TOP TEN FINISH!: WP2Z (NUØQ, op) from the U.S. Virgin Islands 2000 CW Low Power - Fifth Place in US & Canada (But finished second in the Virgin Islands section!) 176,000 points (1100 QSOs, 80 sections - clean sweep) Plaque Winner, 1994 CW Low Power, Midwest Division First Place Plaque Winner, 2001 Phone Unlimited, Midwest Division First Place Plaque Winner, 2002 CW Unlimited, Midwest Division First Place First place, Single Operator, Low Power, CW, Iowa Section: 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2001 First place, Single Operator, Unlimited, CW, Iowa Section: 2002 First place, Single Operator, Unlimited, Phone, Iowa Section: 2001, 2002 Novice winner (WNØCSG), Iowa section: 1971 (28 contacts, 21 sections!) Clean Sweeps - CW: 1992, 2000, 2001 Clean Sweeps - Phone: 2000, 2001, 2002
First Place, Single Operator, Low Power, Iowa Section: 1993 - Mixed Mode 1997 - CW Only 1998 - CW Only 1999 - Mixed Mode (Iowa Section Record: 296,784 points, 556 QSOs, 162 mults)
KP2/NUØQ - 2000 - First place in Virgin Islands, CW, Single Operator, Multi-Band
5BDXCC Five-Band DX Century Club #5,586 (January 8, 2005) Current totals (excluding deleted countries): (as of January 2005) 288 Mixed 278 CW 179 Phone 55 RTTY 1 160m 100 80m 133 40m 27 30m 218 20m 20 17m 205 15m 12 12m 160 10m Also, DXCC Millennium Award, dated March 3, 2000. (for 100 countries logged in 2000)
5BWAS Five-Band Worked All States #2,848 (August 14, 2003) Worked All States #23,946 (August 15, 1973) ARRL Certificate of Code Proficiency 25 WPM (April 24, 1983) Rag Chewers Club Royal Order of the Wouff Hong (September 26, 1987) Des Moines Radio Amateurs Association: Robert M. Evans Award (2002) Winthrop Mager Award 10-X (Ten-Ten) #71379 World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) 2002 - Finland: Plaque for working all participating team stations Northern California Contest Club W1AW/6 - 2001 IARU HF World Championship Worked on 8 band/modes.