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Awards

An award page counts contacts in the active station logbook. Change logbook, and the count changes with it. A DXCC total for the club call and a DXCC total for home are different pages, because they are different logbooks.

The Awards menu only lists the awards you have switched on. The last item, Award Settings, is that switch.

Picture needed: award-settings.png Awards menu, Award Settings. The list of awards with a few ticked, so it is obvious this is what fills the menu.

Which awards you see

Open Awards, then Award Settings. Tick the ones you chase. Save. Those names appear in the Awards menu. Untick one and it leaves the menu. The contacts are not deleted. The page is just hidden.

A sensible start is DXCC, and whatever else you actually send cards or LoTW for. A menu of twenty awards you never open is how people stop looking at any of them.

Worked and confirmed

Worked means the contact is in the log. Confirmed means Cloudlog has been told the contact counts: a card, LoTW, or eQSL, marked on the QSO.

Logging the contact is the worked part. The confirmed part arrives when you send the log to LoTW or eQSL, or when you mark the card yourself on the QSO.

Each award

The count is always the active logbook. What changes is the field the award reads. Several pages share one filter card: worked, confirmed, not worked, a QSL type, a band, and a mode. QSL and LoTW start ticked. eQSL counts when you tick it. The band list is the bands you have marked for that award, under your callsign, Bands.

Award Info, the button under the heading, is a short note about the scheme and a link to whoever runs it. Cloudlog does not submit the application for you.

  • DXCC, countries. Include deleted, continents, a year, a map, and a CSV.
  • CQ, the 40 CQ zones.
  • DOK, German club identifiers, with a DOK or SDOK choice.
  • WAS, US states.
  • IOTA, island groups such as EU-005.
  • SOTA, POTA, and WWFF, a reference such as GM/NS-001, PA-0150, or DLFF-0069. These three filter by date as well as band and mode.
  • VUCC, gridsquares on VHF and up, one row per band.
  • WAB, British squares, read from SIG and SIG Info.

The awards without their own page in this guide

They are still in the Awards menu once you tick them.

  • FFMA is a map of the 488 Maidenhead squares in the contiguous United States, the Fred Fish Memorial Award, worked on 6 m. Award Info links to the ARRL page.
  • Gridmaster is a submenu: UK, USA, Japan, Germany, Luxembourg. Each page is a map of the gridsquares in that country, split into worked, a card, and LoTW. The US award is AMSAT's GridMaster, the 488 squares via satellite.
  • US counties is a table by state: worked, confirmed, the target, what is left, and a progress bar. The county is the USA county box on the QSO.
  • SIG is the catch-all. The table lists each SIG name you have used, with a count of contacts and a count of different SIG Info values. Click a row for the contacts. WAB in that table opens the WAB page. With nothing stored yet, the page tells you to put a category in SIG and a reference in SIG Info.
  • WAJA counts the 47 prefectures of Japan. The filter card is the same shape as WAS, including a LoTW Only preset.
  • GMDX Summer Challenge is a seasonal 4 m and 6 m event. The page explains the dates and the scoring, then a table of squares by fortnight, band, and mode. The entry button on the page goes to the organisers.

A plugin can add its own line to this menu. That line appears with the others when the plugin is installed and the award is switched on.

If a contact is missing from an award

Check the active logbook, and that the station location is linked to it. Then check the field the award reads. DXCC reads the country. VUCC and the gridmaster awards read the locator. SOTA reads the summit reference. A contact with a blank locator will never count for a gridsquare award, however many times you open the page. A band missing from the filter is the award tick on Bands.