RSGB VHF, UHF and Microwave Awards

摘要

So, you're interested in the RSGB award scheme? Well, if you've got this far you will probably know that there is one for the HF bands, administered by Fred Handscombe, G4BWP (e-mail: hf.awards@rsgb.org.uk), and also a broadly parallel scheme for the VHF, UHF and Microwave bands, this being managed by your trusty scribe. The RSGB is not alone in offering awards for operating achievements: virtually every national society does. In addition many specialist interest groups have their own schemes - in the UK both Worked All Britain (WAB) and the UK Six Metre Group (UKSMG), to mention but two, offer award programmes. So what is on offer and what makes amateurs claim them? Of those two questions the first is easy to answer - so I'll leave that for the moment and look at the more difficult one: 'Why?' I think if that question were put to 10 amateurs at random you would probably get 10 different answers.