CZECHOSLOVAKIA CENTENARY AWARD
presented by OKDXF
To achieve the Award contact in October (1. - 31. 10. 2018) contact all Czech Special Stations OL100A, OL100C, OL100E, OL100N, OL100R, OL100S, OL100T, OL100Y. Any HF band, any mode (CW, SSB, DIGI) counts.
The suffix letters form the words RCS CENTENARY. Any missing suffix letter from A-C-E-N-R-S-T-Y can be replaced by a QSO with one or both joker stations OL100RCS or OM100CSR. Both jokers can be used but each does count only once.
The Award is in electronic form (PDF file), free of charge.
The Czechoslovakia Centenary Award (CCA) by OK DX Foundation is a contribution of Czech radio amateurs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic (Czechoslovakia) on October 28, 1918.
The rise of Czechoslovakia was preceded by the results of the First World War (1914-1918) and the subsequent break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to which the future part of the new state belonged (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia).
The basic arrangement of the state as a Western-style democratic republic, was formulated by the leaders of the Czech and Slovak exile and the compatriot societies in the US first in the Pitsburg Political Treaty of May 31, 1918 and subsequently in the Washington Declaration of October 5, 1918.
The leading figures were Professor T.G. Masaryk, who later became the first Czechoslovak president and the Slovak side, General M. R. Štefánik, who are considered together as the founder of Czechoslovakia. The legionaries and their struggle against the Bolsheviks in Russia had an important role in the process of the creation of the state. Their undisputed military achievements and international recognition played an important role in the negotiations on the emergence of independent Czechoslovakia as the successor state of the then Czech Kingdom and became the basis of its future army.
The new state was proclaimed by the law of the Czech National Committee on October 28, 1918. The Slovak political and public authorities declared the newly created state on 30 October with the so-called Martin Declaration. The newly established state was associated with a number of nationalities (51% Czechs, 14% Slovaks, 23% Germans, 6% Hungarians, 4% Rusins) who had all democratic rights, their own education system and culture. The state initially had to solve a number of problems, including intervention from abroad, and defend its existence. The final state border was set by the Paris Peace Treaty in 1920.
