The Cypress Net Swamp Endorsements

Swamp & Scenics - Here is a colorful set of endorsements that allows you to collect (4"x6") mini-certificates as a reward for working other Cypress Net members. This will build your personal Cypress Net as you work other Cypress Net members while sloshing your way through some of the swamp areas of Florida. You will earn 50 on air points for each of the size swamp or scenic that you complete. This will give you 300 additional points once you complete these 6 stages.

Out of all the awards and endorsements that the Cypress Net offers the Swamps and Scenics is the only sequential award. A sequential award is one that must be completed in stages, you cannot go to stage 2 until stage 1 is completed.

To qualify for any of these endorsements you will need to accumulate 100 on air points for each of the Florida Swamps Endorsements (click here for information about our points structure). You apply for any of the Swamps and Scenics Endorsements the form at the bottom of this page.

QSL card verification is NOT required.

This endorsement reissued 01 July 2009.

The Swamps and Scenics program must be completed in the following sequence:

1. 1st - Corkscrew Swamp
2. 2nd - Fakahatchee Strand
3. 3rd - Lemon Bluff
4. 4th - Naked Spring
5. 5th - Okefenokee Swamp
6. 6th - Peacock Springs

For each stage of the Swamps and Scenics that you complete you will be awarded a mini-certificate (4" x 6") for that stage plus an additional 100 points for your personal Cypress Net score.

Swamps & Scenics Entry Form (Use only for Swamps & Scenics endorsement)
Name:
Callsign:
10-10 #:
Email:
Cypress #:
Select the endorsement this is for: (you can only work on one swamp endorsement at a time)	Corkscrew Swamp Fakahatchee Strand Lemon Bluff Naked Spring Okefenokee Swamp Peacock Springs
Upgrades: Enter only their call and points. Separate everything with commas. (i.e. AF4QT,25,KK3Q,25,)
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The station you work for any endorsements must be completed following the Ten-Ten International's definition of an exchange. Which is:

A legal contact must be a two-way contact exclusively on ten meters. A legal contact consists of the call, 10-10 number, name, date, and QTH (state or country). At no time is it acceptable for a 10-10 number to be relayed via a third station. No matter what the 10-1o International organization or the ARRL says all contacts for Cypress awards and memberships must be operator to operator. No remote bases, auxiliary stations, repeaters. EchoLink or any other Internet driven technologies are permitted.

Out of all the awards and endorsements that the Cypress Net offers the Swamps and Scenics is the only sequential award. A sequential award is one that must be completed in stages, you cannot go on to stage 2 until stage 1 is completed.