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CEPT Amateur Radio Club - CARC Award Programme
To mark the formation of CARC (CEPT Amateur Radio Club)
an extensive award programme has been formulated.
The CEPT (European Conference of Postal
and Telecommunications Administrations) is the
regional telecommunications organisation for Europe
and is the body which brings together the
regulatory authorities of its members. CEPT has
been responsible for developing Recommendation
T/R 61-01 (CEPT Radio Amateur Licence) and T/R 61-02
(Harmonised Amateur Radio Certificate, HAREC). CARC is
an amateur radio club for employees, or former
employees of a CEPT organisation or radio regulatory
administration of a CEPT country.
The CARC award programme has been designed to
recognise operational expertise, propagation
knowledge and experimental activity in any frequency
band or bands that are currently allocated to the
amateur service in two or more CEPT countries.
Four distinct award programmes are available, EMFA
(European MF Award for 1.8 MHz), EHFA (European HF
Award for the frequency range 3 to 30 MHz), EVUA
(European VHF-UHF Award for the frequency range 30 to
3000 MHz) and ESEA (European SHF-EHF Award for the
frequency range 3 to 300 GHz). Within the EHFA, EVUA
and ESEA award programmes individual band diplomas
and "multi-band star" awards can be obtained.
Excellence in 1.8 MHz operations is also recognised
with an EMFA star award.
General Rules
1. CARC band diplomas and awards are available to
all licensed amateurs and listeners.
2. The charges per application for up to 4 CARC
diplomas or awards are:
CARC members (current or former employees of a
CEPT organisation or a radio regulatory
administration of a CEPT member country) DKK 25 or
US $ 5 and non CARC members DKK 50 or US $ 10.
3. All claimed contacts must be made with licensed
amateur stations, working within frequency
allocations authorised by the administration of the
territory concerned.
4. Each application must clearly state the award
programme and the frequency band or bands for which
the application is made, together with the points
claimed in the form of a check list.
5. All stations contacted must be "land stations".
Contacts with stations using the suffix /AM or /MM
cannot be counted.
6. All stations must be contacted from the same
"DXCC country". Two way contacts are generally
required but please note the special arrangements
below concerning the EVUA and ESEA award programmes.
7. Any mode may be used which is authorised
in the claimant's licence, however contacts
utilising repeaters, relays or artificial satellites
cannot be claimed.
8. Contacts after the 1 January 1987 may be
claimed. This year marks the first milestone in the
formation of the modern CEPT organisation when
telecommunications standards activities were
transferred to ETSI (European Telecommunications
Standards Institute).
9. An application for a CARC band diploma or award
should be accompanied by a log extract, check list
and a declaration of compliance with the rules.
Applicants should note that spot checks will be
performed and photocopies of QSL cards may therefore
be required.
10. Holders of CARC band diplomas or awards are
entitled to state the following on QSLs, stationery;
band diploma holders 1.8MHz EMFA, 18MHz EHFA,
144MHz EVUA, 10GHz ESEA etc and star award holders
*EMFA*, *EHFA*, *EVUA* and *ESEA*.
11. Claims for CARC awards should be sent to the
Secretary CARC, European Radiocommunications Office,
Holsteinsgade 63, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Points System
EMFA, EHFA, EVUA and ESEA band diplomas and awards
are issued, provided the required number of points
have been obtained for confirmed contacts on the band
in question. The point system is as follows:
a) 3 points for every CEPT country contacted, even
though it may not have been a CEPT member from 1987.
See list 1.
b) 3 points for a contact with the CARC
headquarters station 5P1ER located in Denmark, or
in any other CEPT country together with the local
prefix (i.e. EA/5P1ER). A contact with the
headquarters station can be claimed only once per
band, regardless of the country in which it is
located. Further, for the purpose of CARC awards,
contacts with 5P1ER cannot additionally count as a
territory, as defined in lists 1 to 4 below.
c) 2 points for any European "DXCC country"
contacted, not claimed as a CEPT member country. See
list 2.
d) 1 point for a contact with any other territory
which is geographically outside Europe, but is
considered to be part of a CEPT country or
administered by a CEPT country (e.g. Reunion,
Canary Islands, Ascension Island). See list 3.
e) 1 point for a contact with any non CEPT country
that has implemented CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-01,
the CEPT Radio Amateur Licence (i.e. Israel). See
list 4. A maximum of 5 points can be claimed in this
category per band diploma, or EMFA star award.
Notes
1. One of the "DXCC countries" England, Northern
Ireland, Scotland or Wales may count as the United
Kingdom for 3 points, the others as 2 points.
2. Contacts with Czechoslovakia or the Czech and
Slovak Federal Republic count as 3 points prior to 1
January 1993.
3. Contacts with other deleted "DXCC countries"
which could be considered to fall in category c) or
d) above, count as 2 points or 1 point respectively.
4. Only contacts with Antarctic stations
utilising a prefix allocated to a CEPT country can
be claimed.
5. One of the "DXCC countries" European Russia,
Asiatic Russia, Franz Josef Land or Kaliningrad may
count as the Russian Federation for 3 points, the
others as 2 points or 1 point according to whether
list 2 or list 3 is applicable.
6. Territories falling in list 2 or list 3 which
are considered politically to be sovereign part of a
CEPT member's country, cannot be claimed as a list 1
CEPT member country unless the terms of note 1 or
note 5 above apply.
7. CEPT and the CARC consider a "European
country" to be in accordance with the views of the
Council of Europe concerning historical and cultural
connections, together with a loosely defined eastern
boundary i.e. a line starting from the middle of the
Bosphorus, crossing the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
up to the mouth of the River Ural, running along the
river and following the crest of the Ural Mountains.
For the purpose of CARC awards, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia and Turkey are considered
European countries, Cyprus and Turkey already being
CEPT members.
8. On the date when a country in list 2 signs the
"CEPT Arrangement" it will be deleted from list 2 and
be transferred to list 1, thereafter counting as 3
points for CARC awards.
9. The CARC reserves the right to modify from
time to time the overall points requirements for band
diplomas or awards, in order to maintain the standard
of the award programme.
List 1 - CEPT Member Countries (3 points)
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of),
Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian
Federation, San Marino, Slovak Republic, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Kingdom and Vatican City.
List 2 - Additional European "DXCC Countries" (2 points)
Aaland Islands, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Azores Islands, Balearic Islands, Bylorussia,
Corsica, Crete, Dodecanese Islands, England (1),
European Russia (5), Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land
(5), Georgia, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, ITU
Geneva, Jan Mayen, Jersey, Kaliningrad (5), Market
Reef, Mali Vysotskii Island, Mount Athos, Northern
Ireland (1), Scotland (1), SMOM Rome, Sardinia,
Sovereign Base Area of Cyprus, Svalbard, Wales (1)
and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
List 3 - Additional "CEPT Related Territories" (1 point)
Amsterdam & St Paul Islands, Anguilla, Antarctica(4),
Aruba, Asiatic Russia (5), Ascension Island, Bermuda,
Bouvet Island, British Virgin Islands, Canary
Islands, Cayman Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, Chagos
Islands, Clipperton Island, Crozet Island, Falkland
Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French St
Martin, Glorioso Island, Hong Kong, Greenland,
Guadeloupe, Juan de Nova Europa Island, Kerguelen,
Macau, Madeira, Martinique, Mayotte, Monserrat,
Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands St Maarten, New
Caledonia, Peter 1st Island, Pitcairn, Reunion,
South Georgia, South Orkney Islands, South
Shetland Islands, St Helena, St Pierre & Miquelon,
Tristan da Cunha, Tromelin, Turks & Caicos Islands and
Wallis and Futuna Island.
List 4 - T/R 61-01 non CEPT, countries. (1 point per
country, 5 points maximum )
Israel, New Zealand, Peru
European MF Award - EMFA
The EMFA award programme has been designed to
recognise amateur radio achievements on the 1.8 MHz
band, the only MF band currently allocated to the
amateur service. Points may be claimed for contacts
in the frequency range 1800 to 2000 kHz, however
claimants must operate in accordance with the
frequency schedule in their licence which may not
include all of the band mentioned above.
The requirement for an EMFA 1.8MHz band diploma is 175
points and for an EMFA star award 210 points.
European HF Award - EHFA
The EHFA award programme has been designed to
recognise operational excellence on the eight HF
bands currently allocated to the amateur service
between 3 and 30 MHz e.g. 3.5MHz, 7MHz, 10MHz,
14MHz, 18MHz, 21MHz, 24MHz and 28MHz. If eight
individual band diplomas are obtained an EHFA star
award can be claimed.
The requirements for EHFA band diplomas are as
follows:
3.5 MHz 195 points, bands between 7MHz and 28MHz 210
points per band.
European VHF-UHF Award - EVUA
The EVUA award programme is designed to recognise
operational excellence together with a thorough
knowledge of VHF/UHF propagation in the six frequency
bands that are currently allocated to the amateur
service in two or more CEPT countries, in the range
30MHz to 3000MHz e.g. 50MHz, 70MHz, 144MHz, 432MHz,
1296MHz and 2320MHz. If four individual band diplomas
are obtained an EVUA star award can be claimed.
As stated in General Rule 6, two way contacts are
generally required, however because of the limited
availability of the 70MHz allocation, operators not
licensed to transmit in the band 70.0 - 70.5 MHz may
submit a claim for crossband 50/70 MHz contacts when
amateur emissions are received at 70MHz and the
response is made on 50MHz. Such operation must not be
in conflict with the licensing conditions of the
concerned countries. Attention is also drawn to the
recommended crossband frequencies, 50.185 MHz/70.185
MHz. Further, since the band 2300 - 2450 MHz is not
available in some CEPT countries, operators not
licensed for this band may, subject to local licensing
conditions, submit claims for crossband contacts where
amateur emissions are received at 2320 MHz and the
response is made on 1296 MHz.
The requirements for EVUA band diplomas are as
follows:
50MHz 180 points, 70MHz 20 points, 144MHz 120 points,
432MHz 75 points, 1296MHz 45 points and 2320MHz 20
points.
European SHF-EHF Award - ESEA
The ESEA award programme is intended to recognise
the experimental nature of microwave operations
together with a knowledge of propagation at this
order of frequency. ESEA band diplomas are available
for the 9 frequency bands currently allocated to the
amateur service in two or more CEPT countries in the
range 3GHz to 300GHz e.g. 3.4GHz, 5.6GHz, 10GHz,
24GHz, 47GHz, 75.5GHz, 120GHz, 142GHz and 248GHz. If
three individual band diplomas are obtained an ESEA
star award can be claimed.
As stated in General Rule 6, two way contacts are
generally required, however because of the limited
availability in CEPT countries of the bands 3400 -
3475 MHz and 119.98 - 120.02 GHz operators not
licensed for these bands may, subject to local
licensing conditions submit claims for crossband
contacts, provided the band used for transmitting
also falls within the ESEA range.
The requirements for ESEA band diplomas are as follows:
3.4GHz 4 points, 5.6GHz 10 points, 10GHz 10 points,
bands between 24GHz and 248GHz 4 points per band.
General
The Secretary CARC would be grateful for comments on
how the overall award programme might be improved.
Further, all amateur radio enthusiasts who believe
they are qualified to be a member of CARC (as
mentioned in General Rule 2 above) are invited to
contact the Secretary CARC, European Radio-
communications Office, Holsteinsgade 63, DK-2100
Copenhagen, Denmark.
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