Belgian lighthouse, lightship and lightbeacon award.

This award is issued by the Antwerp Section of the UBA,namely OSA, in collaboration with the National Shipping Museum, a division of the MAS, with the purpose of promoting our active or non-active, Belgian lighthouses, lightships and lightbeacons.

Every radio or listening amateur can obtain this award. You collect points by contacting amateurstations set up in the neighbourhood of a lighthouse, lightship or lightbeacon or if you note,as a listening amateur,the location of a special station and his contact in your logbook.

These are the rules :

• A stations needs 100 points to obtain the award.
  Scoring is according to the table down the page.
• Only contacts after 1/06/2005 are valid.
• There are no restrictions as to mode or bands.
• Contacts via repeaters or internet are excluded.
• Contacts are valid according to :
1. The list of Belgian lighthouses, lightships or lightbeacons, confirmed by a qsl-card.
2. The membershiplist of OSA (UBA section) confirmed by a qsl-card.

These qsl-cards can be claimed by the awardmanager and will be returned along with the award.

• The applicant must draw up all logs in the same DXCC-country. A locations change such as /A,/P,/M,/MM is permitted.
• The QTH (location) of the lighthouse, lightship or lightbeacon must be clearly indicated on the QSL card.
  (name of the beacon + number of the lighthouse + evtlly latitude/longitude)
• Listening amateurs note at least 2 contacts (with counterpart) in the logbook. If required and proven the award can be allocated for a particular band or mode.

You can also collect points by activating a lighthouse,lightship or beacon.

This is done in the following way :

· Situate your station in the neighbourhood of a Belgian lighthouse, lightship or lightbeacon with the intent to make contacts out of these locations.
Where to locate your station :

1. Preferably on the lighthouse, on the lightship

2. If not possible then within a 1.OOO meters or else

3. Within the lightreach of the lighthouse, lightship or lightbeacon.

Other dispositions are not permitted.

· Make at least 50 contacts from this location.

· Make a picture of the activities and send this together with the log ( in Cabrillo format) to the award manager, preferably by e-mail.

· Join a blank qsl-card for the activity. (.jpg format 800-600 if e-mail)

How to obtain the award :

Send a selfaddressed envelope to the award manager containing :

1. A copy of the log while marking the valid contacts.

2. A confirmed list of qsl-cards (gcr-list) co-signed by two amateurs.

3. A copy of the received qsl-cards.

4. A completed application form (found on the website)

5. The due contribution i.e. :
ON stations : 5 Euro.
EU stations : 6 Euro

DX stations : 7 Euro.

To the address of the award manager :

Alfons Wittoeck (ON4AWT)

Curiestraat 2

B-2660 Antwerp

Belgium

You can obtain information on this award also by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above mentioned address or on the following website http://osa.uba.be.

The award is printed in 4-colour A4 format with a picture of the Westhinder III in the the Bonaparte-dock in Antwerp.

Alocation of points:

Station	Mode
	FM	Other
A contact with Westhinder I,II,III	10 points	20 points
A contact with a Belgian lighthouse, lightship or lightbeacon.	5 points	10 points
A contact with the club station ON4OSA.	5 points	10 points
A contact with a member of the OSA section of the UBA.	1 points	2 points
Activation of a Belgian lighthouse, lightschip or lightbeacon, send in the log with at least 50 contacts.	25 points
Contacts thrue a repeater are NOT valid.
A list of callsigns of members of OSA can be found at OSA website (http://osa.uba.be) A list of belgian lighthouses,lightships en beacons can be found at the OSA website ( http://osa.uba.be/speceven/baken05/vuurbel/belvuur.htm)

Clubstation info : on4gdb@pandora.be.

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Laatst bijgewerkt op 04-06-2005