High Speed Meteor Scatter
Random QSO Award

The WSJT Random QSO Award is the first award to be offered strictly for Meteor Scatter Operators
A Unique Award for the Pioneering MS Operator
WSJTGROUP Awards Manager : Terry (WA3LTB)

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The Random QSO Award is awarded for contact with 15 Initial Meteor Scatter stations on either two or six meters or any
combination totaling 15 contacts. The RQA and endorsements are available to amateurs worldwide.

General Rules:
Creditable contacts should use (1) Propagation mode Meteor Scatter (2) WSJT Modes FSK441 or JT6M .Only Initial Random contacts qualify.
Dates January 1, 2004 or later are creditable for the award. Random contacts submitted must be completions during (1) Saturday Random Hours
(2) WSJTGROUP Fall / Winter Sprints (3) WSJTGROUP Sponsored Contests (4) ARRL January or September Sweepstakes and
(5) Random Contacts made during Field Day that qualify as a Demonstration. All random contacts must meet the following minimum exchange requirements
of (1)Both Calls (2) Reports and (3) Rogers using the recommended Random Hour formats. (see the Random Hour Manual)

INITIAL Meteor Scatter CONTACT  is: a First Time Meteor Scatter Contact with a station or a First Time Meteor Scatter Contact from the same station operating from a different 4 digit grid square (different than home QTH, e.g., rover, mobile, portable, ect.)  In other words, you can work the same station as an additional initial meteor scatter contact when you or the other station are transmitting from a different grid square or the same grid square but a different country. And the same goes for mobile, rover, and portable stations operating in different grids working a fixed station from a given grid.

Rover Rules:
All Rover contacts for the Random QSO Award must use the same call sign however if another call sign is used
(Field Day, Club etc) the control operator must be the same person making application for said award. (This should
be clearly marked in the log)

Achievement Levels:
It takes 15 initial random contacts to qualify for the Certificate.

Endorsements:
Endorsements in the increments of 15 will be posted on the WSJTGROUP Webpage until the 100ths station is worked. After
an applicant reaches the milestone of 100 endorsements all future endorsements will be in increments of 10. There are no specialty endorsements.

Random QSO Award Application Procedure
Submit log with Calls, Dates, Frequency and Report received to WA3LTB (Terry) at wa3ltb@juno.com
No confirmations QSL cards are required.

Logs can also be mailed to:
TERRY L HOSACK
9852 MARTIN AVE
LAKE CITY, PA 16423
USA

Endorsement Application Procedures
Endorsements will be posted on the WSJTGROUP Webpage. Endorsements are increments of 15 until 100 endorsements are achieved. After
the 100th Milestone, increments of 10 will be updated to the webpage.
Logs for endorsements should be sent to WA3LTB (Terry) at wa3ltb@juno.com

Fees:
Certificate cost is $3 via check mailed to Terry.(This covers printing and postage expenses)and there is no fee for endorsements.
 
The prefered method of payment is via a check!

Note: Every effort is made to keep the fee's low. The fee's cover only the actual expenses or producing and mailing the certificates.

WSJTGROUP:
The WSJTGROUP sponsor of the Meteor Scatter Awards, both Century Grid Award and Random QSO Awards
insist that proper etiquette and proper use of the Standard Operating Procedures be adhered to by all applicants.

Decisions of the WSJTGROUP Awards Manager & moderators regarding interpretation of the rules here printed or
later amended shall be final.

Note for DX operators outside North America ONLY:
DX Stations outside of North America can qualify for the Random QSO Award by completing 15 random qso's but only if one of the following statements is true:
1. There are No known Activity Periods or Contests for me to participate in and all my submitted contacts were Random Contacts using WSJT FSK441 or JT6M on six or two meters.
2. All my contacts were Random Contacts using Meteor Scatter on six or two meters and I participated in Activity Periods similar to the North American Sessions.

The cost of certificates sent over seas are $7 US dollars. Submit your log and payment to the awards manager.

For more information contact Terry (WA3LTB)

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