Contacts for this award have to be made on or after 1 January 2012 
and there is no ending date to complete this award. Contacts are only 
valid for this award  when made	on the SAT Award Net with SAT members.


 
1  WORK STATES IN THE ORDER THAT THEY WERE ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 
   THIS IS A PROGRESSIVE AWARD (SEE EXCEPTION BELOW)

2  USE THE WHOLE CALL, PREFIX AND SUFFIX TO GET THE 2 LETTER POSTAL 
    CODE FOR THE STATE . SAME AS WAS DONE FOR THE POSTAL AWARD

3  CALLS CAN BE USED UNLIMITED TIMES, BUT YOU MUST CALL THE STATION 
    EACH TIME. (SEE EXCEPTION BELOW)

4  MAY BE WORKED TWO TIMES BUT THE POSTAL CODES MUST BE COMPLETED 
   WITH DIFFERENT CALL SIGNS  (MEANS:  IF NJ3H USED FOR NEW JERSEY, CANNOT 
   USE NJ3H FOR NEW JERSEY AGAIN)

   EXCEPTION FOR RULE 1
   SINCE NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA WERE ADMITTED ON THE SAME DAY, YOU 
   CAN WORK EITHER STATE FIRST AND THEN THE OTHER 
 
  EXCEPTION FOR RULE 3
I  F THE CALL THAT YOU USE FOR A STATE COMPLETES THAT STATE, AND IT ALSO 
  HAS A LETTER IN THE CALL THAT CAN BE USED FOR THE NEXT STATE TO BE WORKED, 
  THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL THAT STATION AGAIN  TO USE THE LETTER FOR THAT STATE.