Five-Band Challenge

Five-Band Challenge Award

The VarAC Wednesday team is proud to introduce the Five-Band Award— a mark of radio excellence.

📶 Award Criteria

An operator needs a valid check-in in on at least five different bands during VarAC Wednesday Weeks. The operator does not need to check-in on all five bands in a single week.  Additional criteria for this award includes:

• Date range: check-ins count from May 7th, 2025 onward, with no real end date set.

• Qualifying bands include the HF bands (160m, 80m, 60m, 40m, 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, and 10m), the VHF/UHF bands (6m, 2m, and 70cm).

• QO-100: it counts as one band, whether the check-in frequency is the uplink (2400.0–2400.5 MHz) or the downlink (10489.5–10490.0 MHz). Other 13cm or 3cm activity doesn't count.

• Missing frequency: a check-in with no frequency recorded doesn't count toward any band.

• Portable calls: K3JSJ/P and K3JSJ count as the same operator.

Use our Callsign Query application to check your progress towards completing this award

📊Awardee List

Awardees are listed on our Five-Band Challenge Leaderboard.

🏆Downloading your award certificate

Operators can download their certificate on by using our Awards Downloader application

Mark (KB0US)
Jason (K3JSJ) 

Five Band Challange Leaderboard

Five Band Challenage Certificate 

Awardees can download their certificate using our Awards Downloader application