Impossible Awards

[w8cbc]

Here are some to shoot for:

Five-Band Worked All Grid Squares.
2-metre Worked All Repeaters.
33cm Cordless Phone WAC.
70cm Weather Station WAS.
And the best of them all...
160-metre AM QRP EME DXCC.

I'm in another of my surreal moods tonight.

[G8ADD]

I see what you mean about the lead paint!

How about DXCC on 220 MHz - or 70 MHz for that matter!

73

Brian G8ADD

[w8cbc]

(grin)

I'm curious about that 70-MHz band there.
Is it in lieu of 50 MHz, or do you have that too?

[kl7aj]

You forgot Garage Door Opener WAS (GDOWAS)

[N3ATS]

Worked All Consumer Electronics. I am getting close! I just need my fridge and I got it!

[W2LYS]

Quote[/b] ]Worked All Consumer Electronics. I am getting close! I just need my fridge and I got it!


I work my fridge all the time...

[N7RJD]

Does the neighbor's fridge count?

[KA7RRA]

The WTAHF Award
Went to all ham-fest

[kl7aj]

K9STH has OABA several times. (Owned all boat anchors) http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

eric

[NO8M]

You guys forgot the best one, the P.R.T.A.F. - Posted Ridiculous Threads All Forums. Hope QRZ is designing the certificates already. :P

[N9XR]

QRM'ed by all BPL
Oh, something impossible!
WASK (Worked all Silent Keys)
DXCC DC endorsement (daVinci Code instead of Morse)
WAXM (Worked all X-Men)

[K8ERV]

I didn't do anything, do I get an award??

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KC4HGH]

We have a fellow here that, while he waits on his wife to shop, spends time on the radio...one of the local radio club officers thought it so funny, he created a "Worked All Parking Lots" certificate and he's got it hanging in his shack!

[w8cbc]

I wonder if he's earned a PLDXCC yet. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

How about a HPCC - 100 contacts while being chased by the police.

[W2LYS]

Quote[/b] ]We have a fellow here that, while he waits on his wife to shop, spends time on the radio...one of the local radio club officers thought it so funny, he created a "Worked All Parking Lots" certificate and he's got it hanging in his shack!

What do I do to get this if I don't have a wife?

[w8cbc]

Be the "designated driver" on Saturday night. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[NO8M]

There's also the WNS (Worked No Stations) for folks like my coworker that got licensed but never got the XYL to loosen the purse strings enough to buy a radio! :P

[w8cbc]

How about the CIT award - Continually In Trouble - often made worse by yelling at the missus, "...and WHO pays the bills around here?"

It is the practical, logical answer. It's a shame it appears never to work.

The above is reason number 67 why I'm not married. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KC2PBJ]

WADRP. Worked all death row prisoners. Be sure to get an early qsl!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[WD8OQX]

Worked all the Impossible Awards, award....

Now there's one to shoot for.

[ai4ep]

...and for the internet / computer geek we have --- WAWS ~worked all web sites !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[W2ILP]

...and then there is the
INTERNATIONAL DOG INBREEDERS ON TRANSCEIVERS SOCIETY...award
for people who join the IDIOTS with a significent number of pointers.

w2ilp (I Like Poodles)...when they aren't French trimmed.

[KG6YTZ]

Burned All Rigs [BAR], a.k.a. the "Golden Screwdriver" award: Given to that select group of operators who can never seen to keep any piece of equipment in working condition for more than a month before toasting it to a crispy delicious golden brown. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Oh, walt... These are supposed to be IMPOSSIBLE awards.

[kf6rdn]

Anyone going for the WAA award?

NO, not THAT one, that's Waahhhh http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

No, the WAA is Worked All Aliens.

Then of course, the Worked All Illegal Aliens. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[G8ADD]

Quote[/b] (n9xr @ May 30 2006,13:39)]QRM'ed by all BPL
Oh, something impossible!
WASK (Worked all Silent Keys)
DXCC DC endorsement (daVinci Code instead of Morse)
WAXM (Worked all X-Men)
I'm hoping to get my WASK on the medium wave!


BSR: we were given 70 as compensation for not having 50, but when the band 1 TV stations were phased out we were given 50 as well. Now 70 is spreading around Europe, so far there are I think 22 DXCC entities (what an odd word!) workable. The band gets better tropo than 50 but not as much Es.

73

Brian G8ADD

[KC2ESD]

kd8bsr I have the perfect DX award for you and your Kitty, Work all Colonial Worlds (Caprica, Picon, Aries, Virgon and the rest). http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[w8cbc]

ADD - that's wonderful! I'm hoping for a slice of the present VHF-TV spectrum here when analogue TVBC is phased out - they're supposedly all going digital UHF in a few years. 72-76 MC are already used for other things but 76-80 would be nice.

ESD - there'd be so much thermonuclear QRM. Though I wouldn't mind having an Eight download from the 751A.

How about AUCC - Worked 100 Alternate Universes. It would take one hell of a duct.

[G8ADD]

Quote[/b] (kd8bsr @ May 31 2006,21:44)]ADD - that's wonderful! #I'm hoping for a slice of the present VHF-TV spectrum here when analogue TVBC is phased out - they're supposedly all going digital UHF in a few years. #72-76 MC are already used for other things but 76-80 would be nice.

ESD - there'd be so much thermonuclear QRM. #Though I wouldn't mind having an Eight download from the 751A.

How about AUCC - Worked 100 Alternate Universes. #It would take one hell of a duct.
BSR: will 70 - 70.6 be occupied so that you can't go for that as your allocation? It would be better if you could have much the same band as us as multi-hop Es may make contacts across the pond possible occasionally?

AUCC sounds great, pity the wormhole selector is shot on my Yaesu!

Of course! WAW - worked all wormholes!

73

Brian G8ADD

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (G8ADD @ June 01 2006,01:42)]Of course! WAW - worked all wormholes!
Just make sure your signal doesn't accidentally stray into a Borg transwarp conduit. All your QSL's will be assimilated. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[G8ADD]

Quote[/b] (KG6YTZ @ June 01 2006,04:22)]Quote[/b] (G8ADD @ June 01 2006,01:42)]Of course! WAW - worked all wormholes!
Just make sure your signal doesn't accidentally stray into a Borg transwarp conduit. #All your QSL's will be assimilated. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Dammit!! I thought the bureau was to blame!

73

Brian G8ADD

[n0jaa]

Don't forget this one... Worked ALL Kiddie Handhelds. 100 points awarded to each contact made on 49 MHz with a kid using a toy walkie-talkie that looks like something GI Joe would have used!

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[wa4ilh]

Quote[/b] (kd8bsr @ May 31 2006,21:44)]ADD - that's wonderful! I'm hoping for a slice of the present VHF-TV spectrum here when analogue TVBC is phased out - they're supposedly all going digital UHF in a few years. 72-76 MC are already used for other things but 76-80 would be nice.
I believe that the UK has frequencies at 70 Mhz. (70.0 to 70.5 Mhz?) I too was waiting to see what the FCC was going to do with unused VHF (US) TV channels but, last I heard, they will remain in the broadcast service
Tom WA4ILH

[W2LYS]

Worked All Beers?

Actually, there is something similar to that here in the San Antonio area. There's a local roadhouse that has a copious amount of beer in a bunch of coolers, and over 100 beers on tap.

If you drink over a 100 of the tapped beers (hopefully not at one sitting) you get to put a placard on the ceiling.

One local ham has several placards up, one with his call sign, another of them has this strange foot logo with the words "On-On!" in it...

[kf6snj]

Well, don't know about the rest of you, but I think I may have to try to for a WADB (Worked All Dead Batteries). If I can't do that, there is always the WARP (Worked All Rotary Phones)(I have a working rotary phone). I may also have to try for the WAUK (Worked All Unplugged Keyboards). Of course I may consider trying for the WADR (Worked All Dead Radios). Perhaps we can also try for the WAP (Worked All Planets), though I do have to wonder if we have to count thier moons are could there be a WAM (Worked All Moons) award?

[kf6snj]

Actually I should just aim for the WARH (Work All Radio History).

[w8cbc]

Quote[/b] (wa4ilh @ June 02 2006,12:32)]I believe that the UK has frequencies at 70 Mhz. (70.0 to 70.5 Mhz?) I too was waiting to see what the FCC was going to do with unused VHF (US) TV channels but, last I heard, they will remain in the broadcast service
Tom WA4ILH
Let me guess.

Digital "information services".

Blah.

Here's one for the future: FAB - Flipped All Bits (in cheesy consumer digital pretend-radios with nonexistent front-end filtering).

[kf6snj]

Alright, I give up. I think somebody should try to get the STI (Smoked The Internet) award for somehow forcing the entire internet to crash and burn such that we hams are needed again. I think internet is one of the things that may be helping to destroy our hobby.

[W2ILP]

I dunno if you guys remember the late Cliff Evens, K6BX. #He awarded more certificates than any ham or ham organization,that has existed before, during or after his time. #Cliff established the CERTIFICATE HUNTER"S CLUB (CHC) which gave awards. #Besides for the CHC awards themselves, #there were special awards for working hams who fell into specialist caregories by having other hobbies (besides ham radio) or having different professions or the same professions that the award winners had . #There were regional awards for CHC QSO parties and contests, for SWLs, for YLs and for the Hams who were never active on the air... there were eyeball awards. There was also a FLYING HAMS CLUB (FHC) for pilots and crews. Numbers were issued to CHC and FHC members and were exchanged on every band, in every mode.
Cliff got into trouble with the ARRL by establishing CHC chapters in the USSR, which didn't rate being ARRL approved clubs at that time. #However Cliff did sponsor a lot of good will to all those who bought his certificates and he made ham radio an interesting hobby as a great second source for acheivement awards that have otherwise always gone and will always go unrewarded.

# If there is a heaven...I'm sure that Cliff is up there... printing certificates for St. Peter to mail out, for little more than the cost of postage and handling. #Perhaps Cliff also has a CHC chapter in Hades.
#
Yep for K6BX..There were no impossible awards...and very little that it might be impossible to be awarded for.

w2ilp (Internationally Logged Paper)..It's not so easy keeping the records for all the rewards. Cliff had a separarte building for his radio shack and his certificate record library behind his home in Bonito, California, when I visited him in 1964 B.C. (before computers) and earned my eyeball card.

[kf6snj]

If anyone can prove he actually QSO'ed with Marconi or Telsa in the last five years, I will make them an award for that, but I will require it to be a QRP QSO running packet on 1cm. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif