The Cray Valley Award
This special award and certificate is available to all radio amateurs and Short Wave Listeners (SWLs), who work or hear a specified number of Cray Valley RS members and/or our club and special event stations. It is a five tiered award with basic, bronze, silver, gold and diamond stages. The special certificate is shown below. Its aims are to encourage and increase contact with Cray Valley RS members and our locality and to foster radio friendship. A good way to start looking for active Cray Valley stations, is to listen in and/or join in to our regular open Cray Valley RS nets.
The Cray Valley Award Rules
Eligibility
The award is available to any licensed radio amateur or short-wave listener who submits proof of working or hearing Cray Valley Radio Society members since January 1, 2000.
Classes and Points Required
| Points | |||||
| Basic | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Diamond(2) | |
| G Stations (England) | 20 | 45 | 60 | 75 | 100 |
| European Stations(1) | 10 | 30 | 40 | 50 | |
| DX Stations | 5 | 15 | 20 | 25 | |
(1) Stations in GD, GI, GM, GU, GJ and GW should use the rules for European stations.
(2) Diamond award is only available to Cray Valley Radio Society members.
Points Allocation
- Cray Valley Radio Society Members
(see the list of current members at the bottom of this page)
Each member worked counts as 1 point. NB: Contacts with different callsigns for the same member cannot be counted separately; each member contacted only counts as a single point. So for example if you’ve logged QSOs with M0WDV and MW0WDV, this counts as 1 point only. The same goes for contacts with members if they have foreign callsigns or contest callsigns; only one contact with any given member regardless of callsign counts towards the award. - Club Callsigns and Special Event Stations
Each count as 3 points (up to the maximum number allowed per class – see below). Except for the Basic award, additional club/SES contacts beyond the maximum may count as 1 point each (but equally they can be “held back” to count towards a higher-class award if preferred). NB: Contact with different club callsigns can be counted separately. So for example if you’ve logged QSOs with G3RCV, GX3RCV, M8C and MM8C this counts as 4 separate contacts.
| Class | Maximum Number of 3-Point QSOs with club/SES callsigns | Additional QSOs with club/SES callsigns can be counted for 1 point each ? |
| Basic | 1 | No |
| Bronze | 3 | Yes |
| Silver | 4 | Yes |
| Gold | 5 | Yes |
| Diamond | 6 | Yes |
Note that the maxium number of 3-point QSOs for each award level shown in the table above includes 3-point QSOs for the previous award level. So for example, if your Basic award application included a 3-point QSO with a club/SES station, you can allocate two more 3-point QSOs towards your Bronze award for a total of three 3-point QSOs. Any additional club/SES QSOs could either be “held back” towards higher award levels, or applied towards your Bronze award at a value of 1 point each.
Club Callsigns
- G3RCV, GX3RCV, G1RCV, GX1RCV, M8C
- Regional variations of the club callsigns (e.g. MM8C)
Qualifying Special Event Stations
| Callsign | Event |
|---|---|
| GB8KW | KW Electronics (eligible for the award while CVRS was operating this callsign) |
| GB23C | Coronation of King Charles III (eligible for the award while CVRS was operating this callsign) |
| GB70E | Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (eligible for the award while CVRS was operating this callsign) |
| GB2CM | Crossness Museum |
| 150th Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Victoria Cross | |
| GB200T | 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar |
| GB2AF | 100 Years of Wireless at British Vintage Wireless & Television Museum & Alfred Rickard Taylor, call sign ‘2AF’ |
| GB2BF | British Wireless for the Blind Fundraiser |
| GB2FB | British Wireless for the Blind Fundraiser |
| GB2RAR | Railways on the Air |
| GB2RE | JOTA (Jamboree On The Air), Royal Eltham Scouts |
| GB2SJS | Centenary, St. John’s Church, Sidcup |
| GB4DFI | Special Station commemorating Owen Cross G4DFI (sk) |
| GB4KME | Kent Model Engineers Exhibition, Eltham |
| GB4RES | JOTA, Royal Eltham Scouts |
| GB4SH | Ham Radio – Summit Festival, Shooters Hill, London |
| GB4VLX | Special Station commemorating Deryck Buckley G3VLX (sk) |
| GB50 | Golden Jubilee, H.M. Elizabeth II, Windsor Castle |
| GB50RE | 50th Anniversary of the Royal Eltham Scouts |
| GB60CV | 60th Anniversary of Cray Valley RS |
| GB6CW | Vintage Car Festival, Crown Woods School |
| GB6DS | JOTA, 9th Dartford Scouts |
| GB6MW | Mills on the Air Weekend |
| GB75BF | 75th Anniversary, British Wireless for the Blind Fund |
| GB70CV | 70th Anniversary of Cray Valley RS |
| GB75CV | 75th Anniversary of Cray Valley RS |
| GB8ST | Festival of Science & Technology, Crown Woods School |
| GG100RE | TDOTA (Thinking Day On The Air), 100th Anniversay of Girl Guide Movement, Royal Eltham Girl Guides |
| GR9RW | Celebrating the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle |
| M2000A | Millennium Celebrations – Ranger’s House |
Contact Requirements
- All QSOs must be made from the same callsign and from the same DXCC country.
- Contacts can be made on any band and on any mode.
- Endorsements for all/single band/mode are available.
- Contacts made via any Internet links or man-made repeating devices are not valid, i.e. voice, television or packet repeaters, satellites or anything else that electronically relays a signal.
Submit Log to Check for Award Eligibility
Upload your electronic log in ADIF format to see if you may be eligible for the award.
How to Claim the Award
All applicants must submit proof of working or hearing Cray Valley RS members or event stations, since 1 January 2000.
You may submit an extract of your log either on paper, or electronically:
- Paper log: Send an extract of your log including details of contacts (dates, times, bands, modes, reports exchanged) to the following address :
The Cray Valley RS Award Manager
75 Rennets Wood Road
London SE9 2NG
United Kingdom
or scan the paper log and email to awardmanager@cvrs.uk
Please include a note with your contact details, and state whether you require a hardcopy certificate (fee applies – see below) or only a PDF copy delivered by email.
- Electronic log: Submit your electronic log to the Cray Valley Award Checker above (there is no need to extract only qualifying contacts; you can submit your log in full and the checker will automatically extract only eligible contacts).
Payment for your Award Claim
- Basic Award:
- PDF award certificate delivered by email: No fee
- Hardcopy award certificate: £5, €7, or US $8. An additional postage & packing fee (details below) applies unless collecting in person
- Club members should pay by direct bank transfer (payment details at the bottom of the last page of the QUA newsletter), including their callsign together with the word AWARD in the payment reference.
- Non-club members should email awardmanager@cvrs.uk to arrange payment.
- Bronze, Silver, and Gold Endorsements:
- PDF endorsed award certificate delivered by email: No fee
- Hardcopy endorsement sticker (for attaching to the Basic award certificate) : Free of charge. A postage & packing fee (details below) applies unless collecting in person
- There is no fee for the Diamond Award, which is only available to Cray Valley Radio Society members.
- All awards are free to registered blind or disabled persons.
- A postage and packaging fee is payable if you are unable to collect the hardcopy award or endorsement sticker in person. This fee is £2 for the UK, £4 for Europe, and £5 for the rest of the world.
Any queries to be addressed to the awards manager: awardmanager@cvrs.uk
List of Cray Valley RS Member Callsigns
2E0CVN 2E0CXO 2E0ESG 2E0EUI 2E0FCX 2E0HOE 2E0IHX 2E0IQP 2E0JBH 2E0JFF 2E0LEH 2E0LRR 2E0LSW 2E0LZF 2E0MER 2E0OCD 2E0RXQ 2E0SGJ 2E0UOE 2E0UXK G0AFH G0FDP G0FDZ G0HIQ G0KPZ G0PZA G0UJA G0UJK G0UKN G0VJG G1BUO G1JKE G3RGS G3SPJ G3SXE G3WMR G3YJW G3ZPS G4ADM G4AEH G4BUO G4CDM G4DBL G4EGU G4FAA G4FNL G4JED G4JMM G4NHP G4NOW G4WIF G4WNF G4YMF G6DBE G6HTH G6LPF G6LUD G6NRH G6TDR G7GLW G7MNZ G7TWC G7ULL G8CHB G8GD G8IPY G8ITB G8JAD G8JNZ G8JWX G8MCA G8PJF G8RW G8WBU G8XDR G8YDB G8YTZ G8ZZK LZ1QN M0DXR M0GVH M0HPF M0HPZ M0IAO M0IKC M0JCF M0JHB M0JXG M0JZN M0KBX M0KPU M0KSJ M0KUK M0LRH M0MCV M0MDR M0MHM M0NAI M0NOY M0NPB M0OVA M0OVX M0RQJ M0RVL M0SCJ M0SHG M0SJW M0SLM M0TBS M0TGV M0THR M0UAT M0UCI M0UKK M0UKL M0UPS M0VMF M0VWW M0WDT M0WDV M0WGF M0WPG M0XBO M0XRY M1BPN M1CBK M1HPR M1RHW M1TAD M3LOZ M3UJR M7CXU M7EBL M7EGZ M7FSK M7FSL M7FWM M7HBL M7IBL M7IGA M7IGJ M7IGQ M7IPY M7JSR M7KKR M7NAJ M7PAO M7SFX M7TBL M7WFM WM5DX