The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 1516.1
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May 20, 2021
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
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Written/Sent from Strongsville, Ohio
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NEWS RELEASE: CQ Announces 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees (edited)
Announcing: 2021 Inductees to the CQ Amateur Radio,
Contesting and DX Halls of Fame
Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Welcomes Six New Members; Two Each to DX and
Contest Halls of Fame
(Sayville, NY - May 20, 2021) - CQ magazine is pleased to announce its
2021 Hall of Fame inductees, including two new members each for the CQ
DX Hall of Fame and the CQ Contest Hall of Fame, along with six inductees
to the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. This year's inductions are again
being conducted online due to event cancellations resulting from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame honors those individuals, whether
licensed hams or not, who have made significant contributions to amateur
radio; and those amateurs who have made significant contributions either
to amateur radio, to their professional careers or to some other aspect
of life on our planet. This year, we are inducting six new members,
bringing to 339 the total number of members inducted since the hall's
establishment in 2001.
The 2021 inductees (listed alphabetically) are:
* Archibald Doty, W7ACD (SK), engineer, inventor, researcher into
efficient radial systems for vertical antennas and pioneer of college
radio; co-founded what is now WESU at Wesleyan University in Connecticut
in 1939, the second-oldest college radio station in the U.S.; also
served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II.
* Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, founder of HAMSci (Ham Radio Science
Citizen Investigation), a collaboration between radio amateurs and
ionospheric scientists; organizer of the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO Party,
which also served as a research project on the effects of a total
solar eclipse on HF propagation.
* Lorin Hollander, WA1PGB, world-renowned classical concert pianist
who has performed with virtually every major philharmonic orchestra
in the United States, along with many others overseas; heavily involved
in music and arts education and in relationships between music and
medicine.
* Christopher Imlay, W3KD, ARRL Counsel and General Counsel from
1982-2018; represented the League before the FCC on a wide variety
of issues, including PRB-1, now enshrined in FCC Rule 97.15 b), that
requires state and local regulations to reasonably accommodate amateur
radio antenna structures.
* Cathryn Mitchell, M0IBG, Academic Director of the University of Bath
Doctoral College (UK) and recipient of the 2019 Edward Appleton Medal
"for pioneering research in tomography and data assimilation revealing
a completely new perspective on Earth's ionosphere in response to
extreme space weather."
* Admiral Charles "Chas" Richard, W4HFZ, commander of USSTRATCOM, the
United States Strategic Command, one of eleven unified commands of
the Department of Defense; served previously as Commander of U.S.
submarine forces and Director of Undersea Warfare at the Pentagon.
CQ DX and Contest and Halls of Fame
The CQ DX and Contest Halls of Fame honor those amateurs who not only
excel in personal performance in these major areas of amateur radio
but who also "give back" to the hobby in outstanding ways.
The CQ DX Hall of Fame was established in 1967 to recognize those
amateurs who have made major contributions to DXing and DXpeditioning.
This year, we induct two new members. The 2021 inductees are:
* Jacky Calvo, ZL3CW/F2CW, a veteran of the French Air Force and the
International Committee of the Red Cross, with postings that took
him (and his ham station) to a dozen countries around the world; a
participant in more than two dozen DXpeditions and WRTC (World Radio-
sport Team Championship) competitions from 2010-2018 and is a team
leader for 2022.
* Francesco Valsecchi, IK0FVC/HV0A, who has regularly activated Vatican
City for the past 30 years using HV0A and other call signs, as well
the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) as 1A0KM. Along with
fellow operators. Francesco has logged more than 300,000 QSOs for
the two tiny entities, averaging roughly 10,000 contacts per year
for hams around the world.
The CQ Contest Hall of Fame was established in 1986 to recognize those
amateurs who have made major contributions to the art of radio contesting.
The 2021 inductees are:
* Robert Wolbert, K6XX, a "renaissance man" of contesting, advancing
the state of the art in designing amateur equipment at Elecraft, a
participant in more than 1100 contests over 35 years and a many-time
winner (he is a 9-time recipient of the Jim Maxwell Memorial Trophy
for the highest-scoring California single-op unassisted station in
the ARRL DX CW Contest); member of the organizing committee for the
first WRTC in 1996 and a team leader in 2000 and 2014; has authored
many articles for amateur contesting publications, presented at
multiple conferences and is a longtime member and leader of the
Northern California Contest Club (NCCC).
* David A. Pruett, K8CC (SK), author of the NA contest logging program
as well as a log-checking program and host of many multi-multi oper-
ations from his Michigan contest station over 30 years; longtime
chairman of the Michigan QSO Party; former editor of the National
Contest Journal and longtime member and leader of the Mad River
Contest Club.
Formal inductions to the CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame are being
conducted online once again, as a result of the COVID-19-related
cancellations of the Dayton Hamvention® and associated contest and
DX dinners. CQ World Wide DX Contest Director John Dorr, K1AR, led
the Contest Hall of Fame induction at the conclusion of Contest Uni-
versity's online seminar on May 20, while CQ DX Editor Bob Schenck,
N2OO, will conduct the DX Hall of Fame induction on May 26 during the
"Ham Nation" podcast on the Ham Radio Crash Course YouTube channel.
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