Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to be talking about Awards. Amateur Radio Relay League Awards DXCC     The first award that we are going to be talking about is the DXCC award. This award is probably one of the hardest to get with the exception of the Five Band DXCC award. With this award you have to make 100 confirmed contacts with 100 different countries. For this award you can use 70 cm, 2m, 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 80m and 160m! At the time of this post, you can not use 60m. Mixed DXCC – This award is the easier one of this award because you can use any band, except 60 meters, and any mode. Phone DXCC – This award requires 100 contacts on voice mode on any of the bands above. CW DXCC – This award requires 100 contacts on CW on any of the bands above Digital DXCC – This award requires 100 contacts using any digital mode on any of the bands above Satellite DXCC – This awards requires 100 contacts using only satellites