The West Kent ARS Award is available to any licensed amateur or shortwave listener SWL, whether a member of the Society or not, who submits proof of working or hearing members or callsigns of West Kent ARS on any band from 1.8MHz to 430MHz.
Only direct Morse and phone contacts logged from the 1st of January 2000 are eligible for this award. Contacts via repeaters or other indirect means are not considered as counting toward this award.
Award categories
There are three levels of award category available; Bronze, Silver and Gold, each with a different level of points required for claiming an award certificate.
In addition to the above award categories, the certificate can be endorsed for the bands used in the contacts; HF, VHF or UHF and the modes used; Mixed, AM, CW, FM of SSB.
Contact scores
The points required for claiming the separate award levels are;
Bronze 15 points
Silver 20 points
Gold 25 points
Points for each station callsign worked or heard is awarded according to the following scale;
QSO with club station Gx1WKS, Gx3WKS, (maximum one call per claim) 5 points
QSO with club special event call (see below for eligible callsigns, maximum one per claim) 3 points
QSO with past or present member of West Kent ARS 1 point
Eligible callsigns
Special event station callsigns;
GB0WKS, GB0BMM, GB2NW, GB8TS
Past and present members of West Kent ARS;
G0 CKP DBL DEV DJC EBS EMZ FSX GCI GKW GNN GUV HAU HAX ICO ILL IQJ MUT VPY
G1 BGL FQK GJH JBO LTX NZA OBQ PAZ SWD UNO UTH VTN VZK YLB
G2 AOL BGU BT UJ
G3 AIO AMG EDV FVV GWD HCK HOU IOM KIP KOM LMS MGQ OGQ OHV PEY RST TLB TLG TXZ XPX YOU YPY ZYP ZZD
G4 AY IB BIA BKG BMD BOO BUO BWH CCQ CNE CTY DFY DIX DRB DRV DYF EMV ERW EUK FDC FFY FGU FWG FYG GTN HUW IBQ IJH JED JFD JZP KIU LNM MXL NAJ NHP OSH OTV OYW PBF PML RPQ RWT SGI SLD TPJ UDW UPI XCZ XDS XIA XRN ZFP
G6 PS TQ BNJ DUU HFX HTH HVW JUB JZN KLG OOE RHU TBO TBY TKG TWF UBM UBL UJY ZBI
G7 KNS
G8 KG VG CAA CDD CDP DHP FFG GYB HLE IJH IWP JXG JZN KHF KNA KOA KPU KPZ KQJ KUV LGS LGW LMV LSD MLZ NOB OFO OPT ORZ PHM PSS PWO RUX SAS SFR SRL UEH UFY UJM VHK VMG VQN WLH WZK XSC ZXC
M0 CUV EDJ HTF IMA JQT KAO KSJ NAY NLP NZA PRV RBT RCQ RXW RYK VIR WAR WTW XHT YOU ZWW
M1 BDH
M3 UBM SUZ ZWW
M6 BQY BQW BRD BRE BYD BYG DWQ DWU DXK DXO FFH GVZ HXK HYG JVG LVK MPY MSF MVV NAU PYA TFT TVE TVZ VKH XHT YJK YOU YZZ
M7 KJW SSE
2E0 CMN CMP CQK CQL CZM FJE GCP IAK JVG KJJ MDU RZZ SRO SSE TXX VKH VZJ WOH YOU ZWW
F4VRD, GJ6TWF, GM2AOL, K3HZO, LA0DO, TA2BU, TA4CNU, VK2IZH, VK6AIX, VK6VZ, ZL3PD, ZS6M, 5B4DN
Award claim procedure;
To claim an award certificate, send an extract from your log showing, for each contact for which you are claiming points, the date, time, callsign worked, band and mode. Include a declaration signed by yourself confirming that it is a true extract from your log.
No fee is charged for these award certificates, whether a member of the West Kent ARS or not.
Apply via email to; secretary@wkars.org.uk