The Maidenhead Grid Squares PSK Award (MGSPA) was devised by the European PSK Club on 11th April 2007. This was designed to encourage contacts with various World Wide Maidenhead Grid Squares on PSK modes. MGSPA-100, MGSPA-200, MGSPA-300, MGSPA-400, MGSPA-500, MGSPA-600, MGSPA-700, MGSPA-800, MGSPA-900 and MGSPA-1000 awards may be claimed by any licensed radio amateur, club station or SWL eligible under these rules who can produce evidence in a form of ADIF log of having contacted 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000 different Maidenhead Grid Squares respectively at the time of application by using any PSK mode. EPC membership is required for the MGSPA Award applicants. All contacts must be made since January 1, 2000.

An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in 1980), a grid square measures 1° latitude by 2° longitude and measures approximately 70 × 100 miles in the continental Europe. A grid square is indicated by two letters (the field) and two numbers (the square), as in IO75, the grid square within which MM0EPC, Scottish EPC Club Station, resides.

QSL-cards are not required. Awards are issued to the person or club. The person or club can use any legal call sign. Contacts made from club stations or special event stations count to the credit of both the club and the operator. All stations must be operated in accordance with their licensing conditions. Contacts may be made from any location in the same Maidenhead Grid Square. Credit will be given for contacts made on any of the amateur bands below 430 MHz. Confirmations from the EPC Short Wave Listeners and Digital Monitoring Stations are accepted as confirmed contacts.

The submission for credit of any altered or forged log extractions or, equally, bad behaviour on or off the air which is judged by the European PSK Club to bring a particular programme into disrepute may result in disqualification of the applicant from the MGSPA Award Programme. The decision of the award manager on this and other matters of dispute will be finals.

All awards are issued FREE of charge in a high quality PDF format and sent via email to the applicants. Awards could be printed with the highest quality and with optimal performance by applicants themselves. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

MGSPA-100		MGSPA-200
MGSPA-300		MGSPA-400
MGSPA-500		MGSPA-600
MGSPA-700		MGSPA-800
MGSPA-900		MGSPA-1000