Certificates, Awards, Licenses, etc.

      

Updated 1 September 2009

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Maple Leaf Radio Society of Canada Maple Leaf Award (contacting Canadian stations with different prefixes): 
• Mixed-mode, dated 20 October 2004 (Class III)
• RTTY/PSK31, dated 12 November 2004 (Class III)
• 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
• Ten-Ten International Net certificate (#73705), issued January 2003 

• 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)
• Central Arizona DX Association (CADXA)
• 2009 CADXA Vice-President
• Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)
• AMSAT Area Coordinator for Arizona
• QRP Amateur Radio Club International (QRPARCI)
• Radio Amateurs of/du Canada (RAC)
• Radio Club Baradero (LU4DLU), of Baradero (Buenos Aires province), Argentina
• Radio Club Ushuaia (LU8XW), of Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego province), Argentina
• Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB)
• Red Digital del Noroeste, of Mexicali (Baja California), Mexico
• Ten-Ten International Net

• USA
• FCC Amateur Extra class Amateur Radio License, with call sign WD9EWK, valid through 7 June 2016
• FCC General Mobile Radio Service Radio Station Authorization, with call sign WPXG778, valid through 2 April 2013
• FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit, serial number RR00011517
• Canada
• Industry Canada Certificate of Proficiency in Amateur Radio, with all 3 amateur qualifications (Basic, Morse Code, Advanced) and call sign VA7EWK