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	36	21	40	33
AR	75	34	17	46	37
AZ	15	13	10	13	10
CA	58	58	39	58	52
CO	64	21	16	26	22
CT	8	8	8	8	8
DE	3	3	2	3	3
FL	67	66	48	66	60
GA	159	89	51	113	97
HI	5	4	2	4	3
IA	99	46	31	72	66
ID	44	9	5	14	12
IL	102	90	50	95	84
IN	92	69	43	84	78
KS	105	32	16	42	37
KY	120	56	30	89	80
LA	64	26	14	41	38
MA	14	14	10	14	14
MD	24	23	17	23	22
ME	16	16	11	16	16
MI	83	68	43	83	83
MN	87	58	32	67	58
MO	115	55	30	80	66
MS	82	34	19	43	33
MT	56	14	9	19	17
NC	100	72	42	91	83
ND	53	11	8	17	15
NE	93	19	12	48	40
NH	10	10	7	10	10
NJ	21	21	20	21	21
NM	33	13	7	16	11
NV	16	4	4	6	5
NY	62	58	43	62	62
OH	88	72	41	86	85
OK	77	36	19	46	36
OR	36	16	11	20	18
PA	67	67	47	67	67
RI	5	5	4	5	5
SC	46	31	15	36	30
SD	66	20	14	28	25
TN	95	70	35	79	58
TX	254	100	68	117	101
UT	29	12	7	15	12
VA	95	85	44	92	87
VT	14	14	12	14	14
WA	39	29	17	33	23
WI	72	72	45	72	69
WV	55	33	17	54	50
WY	23	10	6	12	10
tot	3077	1824	1121	2209	1969

Totals last updated: 12/26/11