Awards for Coronation activities
These awards recognise participation in the Coronation celebrations by UK and Crown Dependency stations that use the “R” prefix in their callsign during the period 1st May 2023 to 30th June 2023.
The awards are available to stations using the “R” prefix and those hearing/working them, at several achievement levels. They are for both licensed stations and short wave listeners, details are described below.
Coronation Operating Award (working or Hearing “R” stations)
Award level Number of R Stations Worked or Heard
HF Band-slots [1] VHF/UHF Band-slots [2]
Serf 10 or 8
Knight 15 or 12
Cleric 20 or 16
Noble (1) 25 and 10
Noble (2) 40 or 20
Royal (1) 40 and 20
Royal (2) 50 or 30
[1] Band-slots are where you can work a station on multiple bands, each QSO on a different band counting as a band-slot
[2] VHF/UHF bands are defined as 50MHz and higher
Coronation Activation Award (operating as an “R” station, eg GR3XXX)
Award level Number of QSO's Made by "R" station
HF Band-slots VHF/UHF Band-slots
Serf 10 or 8
Knight 15 or 12
Cleric 20 or 16
Noble (1) 25 and 10
Noble (2) 40 or 20
Royal (1) 40 and 20
Royal (2) 50 or 30
[1] Band-slots are where you can work a station on multiple bands, each QSO on a different band counting as a band-slot
[2] VHF/UHF bands are defined as 50MHz and higher
These awards recognise participation in the Coronation celebrations by UK and Crown Dependency stations that use the “R” prefix in their callsign during the period 1st May 2023 to 30th June 2023.
The awards are available to stations using the “R” prefix and those hearing/working them, at several achievement levels. They are for both licensed stations and short wave listeners, details are described below.
Coronation Operating Award (working or Hearing “R” stations)
Award level Number of R Stations Worked or Heard
HF Band-slots [1] VHF/UHF Band-slots [2]
Serf 10 or 8
Knight 15 or 12
Cleric 20 or 16
Noble (1) 25 and 10
Noble (2) 40 or 20
Royal (1) 40 and 20
Royal (2) 50 or 30
[1] Band-slots are where you can work a station on multiple bands, each QSO on a different band counting as a band-slot
[2] VHF/UHF bands are defined as 50MHz and higher
Coronation Activation Award (operating as an “R” station, eg GR3XXX)
Award level Number of QSO's Made by "R" station
HF Band-slots VHF/UHF Band-slots
Serf 10 or 8
Knight 15 or 12
Cleric 20 or 16
Noble (1) 25 and 10
Noble (2) 40 or 20
Royal (1) 40 and 20
Royal (2) 50 or 30
[1] Band-slots are where you can work a station on multiple bands, each QSO on a different band counting as a band-slot
[2] VHF/UHF bands are defined as 50MHz and higher