CQ announces 75th anniversary Worked All Zones award

The November, 1934, issue of R/9 magazine announced a new operating award for radio amateurs, designed to encourage the growing popularity of contacting stations across the globe, what we know today as DXing.

The award was called Worked All Zones and was to be granted for making confirmed contacts with hams in each of the 40 zones into which the world had been divided by R/9's editors.

Today, 75 years later, R/9 has been succeeded by CQ magazine and WAZ - Worked All Zones - sponsored by CQ since 1945, continues to be one of amateur radio's most prestigious operating awards.
 
In celebration of the WAZ's 75th anniversary, CQ magazine is announcing a limited-term "Diamond Jubilee WAZ" award.

A special certificate will be issued to amateurs who make contacts in all 40 CQ Zones of the World between November 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010. Certificates will be numbered but there will be no endorsements. Confirmations will not be required. However, it is expected that applicants will continue to uphold amateur radio's long-standing tradition of honesty and self-regulation. Standard WAZ application fees will apply.
 
Complete details on the Diamond Jubilee WAZ Award will be in the October 2009 issue of CQ, and are posted on the CQ website, www.cq-amateur-radio.com, with a link from the October issue highlights page.
 
WAZ is the second-oldest amateur radio operating award still offered today. The only current award that is older is the International Amateur Radio Union's Worked All Continents award. The ARRL's DX Century Club (DXCC) award was introduced in 1936. To date, more than 8,600 basic WAZ awards have been issued.

More information on the WAZ award program is available on the CQ website at www.cq-amateur-radio.com/awards.html.