NZLA – New Zealand Lakeside Award

The New Zealand Lakeside Award is designed to promote operation from New Zealand’s scenic freshwater lakes and to stimulate mobile and portable operation. Estuaries and inlets are not counted as lakes. The award is open to all amateur radio operators.

General Rules

Contacts can be made on any band or mode, but not via repeaters or the Internet. Satellite contacts are valid for this award.
The LOG must contain the date, band, mode, station worked, and LINZ lake number (or name) for each QSO.
Endorsements are available for all contacts being achieved on a single band, or mode, or for satellites.

Rules for Hunters

For the Basic Hunter Award, contacts are required with stations operating from 10 unique freshwater lakes in New Zealand. There are currently 1184 lakes on the list (which is based on a LINZ list). Download from the NZART website.
Hunter endorsements are available for each additional group of 10 lakes.
A Hunter Honour Award is available for contacts with 50 or more lakes.
Activating Stations must be located within 500m of the lake shore.

Rules for Activators

The Basic Activator Award is awarded for 10 unique lake activations. A minimum of 2 contacts is required to qualify as an activation.
You can only activate one lake at a time, and you can’t go back to it once you move on to the next one Activating Stations must be located within 500m of the lake shore.
An Activator must supply each contact with at a minimum the lake number or the name of the lake
Activator endorsements are available for each additional unique 10 lakes activated.
An Activator Honour Award is awarded for 50 unique activations.
Full rules are on the NZLA Log Sheet which is available from the Award Manager awards@nzart.org.nz.

Common Frequencies:

CW 5353 kHz (with permit), 7032 kHz, 14,062 kHz,
SSB 5363 kHz (with permit), 7090 kHz, 14,310 kHz