{"id":182,"date":"2013-02-23T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdarc.org\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:12:47","slug":"test-of-upcoming-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"CONTEST, DXCC & WAZ RANKING of SD Hams"},"content":{"rendered":"

This web site is to provide contest, DXCC. multi-band WAS and WAZ standings of SD Hams.<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

CONTEST STANDINGS<\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of this South Dakota contest records section is to promote excellence in operating skills and improvement of SD amateur’s stations communications effectiveness thru contest operations. Through this contest record listing for SD it is hoped SD amateurs will be motivated to better these scores and in doing so better their operating skills and improve their amateur stations.<\/p>\n

It is common knowledge in the amateur community that propagation from the Northern Great Plains is not the best. This makes it very difficult to place in the national ranking of the TOP TEN boxes in the various contests. This makes it important that we recognize great contest efforts from South Dakota even when they do not make the TOP TEN. One way to do this is to provide a listing of record South Dakota scores for the contests, which this page does.\u00a0 Corrections or additions to these records should be submitted to W0SD.<\/p>\n

DXCC AND WAZ STANDINGS<\/span><\/p>\n

This listing is for current countries only and does not reflect any countries that have been deleted.\u00a0 Please note the ranking is by current countries worked but the official total would be the column confirmed by the ARRL or CQ.\u00a0 If you want to keep your standing up to date you must submit updates to W0SD.\u00a0 Something that works well if you have LOTW is to convert your DXCC box using \u201cCUTEPDF\u201d or similiar and send it to me via e-mail as a PDF attachment or you may just be able to paste it into your e-mail.\u00a0 Minimums for the DXCC\u00a0listings are\u00a0 the basic 100\u00a0 countries for Mixed, Phone, CW and\u00a0\u00a0Digital,\u00a0 750 band DXCC countries for the DX Challenge\u00a0and 120 zones for 5BWAZ.\u00a0 I will also list any WAZ certificates earned and 5BDXCC certificates..\u00a0All these will be based on\u00a0worked country totals with the exception being for the basic DXCC and WAZ listing and 5B DXCC\u00a0you need the certificates from the ARRL and CQ. I would like the numbers on the WAZ and 5BDXCC\u00a0certificates.\u00a0 If you have questions please ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This web site is to provide contest, DXCC. multi-band WAS and WAZ standings of SD Hams. CONTEST STANDINGS The purpose of this South Dakota contest records section is to promote excellence in operating skills and improvement of SD amateur’s stations … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdhamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}