With ZL in lockdown for four weeks, Geoff ZL3GA has resurrected the Lee Jennings Activity marathon. Last held in 2016, the goal is simple: see how many days you can have four or more QSOs on any of the MF/HF bands, 630m to 6m from 4 April 2020 to 31 December 2020. A minimum of 50 days will qualify you for a Bronze Certificate, 100 days Silver, 200 days Gold and 300 days Platinum. This is not a contest so the only requirement for a QSO is to log a call sign and signal report. After that, the QSO can be as long or as short as you please. All HF QSOs using any mode count including ZL to ZL QSOs. You can also count all QSOs you make with a branch or club call sign (although you will need to obtain an extract of the log showing the QSOs you make).

If the challenge of four QSOs a day is not enough then there is the opportunity to endorse your award by making your QSOs on a single band, or using a single-mode, operating QRP, or for working 100 or more DXCC entities. Do you want to explore propagation on a certain band, improve your CW skills, or work as many different entities as you can during the year? This award will (I hope) give you an incentive to do this. In fact, you could do a combination of all of them e.g. 17m CW while operating QRP and aiming for 100 countries.

Logs will be required to be sent to Geoff ZL3GA at the end of the year, preferably in ADIF format, although paper logs will be accepted. You do not need to extract the four QSOs for each day you wish to count from your log and send them as one file (although that would be helpful).

With the blessing of his family, the award has been named after Lee Jennings ZL2AL SK who was a very active HF operator, friend and mentor to many. He loved to encourage people to get active, set goals and then help them strive to achieve them which is what this award is all about.