The 3905 Century Club Awards Program

The Century Club has an extensive awards program, from the basic Worked All States through specialty awards designed to provide many opportunities to paper your walls with certificates - all of which denote varying degrees of accomplishment.

Important:  Be sure to read the note at the bottom of this page for information on your Award Fees and how to pay them.

All awards must be submitted to your Area Awards Managers (a list of those Managers can be found under Club Administration in the Directory to the left) for checking and verification.

The Area Awards Manager, after approval of awards, enters the detail of your awards on-line where it is processed quickly.

This new process or procedure enables Area Award Managers to process and approve your applications for awards much faster and with more accuracy.

Keep in mind that some award managers may still work long hours in their real jobs and they may not be able to process awards every night - assuming they are even home every night.  But once they do process the award application through the new system, it runs an average of less than 5 days for your award certificate to be in the mail on its way to you - and we hope to improve on that over time.

All of our Award Managers are using the new system and many of you have already received newly designed and printed certificates. 

There are some important changes that affect how you submit applications that will make your life easier and simplify filing for awards.

First, if you would prefer to send a check or money order to pay your awards fee, be sure to enclose the funds with your application to the Area Awards Manager along with a #10 white envelope with one unit of postage to the Club Treasurer:

Second, you can speed up your application before sending it to the Awards Managers by checking it carefully for errors and making sure that the right cards are included.

Third, you can pay your award fee in advance, on-line on our club's website.  Just look under Awards Program for the link to our PayPal process.  And..  good news... there is no surcharge for this service.  Remember that the fees for Awards increased January 1st, 2007. If you would like to pay your fees on-line for awards you are applying for, you may do so using PayPal by using this link.

Also, please remember that the people that make our Club, Nets and Awards Program work for you are all volunteers, and no volunteers in this club work harder than your Area Award Managers.  Even as good as these folks are, occasionally we all make a mistake.  If there is an error on the certificate you receive or in the processing of an application, you can inquire about it by sending an email to us at awards-secretary .

There are also new certificates for many awards and you'll be seeing those show up in your mailbox.  More improvements are planned and will be announced as they become effective.

One new change that went into effect recently is when you earn a 500 point award you will no longer simply get the little ribbon to attach to your 100 point certificate.  Instead you will receive a 500 Point Certificate, suitable for framing.  The very first of these went out bearing Certificate #1 as the number issued to N4UPX.

Suggestions - constructive ones - are always welcome.  After all, this is YOUR awards program.

Welcome to the 21st Century and 73,

Jack Merck - WN5M
Awards Secretary

Mike Newland - KC8MMZ
Assistant Awards Secretary