ESPAÑA Award Series The ESPAÑA Award Series
was devised by the European PSK Club on 17th February 2008. This was to
sponsor a series of PSK awards based on the EPC membership and
administrative system of Spain. The official award manager is Sergio
Gonzalez, EA4AFA. Spain
is politically organized into 17 Autonomous Communities (comunidades
autónomas) and 2 autonomous cities (ciudades autónomas) - Ceuta and
Melilla. Administratively Spain also comprises fifty provinces. Seven
autonomous communities are composed of only one province: Asturias,
Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, and Navarre. The ESPAÑA awards may be claimed by any EPC member eligible under these Rules who can produce evidence in a form of ADIF log of having contacted EPC members from various EU areas (provinces) within Spain by using any type of the Phase Shift Keying. The Francisco Pizarro Award may be claimed for contacts with 12 EU areas (provinces), the Vasco Nunez de Balboa Award - for contacts with 24 EU areas (provinces), the Hernan Cortes Award - for contacts with 36 EU areas (provinces), and the Christopher Columbus Award
- for contacts with 48 EU areas (provinces) of Spain. Contact with 1
(one) EA8 or 1 (one) EA9 station can be used as a «Joker» to replace
any 1 (one) missing Spanish EU Area. Only 1 (one) QSO is allowed with
EA8, and 1 (one) QSO with EA9. Contacts for ESPAÑA awards are valid on or after 10th June 2006. There is another special award from this series called Spanish DXCC Award. This award may be claimed by any EPC member eligible under these Rules who can produce evidence in a form of ADIF log
of having contacted stations on PSK from all 9 radio amateur regions of
Spain - EA1, EA2, EA3, EA4, EA5, EA6, EA7, EA8 and EA9. Contacts made
to claim the Spanish DXCC Award have no time or date restrictions.
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 Spanish 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 ESPAÑA 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. ESPAÑA
awards are issued to the EPC members only. If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact Sergio Gonzalez, EA4AFA. EU Areas within Spain | EA1 | Principality of Asturias | SN01 | EA1 | Province of Ávila (Castile and León) | SN02 | EA1 | Province of Burgos (Castile and León) | SN03 | EA1 | Autonomous Community of Cantabria | SN04 | EA1 | Province of Corunna (Galicia) | SN05 | EA1 | Autonomous Community of La Rioja | SN06 | EA1 | Province of León (Castile and León) | SN07 | EA1 | Province of Lugo (Galicia) | SN08 | EA1 | Province of Ourense (Galicia) | SN09 | EA1 | Province of Palencia (Castile and León) | SN10 | EA1 | Province of Pontevedra (Galicia) | SN11 | EA1 | Province of Salamanca (Castile and León) | SN12 | EA1 | Province of Segovia (Castile and León) | SN13 | EA1 | Province of Soria (Castile and León) | SN14 | EA1 | Province of Valladolid (Castile and León) | SN15 | EA1 | Province of Zamora (Castile and León) | SN16 | EA2 | Province of Álava (Basque Country) | SN17 | EA2 | Province of Guipúzcoa (Basque Country) | SN18 | EA2 | Province of Huesca (Aragon) | SN19 | EA2 | Foral Community of Navarre | SN20 | EA2 | Province of Teruel (Aragon) | SN21 | EA2 | Province of Biscay (Basque Country) | SN22 | EA2 | Province of Zaragoza (Aragon) | SN23 | EA3 | Province of Barcelona (Catalonia) | SN24 | EA3 | Province of Girona (Catalonia) | SN25 | EA3 | Province of Lleida (Catalonia) | SN26 | EA3 | Province of Tarragona (Catalonia) | SN27 | EA4 | Province of Badajoz (Extremadura) | SN28 | EA4 | Province of Cáceres (Extremadura) | SN29 | EA4 | Province of Ciudad Real (Castile-La Mancha) | SN30 | EA4 | Province of Cuenca (Castile-La Mancha) | SN31 | EA4 | Province of Guadalajara (Castile-La Mancha) | SN32 | EA4 | Autonomous Community of Madrid | SN33 | EA4 | Province of Toledo (Castile-La Mancha) | SN34 | EA5 | Province of Albacete (Castile-La Mancha) | SN35 | EA5 | Province of Alicante (Valencian Community) | SN36 | EA5 | Province of Castellón (Valencian Community) | SN37 | EA5 | Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia | SN38 | EA5 | Province of Valencia (Valencian Community) | SN39 | EA6 | Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands | SN40 | EA7 | Province of Almería (Andalusia) | SN41 | EA7 | Province of Cádiz (Andalusia) | SN42 | EA7 | Province of Córdoba (Andalusia) | SN43 | EA7 | Province of Granada (Andalusia) | SN44 | EA7 | Province of Huelva (Andalusia) | SN45 | EA7 | Province of Jaén (Andalusia) | SN46 | EA7 | Province of Málaga (Andalusia) | SN47 | EA7 | Province of Seville (Andalusia) | SN48 |
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. |