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)
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):
- SP8LEP (8, 46)
- ON4CB (8, 33)
- 9A1AA (8, 32)
DL8NCA (8,32)
OH3GZ (7, 38)
- YL2TQ (6, 41)
- SP1MVG (7, 33)
- EA3EVL (7, 32)
- SP10WCA (7, 31)
- 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).
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):
- SP8LEP (6, 25)
- ON4CB (7, 17)
- OM1AX (7, 15)
OH3GZ (6, 21)
- DL8NCA (6, 20)
- DL1LQC (7, 13)
IK2ECC (6, 19)
- LY2KM (7, 11)
OH6GAZ (6, 17)
- DD0VE (6, 16)
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):
- OK1DLA (5, 12)
YL3CW (5, 12)
- YL2TQ (5, 11)
- DL1LQC (5, 10)
- OM1AX (5, 8)
ON4CB (5, 8)
- IN3XUG (5, 7)
SP8LEP (4, 12)
- DL8NCA (4, 11)
- IK2ECC (4 ,10)
SP4GDC (4, 10)
- OE6WIG (4, 9)
ON4VT (4, 9)
- UA3GJM (4, 8)
- 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.
In June COTA-PA is going to participate in the 10th anniversary festivities of the World Castle Award (WCA). For this occasion we will have 8 activators using 8 different special calls while activating castles that are part of the COTA-PA and WCA program.
There will be a special award for working these P*10WCA callsigns - with three levels (bronze, silver, gold) depending on the amount of contacts you make with the activators.
Most activity will be in the period of 8-16 June but some calls will be active on other dates in June. Exact dates and times will be communicated at a later date.
The following calls will be on the air at least on one activation, by the activators mentioned:
PA10WCA - PH2A
PB10WCA - PA2GB
PC10WCA - PA3FYG
PD10WCA - PD0RWL
PE10WCA - PE4BAS
PF10WCA - PA1H
PG10WCA - PG8M
PH10WCA - PH0NO
Below a preview of the award and QSL lay-out for this event:
Het World Castle Award programma, waar verschillende nationale programma's bij aangesloten zijn (zoals COTA-PA), bestaat in juni 2019 10 jaar.
Om dit te vieren zullen er over de wereld verschillende activators op pad gaan met speciale calls in de vorm van **10WCA in de periode van 8 t/m 16 juni 2019. Zie ook de post op de WCA site voor meer info.
Het zou leuk zijn als we ook in PA enkele speciale calls in de lucht zouden kunnen brengen in juni. Mocht je hier interesse in hebben, laat ons dat dan even weten.
[inmiddels zijn we compleet!]
