(Note: Click Here For A Complete List of W.A.C.C. Award Winners)

NCCC offers an award for confirmation of QSO's with stations in each of the 58 California counties. Endorsements are offered for single band and single mode efforts. A list of current awardees can be found at http://nccc.cc/wacc-awardlist.html

Confirmations

a. Acceptable confirmations are: a. QSL cards [cards will be returned with the certificate]
b. Scanned images [or readable photographs] of both sides of QSL cards. [cards or images must indicate the county of the station worked, date, time, band/frequency, and mode.]
c. QSO's made with California stations in the California QSO Party from 2006 to the present
[For QSO's made in the CQP's, contact the WACC Administrator at k6dgwnv@gmail.com to obtain a list of your current confirmed counties]

Confirmations via eQSL and Logbook of the World, including screen dumps and/or printed output can not be accepted.

Award Rules

1. All QSO's must have been completed on or after 9 September 1850.
2. QSO's may be made on all amateur bands and modes.
3. With the exception of satellites, QSO's must be completed without the use of repeaters, digipeaters, and/or any other form of non-radio infrastructure [e.g. EchoLink, IRLP, etc.]
4. QSO's via Digital Mobile Radio [DMR] modes are acceptable provided they are direct station-to-station, without intervening infrastructure.
5. QSO's may be made from any locations.
6. QSO's may be made with mobile and/or portable California stations.
7. Membership in NCCC is not required.

Submittal Requirements

Submit QSL card confirmations via regular mail to:

WACC Award
c/o Fred Jensen, K6DGW
1229 Ambonnay Lane
Sparks NV 89436

Scanned images and photographs may be submitted via email to k6dgw@foothill.net as attachments. Each submittal [mail or email] must include the submitter's:

Complete mail address
Call sign
Email address
Endorsements requested [single-band, single-mode, etc]

Indicate if claiming the award via a combination of CQP QSO's and QSL cards. There is no charge for the WACC award.

California Counties

ALAM	Alameda	MARN	Marin	SMAT	San Mateo
ALPI	Alpine	MARP	Mariposa	SBAR	Santa Barbara
AMAD	Amador	MEND	Mendocino	SCLA	Santa Clara
BUTT	Butte	MERC	Merced	SCRU	Santa Cruz
CALA	Calaveras	MODO	Modoc	SHAS	Shasta
COLU	Colusa	MONO	Mono	SIER	Sierra
CCOS	Contra Costa	MONT	Monterey	SISK	Siskiyou
DELN	Del Norte	NAPA	Napa	SOLA	Solano
ELDO	El Dorado	NEVA	Nevada	SONO	Sonoma
FRES	Fresno	ORAN	Orange	STAN	Stanislaus
GLEN	Glenn	PLAC	Placer	SUTT	Sutter
HUMB	Humboldt	PLUM	Plumas	TEHA	Tehama
IMPE	Imperial	RIVE	Riverside	TRIN	Trinity
INYO	Inyo	SACR	Sacramento	TULA	Tulare
KERN	Kern	SBEN	San Benito	TUOL	Tuolumne
KING	Kings	SBER	San Bernardino	VENT	Ventura
LAKE	Lake	SDIE	San Diego	YOLO	Yolo
LASS	Lassen	SFRA	San Francisco	YUBA	Yuba
LANG	Los Angeles	SJOA	San Joaquin
MADE	Madera	SLUI	San Luis Obispo