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ARRL Contest Branch Announces Redesigned Certificates

The new ARRL International Contest Award certificate.

The new ARRL November Sweepstakes certificate features a red, white and blue motif.

An EME dish design serves as the backdrop for the updated ARRL VHF/UHF Contest Award certificate.

NEWINGTON, CT, Sep 19, 2002--The ARRL Contest Branch has released newly designed certificates for various ARRL-sponsored contests. The new certificate designs will be used for all contests starting with those issued to qualifying participants in the December 2001 ARRL 160-Meter Contest.

"They replace a design that has been in use by the ARRL for at least the past 20 years," ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND, said of the new designs. He explains that part of the redesign involved reformatting the certificates from a "landscape" (horizontal) to a "portrait" (vertical) layout.

The ARRL November Sweepstakes certificate features an attractive red, white and blue design and incorporates the popular outline map of the US and Canada that has been appearing on Sweepstakes plaques.

Certificates for other HF events are highlighted by the "global" icon now found on the International DX Contest plaques.

The VHF/UHF/Microwave contest certificates incorporate a microwave dish antenna as a background motif.

A new certificate design for the IARU HF World Championship was put into use for the 2001 running of that event.

While the criteria for winning an award vary among the various operating events, certificates normally go to the top-finishing station in each category from each ARRL/RAC section and DXCC entity.

"We are waiting for the new certificates to arrive back from the printer's," Henderson said. "As soon as we have them in hand, we will begin printing and mailing the backlog of certificates."

Henderson says the ARRL Contest Branch will maintain a supply of the old horizontal-style certificates to replace older certificates as the need arises.

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