"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." — Frank Zappa 194

I just saw post by a gentlemen in another group that said he only wants RTTY contacts for this digital award and has to make sure he doesn't pick any of the other digital confirmations from his confir

I just learned that when you make application for the DXCC Challenge award on LoTW, the payment you make includes no tangible paper certificate. Instead of a paper certificate, for your payment you ge

I knew when I saw my Challenge * that no certificate was available as I checked on it. I decided I didn’t need the plaque. It seems to me certificates should be available for all ARRL awards, as well

How can you order additional medallions for the Challenge plaque? Mine still says 1000, yet I have over 2100.....

Hi, What's the best way to get cards checked during pandemic times? There's no club meetings, very few hamfests, and I expect that card checkers really don't want to have face-to-face meetings. Reason

Cool award from ARRL Jason Pintek

I have DXCC and WAZ award credit. Can someone please tell me how do I get the paper certificate for my shack? Thank You KB8MCZ Dave Sent from Mail for Windows 10

My backpacking buddies call me “Old Slow Hans”. In December 1969 I moved to the mainland and started my new DXCC. Today HB0WR confirmed a contact we had on 80-meters, completing my qualification for 5

I have searched the ARRL site and not found the answer. If you make an online application for a DXCC award via a card checker for an endorsement do you get credit towards the Challenge, or is it avail

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered herein but does anyone know why LotW WAS Account Credit page does not include FT8 and FT4 by band, like it does for almost every other digital mode?

If you follow the cq-contest reflector, you know of CQ’s conclusion that non-assisted operators no longer warrant full recognition as a standalone category their magazines’ WPX contest. Using a non-sc

-- BS7, Scarborough Reef, IS NOT a real country. It should be deleted.

In researching the eligibility of Scarborough Reef (see that thread if you want to see what I wrote) it became apparent to me the ARRL really needs to take some steps to make DXCC entity eligibility m

Hi, A month or so ago there was a discussion of various existing and proposed awards. Someone mentioned a First Contact Award available from the ARRL. I decided my wife would like to get me one and it

Curious if anyone knows how many "reef" entities will dissapear from the face of then earth because of rising ocean levels, and how long they must stay submerged before they become 'Deleted" entities?

Rest in Peace my friend https://dxnews.com/forum/forum/silent-keys/29178-n8pr-peter-rimmel-hollywood-florida-usa

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Hi All, Just a quick note to thank everyone who sent in interesting and thoughtful comments on the issue of remote operations. Whatever your opinion, remember that this is a hobby and each person gets

FYI-- 73 Saul K2XA DXAC Hudson Division “ Last night, The ARRL Program and Services Committee (PSC) members decided to take no further action on a proposal to impose station location distance limits,