Also arriving in yesterday’s mail was an attractive certificate from the Washington State Salmon Run, a contest sponsored by the Western Washington DX Club. It seems as though I finished second in Michigan in the low-power, CW category. I don’t recall making all that many contacts, so I was probably second out of two. :) [...]

The Scouting 100 Radio Award is awarded for contacting Scout stations during 2007, the Centenary year of Scouting. This is an International award, available to any operator - it is also available on a listener basis, with the same requirements as the operator award.
Objective:
To help celebrate the centenary of Scouting through the medium of radio. [...]

…and signed up for Logbook of the World. According to the ARRL website, Logbook of the World (LOTW) is
is a repository of log records submitted by users from around the world. When both participants in a QSO submit matching QSO records to LoTW, the result is a QSL that can be used for ARRL [...]

Just now, I heard a station on 30m signing HA506NF. That’s pretty weird, I thought and looked him up on QRZ.Com. Here’s what his entry has to say:

Fellow Radio Amateurs!
The Hungarian Radio Amateur Society wishes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the revolution and freedom fight of 1956 in an appropriate way. Hungarian radioamateurs [...]

From the ARRL Letter of 3/24/06:
==>LOGBOOK OF THE WORLD NOW SUPPORTS WORKED ALL STATES AWARD
Users of the ARRL’s Logbook of the World (LoTW) now may apply their LoTW credits to applications for the League’s Worked All States (WAS) award. Once registered and logged in, users may set up a WAS account on the Logbook [...]