The South American Stations PSK Award Series (SASPA) was devised by the European PSK Club on 13th March 2008. This was to sponsor a series of awards based on PSK contacts with South American stations. Contacts made to claim SASPA awards have no time or date restrictions, except for contacts with EPC members, which are valid from 10th June 2006. The official award manager is Reinhard Lipkow DK1IO.

SASPA awards may be claimed by any licensed radio amateur, club station or SWL/DMS eligible under these rules who can produce evidence in a form of ADIF log of having earned 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 points for QSOs with different South American amateur radio stations by using any type of the Phase Shift Keying. Each QSO with EPC member from South America is worth 2 points, with non-EPC station - 1 point.

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 DXCC country. Credit will be given for contacts made on any of the amateur bands below 54 MHz. Confirmations from North American SWL or DMS 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 SASPA 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. SASPA awards are issued to the EPC members only. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact DK1IO.

Application Procedure

Since 1st June 2008 all claims for the EPC awards should be made using our UltimateEPC Award Management Software written by DK5UR. The award applicant should re-submit his application when claiming for higher classes of awards. The award manager will keep all your records in our database. Please make sure before you submit your ADIF log that you have checked it with the appropriate software.