SCLPA - Scottish Locators PSK Award Series
The Scottish Locators PSK Award Series (SCLPA) was devised by the European PSK Club (EPC) on 12th September 2009. This was to sponsor a series of PSK awards for contacts with amateur radio stations from various Maidenhead Grid Squares located in Scotland, or partly covered its territory. The system used is the Maidenhead Locator System. This forms the basis of the SCLPA award series. 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. The territory of Scotland is covered by 23 Maidenhead Grid Squares (Locators) as listed in the table below. Please use this SCLPA Map as a visual aids. Please note that Rockall Island
is located in the north Atlantic Ocean, 461.5 kilometres from
Ardnamurchan Point, the nearest point on the Scottish mainland. Rockall
Island is not shown on the map, and its grid square is IO37. Square | Land Territory Description | Latitude | Longitude | IO37 | Rockall Island | 57° - 58° N | 12° - 14° W | IO57 | Saint Kilda Islands | 57° - 58° N | 08° - 10° W | IO65 | Isles of Islay, Jura (south west) | 55° - 56° N | 06° - 08° W | IO66 | Isles of Colonsay, Coll, Eigg, Iona, Muck, Mull (west), Rum (south), Tiree, Ulva | 56° - 57° N | 06° - 08° W | IO67 | Isles of Barra (north), Lewis and Harris (south), North Uist, Skye (west), South Uist | 57° - 58° N | 06° - 08° W | IO68 | Isles of Flannan, Great Bernera, Lewis and Harris (north) | 58° - 59° N | 06° - 08° W | IO69 | Sula Sgeir Island | 59° - 60° N | 06° - 08° W | IO74 | Dumfries and Galloway (south west) | 54° - 55° N | 04° - 06° W | IO75 | South West Mainland (Glasgow), Isles of Ailsa Craig, Arran, Bute, Sanda | 55° - 56° N | 04° - 06° W | IO76 | Central and West Mainland, Isles of Jura (north), Lismore, Mull (east), Scarba | 56° - 57° N | 04° - 06° W | IO77 | Central and South Highland, Isles of Rona (east), Scalpay (east), Skye (east) | 57° - 58° N | 04° - 06° W | IO78 | North West Highland | 58° - 59° N | 04° - 06° W | IO79 | North Rona and Sule Skerry Islands | 59° - 60° N | 04° - 06° W | IO84 | Dumfries and Galloway (south east) | 54° - 55° N | 02° - 04° W | IO85 | South East Mainland (Edinburgh) | 55° - 56° N | 02° - 04° W | IO86 | East Mainland (Dundee, Perth), Bass Rock, Isles of Craigleith, Fidra, Inchkeith, May | 56° - 57° N | 02° - 04° W | IO87 | North East Mainland (Aberdeen, Elgin) | 57° - 58° N | 02° - 04° W | IO88 | North East Highland (Thurso, Wick), Orkney Islands (south) | 58° - 59° N | 02° - 04° W | IO89 | Orkney Islands (north) | 59° - 60° N | 02° - 04° W | IO97 | West Aberdeenshire (Peterhead) | 57° - 58° N | 00° - 02° W | IO99 | Fair Island, Shetland Islands (Sumburgh Head) | 59° - 60° N | 00° - 02° W | IP80 | Foula Island | 60° - 61° N | 02° - 04° W | IP90 | Shetland Islands (central and north) | 60° - 61° N | 00° - 02° W |
SCLPA
III, SCLPA II, and SCLPA I Awards may be claimed by any licensed radio
amateur, club station or DMS/SWL eligible under these Rules who can
produce evidence in a form of ADIF log of having contacted or monitored
amateur radio stations from 5, 10, and 15 grid squares respectively on
B(Q)PSK31, B(Q)PSK63, and B(Q)PSK125 modes. Credit will be given for
contacts made on any of the amateur bands below 30 MHz. Each grid
square counts only once. Contacts made to claim SCLPA awards have no
time or date restrictions. The award manager is John Scott, GM0WRRThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
. 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. Confirmations from the DMS/SWL stations are accepted
as confirmed contacts. All stations contacted must be «Land Stations».
Contacts with ships and boats, anchored or underway, and airborne
aircraft, cannot be counted. For the purposes of this award, remote
control operating points must also be land based.
Please make sure that the «GRIDSQUARE» field in your ADIF
log contains the Maidenhead Grid Square for each contacted station from
Scotland. This is a mandatory requirement to make able the manager's
software to check your application correctly. The award manager
reserves the right to spot call sign for inspection of applied
contacts. The purpose of this is not to call into question the
integrity of any individual, but rather to ensure the overall integrity
of the EPC award program. More difficult attained specialty awards are
more likely to be so called. Failure of the applicant to respond to
such spot check will result in non-issuance of the EPC award. The
decision of the award manager on this and other matters of dispute will
be finals. 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
Award Programme.
All awards are issued FREE of charge in a
high quality PDF format and sent via email to the applicants. Awards
can be printed with the highest quality and with optimal performance by
applicants themselves. The SCLPA Award Series is issued to the EPC
members only. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact the award manager. Application Procedure
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. |