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NAQCC Friendship Club Award Comments: If you have been reluctant to take the time required to prepare your FC award application, there is now a VERY easy way to do it using GenLog. Here is a tutorial on how to do it. We are combining our former Worked Members Award - Advanced and our former Worked Members Award - Basic into the Friendship Club Award. This award is designed to encourage our members to become friends with each other on the air by getting to know more about each other in addition to just a name and number. You may also earn it by simply working 200 different members if you don't want to deal with what some believe are overly complicated point value QSO's. It's the club number that determines a different member. That is President Tom's previous KB3LFC call and current WY3H call count as just one member - number 0001. Likewise all club calls - KB3MQT, N3AQC, N1A, N2A, N3A, N4A, N5A, N6A, N7A, N8A, N9A, N0A count as just one member - number 1100 regardless of who the operator is at the time. Time Frame For Qualifying QSO's: January 1, 2005 0000Z through the present Friendship Club Award Premise: Earn points for QSO's with members with more points being assigned to contest/sprint QSO's and especially where you really learn something about who you are working. Or work 200 different members counting each as simply a one-point QSO regardless of type. The choice is yours. Categories: 200 points. Equipment: YOU: Power: QRP Antenna: Any. HAM YOU WORK: Power: Any Antenna: Any QSOs: Any kind of 2X CW QSO. Other: You must have been a member at the time of the QSO. We encourage you to give out your NAQCC number in a QSO and if the person you are working is also a member, continue on with a rag chew to get to know each other better. If the person is not a member, continue with a rag chew anyway and tell them all about the NAQCC. Then if they later join the club, that becomes a one-point QSO for you. QSO Point Values: 1 point - A QSO with a non-member who later became a member counts for 1 point. This allows you to go back through your logs from 1/1/05 to date and search for points. See the table at the bottom of the page for approximate dates when numbers were assigned. 1 point - A QSO with a member consisting of only RST QTH NAME RIG WX NUMBER. 2 points - A QSO in a contest or sprint with someone who is a member at the time of the QSO. We assign two points since a goal of the club is to help members improve CW skills and contesting is a great way to do that. 4 points - Here's the meat of the award. A QSO with someone who is a member at the time of the QSO where you go beyond the usual RST-QTH-NAME-RIG-WX-NUMBER and actually find out something about the ham you are communicating with. For example, you find out that the ham is an ex-major league baseball player (NK7U, if he were a member), served on the USS Arizona shortly before Pearl Harbor, worked in broadcasting (K3WWP), plays chess (WY3H), loves fishing (N0NBD), etc. Basically anything that goes beyond the 6 items listed above. 5 points - A QSO with any of our club calls (KB3MQT N3AQC N#A which all have #1100 regardless of the operator). The 5 points can only be claimed once since it is the club number that counts, not the operator or call sign. Once you make a QSO and get the club number 1100, that's it - no further QSO's with any club call count. Only one point value per QSO. That is, a long rag chew with N3AQC would be 5 points NOT 5+4=9 points. Only one QSO with a member will be counted, even if that member changes calls. As with the club call, it is the club number that counts, not the call sign. If you worked club President Tom when he was KB3LFC, then again when he changed to WY3H, you can only claim his number once. However you can replace a QSO with a higher point value QSO at any time to increase your points total. For example if you have the following hypothetical QSO's with KB3LFC/WY3H: 2005-Jan-30 KB3LFC 0001 1pt regular QSO 2005-Jul-14 KB3LFC 0001 2pts NAQCC Sprint 2005-Dec-5 WY3H 0001 4pts Worked as a newspaper reporterYou may replace the 1 point QSO with the 2 point QSO, and then replace the 2 point QSO with the 4 point QSO. You may do this even though you already submitted a lower point value QSO for an award or endorsement. Certificate: Issued when you reach 200 points. A certificate sent to you via email is FREE. You may make a monetary donation, only if you wish to do so. There is no obligation to do so. If you want us to print your certificate and send it via regular mail, the fee is $3.00 per certificate. Web Site Listing: All certificates and subsequent endorsements will receive a listing on the web site. Endorsements: At each 100 points beyond the basic 200, i.e. 300,400,500,etc. points. Endorsements are free since there is no printed certificate involved, just the web site 'Honor Roll' listing. Logs: Send a list with one QSO per line containing at least the following sorted in ascending order by NAQCC number: Date, Call, NAQCC number, point value of QSO. When applying for an endorsement, all QSO's must be listed, not just the ones giving the latest 100 points. See General Award Rules for information applying to this and all other awards. To help in determining if someone was a member at the time you worked them, here are approximate dates when the members joined. We did not keep accurate dates before 1/20/05 when we had already reached 681 members. Range Nr Joined 0001-0039 39 Before 10/16/04 0040-0201 162 10/16/04-10/30/04 0202-0643 442 10/31/04-01/01/05 0644-0720 77 Jan 2005 0721-0776 46 Feb 2005 0777-0835 59 Mar 2005 0836-0875 40 Apr 2005 0876-0910 35 May 2005 0911-0935 25 Jun 2005 0936-0972 37 Jul 2005 0973-0996 24 Aug 2005 0997-1034 38 Sep 2005 1035-1077 43 Oct 2005 1078-1118 41 Nov 2005 1119-1145 27 Dec 2005 - total in 2005: 502 1146-1242 97 Jan 2006 1243-1283 41 Feb 2006 1284-1333 50 Mar 2006 1334-1368 35 Apr 2006 1369-1404 36 May 2006 1405-1445 41 Jun 2006 1446-1480 35 Jul 2006 1481-1501 21 Aug 2006 1502-1534 33 Sep 2006 1535-1568 34 Oct 2006 1569-1596 28 Nov 2006 1597-1634 38 Dec 2006 - total in 2006: 489 1635-1691 57 Jan 2007 1692-1717 26 Feb 2007 1718-1772 55 Mar 2007 1773-1822 50 Apr 2007 1823-1883 61 May 2007 1884-1933 50 Jun 2007 1934-1972 39 Jul 2007 1973-2016 44 Aug 2007 2017-2038 22 Sep 2007 2039-2078 40 Oct 2007 2079-2118 40 Nov 2007 2119-2168 50 Dec 2007 - total in 2007: 534 2169-2224 56 Jan 2008 2225-2271 47 Feb 2008 2272-2319 48 Mar 2008 2320-2365 46 Apr 2008 2366-2404 39 May 2008 2405-2455 51 Jun 2008 2456-2488 33 Jul 2008 2489-2694 206 Aug 2008 2695-2852 158 Sep 2008 2853-2946 94 Oct 2008 2947-3011 65 Nov 2008 3012-3067 56 Dec 2008 - total in 2008: 899 3068-3335 68 Jan 2009 3336-3595 260 Feb 2009 3596-3647 52 Mar 2009 3648-3706 59 Apr 2009 3707-3744 38 May 2009 3745-3783 39 Jun 2009 3784-3830 47 Jul 2009 3831-3871 41 Aug 2009 3872-3904 33 Sep 2009 3905-3944 40 Oct 2009 3945-3987 43 Nov 2009 3988-4029 42 Dec 2009 - total in 2009: 962 4030-4059 30 Jan 2010 4060-4482 423 Feb 2010 4483-4526 44 Mar 2010 4527-4556 30 Apr 2010 4557-4608 52 May 2010 4609-4661 53 Jun 2010 4662-4697 36 Jul 2010 4698-4734 37 Aug 2010 4735-4769 35 Sep 2010 4770-4813 44 Oct 2010 4814-5260 447 Nov 2010 5261-5331 71 Dec 2010 - total in 2010: 1,302 5332-5381 50 Jan 2011 5382-5412 31 Feb 2011 5413-5464 52 Mar 2011 5465-5510 46 Apr 2011 5511-5545 34 May 2011 5546-5592 47 Jun 2011 5593-5630 38 Jul 2011 5631-5680 50 Aug 2011 5681-5714 34 Sep 2011 5714-5741 27 Oct 2011 5742-5785 43 Nov 2011 5786-5834 49 Dec 2011 - total in 2011: 503 5835-5878 44 Jan 2012 5879-5919 41 Feb 2012 5920-5966 47 Mar 2012 5967-6011 45 Apr 2012 6012-6063 51 May 2012 6064-6115 52 Jun 2012 6116-6171 56 Jul 2012 6172-6216 45 Aug 2012 6217-6259 43 Sep 2012 6260-6291 32 Oct 2012 6292-6330 39 Nov 2012 6331-6397 67 Dec 2012 - total in 2012: 563 6397-6448 51 Jan 2013 6449-6503 55 Feb 2013 6504-6607 104 Mar 2013 6608-6675 68 Apr 2013 6676-6719 44 May 2013 6720-6773 54 Jun 2013 6774-6825 52 Jul 2013 6826-6866 41 Aug 2013 6867-6885 19 Sep 2013 6886-6918 33 Oct 2013 6919-6976 58 Nov 2013 6977-7035 59 Dec 2013 - total in 2013: 638 7036-7096 61 Jan 2014 7097-7147 51 Feb 2014 7148-7208 61 Mar 2014 7209-7238 30 Apr 2014 7239-7290 52 May 2014 7291-7352 62 Jun 2014 7353-7390 38 Jul 2014 7391-7459 69 Aug 2014 7460-7496 37 Sep 2014 7497-7535 39 Oct 2014 7536-7575 40 Nov 2014 7576-7628 53 Dec 2014 - total in 2014: 593 7629-7677 49 Jan 2015 7678-7721 44 Feb 2015 7722-7767 46 Mar 2015 7768-7819 52 Apr 2015 7820-7857 38 May 2015 7858-7892 35 Jun 2015 7893-7939 47 Jul 2015 7940-7978 39 Aug 2015 7979-8019 41 Sep 2015 8020-8064 45 Oct 2015 8065-8095 31 Nov 2015 8096-8136 41 Dec 2015 - total in 2015: 508 8137-8200 64 Jan 2016 8201-8309 109 Feb 2016 8310-8360 51 Mar 2016 8361-8419 59 Apr 2016 8420-8469 50 May 2016 8470-8505 36 Jun 2016 8506-8561 56 Jul 2016 8562-8591 30 Aug 2016 8592-8621 30 Sep 2016 8622-8669 48 Oct 2016 8670-8706 37 Nov 2016 8797-8756 50 Dec 2016 - total in 2016: 620 8757-8814 58 Jan 2017 8815-8859 45 Feb 2017 8860-8915 56 Mar 2017 8916-8960 45 Apr 2017 8961-8991 31 May 2017 8992-9025 34 Jun 2017 9026-9080 55 Jul 2017 9081-9110 30 Aug 2017 9111-9142 32 Sep 2017 9143-9186 44 Oct 2017 9187-9225 39 Nov 2017 9226-9261 36 Dec 2017 - total in 2017: 505 9262-9305 44 Jan 2018 9306-9357 52 Feb 2018 9358-9392 35 Mar 2018 9393-9439 47 Apr 2018 9440-9466 27 May 2018 9467-9506 40 Jun 2018 9507-9534 28 Jul 2018 9535-9585 51 Aug 2018 9586-9631 46 Sep 2018 9632-9679 48 Oct 2018 9680-9743 64 Nov 2018 9744-9783 40 Dec 2018 - total in 2018: 522 9784-9815 32 Jan 2019 9816-9852 37 Feb 2019 9853-9888 36 Mar 2019 9889-9921 33 Apr 2019 9922-9965 44 May 2019 9966-9987 22 Jun 2019 9988-10027 27 Jul 2019 (10000-10013 reserved) 10028-10061 34 Aug 2019 10062-10090 29 Sep 2019 10091-10115 25 Oct 2019 10116-10135 20 Nov 2019 10136-10167 32 Dec 2019 - total in 2019: 370 10168-10200 33 Jan 2020 10201-10238 38 Feb 2020 |