The
Wireless Society Of Southern Maine offers several awards. These awards
are available to all radio amateurs in the world. Each award has its
own specific set of guidelines which are explained in detail under the
award's name below. For every award offered by WSSM, a GCR list
is accepted. We allow GCR in lieu of actually having to see your QSL
cards. GCR, (General Certification Rule), means getting the signatures
of two witnesses who certify that you possess the cards and that the
information that you state on the application is correct.
Fee
for each award
is US $8.00, or 5 Euros. (All award fees are waived to WSSM
members).
Apply
to:
WSSM
Awards Manager
P.O.
Box 6833
Scarborough, ME 04074
USA
Award winners:
Upside Down:
Mirror:
JR3AKG, Takeshi Ishigami, Osaka, Japan
JH3OHO, Akira Miyai, Sakai City, Osaka, Japan
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Upside
Down
Rules:
Here,
we’re looking for ambigrams. The natural ambigram is a 180
degree
symmetric rotation, which means that the word, or in this case, the
call sign, must read the same upside down as it does right side up.
We'll also accept the mirror-image ambigram, which means that the
callsign, when reflected in a mirror, reads the same both ways. Your
award will indicate either "natural" or "mirror-image," and all
contacts submitted must be either all of one or the other.
1.
Natural Ambigram -
Confirmed
contacts with
five (5) stations on at least two different bands with call signs that
read the same upside down as they do right side up. Mirror-Image
Ambigram - Confirmed contacts
with
five (5) stations on at least two different bands with call signs that,
when reflected in a mirror,
read the same both ways.
2.
All
bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits. Contacts
on repeaters, IRLP and Echolink are allowed. All stations
contacted must be "land stations". Contacts with ships, aircraft or via
satellites are not valid for this award. No SWL's.
3. Examples of call
signs which
read the same upside down as they do right side up: WS1SM,
XX1XX, HZ1ZH, HS1SH, W1M, etc.
Examples of callsigns that, when reflected in a mirror, read the same
both ways: T33T, DL1LD, ZC4CZ, AZ5ZA, etc.
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Maine
Lighthouses Award
Rules:
The
Wireless Society Of Southern Maine has established the Maine
Lighthouses Award
for all radio amateurs in the world under the following bases:
1. Confirmed contacts
with at least ten (10) Maine Lighthouses.
2.
All stations contacted must be with WS1SM (the club-station of the
Wireless Society Of Southern Maine), or any of the official lighthouse
activations found on the following lists:
International
Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) list.
World List of Lights
World
Lighthouses on the Air (WLOTA) list.
The
award is also available to activators. Those who initiate transmissions
from at least ten (10) Maine Lighthouses, can earn an 'Acitvator'
version of this award.
3.
All
bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits. No
contacts on repeaters, IRLP, or
Echolink, will count for this award. All stations contacted must be
"land stations". Contacts with ships, aircraft or via satellites are
not valid for this award. No SWL's.
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New
England Writers Award
Rules:
New England has a tradition of
being the birthplace and home to many famous writers... so we
designed an award to celebrate that heritage.
1. Confirmed contacts
with ten (10) stations located in the towns where
famous New England writers lived.
2.
All bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits.
Contacts on repeaters, IRLP, or Echolink, will count for this award.
All stations contacted must be "land stations". Contacts with ships,
aircraft or via satellites are not valid for this award. No SWL's.
The
award is also available to activators. Those who initiate transmissions
from at least ten (10) of these locations, can earn an 'Acitvator'
version of this award.
3. List of
towns that
count for the award:
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WRITER
Louisa
May Alcott
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Henry
David Thoreau
Emily
Dickenson
Edith Wharton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Greenleaf Whittier
Herman Melville
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Jack Kerouac
William Cullen Bryant
Catherine Sedgwick
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Artemus Ward
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Robert Benchley
E.E. Cummings
Erle Stanley Gardner
Robert Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
E.B. White |
TOWN
Concord,
Massachusetts
Concord,
Massachusetts
Concord,
Massachusetts
Amherst,
Massachusetts
Lenox, Massachusetts
Lenox, Massachusetts
(also
Salem, Massachusetts)
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
(also Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Pittsfield,
Massachusetts
(also Boston, Massachusetts)
Lowell, Massachusetts
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(also, Cummington, Massachusetts)
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts
Franconia, New Hampshire
(also,
Derry, New Hampshire)
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Portland, Maine
(also
Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Waterford, Maine
Camden, Maine
Worcester, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Malden, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
North Brooklin, Maine
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HOMESTEAD
Orchard
House
Cabin,
Walden Pond
Emily Dickenson Homestead
The
Mount
The Little Red House (Hawthorne
Cottage)
The House of Seven Gables
Arrowhead
Holmesdale
Holmesdale
Bryant House
Sedgwick
House
The Frost Place
The Robert Frost Farm
Mark
Twain House
Wadsworth-Longfellow House
Longfellow House
Plath Family Home
E.B. White House
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Maine
DX Award
Rules:
Maine
abounds in towns having names similar to foreign countries or cities.
There is a Moscow and Stockholm, as well as a Belfast and Limerick. To
Celebrate this fact, we introduce the Maine DX Award.
1. Confirmed contacts
with seven (7) or more stations located in Maine towns having names
similar to foreign countries or cities.
2.
All bands and modes, including WARC and 60 meters. No date limits.
Contacts on repeaters, IRLP, or Echolink, will count for this award.
All stations contacted must be "land stations". Contacts with ships,
aircraft or via satellites are not valid for this award. No SWL's.
The
award is also available to activators. Those who initiate transmissions
from at least seven (7) of these locations, can earn an 'Acitvator'
version of this award.
3. List of
towns that
count for the award:
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Athens
Belfast
Belgrade
Brighton
Bristol
Calais
Canaan
China,
(also South China)
Damascus
Denmark
Georgetown
Ireland
Corner
Lebanon
Limerick,
(also New Limerick, Limerick Mills)
Lisbon,
(also Lisbon Falls)
Madrid
(also East Madrid) |
Mexico
Moscow
Naples
Norway
Paris,
(also West Paris, South Paris)
Peru,
(also East Peru)
Poland,
(also Poland Spring)
Rome
Scotland
Siberia
Sidney
Stockholm
Sweden,
New Sweden
Vienna
Wales
Center, (also Wales Corner)
Yarmouth,
(also North Yarmouth) |
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WS1SM
Area Award
Rules:
This
award is issued by the Wireless Society Of Southern Maine for
contacting stations at the following locations in the Southern Maine
region after July 4, 2012.
There are no band or mode restrictions with endorsements for all AM,
all CW and all Digital. The award is offered in 3 classes as follows:
Class 3 -15 points
Class 2 -20 points
Class 1 -30+ points
The
award is also available to activators. Those who initiate transmissions
from these locations can collect 3 points for each new location toward
an 'Activator' award, with the same Class structure.
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Contacts
with the club station, WS1SM, operating from any of the above locations
is worth 4 points. Contacts with stations activated by WSSM club
members are worth 3 points. Stations located at Bradbury Mountain, Mt.
Battie, Fort Gorges, Frye Island, The Gray National Weather Service,
The “73" Dunkin Donuts and Wassamki Springs Campground are worth 2
points. Contacts with stations from all other locations on the list are
worth 1 point.
A GCR list, or QSL cards are
not
required for
this award. The applicant should send in a list with the names of the
locations, the call signs used in the communications, as well as the
date, time, bands and modes used.
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-Bradbury
Mountain
-Wassamki Springs Campground
-The “73" Dunkin Donuts
-Portland Head Light
-Old Orchard Ocean Pier
-Pine Point Beach
-Munjoy Hill
-Eastern Prom
-East End Beach
-USS Portland Memorial
-Maine State Building (Poland Springs)
-Biddeford Pool
-Sebago Lake State Park
-Gray National Weather Service
-The Goldenrod
-Frye Island
-Mackworth Island
-The Fryeburgh Fair
-Cumberland Fairgrounds
-Kittery Trading Post
-Ogunquit Playhouse
-The Old Port
-The Maine Diner
-Pier Fries
-Mt. Battie
-Goose Rocks Beach General Store
-Gorham Founder's Festival
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-Western
Prom
-Fort Gorges
-Back Cove
-Q St.
-Maine Mall
-L.L. Bean Boot
-Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad
-Crescent Beach
-Two Lights State Park
-Lobster Shack
-Moody’s Diner
-Ken’s Place
-Songo Locks
-Pineland Farms
-Scarborough Downs
-Deering Oaks Park
-Hadlock Field
-Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
-Desert Of Maine
-Portland Observatory
-The Wedding Cake House
-Lighthouse Depot
-Victoria Mansion
-Sohier Park
- “ The Source ” at Poland Springs
-Vallee Square
-Riverbank Park |
Award
winners:
KD1O,
Stephen Curry, Knox, ME (2013)
KB1HNZ, Tim Watson, Gorham, ME (2014)
W1WMG, Thom Watson, Gorham, ME (2014)
WS1SM, op. Sebastian Ames, Scarborough, ME (2014)
KB1FGF, Dave Wood, Scarborough, ME (2014)
K1GJY, Stefania Watson, Saco, ME (2016)
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2
Meter Century Club
Rules:
This
award is issued by the Wireless Society Of Southern Maine to any
station who has submitted evidence for having made 2-way communication
with at least 100 other amateur stations during the annual 2
Meter FM Simplex Challenge.
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Worked
All Maine Award
The
Worked All Maine Award is offered by our friends at the Pine State Amateur Radio Club, who created the award in
order to stimulate activity and call attention to the State of Maine.
Any amateur who works all sixteen Maine counties is eligible to receive
the award.
Rules:
No log entries will be accepted if dated prior to Jan. 1 1993.
No earth repeaters or digipeaters may be used. Satellites are acceptable.
Contacts may be on any band and mode.
It is not necessary to submit QSL cards. Any amateur can verify your log. The honor system will govern.
There is a $5.00 charge for the certificate. This covers the club's printing and mailing costs.
A
contact check sheet can be obtained from the awards manager or printed
from the files table below (the table and notes below will not print on
paper). This sheet needs to be submitted to the awards manager when the
required contacts have been made. If requested, it will be returned to
you along with the certificate for any future use, such as band or mode
endorsements which the club may offer.
Mail your log sheet and $5.00 to:
Pine State Amateur Radio Club
55 Sarina Drive
Holden, ME 04429
Good luck and good hunting!
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