Radio Amateur Club Swissair (RACS) is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

more in https://hb9vc.ch/racs/start.htm and https://www.qrz.com/db/HB50VC

Award from March 18th to December 31st, 2024

• For this reason, the board has launched a special award.
• The award is available to all licensed radio amateurs worldwide. The same criteria apply to SWL (Short Wave Listeners).  To SWL LogIn-Request. 
• All logs are summarized in a central database and are then available for retrieving the individual award. No QSLs of any kind need to be submitted for the award application.
• The organizer is not liable if a QSO is logged incorrectly.
• Award will be numbered consecutively according to the time of receipt.
• To the award point query.
• The award must be ordered by September 30th, 2025 at the latest. The award is free of charge.
• All QSOs will also be published on LotW and QRZ.com at a later date. Special dQSL  (downloadable QSL) can be downloaded from the website itself. No paper QSL cards are provided.

Rules

Valid 2-way radio connections with HB50VC made between 18th March 2024, 00.00 UTC and 31st December 2024, 23.59 UTC count for the award. We try to be QRV on as many amateur radio bands as possible.

The IARU band plans must be adhered to. Connections on the same band and in the same mode [CW, Phone (Voice), Data (all digital modes)] only count once. There is only one award class. At least three QSOs must be created.

Further information can be found on our club website or on qrz.com under HB50VC. We look forward to adding you to the log.

The board of the Radio Amateur Club Swissair.