So, you want to be a millionaire? You'll feel like a million bucks when you hang this piece of wallpaper in your shack! This award is simple and obtainable, as well as challenging. You earn it by working a total of a million in FISTS membership numbers. The basic award is for one million points, with endorsement stickers for additional increments of one million.  The highest endorsement sticker available is 25 million points.

For example, if you work member number 11500 and member number 10000 and then work  #379, you'd have a total of 21,879 points. 

We hope to encourage newer FISTS members to get on the air, since they have "bigger" FISTS membership numbers they will be sought after.

You may only claim member numbers for credit once per band, but use as many bands as you want. If you use the WARC's please be sure your contact is a legit QSO. We don't want FISTS to have the reputation of being the ones to spoil the WARCs with hit and run, contest like QSO's. Exchange FISTS numbers on the air and have a little chat - about the weather, your key, your rig, family...

Two-way CW contacts only. You do not need to get a QSL confirmation of the QSO - just keep a running total of the FISTS membership number points. Only contacts made on or after January 1, 2006 are valid.

To claim the award with a paper/written log, include a log sheet that has the contacted callsign, band & date worked and FISTS number - with the numbers totaled  - and DUPE sheets for each of the bands used.  Since you may work a FISTS number on different bands for credit, separate dupe sheets for each band are necessary to help the Awards Manager verify your log. 

    Each band should be shown as 80, 40, 20, etc, NOT the frequency used such as 10.118, 10.119, 14.058, 7.033, etc.

    Reason -- If you work a member twice on 20 meters, i.e. 14.058 and 14.033, and show the actual frequencies used, the dupe checking computer program will not show it as a Dupe. If the band is listed as 20 and 20 then it will show that as a Duplicate.

Send paper logs/dupe sheets submissions to:  Awards Manager  Dennis Franklin, K6DF,  4658 Capitan Drive , 4658 Capitan Drive , Fremont, CA  94536-5448

Logs submitted electronically do not need to include dupe sheets. Email logs to Dennis via the link on the bottom of the main FISTS page.  Attach your log of all contacts for the award to the e-mail. The ONLY files that can be accepted are; Excel, Word, and Text files.

For ALL award submissions, Include your call sign, name and address, FISTS membership number, and the name of the award you are applying for. DO NOT send logs that are scanned images of your log pasted into Excel and Word documents. Scanned images of log pages will not be accepted.

This award is available to FISTS and non-FISTS members. It is free of charge to members in good standing. Those with lapsed subs and non-FISTS please include $3 to help defray the cost of making and mailing the certificate and/or endorsement stickers. 
 

Please answer someone's CQ at the speed they are sending and USE SPACES between your letters and words. The most common, yet most easily remedied, problem is SPACING. You can be sending perfectly formed code, but if it's all run together, it still sounds like gibberish and gives you a bad fist.