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« on: January 29, 2010, 05:34:23 PM »
Everyone knows about the worked all states award, worked all continents, DXCC and even worked all counties, but the one I ran into to-day has to take the cake.

I tuned up on 40m, but heard nothing on 7290/95 but broadcast, and slopbucketeers working DX in the vicinity of 7160, so I decided to slip down to the cw band and call CQ.  Worked a WJ3 in PA on about 7087.

He was kinda pissweak, running QRP @ 5 watts, but it was pretty much a routine CW QSO, until he told me about the award he is working towards: working area codes!

He didn't ask for a QSL card, but it will be interesting to see if sends one requesting a card in return.

He might have a hard time working all area codes, since they are constantly adding new ones.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 05:45:54 PM »
Next thing you know, they will have one for "worked all zip codes".  But will they limit it to 5 digits, or tack on the additional 4?
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 08:42:11 PM »
Let's just quit screwing around and have a WAH award--Worked All Hams.

We'll never even have to worry about devising a certificate for that one.  Any real paper chaser will be all over it.
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