Canadian Provinces Year 2000+ Award

Heritage Amateur Radio Club - VE3HRC Awards Chairman, Eric Olsen (VE3GGO) 7 Skye Valley Drive, RR 4 Cobourg, Ontario Canada K9A 4J7 E-mail: harc@eagle.ca Web Page: http://www.eagle.ca/~harc Heritage Amateur Radio Club AWARDS Canadian Provinces Year 2000+ Award All Amateur Radio Stations or SWL's, are invited to cross Canada via Radio and contact as many stations in as many Canadian Provinces as possible....."Canadians talking to Canadians".....and earn points towards the Canadian Provinces Award.

Contacts in your own Province 1 point
Contacts in adjoining Provinces. 2 points
Contacts in next removed Provinces and so on, up another point the further you go east or west. North West Territories. Labrador 3 points
USA & DX countries can "adopt" nearest Canadian province as "home", ie;
NY - Ont.,
Wash. - BC
UK - NFLD
Mass. - Que.,
JA - B.C.

Examples;
Ontario to Que. or Man. 2 points
Ontario to NB or Sask. 3 points
Ontario to PEI or Alberta 4 points
Ontario to NS or BC 5 points
Ontario to NFLD. Or Yukon 6 points
Ontario To Yellowknife 4(Alta) + 1 = 5 points
B.C. to Nfld. Or reverse 10 points

Bonus points apply both ways, both stations.
PORTABLES, MOBILES, ISLANDS MARINE MOBILES AIR/BIKE & other mobiles
PORTABLE stations outside CANADA to be considered as Home Base.
PORTABLE stations inside CANADA to count as New Province.
1ST QSO to each prov./terr.., ( not compulsory )
QSO with RAC, RAQI,CLARA or ARRL members (ask each QSO)
QSO with a member of any radio club,
QSO with CPA winners, Bronze, Silver, or Gold (ask)
QSO with VE/VAs in other languages, both ways
Special Event stations 1 extra point 2 extra points 5 extra points

Categories:
BRONZE
SILVER
GOLD
FAMILY
Total of 100 points for Bronze, 200 points for the Silver and 300 + points for Gold category.
Family Category: An extra award given free to husband-wife or other family combinations such as father- son, mother-daughter, in-laws, etc., who have already earned the award.
Any Band.
Any Mode.
No QSL's.
Stations may be worked ONLY ONCE per mode, per band.
Net CHECK-IN'S ACCEPTABLE. Contacts received as Net Controller are acceptable.
SWL's ACCEPTABLE.
Commencement Date January 1, 2000.
Please re-check rules before sending application
Please submit a copy of logged contacts, ( log sheets attached ) showing CALLSIGN, DATE, MODE, FREQUENCY, QTH, NAME, PROV. POINTS & total points claimed. Retain for your own use an alphabetical list of contacts to avoid duplication. Please submit also a cheque for $5.00 to cover costs to:

Heritage Amateur Radio Club Awards Chairman, Eric Olsen, VE3GGO 7 Skye Valley Drive, R.R. #4 Cobourg, Ontario Canada K9A 4J7
Address your mail to harc@eagle.ca or harcawards@yahoo.com

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