CQ DX Field Award

CQ Amateur Radio magazine has announced the introduction of a new operating award called the "CQ DX Field Award."

Its purpose is to recognize achievements in contacting at least 50 of the world's 10x20-degree "grid fields."

The CQ DX Field Award is based on the Maidenhead Grid Locator system, already popular among VHF DXers and contesters.

Contacts made on or after January 1, 1980 will count toward the new award. That's the year in which the grid system was adopted for amateur radio use.

CQ says that this is the first of three new programs to be announced over the next several months aimed at revitalizing ham radio's core activity of D-X'ing.

Complete details and rules will be published in the April 2005 issue of CQ magazine and posted on the magazine's website at www.cq-amateur-radio.com

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