WAD “Worked all Districts” A VHF / UHF / Microwave Award

The award is designed to promote simplex operation on the higher amateur radio bands. It requires a simplex contact on any of the VHF, UHF, or microwave amateur radio bands with stations operating in each of the ZL1, ZL2, ZL3, and ZL4 areas. One contact per ZL call area. Any mode is accepted. Repeater contacts are not accepted.

An endorsement is available if all QSOs were made via amateur radio satellite.

An endorsement is available if all QSOs were made on a single band and / or mode.

• ZL1 is the North Island north of and including Taupo
• ZL2 is the North Island south of Taupo and the upper South Island; Nelson and Marlborough
• ZL3 is the South Island north of the Waitaki River and excluding Nelson and Marlborough
• ZL4 is the South Island south of the Waitaki River

Clarification: If you work a station with a ZL1 callsign that is operating from inside the ZL3 call area. You can claim the call as a ZL3 but not as a ZL1. It is the area where the station is operating from that is important not the call letters that the station is using.