'Chasing Maidens' - a new fun award

South Africa's Sandton Amateur Radio Club is proud to announce that we will be sponsoring a new award as from 1st August 2008.

The award is called ZS WAGS - Worked all South African Grid Squares - "Chasing Maidens".

Before you get the wrong impression, the "Maidens" referred to are Maidenhead grid locators!

South Africa is completely contained within 83 "grid squares," although some of these contain a very small piece of land.

The aim of this award is to make contact with a station located in each of the 83 grid squares.

Two awards are offered, the Hunter's Award and the Activator's Award.

The Hunter's Award may be claimed from 25 grid squares upwards, eg: you can apply for ZS WAGS 25, ZS WAGS 50, ZS WAGS 60, and so on up to the magic number of 83.

To encourage amateurs to travel to the more remote or inaccessible grids, the Activator's Award can be claimed by an amateur who makes a minimum of 10 contacts from one of these less-amateur-populated grids.

The system is based on honesty and trust, and proof of contacts is not required. In addition, there is no cut-off starting date, so you may go back through your existing logbook to find all contacts, which qualify.

For more information go to the web site at www.zs6stn.org.za/zswags/, send an email to zswags@gmail.com to receive a copy of the rules, or call Peter, ZS6PHD, at 083 445 4634.