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Typically "Worked all Continents" certificates are awarded by the club that HAM radio operators subscribe to to the HAM radio operators to commemorate the event of having made contact (QSL) with people from all the six continents on Earth and also additionally confirmed those contacts (QSO). The contacts can be made irrespective of mode (CW / morse, digital, or plain voice contacts) or a combination thereof, as well as a irrespective of band or frequency with the only requirement being at least one contact on every continent being made.

(There are follow-up awards granted. for example "Worked all Continents" but only on a given mode, or "Worked all Continents" on a specific band, etc., but those are more specific and more difficult to get.)

Unfortunately, pirates do not have a central authority that can grant an award certificate, such that this certificate template must be sustained by the pirate granting themselves the award. Fortunately, using digital modes and using Internet ladder-boards confirmations are easy to make and do not have to rely on regular post-office traffic, such that in case the pirate has met the requirements, then websites like ClubLog (or others) can be used to easily confirm by a third-party any time that the certificate is well-awarded. In many ways, this is not too far off the "HAM radio club" confirmation procedure that would just consist in some individual going through the QSOs and agreeing that the requirements are met - which, is something that with the Internet anyone can do at any time, with the "club" being just a historical convention and an arbitrary delegation of privilege. The template includes the disclaimer about the need for proof at the bottom of the certificate written in fine-print.

Otherwise, the certificate uses a design created with the pirate emblem, an ensemble that includes a vertical antenna pole using electronic circuit symbols, with one antenna on one end and a coil at the bottom of the vertical pole with a plain jolly roger flag attached from the vertical pole. The signal line right under the "Worked all Continents" and the icons for the continents are an idea that was generated using stable diffusion by "ideogram.ai" but the icons had to be replaced with icons from "flaticons.com" because the AI was not able to generate six consistent symbols for all continents in spite of follow-up prompts insisting on that. The wax seal is generated by "ideogram.ai" - ideally, a stamp would be used, but the seal is kept large enough for the actual HAM radio call-sign to be able to be written inside. The text is a standard blurb included on most "Worked all Continents" templates but passed through a "pirate translator" at "lingojam.com/PirateSpeak" with the "digital" field being filled as an example of what should be there. The top of the text contains a field for the real name of the HAM operator and next to that, the date that the HAM radio operator self-awared the certificate. The blood splatter and grease splatter is by defreve @ DeviantArt with the coffee ring being by storeybooks @ DeviantArt.

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