The CQ PSK Award (WAZ) series was devised by the European PSK Club on 20 May 2007, based on an award concept by DK5UR, to encourage PSK contacts with stations in different CQ WAZ Zones.
The series includes CQPSK-10, CQPSK-20, CQPSK-30, and CQPSK-40 for confirming contacts with 10, 20, 30, and 40 different CQ zones respectively. All qualifying contacts must have been made on or after 1 January 2000.
This award series was redesigned by MMØDFV on 22 March 2026 in dedication to the 20th Anniversary of the European PSK Club (2006–2026).
- The award may be claimed by any licensed radio amateur, club station, or SWL eligible under the EPC Awards General Rules.
- All claimed contacts must comply with the operator’s licensing conditions and the EPC award framework.
- Applicants may use any PSK mode on any amateur band from 1.8 to 54 MHz.
- Only contacts made on or after 1 January 2000 are valid for this programme.
- Each QSO must identify a valid CQ WAZ zone in accordance with the official zone definitions shown below.
- Only one confirmed instance of a zone is required for that zone to count toward the applicable award level.
- A valid ADIF log must be submitted as evidence for the award application.
- A valid QRA locator and CQ zone are mandatory for each QSO.
- Only QSOs containing both the GRID locator and the CQ zone are accepted as valid for this award.
- Applicants are strongly advised to verify the ADIF data carefully before submission.
- CQPSK-10 is issued for confirmation of 10 different CQ WAZ zones.
- CQPSK-20 is issued for confirmation of 20 different CQ WAZ zones.
- CQPSK-30 is issued for confirmation of 30 different CQ WAZ zones.
- CQPSK-40 is issued for confirmation of 40 different CQ WAZ zones.
- Applications should be prepared in accordance with the EPC Awards General Rules.
- Applications should be processed through the UltimateAAC Award Management Software.
- Source https://cqww.com/cq_waz_list.htm
- The interpretation of these rules rests with the award manager and the European PSK Club.
- Any matter not expressly covered by these rules shall be decided in accordance with the EPC Awards General Rules.
The map above is provided as a visual reference for the award series. Applicants should still verify claimed contacts against the official zone definitions.
Zones 1-10
Zone 1. Northwestern Zone of North America: KL (Alaska), VY1 Yukon, VE8 the Northwest and VYØ Nunavut Territories west of 102 degrees (includes the islands of Victoria, Banks, Melville, and Prince Patrick).
Zone 2. Northeastern Zone of North America: VO2 (Labrador), the portion of VE2 Quebec north of the 50th parallel, and Nunavut Territories east of 102 degrees (includes the islands of King Christian, King William, Prince of Wales, Somerset, Bathurst, Devon, Ellesmere, Baffin and the Melville and Boothia Peninsulas, excluding Akimiski Island, Bear Islands and East Pen Island in Hudson Bay).
Zone 3. Western Zone of North America: VE7 (British Columbia), W6, and the W7 states of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Zone 4. Central Zone of North America: VE3 (Ontario), VE4 (Manitoba), VE5 (Saskatchewan), VE6 (Alberta), VY0 Akimiski Island, and Bear Islands, and Fox Island and East Pen Island in Hudson Bay. The W7 states of Montana and Wyoming, WØ, W9, W8 (except West Virginia), W5, and the W4 states of Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Zone 5. Eastern Zone of North America: 4U1UN, CY9 (St. Paul Is.), CYØ (Sable Is.), FP (St. Pierre Miquelon), VE1 (Nova Scotia) and VE9 (New Brunswick), VY2 (Prince Edward Is.), VO1 (Newfoundland) and the portion of VE2 Quebec south of the 50th parallel. VP9 (Bermuda), W1, W2, W3 and the W4 states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and the W8 state of West Virginia.
Zone 6. Southern Zone of North America: XE (Mexico), XF4 (Revilla Gigedo).
Zone 7. Central American Zone: FO (Clipperton), HKØ (San Andres Is.), HP (Panama), HR (Honduras), TG (Guatemala), TI (Costa Rica), TI9 (Cocos Is.), V3 (Belize), YN (Nicaragua) and YS (El Salvador).
Zone 8. West Indies Zone: C6 (Bahamas), CO (Cuba), FG (Guadeloupe), FJ (St. Barts), FM (Martinique), FS (Saint Martin), HH (Haiti), HI (Dominican Republic), J3 (Grenada), J6 (St. Lucia), J7 (Dominica), J8 (St. Vincent), KG4 (Guantanamo Base), KP1 (Navassa Is.), KP2 (Virgin Islands), KP4 (Puerto Rico), KP5 (Navassa Is.), PJ5 (Eustatius), PJ6 (Saba), PJ7 (Sint Maarten), V2 (Antigua and Barbuda), V4 (St. Kitts and Nevis), VP2E (Anguilla), VP2M (Montserrat), VP2V (British Virgin Is.), VP5 (Turks and Caicos Is.), YVØ (Aves Is.), ZF (Cayman Is.), 6Y (Jamaica), and 8P (Barbados).
Zone 9. Northern Zone of South America: FY (French Guyana), HK (Colombia), HKØ (Malpelo Is.), PJ2 (Curacao), PJ4 (Bonaire), PZ (Surinam), YV (Venezuela), 8R (Guiana), P4 (Aruba) and 9Y (Trinidad and Tobago).
Zone 10. Western Zone of South America: CP (Bolivia), HC (Ecuador), HC8 (Galapagos Is.), and OA (Peru).
Zones 11-20
Zone 11. Central Zone of South America: PY (Brazil), PYØ (Fernando de Noronha), PYØ (St. Peter and Paul Rocks), PYØ (Trindade and Martim Vaz), and ZP (Paraguay).
Zone 12. Southwest Zone of South America: CE (Chile), CEØ (Easter Is.), CEØ (Juan Fernandez Is.), CEØ (San Felix Is.), 3Y (Peter I) and some Antarctic stations.
Zone 13. Southeast Zone of South America: CX (Uruguay), LU (Argentina), VP8 Falklands, VP8 South Georgia, VP8 South Orkney, VP8 South Shetlands, VP8 South Sandwich and some Antarctic stations.
Zone 14. Western Zone of Europe: C3 (Andorra), CT (Portugal), CU (Azores Is.), DL (Germany), EA (Spain), EA6 (Balearic Is.), EI (Ireland), F (France), G (England), GD (Isle of Man), GI (Northern Ireland), GJ (Jersey), GM (Scotland), GU (Guernsey), GW (Wales), HB (Switzerland), HBØ (Liechtenstein), LA (Norway), LX (Luxembourg), ON (Belgium), OY (Faroe Is.), OZ (Denmark), PA (Netherlands), SM (Sweden), ZB (Gibraltar), 3A (Monaco) and 4U1ITU (ITU, Geneva).
Zone 15. Central European Zone: E7 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), ES (Estonia), HA (Hungary), HV (Vatican), I (Italy), ISØ (Sardinia), LY (Lithuania), OE (Austria), OH (Finland), OHØ (Aland Is.), OJØ (Market Reef), OK (Czech Republic), OM (Slovakia), S5 (Slovenia), SP (Poland), T7 (San Marino), TK (Corsica), R2F, RA-RZ2F, UA2-UI2F (Kaliningrad), YL (Latvia), YU (Serbia), ZA (Albania), Z3 (North Macedonia), Z6 (Kosovo), 1AØ (SMOM), 4O (Montenegro), 9A (Croatia), and 9H (Malta).
Zone 16. Eastern Zone of Europe: EW (Belarus), ER (Moldova), UA1, UA2 (except Kaliningrad Region), UA3, UA4, UA5, UA6, UA7, UA8/9 (S,T,W), and UR (Ukraine).
Zone 17. Western Zone of Siberia: EX (Kyrgyzstan), EY (Tajikistan), EZ (Turkmenistan), UA8/9 (A, B, C, D, F, G, J, K, L, M, N, Q, R, X), UK (Uzbekistan), and UN (Kazakhstan).
Zone 18. Central Siberian Zone: UA8/9 (H, I, O, P, U, V, Y, Z), and UAØ (A, B, H, O, R, S, T, U, V, W).
Zone 19. Eastern Siberian Zone: UAØ (C, D, F, I, J, K, L, Q, X, Z).
Zone 20. Balkan Zone: E4 (Palestine), JY (Jordan), LZ (Bulgaria), OD (Lebanon), SV (Greece), SV/A (Mt. Athos), SV5 (Dodecanese), SV9 (Crete), TA (Turkey), YK (Syria), YO (Romania), ZC4 (UK Sovereign Base), 4X (Israel), and 5B (Cyprus).
Zones 21-30
Zone 21. Southwestern Zone of Asia: A4 (Oman), A6 (United Arab Emirates), A7 (Qatar), A9 (Bahrain), AP (Pakistan), EK (Armenia), EP (Iran), HZ (Saudi Arabia), YA (Afghanistan), YI (Iraq), 4J (Azerbaijan), 4L (Georgia), 7O (excluding Socotra Island and Abd al Kuri Islands) and 9K (Kuwait).
Zone 22. Southern Zone of Asia: A5 (Bhutan), S2 (Bangladesh), VU (India), VU (Lakshadweep), 4S (Sri Lanka), 8Q (Maldives), and 9N (Nepal).
Zone 23. Central Zone of Asia: JT (Mongolia), UAØY, BY3G-L (NeiMenggu), BY9G-L (GanSu), BY9M-R (NingXia), BY9S-Z (QingHai) and BYØ.
Zone 24. Eastern Zone of Asia: BV9P (Pratas Is.), BV (Taiwan), BY1, BY2, BY3A-F (TianJin), BY3M-R (HeBei), BY3S-X (ShanXi), BY4, BY5, BY6, BY7, BY8, BY9A-F (ShaanXi), VR (Hong Kong), and XX (Macau).
Zone 25. Japanese Zone: HL (South Korea), JA (Japan), and P5 (North Korea).
Zone 26. Southeastern Zone of Asia: BS7 (Paracel Islands), 3W (Vietnam), E2 (Thailand), VU (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), XU (Cambodia), XW (Laos), XZ (Myanmar), and 1S/9MØ (Spratly Islands).
Zone 27. Philippine Zone: BS7 (Scarborough Reef), DU (Philippines), JD1 (Minami Torishima), JD1 (Ogasawara), T8 (Palau), Kh8 (Guam), KHØ (Mariana Is.), and V6 (Federated States of Micronesia).
Zone 28. Indonesian Zone: H4 (Solomon Is.), P2 (Papua New Guinea), V8 (Brunei), YB (Indonesia), 4W (East Timor), 9M (West and East Malaysia), and 9V (Singapore).
Zone 29. Western Zone of Australia: VK6 (Western Australia), VK8 (Northern Territory), VK9X (Christmas Is.), VK9C (Cocos-Keeling Is.), and some Antarctic stations.
Zone 30. Eastern Zone of Australia: FK/C (Chesterfield Is.), VK1 (Capital Territory), VK2 (New South Wales), VK3 (Victoria), VK4 (Queensland), VK5 (South Australia), VK7 (Tasmania), VK9L (Lord Howe Is.), VK9M (Mellish Reef), VK9 (Willis Is.), VKØM (Macquarie Is.), and some Antarctic stations.
Zones 31-40
Zone 31. Central Pacific Zone: C2 (Nauru), FO (Marquesas), Kh7 (Baker Howland Is.), Kh9 (Johnson Is.), KH4 (Midway Is.), KH5K (Kingman Reef), KH5 (Palmyra Jarvis), KH6 (Hawaii), KH7K (Kure), KH9 (Wake Is.), T2 (Tuvalu), T3Ø (Western Kiribati), T31 (Central Kiribati), T32 (Eastern Kiribati), T33 (Banaba Is.), V7 (Marshall Is.), and ZK3 (Tokelau).
Zone 32. New Zealand Zone: A3 (Tonga), E5 (North and South Cook Is.), FK (New Caledonia, not Chesterfield Is.), FO (French Polynesia and Austral Is., not Marquesas and Clipperton), FW (Wallis Is.), H4Ø (Temotu), KH8 (American Samoa), KH8S (Swains), VK9N (Norfolk Is.), VP6 (Pitcairn and Ducie), YJ (Vanuatu), ZK2 (Niue Is.), ZL (New Zealand), ZL7 (Chatham Is.), ZL8 (Kermadec Is.), ZL9 (Auckland and Campbell Is.), 3D2 (Fiji, Rotuma, and Conway Reef), 5W (Western Samoa), and some Antarctic stations.
Zone 33. Northwestern Zone of Africa: CN (Morocco), CT3 (Madeira Is.), EA8 (Canary Is.), EA9 (Ceuta and/or Melilla), IG9 / IH9 / Pantelleria / Pelagic Islands, SØ (Western Sahara), 3V (Tunisia), and 7X (Algeria).
Zone 34. Northeastern Zone of Africa: ST (Sudan), SU (Egypt), Z8 (South Sudan), and 5A (Libya).
Zone 35. Central Zone of Africa: C5 (The Gambia), D4 (Cape Verde Is.), EL (Liberia), J5 (Guinea-Bissau), TU (Côte d’Ivoire), TY (Benin), TZ (Mali), XT (Burkina Faso), 3X (Guinea), 5N (Nigeria), 5T (Mauritania), 5U (Niger), 5V (Togo), 6W (Senegal), 9G (Ghana), and 9L (Sierra Leone).
Zone 36. Equatorial Zone of Africa: D2 (Angola), S9 (Sao Tome and Principe), TJ (Cameroon), TL (Central African Republic), TN (Congo), TR (Gabon), TT (Chad), ZD7 (St. Helena Is.), ZD8 (Ascension Is.), 3C (Equatorial Guinea), 3CØ (Annobon Is.), 9J (Zambia), 9Q (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 9U (Burundi), and 9X (Rwanda).
Zone 37. Eastern Zone of Africa: C9 (Mozambique), ET (Ethiopia), E3 (Eritrea), J2 (Djibouti), T5 (Somalia), 5H (Tanzania), 5X (Uganda), 5Z (Kenya), 7O (Socotra and Abd al Kuri Islands), and 7Q (Malawi).
Zone 38. South African Zone: A2 (Botswana), V5 (Namibia), ZD9 (Tristan da Cunha / Gough Is.), Z2 (Zimbabwe), ZS (South Africa), ZS8 (Marion Is.), 3DA (Eswatini), 3Y (Bouvet Is.), 7P (Lesotho), and some Antarctic stations.
Zone 39. Madagascar Zone: D6 (Comoros), FH (Mayotte), FR (Reunion), FT-G (Glorioso), FT-E (Europa Island), FT-J (Juan de Nova Island), FT-T (Tromelin Island), FT-W (Crozet Islands), FT-X (Kerguelen Islands), FT-Z (Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands), S7 (Seychelles), VKØ (Heard and McDonald Islands), VQ9 (Chagos Archipelago), 3B6/7 (Agalega / St. Brandon Islands), 3B8 (Mauritius), 3B9 (Rodriguez Island), 5R (Madagascar), and some Antarctic stations.
Zone 40. North Atlantic Zone: JW (Svalbard), JX (Jan Mayen), OX (Greenland), RI1FJ (Franz Josef Land), and TF (Iceland).
Additional Notes
Antarctic notes: the boundaries of CQ zones 12, 13, 29, 30, 32, 38 and 39 converge at the South Pole. Stations KC4AAA and KC4USN are at the South Pole and count for any one of the listed zones.
