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Graduation Certificate

What better way to reward your new hams than to present them with a graduation certificate. Instructors often hand these out a club meetings to help welcome the new hams into our great hobby. Just print this certificate wording onto blank 8 × 11-inch paper and use your best printing to personalize it. (grad.pdf, 327,618 bytes)

First Contact Certificate

Want to encourage your proteges to get on the air, once they've earned their licenses? Do you remember your first on-the-air contact? Here is a certificate to award to new hams after their very first QSO. Some Elmers frame the certificate to present to the new ham at a club meeting. Just print this certificate wording onto blank 8 × 11-inch paper, and use your best printing to personalize it. (1contact.pdf, 505,935 bytes)