Certificates, Awards, Licenses, etc.

      

Updated 25 January 2023

Certificates/Awards for WD9EWK

• AMSAT awards: 
• "51 on 51" Award (#60 - making contact with 51 different stations through the AO-51 satellite in 2005), issued 30 December 2005
• AMSAT Rover Award (#2, issued 5 January 2018)
• GridMaster Award (#35 - making confirmed contacts with stations in all 488 grids covering the continental USA), issued 15 March 2022
• OSCAR Sexagesimal Award (#151 - making confirmed contacts with stations in a combination of at least 60 US states, Canadian provinces, and other non-US/non-Canadian DXCC entities), issued 13 August 2009
• Satellite Communications Achievement Award (#459 - making confirmed satellite contacts with stations in at least 20 US states, Canadian provinces, or DXCC countries/entities), issued 27 February 2008
• Satellite Communicator's Club (making a contact via amateur satellite) - undated and unnumbered, received 2 July 2003
• South African AMSAT Satellite Communication Achievement Award (#US118 - making confirmed contacts with 25 different stations via low-Earth-orbit amateur satellites), issued 27 February 2008
• W4AMI Satellite Operator Achievement Award (#47 - making at least 1000 contacts via amateur satellites), issued 27 February 2008
• W4AMI Satellite Operator Achievement 5000 Award (#21 - making at least 5000 contacts via amateur satellites), issued 15 February 2009
• AMSAT India VO-52 award (making two-way contacts through the Indian VO-52 satellite)
• ARRL awards: 
• DX Century Club awards (contacting at least 100 countries or territories and receiving QSL cards verifying those contacts): 
• Basic award (#39103), dated 14 August 2003
• RTTY award (#1290), dated 14 August 2003
• 20m award (no serial number), dated 14 August 2003
• DXCC Millennium Award (contacting at least 100 countries or territories in 2000), dated 13 November 2000
• Old Timer's Club (for having held an amateur license at least 20 years ago), dated 24 March 2000
• VHF/UHF Century Club award (contacting stations in at least 100 Maidenhead grid locators) 
  • Satellite awards
  • #210 (WD9EWK-DM43), dated 11 May 2011 - for QSOs made in central Arizona
  • #399 (WD9EWK-DM41), dated 17 October 2018 - for QSOs made in southeastern Arizona, in Cochise and Graham Counties
  • #400 (WD9EWK-DM22), dated 17 October 2018 - for QSOs made in Yuma County (Arizona) and Imperial County (California)
  • #413 (WD9EWK-DM23), dated 21 December 2018 - for QSOs made around Quartzsite (Arizona) and Blythe (California)
  • #421 (WD9EWK-DM31), dated 16 February 2019 - for QSOs made in/around the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona
  • #432 (WD9EWK-DM42), dated 10 April 2019 - for QSOs made in southern Arizona, around Tucson and Nogales
  • #438 (WD9EWK-DM45), dated 13 June 2019 - for QSOs made in northern Arizona, around Flagstaff
  • #450 (WD9EWK-DM54), dated 19 August 2019 - for QSOs made in eastern Arizona, around Holbrook and Show Low
  • #612 (WD9EWK-DM25), dated 8 September 2021 - for QSOs made in northwestern Arizona and southern Nevada, around Kingman (Arizona) and Las Vegas (Nevada)
  • #631 (WD9EWK-DM62), dated 17 November 2021 - for QSOs made in southwestern New Mexico, in Hidalgo and Luna Counties
  • #721 (WD9EWK-DM13), dated 31 December 2022 - for QSOs made in southern California, in and around Los Angeles
• Worked All States awards (contacting stations in all 50 US states): 
• Basic award (#50242), dated 19 January 2001
• OSCAR award (#309), dated 6 August 2009
• RTTY award (#349), dated 19 January 2001
• Central States VHF Society Reverse VUCC (VUCC/r) award for working satellites from at least 100 different grid squares (award number SAT-008), dated 4 November 2020 - the satellite version of this award is now issued by AMSAT
• Federacion Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores awards: 
• 6Z6 award (confirming contact with 6 Mexican stations, via FM satellite), dated 9 October 2007
• 75@75 award (contacting Mexican stations with various prefixes in 2007, 75th anniversary of FMRE, via FM satellite), dated 20 July 2007
• MEXICO award (confirming contact with at least 14 Mexican states, Mexico City, and XF4 via FM satellite), dated 9 December 2008
• SAT Z6 PLUS award (confirming contact with at least 15 Mexican states and XF4 via FM satellite), dated 4 December 2008
• Grupo DXXE DXXE Diploma award (#B-008/Satellite #3, contacting DXXE members via amateur satellites), dated 21 January 2009
• International Amateur Radio Union Worked All Continents awards (contacting stations on all continents, except Antarctica): 
• Mixed-mode, dated 19 May 2000
• Phone, dated 12 April 2001
• RTTY, dated 19 May 2000
• ISS Fan Club Achievement Award (#122, dated 3 February 2006)
• Japan Amateur Radio League Amateur-Satellite Fuji Award (making 10 two-way contacts through the Fuji amateur satellite), dated 15 May 2009
• QRP Amateur Radio Club International 1000 Mile per Watt awards: 
• Award #1907 (28 MHz #299, SSB #372 - for a contact with VK4EJ in Australia from outside my office in Phoenix AZ, a distance of 7495 miles or 1499 miles per watt), dated 3 July 2002
• Award #1930 (28 MHz #302, CW #1483 - for a contact with JA7EYL in Japan from outside the New York-New York hotel/casino in Las Vegas NV, a distance of 5280 miles or 1056 miles per watt), dated 9 December 2002
• Radio Amateurs of Canada CANADAWARD, for working stations in all Canadian provinces and territories via satellite.  #178-s, issued 18 August 2021 

• AMSAT Rover Award (#42, for CJ7EWK/3, dated 6 June 2019)

• QRP Amateur Radio Club International 1000 Mile per Watt award: 
• Award #1940 (28 MHz #305, SSB #383 - for a contact with JA3JOT in Japan from Tecate, Baja California, a distance of 5865 miles or 1173 miles per watt), dated 1 February 2003

• American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
• AMSAT-UK
• Arizona Repeater Association
• Central Arizona DX Association (CADXA)
• North Shore Amateur Radio Club (VE7NSR), of North Vancouver, British Columbia
• Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)
• Radio Amateurs of/du Canada (RAC)
• Red Digital del Noroeste (Northwest Digital Network, XE2DNN)
• Wireless Institute of Australia
• (and other organizations)

• USA
• FCC Amateur Extra class Amateur Radio License, with call sign WD9EWK
• FCC General Mobile Radio Service Radio Station Authorization, with call sign WPXG778
• FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit, serial number RR00011517
• Canada
• Innovation, Science and Development Canada Certificate of Proficiency in Amateur Radio, with all 3 amateur qualifications (Basic, Morse Code, Advanced) and call sign VA7EWK