Survey Comments
Yep---Same here
"badges, I don't need no stinking badges"
Same here, never have "got" why folks want
a meaningless paper from ARRL?!?!
If I have "WAS" I will know that, don't need that paper
to tell me!! haha
Posted by
KT4WO on 2021-11-24
WAS first.
Myself and 2 other friends who just got their Novice license challenged each other to earn WAS before we would do any upgrading. So we all made it, all in Novice bands so of course it was all CW.
Posted by
WB4M on 2021-11-22
I have no ARRL awards
WAS is on my bucket list, but Alaska eludes me. If anyone up there would indulge me in a QSO and QSL, he/she would make an old man very happy.
Posted by
WA4FOM on 2021-11-21
badges, I don't need no stinkin badges
I don't get it, my idea of radio is not contests and awards.
Posted by
KC6RWI on 2021-11-20
Never have, never will
Full disclosure. I never have and will never be a member of the ARRL. I am not a paper-chaser or a contester. Contests to me are the cancer of amateur radio. The ARRL pushes all of these contests and clogs the bands. If they specified a specific frequency range to operate in or people are just on the air to get some paper for their wall, it is not for me. Award chasers and contesters seem rude and try to push people that just want some old-fashioned rag chew away from their frequency. No thanks. The ARRL has pushed for the lowering of the license standards through publishing the question pool, multiple choice questions and the elimination of the code requirement. No mentoring, HOA laws and the average age of amateur radio operators today has me wonder where this hobby will be in 20 years or so. Where was the ARRL when the lower half of the 220 Mhz band was taken away? You notice that we did not get it back when UPS did not want it. The ARRL should stick to publishing books. 73
Posted by
KB6QXM on 2021-11-20
Awards what?
Never asked for one. It's a nuisance to the hobby IMHO.
Posted by
KD7RDZI2 on 2021-11-19
Rag Chewers Club
Signed by the Old Sock himself!!!
Posted by
K5WLR on 2021-11-18
Awards?
I talk to just have fun. It's not a job.
Posted by
K9WDB on 2021-11-17
CP & RCC
Code proficiency and RCC. Not sure which came first. Most likely the CP. Talking with a hand key for more then 30 minutes is not easy.
Posted by
K2DFC on 2021-11-17
First goal when I upgraded from Novice to General
As a "rock bound" Novice high school kid I couldn't wait to get any award I could when I upgraded to General. RCC was the easiest to qualify for and I wanted "some paper" as quickly as I could get some.
Posted by
W4FID on 2021-11-16
RCC
...way back in the '60's!
Posted by
W6HB on 2021-11-15
ARRL Awards
The RCC award was my first when I was K1AFA. Later I received the CP for 25 wpm in 1957 (age 16) and the CP for 30 wpm (1958) at age 17 as K1AFA. I have WAS and WAC under the same call. I'm W2FKN and have been since 1969. Have not gone for DXCC - no rush. Love ham radio as well as SWLing.
Posted by
W2FKN on 2021-11-15
ARRL AWARDS
Am neither a contester or DXer, nor do I review my logs to see which locations I could/might be missing and then chase them down. I may pick up an award one of these days, but it will be completely serendipitous when/if it ever happens.
Posted by
N6RLG on 2021-11-15
One With The League...
It was 1971...I wasn't even a incensed Ham yet, but I qualified for the 15 WPM CW Proficiency Award that summer...
Later that Autumn, I enrolled in a local night school amateur radio course, & was excused for the first 2 hours of each of the weekly 3 hour sessions by the teacher, because it was all devoted to CW...so I spent the time reading back issues of "QST" in the school's Ham shack at the back of the class room...
Good, memorable times, indeed...!
Posted by
VE3CUI on 2021-11-14
June VHF QSO Party
5th place and won the division. It was in the early 2000s, no FT8.
Posted by
N3EG on 2021-11-14
That was QRP Portable, by the way.
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Posted by
N3EG on 2021-11-14
CP
Earned my 35 WPM (slowly and in stages) while still a novice in 1974.
Posted by
WC4R on 2021-11-14