Maple Leaf Prefix Award Rules

	Maple Leaf Prefix Award Application

Maple Leaf Award

For these awards you must have confirmed contact (for SWL confirmed reception) with amateur radio stations having different prefixes of Canada. Contacts count only on or after Feb 15, 1965.

The Maple Leaf Award Certificate is issued in different classes as follows:
Class IV - 10 prefixes;
Class III - 15 prefixes;
Class II - 25 prefixes;
Class I - 30 prefixes.

Fee for the certificate is $5 U.S. or $5 Canadian for VA/VE/VO/VY

See note at bottom of page regarding shields, plaques, scrolls, trophies Effective December 4, 2010

The Maple Leaf Award Shield requires 50 prefixes.
Fee is $40 Canadian for VA,VE,VO,VY in Canadian Funds

Fee is $40 U.S. Funds for Americans

Fee is $50 U.S. Funds for DX Stations

Maple Leaf Award Plaque requires 100 prefixes.

Fee is $50 Canadian for VA,VE,VO,VY in Canadian Funds

Fee is $50 U.S. Funds for Americans

Fee is $55 U.S. Funds for DX Stations

The Maple Leaf Award Scroll requires 200 prefixes.

Fee is $75 Canadian for VA,VE,VO,VY in Canadian Funds

Fee is $65 U.S. Funds for Americans

Fee is $65 U.S. Funds for DX Stations

The sponsor reserves the right to check on any claimed contact/reception QSL card.
Send log data (no QSL cards) to:

Maple Leaf Radio Society,
Garry Hammond - VE3XN,
5 McLaren Avenue,
Listowel, ON N4W 3K1

DEC 5 2010

Just in from Garry Hammond the Program Adminstratior for CISA & MLA Awards

Dear fellow radio amateurs,

Unfortunately, effective immediately, as of December 4, 2010 please do not apply for any plaques, shields, scrolls or trophies for the Maple Leaf Award and/or the Canadian Islands Award program.

There are a few problems that have brought this change about:

01. Canadian postal rates are very, very expensive.

02. Canadian registration is very, very expensive.

03. The exchange rate of the US dollar is almost at par with Canadian dollars.

04. The cost of the engraving and artwork has been going up over the last decade.

The combination of all these factors is making the awards very expensive to prepare and to send.

We take their preparation, packaging, and mailing seriously....More than 500 plaques, shields, trophies, and scrolls have been sent to deserving amateurs and SWLs in the past 3 decades.

Please QRX until we can solve the problem.

All paper awards are still available at the reasonable cost of $5.00 US or 5 Euros.

Thank you for your patience and understanding if you are affected by this policy change.

73 and good luck in working new prefixes or islands of Canada.

Garry V. Hammond, VE3XN

Maple Leaf Radio Society