K3WWP's Awards

USA-CA (United States of America Counties Award) - Presented by CQ Magazine for working and verifying USA counties in increments of 500 up to 3000 and a special award for all 3077 counties. I have the award for 1500 counties mixed bands/CW and 500 counties for 40 meters. Many of the contacts for those awards were from the 60's when I operated 75W. Over the years I have gone through different ways of counting my counties. For a while I did not count portables or mobiles and my awards were earned with only home stations. Now with the relaxed portable operating rules it is very hard to determine if a station is at home or portable, so I have pretty much given up on that method of working counties. Now I have my totals split into two main groups. One group only for my QRP contacts, and one for my overall QRP and QRO contacts. For both groups I count home, portable, and mobile stations I work. At any rate, at present I am not working all that hard in any method of increasing my county totals, merely taking them as they come.

MARAC offers a CW Worked All Counties Award. This award has a great feature compared to the USA-CA award. No confirmations are required! This to cut down on the ever growing cost of county hunting. MARAC also offers many other county awards to both members and non-members.

If you're interested in learning how WA8EOH and I started the CW County Hunters Net in 1966, the net history is in my County Hunting section.

My current county totals by state are (blue indicates a complete state total):

		QRP		Overall
State	Num	Wkd	Vfd	Wkd	Vfd
AK	4	2	2	3	3
AL	67	33	20	38	33
AR	75	34	17	46	37
AZ	15	12	9	12	9
CA	58	57	38	57	52
CO	64	21	15	26	22
CT	8	8	8	8	8
DE	3	3	2	3	3
FL	67	66	47	66	60
GA	159	86	47	113	96
HI	5	4	2	4	3
IA	99	44	29	72	66
ID	44	8	5	13	12
IL	102	90	47	95	84
IN	92	65	37	83	78
KS	105	32	14	42	37
KY	120	52	26	86	79
LA	64	25	14	40	38
MA	14	14	9	14	14
MD	24	23	17	23	22
ME	16	16	11	16	16
MI	83	62	32	83	83
MN	87	55	30	65	57
MO	115	53	28	79	66
MS	82	31	19	41	33
MT	56	11	9	18	17
NC	100	69	39	89	82
ND	53	11	7	17	14
NE	93	18	12	47	40
NH	10	10	7	10	10
NJ	21	21	17	21	21
NM	33	11	6	15	11
NV	16	4	4	6	5
NY	62	58	41	62	62
OH	88	71	33	86	84
OK	77	35	18	45	36
OR	36	16	11	20	18
PA	67	67	47	67	67
RI	5	5	4	5	5
SC	46	28	13	34	30
SD	66	20	14	28	25
TN	95	64	29	74	57
TX	254	95	66	112	99
UT	29	10	7	15	12
VA	95	80	38	90	86
VT	14	14	11	14	14
WA	39	28	17	32	23
WI	72	72	44	72	69
WV	55	32	14	54	50
WY	23	10	6	12	10
tot	3077	1756	1039	2173	1958

Totals last updated: 11/23/07