Focus on CQ Awards: iDX – CQ’s "Secret" Award
While we continue our search for a successor to K1BV as Awards Editor, we’ll continue to profile CQ’s own operating awards with a close-up look at CQ’s iDX Award, an award aimed at beginners to grow their interest in DXing. –W2VU
here’s really nothing secret about CQ’s iDX Award, except that very few people even know it exists, especially those hams it is aimed at — newcomers to DXing and award-chasing. The CQ iDX Award is an introductory award, along the lines of old-time Novice awards, which encourages the development of a DXing “mindset” by recognizing the accomplishments of those amateurs, keep in mind that for many new hams, these systems that connect to and through repeaters provide their first opportunities to make contact with hams in faraway places. We want to encourage this, because if you find you enjoy contacting faraway hams through repeaters and the internet, then you’re more likely to want to do the same using only the ionosphere. Our goal with the iDX award is to create new DXers.
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