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This certificate can be mailed to you.
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1. The eGrid award has been established to provide an incentive to Amateur Radio operators to use eQSL.cc as their method of QSLing,
and to promote the use of UHF and amateur satellites, and to encourage the proper use of the PROP_MODE tag in exported ADIF files.
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| Eligibility |
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2. The eGrid Award is available to Amateur Radio operators throughout the world who have:
3. Applicants can be individuals, or a club station, but all received eQSLs must be posted to the same callsign.
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4. The eGrid award is free. Free certificates will be available for downloading from eQSL.cc, once the AwardMaster has approved the application.
5. The recipient of the award can also request to have a paper certificate mailed, suitable for framing. See My Awards page for pricing. A walnut plaque can be ordered for $85 including shipping.
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| Procedures |
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6. When a user has reached the required eQSL confirmation count, the "Application" button in My Awards will become available.
7. The user may then fill out an application online which will be sent to the AwardMaster, who will confirm that all rules and requirements have been met.
8. Standings may be viewed at any time on the Standings page also available through the My Awards page. Certificates and plaques can be ordered from that page as well.
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| Qualifying Proof of Contact |
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9. Several separate awards are available for proof of contact with the following minimum number of Maidenhead Grid Squares, based on frequency band and propagation mode:
a. eGrid Satellite (any bands, via satellite): 75 grid squares
b. eGrid UHF (any UHF bands, including 1.25cm and above, combined): 25 grid squares
c. (Other awards will follow)
10. Proof of contact is defined as an eQSL card received from another ham with an approved Authenticity Guaranteed certificate.
No credit will be given for eQSL cards sent. This is an important point.
11. To qualify, an eQSL cannot have been rejected by the recipient prior to issuance of the award, and cannot have been retracted by the sender due to an error.
12. Proof of two-way communication (contacts) must be in the form of retrievable eQSL cards.
eQSL cards that have been deleted from the eQSL.cc database will not be accepted as proof of contact.
13. No proofs of contact other than eQSL cards posted to the eQSL.cc database will be permitted.
14. All eQSL cards used as proof of contact must be posted in the eQSL.cc database to one or more callsigns owned by the applicant.
In the case of multiple callsigns, these must be attached to each other and must meet all other requirements of these rules.
The purpose of combining credit from multiple attached accounts is to allow a ham to apply for the award even if he moved or operated under different callsigns.
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| Qualifying Contacts |
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15. Contacts may have been actually made at any date in the past so long as an eQSL card has been posted
to the applicant, who held a valid amateur radio license with that callsign on the date of the QSO.
16. The term "Grid Square" as used in this award shall consist of one of the 4-character Maidenhead Grid Squares, consisting of a 2-character field and a 2-digit square.
(See the 1983 QST article for details on determining grid squares.)
17. All contacts must be made with amateur stations working in the authorized amateur bands or
with other stations licensed or authorized to work amateurs.
18. For purposes of the eGrid Sat award, contacts must have been made via amateur satellite.
On the other hand, credits for the eGrid UHF award can NOT be made by satellite.
Because of the unfair advantage that contacts made using Internet-linked QSOs (such as IRLP, EchoLink, or eQSO) have over pure RF QSOs, they cannot be counted for this award.
Due to the nature of these awards, our AwardMasters will be checking every credit individually,
so please do not apply until you are certain that all your credits have the correct PROP_MODE tag(satellite, non-satellite, non-Internet, etc.) in the incoming eQSLs.
You may correspond with senders of eQSLs that are incorrectly marked, to ask them to bring their eQSLs into compliance with the ADIF 2 specifications for propagation modes.
19. All stations must have been contacted by the applicant from within the same Grid Square.
The location of any station shall be defined as the location of the transmitter.
For the purposes of this award, remote operating points must be located within the same Grid Square as the transmitter.
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20. The use of fraudulent eQSLs for fictitious contacts may result in disqualification of both the applicant and the sender of the eQSL card.
Any holder of an eGrid award who knowingly submits fraudulent eQSLs will forfeit the right to continued eGrid membership.
21. Any person who fraudulently registers himself as another person in order to create eQSL cards
will be disqualified as above.
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| Authority |
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22. The AwardMaster will have sole discretion to accept or deny applications for the eGrid awards, based on available evidence
supporting or denying the validity and authenticity of confirmation eQSLs.
23. The AwardMaster will have final authority over any disputes regarding this contest, and may amend the rules at any time to provide further clarification of disputed or unclear issues.
24. The management of eQSL.cc will appoint the AwardMaster.
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| History of Revisions |
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| 17Sep2006 Rule 1 & 9 added UHF. Further clarifications in Rule 18 |
| 01Jun2007 Plaque price raised to $85 due to shipping rate increase |
| 01Jan2009 Additional mention PROP_MODE tag |
| 05Apr2009 Rule 5: Printed and mailed certificates subject to new pricing |
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