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Yasme Foundation Announces Awards, Expanded List of Eligible Call Signs
The Yasme Foundation currently offers two awards. The Yasme Award, in the form of a handsome plaque, is offered to those radio amateurs who submit proof of 30 QSOs with Yasme officials and DXpeditions that have at least one Yasme official as a participant. The Yasme Supreme Award is in the form of a representation of the YASME boat used by Danny Weil in his around-the-world DXpedition. It is available to those who submit proof of 60 QSOs with Yasme officials and DXpeditions with a Yasme official as a participant. These awards are available to qualifying applicants at no cost. After a year-long evaluation of the rules, the Yasme Board of Directors has revised the rules for those call signs that may be used to qualify for the two awards, with many new ones added to the list. The Yasme Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation organized to conduct scientific and educational projects related to Amateur Radio, including DXing and the introduction and promotion of Amateur Radio in underdeveloped countries.
The YASME Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation organized to conduct scientific and educational projects related to Amateur Radio, including DXing (long distance communication) and the introduction and promotion of Amateur Radio in underdeveloped countries.
“Danny Weil was a pioneer of what is now known as the ‘DXpedition.’ While not the first to DXpedition, Danny was one of the first to travel to more than one location to operate, and to travel from place to place – often solo in a sailboat and lugging hundreds of pounds of radio equipment – specifically to provide DXers with a ‘new one.’ Lloyd and Iris Colvin perfected the DXpedition and took it into the modern age in the 1970s and 1980s, with operations from more than 100 countries, using modern transport methods and state-of-the-art radio equipment.
“YASME was both the name of Danny Weil’s boat, and the name of the not-for-profit foundation that was created in 1959 to provide financial and logistical support for the travels of Weil, the Colvins, and others.” –Scott Robbins, W4PA
The YASME book: YASME–The Danny Weil and Colvin Radio Expeditions
By James D. Cain, K1TN
Foundation Awards
The Yasme Plaque
The Yasme Trophy
The Yasme Foundation offers a beautiful plaque to anyone who submits QSL cards showing contacts with 30 different call signs of YASME officers, directors and/or operations. For proof of 60 contacts, a trophy in the shape of the sailboat “Yasme” is awarded. Eligible call signs are contained on the list under the Award Callsigns tab on the home page.Award application should be made by letter to the Awards Manager:
Randy Wright, W6CUA
18432 Milmar Blvd.
Castro Valley, CA 94546 USA
The application must include your name, call, mailing address, shipping address, e-mail address, and a list of the stations with dates and bands, along with the cards for verification. There is no charge for the Yasme Awards, however, if you wish to make a donation towards their cost, please feel free to do so with our thanks.
The awards are sent via UPS or FedEx, so please be sure to provide a shipping address for “ground delivery.”
(NOTE: Ground delivery is made to a street address, not to a PO Box.) If you have a personal log record which shows contact with a station in our DXpeditions Call Sign Directory, but you do not yet have a QSL card confirming that contact, you may request cards from the QSL Manager. Cards are only available if the DXpedition call is marked with an asterisk (*).
Request QSL cards from:
The Yasme Foundation, PO Box 20578, Castro Valley, CA 94546 (not from W6CUA, the Awards Manager). For more information you may write (send SASE):
The Yasme Foundation
PO Box 20578
Castro Valley, CA 94546
or E-mail: yasmeqslmgr@comcast.net (Yasme QSL Manager)
Yasme Awards Call Sign Directory
This is a directory of YASME call signs/operations/operators, listing the call sign, date of operation, and the principle operator. The original version of this list appeared in the K6PBT SH/INFO database for PacketCluster.
Many of the DXpeditions were done by Lloyd (W6KG) and Iris (W6QL) Colvin. Lloyd, W6KG, became a Silent Key in December 1993, (see call TA1/W6QL). Iris, W6QL, became a Silent Key February 18, 1998. Lloyd and Iris logged more than a million contacts during their world travels, collecting one of the largest QSL collections in the world.
* Logs for certain DXpeditions are held by the Yasme QSL Manager. If you have worked a DX call marked with an asterisk (*), you may request a QSL card for your records and the YASME Awards. (See Awards page)
Verified contacts with the following will count for credit toward the YASME Awards:►Open Call Sign Directory List in New Window
