25 stations from Thailand Award

Award for working 25 stations from Thailand.

USA 250 Award

See there is a new award available for users of QRZ Logbook, USA 250 Award. To commemorate the United States of America 250th anniversary of its founding in 2026.

So far only 1 USA station confirmed on 10m. This band is where I mostly contact the USA. As not many seem to use QRZ Logbook I will probably have to work a lot more than 250 stations to qualify for this award by the end of the year. For comparison last year, 2025 only worked 64 US stations that confirmed. out of 90 contacts.

1750 VKFF Hunter Honour Roll Award

Award for working 1,750 different VKFF areas. Thanks, activators for QSOs.

2025 year in review

Clublog has a Timeline feature, so you can see how many QSOs you make each year, type and countries worked. Here is mine.

A record number of QSOs for me in 2025, also a record number of DXCCs worked at 105. The jump in phone contacts probably due to a heap of park activations made driving to and from Queensland in the winter. The jump in countries due to me concentrating a bit more on 20m, I have ignored this band in the past as it can be dominated by big gun stations, with a simple dipole and 100w I am struggling to be heard. Anyway, was able to do quite well on FT8 mode.

DXCC on 20m QRZ Logbook Award

Recently confirmed 100 countries worked on 20m FT8, however getting them confirmed was a bit harder. On QRZ Logbook just managed to confirm 100 countries worked on 20m, getting a "gold star". 

I still need a lot of countries in Africa and some in Asia.

Chinese Provinces

For Amateur Radio China is divided into 30 Provinces. The province is determined by the Callsign region, BG0-BG9, and the suffix. Eg Shanghai (4AA~4HZZ). Log4OM does not have a pull down list for provinces, so I placed a 2 letter code in the QSO comments to indicate what province the callsign was in. Created an Award in Log4OM reading the comments. The 2 letter reference code is taken from an Awards program UltimateAAC.

I have worked 26 provinces, missing 4 to have all 30. 

They are

BG0 XZ Xizang (Tibet)

BG3 SX Shanxi province

BG9 NX Ningxia Hui province

BG9 SN Shaanxi province

Some will be tough, such as Tibet which has a sparse population and harsh climate.

Note 10m shows up as my most popular band. I have worked 2 provinces on 6m!

Map of Chinese provinces, from Wikipedia

Australian States and Territories

Despite its size Australia only has 6 States, 2 Internal Territories, a part of Antarctica VK0 and some external island territories. I created an award in Log4OM to show worked. Lumped all the VK9 islands together.

You can see VK0 Antarctic is rare, only worked on 20m. My only 160m contact with a local VK1 on a SOTA summit nearby, using a rather compromised antenna. Yet to work VK8 on 80m, and missing VK6,  VK7 and VK9 on 12m, mainly due to a lack of activity by me on this band.