Toon PD0RWL castle-active

Toon PD0RWL has been visiting a large number of castles over the last weeks. He has helped quite a few chasers reach a next award level. To give an indication of Toon's activities you will find some of his photos below.

Toon PD0RWL is de afgelopen weken actief geweest vanaf meerdere kasteellocaties. Met zijn activiteiten heeft hij een flink aantal kasteel-chasers aan een nieuw awardniveau geholpen. Hieronder wat beelden die Toon tijdens zijn activiteiten heeft gemaakt.

Toon PD0RWL at Huis Merwede PA-00204	Dussen Castle PA-00029
Typical setup with FD4 and VHF vertical	Castle Sandenburg PA-00104

New awards online available

Today a lot of new chaser awards have been made available.  You can check if there is an award for you by entering your callsign on the honor roll page.

Up till now COTA-PA has made almost 600 awards available. 

The P*10WCA event has ended

WCA turned 10 years in June and COTA-PA joined in the festivities with eight special calls. It has been a great month with an activity level we have not seen in PA ever before. 

Eight different operators PH2A, PA2GB, PA3FYG, PD0RWL, PE4BAS, PA1H, PG8M and PH0NO went out to 80 different castles, logging 8650 QSOs with 2550 different chasers from 61 DXCC. Below is the list of DXCC with more than 200 QSOs this month.

Awards

A total of 222 chasers (coincidentally a very nice number) managed to reach one of the special P*10WCA award levels: 97 bronze, 79 silver and 46 gold. 

The final chaser top 10 for the P*10WCA event is as follows:

Nr.	Chaser	SES worked	Castles worked	Points
1.	SP8LEP	8	72	1120
2.	OH3GZ	8	66	1060
3.	9A1AA	8	57	970
3.	YL2TQ	6	67	970
5.	DL1LQC	8	51	910
5.	ON4CB	8	51	910
5.	SP4GDC	8	51	910
8.	SP1MVG	7	53	880
9.	DL8NCA	8	46	860
10.	EA3EVL	7	49	840

The top 10 chasers receive a special version of the Gold award indicating their position (no.1 shown below). 

All chasers can download their award here: http://www.cotapa.org/p/wca-10-awards.html

Great work! Thanks to the chasers and activators for creating some serious activity on the bands. 

73,11, Lars / PH0NO (aka PH10WCA)

P*10WCA - third week

The third week has passed and all eight special calls (PA10WCA-PH10WCA) have been active by now - activating a total of 58 different castle references. 

Together we have managed to log 6700 QSOs from more than 2200 chasers from 62 DXCC.

In the meantime 186 chasers have managed to reach one of the award levels. There is a special page on this website dedicated to the award: WCA10 Award page

The top 10 chaser list is as follows (# stations worked, # castles worked):

1. SP8LEP (8, 46)
2. ON4CB (8, 33)
3. 9A1AA (8, 32)
   DL8NCA (8,32)
   OH3GZ (7, 38)
4. YL2TQ (6, 41)
5. SP1MVG (7, 33)
6. EA3EVL (7, 32)
7. SP10WCA (7, 31)
8. SP4GDC (7, 30)

There will still be some activities until the end of June. After all logs have been processed the final awards will be made available and QSLs will be ordered (and delivered by bureau unless you order a direct card via ClubLog).

P*10WCA - second week

We are in the second week of the anniversary event for the World Castle Award. Seven of the eight special calls have been active from 35 different castles in The Netherlands.
3800 QSOs haven been logged with 1500 different chasers.

As there are already 100 chasers that have reached award levels bronze, silver or even gold, we have decided to make the awards available already based on the activity up till now. There is a special page on this website dedicated to the award: WCA10 Award page

Note that this is a special service for the most active chasers. It is not meant to be a real-time award system. It will only be updated once or twice until the final update after all activities have been completed and processed (beginning of July).

The top 10 chaser list currently consists of (# calls worked, #activities worked):

1. SP8LEP (6, 25)
2. ON4CB (7, 17)
3. OM1AX (7, 15)
   OH3GZ (6, 21)
4. DL8NCA (6, 20)
5. DL1LQC (7, 13)
   IK2ECC (6, 19)
6. LY2KM (7, 11)
   OH6GAZ (6, 17)
7. DD0VE (6, 16)

P*10WCA - first week

The special event for the 10th anniversary of the World Castle Award is now one week old.

In COTA-PA in this first week we have had 7 special calls active (PB10WCA, PC10WCA, PD10WCA, PE10WCA, PF10WCA, PG10WCA and PH10WCA), activating a total of 17 different castles.

Propagation has at times been challenging but so far more than 1600 QSOs have been made. The top chasers of this special event - after the first week - are as follows (# stations worked, # references worked):

1. OK1DLA (5, 12)
   YL3CW (5, 12)
2. YL2TQ (5, 11)
3. DL1LQC (5, 10)
4. OM1AX (5, 8)
   ON4CB (5, 8)
5. IN3XUG (5, 7)
   SP8LEP (4, 12)
6. DL8NCA (4, 11)
7. IK2ECC (4 ,10)
   SP4GDC (4, 10)
8. OE6WIG (4, 9)
   ON4VT (4, 9)
9. UA3GJM (4, 8)
10. DD0VE (4, 7)
    HB9EFJ (4, 7)
    OM7OM (4, 7)

(*) PB10WCA logs (3 activities) have not been processed yet

Refer to this post to learn more about the special COTA-PA P*10WCA award and the rules.

WCA 10 year activities - planning and award rules

The special WCA 10 years calls (P*10WCA) will be active in the month of June 2019. Activities that have been planned by the operators will be in the list below.

The planning is still under development. Activities will be added once dates are known. Some activators might however go out and do last minute activities (so will not be in the list).

PE10WCA will activate PA-00007 a number of times at the end of the morning UTC during weekdays.

Week	Date	Call	Castle
1-7 June	June 1 June 1 June 1 June 2 June 3 June 5 June 6 June 7 week 1-7 week 1-7	PD10WCA PF10WCA PF10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PH10WCA PB10WCA PB10WCA	PA-00070 PA-00154/157 PA-00156 PA-00015 PA-00164 PA-00067 PA-00071 PA-00155 PA-00075 PA-00076
8-14 June	June 8 June 8 June 8 June 8 June 9 June 8, 9 or 10 June 10 June 12 June 12 June 12 June 13 June 13 June 13 June 13 June 13 June 14 week 8-14 week 8-14	PD10WCA PE10WCA PF10WCA PF10WCA PH10WCA PC10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PH10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PE10WCA PE10WCA PB10WCA PB10WCA	PA-00081 PA-00003 PA-00174 PA-00158 PA-00145 PA-00078 PA-00072 PA-01487 PA-00137 PA-00133 PA-00257 PA-00269 PA-00246 PA-00069 PA-00008 PA-00002 PA-00074 PA-00078
15-21 June	June 15 June 15 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 19 June 21 week 15-21	PD10WCA PF10WCA PF10WCA PH10WCA PA10WCA PD10WCA PH10WCA PD10WCA PB10WCA	PA-00255/256 PA-00165 PA-00175 PA-00143 PA-00021 PA-00100 PA-00136 PA-00106 PA-00077
22-30 June	June 22 June 22 June 24 June 26 June 26 June 28 June 28 week 22-28 week 22-28 June 29	PF10WCA PF10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PD10WCA PB10WCA PB10WCA PF10WCA	PA-00176 PA-00177 PA-00162 PA-00271 PA-00252 PA-00277 PA-00276/279 PA-00079 PA-00080 PA-00169

Award

For chasers of the WCA 10 year activity as organised bij COTA-PA there will be an award in three levels: bronze, silver and gold.
Each call worked is worth 50 points, each reference you work a call is worth 10 points (so 60 points for each first contact with a call and 10 points for each consecutive contact with the same call from a different location).

The points for the award levels are as follows:

• Gold: over 555 points
• Silver: over 333 points
• Bronze: over 222 points

There are in total 222 chasers that achieved an award level: 97 Bronze, 79 Silver and 46 Gold chasers.

You can check if you have reached an award level by entering your call in the field below (base call without any "/"). If you have reached enough points your award will download automatically.