts may be made on any available band at any time, including WARC Bands. 6.
QSOs
must be made using any hand operated or mechanical key eg. straight
key, side swiper (cootie), bug or paddle key. Contacts using
computer generate CW eg. "CWDecoder" etc. will not qualify for any of
these
awards. 7. If you earn your award using QRP, (5 watts or less), please state so at the time of your application for that award. Your callsign will be printed on the award as eg. VK3FGE - QRP ". 8.
Only one (1) certificate will be issued to any one (1) FISTS member in
each of the catagories ie. 25, 50 & 75 Gold Awards. 9.
The starting date for this award is: 1st October, 2018. All contacts
claimed for this award must be on or after the starting date AND must be no more than twelve (12) months from the date the award is claimed. How to Submit your FISTS Down Under Inc. Gold Award
Application The
preferred method of submitting your Gold Award application is email. Please DO
NOT submit your Gold Award application in PDF format, use either Excel, Word or
CSV A sample Gold Award application is available in both Word and Excel format for all entrants at: Application for all Gold Awards in EXCEL format. Application for Gold 25 Award in WORD format. All awards will be provided FREE in JPG format. A laminated award will be available at a cost of AUD$10.00 posted. Please double
check your application, submissions will be thoroughly checked. Lets make
it FUN and keep it SIMPLE!! All
questions and submissions about/for this award should be sent to: Garry
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