The Worked All Continents Award

The Worked All Continents (WAC) award is sponsored by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) and is issued for working and confirming all six continents. This means one QSO with each of North America, South America, Oceania, Asia, Europe and Africa. A total of 6 QSOs.

A Five-Band Worked All Continents award is also available. You must work and confirm all six continents on each of the 5 primary Amateur bands of 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 Metres. The Five-Band WAC is strictly a band-only award, it cannot be endorsed on any mode.

For more information - http://www.iaru.org/on-the-air/operating-awards/

HEMA Summit Activation Award Scheme Expansion

For those planning to drive to HAM RADIO Friedrichshafen in June and looking for some radio activatons to do on the way, the HEMA team have just added another 135 summits into the award scheme. These are located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, where Freidrichshafen is located.

So why not plan a HEMA activation or two en-route to or from HAM RADIO? If the summit you chose has no name and you are the first to activate it, you have the opportunity of naming the summit in the scheme yourself!

To be able to alert your intentions, spot yourself when you are on a summit and enter you log afterwards, you will need to create an account at the website but that costs nothing but a few minutes of your time.

For details of the scheme, to create your account and check the mapping facility for which hills may be suitable for activation along your route go to the website at hema.org.uk.