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General
Requirements:
The
Wireless Society Of Southern Maine offers several awards. These awards
are available to all radio amateurs in the world. Each award has its
own specific set of guidelines which are explained in detail under the
award's name below. For every award offered by WSSM, a GCR
list is accepted. We allow GCR in lieu of actually having to see your
QSL
cards. GCR, (General Certification Rule), means getting the
signatures of two witnesses who certify that you possess the cards and
that the information that you state on the application is correct.
Fee
for each award
is US $8.00, or 5 Euros.
Apply
to:
WSSM
Awards Manager
16
Hope Drive
Gorham, ME 04038
USA
If
you have any
further questions, please click
here to contact our awards manager.
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Worked
All Maine Award ©
Rules:
The
Wireless Society of Southern Maine has established the
Worked All Maine Award for all radio amateurs in
the world under the following bases:
1. Confirmed contacts with
stations in all sixteen (16) counties of Maine.
2.
All
bands and modes are allowed, including WARC and 60 meters. No date
limits. No
contacts on repeaters, IRLP, or Echolink will count for this award.
Only three mobile or portable stations may be claimed for credit. All
stations contacted must be "land stations." Contacts with ships,
aircraft or via satellites are not allowed. No SWL’s.
3. List of counties that count for
the award:
Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox,
Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo,
Washington, and York.
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Upside
Down
Rules:
Here,
we’re looking for ambigrams. The classic, or natural ambigram is a 180
degree
symmetric rotation, which means that the word, or in this case, the
call sign, must read the same upside down as it does right side up.
1.
Confirmed contacts with
five (5) stations on at least two different bands with call signs that
read the same upside down as they do right side up.
2.
All
bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits. Contacts
on repeaters, IRLP and Echolink are allowed. All stations
contacted must be "land stations". Contacts with ships, aircraft or via
satellites are not valid for this award. No SWL's.
3. Examples of call signs which
read the same upside down as they do right side up:
WS1SM, XX1XX, HZ1ZH, HS1SH, W1M, etc.
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Maine
Lighthouses Award
Rules:
The
Wireless Society Of Southern Maine has established the Maine
Lighthouses Award
for all radio amateurs in the world under the following bases:
1. Confirmed contacts
with at least ten (10) Maine Lighthouses.
2.
All stations contacted must be with WS1SM (the club-station of the
Wireless Society Of Southern Maine), or any of the official lighthouse
activations found on the following lists:
International
Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) list.
World List of Lights
World
Lighthouses on the Air (WLOTA) list.
3.
All
bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits. No
contacts on repeaters, IRLP, or
Echolink, will count for this award. All stations contacted must be
"land stations". Contacts with ships, aircraft or via satellites are
not valid for this award. No SWL's.
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New
England Writers Award
Rules:
Our newest award!
New England has a tradition of
being the birthplace and home to many famous writers... so we
designed an award to celebrate that heritage.
1. Confirmed contacts
with ten (10) stations located in the towns where
famous New England writers lived.
2.
All bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits.
Contacts on repeaters, IRLP, or Echolink, will count for this award.
All stations contacted must be "land stations". Contacts with ships,
aircraft or via satellites are not valid for this award. No SWL's.
3. List of towns that
count for the award:
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WRITER
Louisa
May Alcott
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Henry
David Thoreau
Emily
Dickenson
Edith Wharton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Greenleaf Whittier
Herman Melville
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Jack Kerouac
William Cullen Bryant
Catherine Sedgwick
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Artemus Ward
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Robert Benchley
E.E. Cummings
Erle Stanley Gardner
Robert Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
E.B. White |
TOWN
Concord,
Massachusetts
Concord,
Massachusetts
Concord,
Massachusetts
Amherst,
Massachusetts
Lenox, Massachusetts
Lenox, Massachusetts
(also
Salem, Massachusetts)
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
(also Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Pittsfield,
Massachusetts
(also Boston, Massachusetts)
Lowell, Massachusetts
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(also, Cummington, Massachusetts)
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts
Franconia, New Hampshire
(also,
Derry, New Hampshire)
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Portland, Maine
(also
Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Waterford, Maine
Camden, Maine
Worcester, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Malden, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
North Brooklin, Maine
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HOMESTEAD
Orchard
House
Cabin,
Walden Pond
Emily Dickenson Homestead
The
Mount
The Little Red House (Hawthorne
Cottage)
The House of Seven Gables
Arrowhead
Holmesdale
Holmesdale
Bryant House
Sedgwick House
The Frost Place
The Robert Frost Farm
Mark Twain House
Wadsworth-Longfellow House
Longfellow House
Plath Family Home
E.B. White House
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Society of Southern
Maine 25 Graham Road, Westbrook, ME 04092
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