The following award program is something for those that find FT8 a little to mundane and a little too automatic. The True Blue DX Club may be for you. It promotes the art of DXing along more traditional lines in CW and SSB modes. If you feel that FT8 just isn't for you I encourage you to have a look at their web site and have a look at the activities that TBDXC promotes.
TBDXC Introduces the new EXCELLENCE Awards
CW EXCELLENCE and SSB EXCELLENCE are the first to be introduced in the line of awards offered by the True Blue DXers Club. The awards programme seeks to recognise outstanding achievements by DXers who use traditional, human-to-human means in today's challenging environment characterised by declining activity on CW and SSB, increasing levels of noise and, at least in the short term, poor propagation on the HF bands.
The EXCELLENCE Awards are offered to amateurs who work at least 200 DXCC entities within one calendar year. This means that there must be no more than 365 days between the first and the last QSO. The award is available for QSOs made after 1 October 2018. The minimum requirement is 200, but the award plaque will mention the actual number of entities worked during the maximum period of one year. The TBDXC website will list award recipients with their respective number of worked entities. The EXCELLENCE awards are single-mode only, CW or SSB.
Please visit http://www.tbdxc.net/awards for details and application form.
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Pete MM0TZWX
TBDXC Founder and COO
