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- MARAC USACA Award
Rules
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USACA AWARD
USA ALL COUNTIES AWARD, October 2024
After almost a year of hard work by the Mobile Amateur Radio Award
Club (MARAC) board and other volunteers, MARAC has adopted the USACA
award that used to be hosted by CQ Magazine.
The award rules are very similar to those of CQ Magazine with the
exception that NO WRITTEN CONFIRMATIONS (Like QSL cards, MRCs,
etc) will be required. . While we were reluctant to break from this
long-standing tradition, we realize that this one requirement has become
the top roadblock for many hams to chase this award. Times when a QSL
card in the mail was a given conclusion are long gone. It has gotten to
a point where getting written confirmations was harder than working the
county. No other MARAC award requires written confirmation, so this will
also align the award with all the rest of our awards. A copy of the new
MARAC USACA certificate and a complete set of the new rules will be
added to the website. Applications for all award levels will be accepted
starting November 1, 2024.
NOTE:
If you have been working hard for years to get all the counties
worked AND confirmed, you can still apply to Brian, NX0X,
<nx0x@aol.com> for the CQ Certificate as long as he still has blank ones
available for use. Note he is only accepting applications for the 3077
All County award level.
- County lines for your Garmin Nuvi GPS
DOWNLOAD FILE HERE.
INSTRUCTIONS:
The zip file if 1.26 MB. Extract it to a flash card in your computer that works in
your Garmin Nuvi GPS. The file 'gmapsupp.img' should be in a folder 'garmin'
on the flash card. Remove the flash card from the computer and plug the card in the
GPS with the GPS turned off. When you turn the GPS on, the county lines should be
there. The unzipped file is just under 2 MB. Any size card is big enough.
Another way is to unzip the file to a temporary folder on your computer. Then just
copy the 'garmin' folder to your card.
The card has to be in the GPS to work. Remove the card if you want to remove the
county lines. If you buy a new Nuvi, just plug your card in if it uses the same type card.
Otherwise just copy it to the new type card.
NOTE: The newer units usually use the mini-SD card instead of the standard SD.
You may need an adapter to use in your computer.
It has worked for me on a couple of different models of Nuvi GPS units. As far as I know,
all county hunters that have used this file have been successful using it on the Garmin
Nuvi GPS units when instructions are followed. Not responsible if it does not work
for you.
Any questions or problems, email
The data came from the
GPSFileDepot
and I finally figured out their complicated instructions and now have it in one file to
put on a flash card. If you have problems, please call or email and we will try to
figure out the problem.
- MARAC - The Mobile Amateur Radio
Awards Club, Inc., was organized in 1970 as a Kansas nonprofit corporation MARAC is a
support group for County Hunting and mobile activity. Over 2600 members strong worldwide.
MARAC is staffed entirely by volunteers. MARAC is not affiliated with CQ Magazine or any
of the County Hunting Nets.
- The County
Hunter Web - A resource serving the needs of US county hunting around the world. Form, Planned Trips
and Special
Needs pages.
- County Hunters - Much
more county hunting info.
- WY7LL County Hunter VIDEO
presentation - A very good 20 minute video on using computers for working counties and
chasing county awards. (85 M Windows Media Video file)
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Digital/Packet Radio
- PSK31 - The
Official PSK31 WWW Homepage. New digital operating mode. Only a soundcard and radio
needed. Download the software.
- MMTTY - RTTY Software program
using computer soundcard and radio. If you can operate PSK31, just install this
simple program and you are on RTTY! Excellent freeware program and easy to use.
- APRS - APRS Amateur
Radio Packet Position Reporting System APRS GPS.
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- DX Reference Guide -
Outstanding site by AC6V with thousands of links to DX and QSL info. * NO LONGER UPDATED.
- DXZone Guide - The DXZone
Guide to Ham Radio World.
Training
- Outstanding CW Trainer
program FREE - Koch's method of learning Morse is a simple, direct way of building
reflexive responses to individual characters. This method does not allow you to build that
lookup table in your brain. To copy at full speed, you must build the reflexes in order to
achieve 90 percent accuracy. And that's what you're spending your time doing, building
reflexes. How long will all this take? That will depend on the individual. Koch himself,
with hand-picked students, got a group to master 12 wpm code in a mere 13.5 hours.
In his menu, Click on Koch CW Trainer to download the file.
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