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The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 1214.2
BID: $OPDX.1214.2
May 15, 2015
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
Clusters Network KY6R and W2VU for the following DX information.
CQ NEWS RELEASE (CQ Announces 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees). Rich Moseson,
W2VU, sent out the following press release [edited]:
CQ ANNOUNCES 2015 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
(Dayton, OH - May 15, 2015) -- CQ magazine today announced its 2015 Hall
of Fame inductees, adding two members each to the CQ DX and Contest Halls
of Fame, as well as nine new members of the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.
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. The 2015 inductees (listed alphabetically) are:
Tim Allen, KK6OTD - Actor and star of the ABC comedy, "Last Man Standing,"
on which his character is also a ham, Mike Baxter, KA0XTT.
Charles Apgar, ex-2MN (SK) - uncovered German spy transmissions from
Telefunken shore station WSL in New York during WWI.
Dan Benishek, KB8TOW - Member of Congress from Michigan. Medical doctor
and advocate for veterans.
Olof Lundberg, G0CKV - Leader of the communications satellite industry
for a quarter-century. Founding Director General of Inmarsat; founder,
CEO and Chairman of ICO Global Communications and CEO of Globalstar, Inc.
Bre Pettis, W2BRE - 3D printing pioneer and founder of MakerBot.
Alvino Rey, W6UK (SK) - A leading musician of the swing era, Rey is
considered the father of the electric guitar and inventor of the talk
box, pickups and other electronic musical devices. He combined his love
for music with his love of radio to transform the music world.
Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD - Co-inventor of the cubesat design standard.
Greg Walden, W7EQI - Member of Congress from Oregon. Chairman of the
House Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, YD2JKW - President of Indonesia.
CQ DX and Contest and DX 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 2015 inductees to the CQ DX Hall of Fame are:
Yasuo "Zorro" Miyazawa, JH1AJT - is a DXer, DXpeditioner, educator and
philanthropist. Zorro is the founder and CEO of the Seisa Group, which
runs schools in several countries; and founder/CEO of the Foundation for
Global Children, which provides medical and educational support for
children in Japan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Cambodia and Bangladesh. Zorro has
also helped promote or re-introduce amateur radio to many of these places,
and has donated money and/or equipment to help amateurs in rare locations
get or stay on the air.
Michael Wells, G7VJR - is founder of Club Log, an online DXpedition log-
hosting tool that has changed the face of DXpedition operating by, among
other things, allowing operators to upload their logs while still on the
air and permit hams around the world to know if they are "in the log" on
a given band or mode. Michael is a DXpeditioner himself, having been part
of a half-dozen major operations and having operated from 25 different
DX entities over the past 10 years.
The 2015 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:
Doug Grant, K1DG - is not only a world-class contester, but has not
hesitated to share his knowledge and skills with others. He has built
or helped to build several championship contest stations, is a founding
member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club, a founding director of the
World Wide Radio Operators Foundation, is a regular instructor at Contest
University and has run the Contest Forum at the Dayton Hamvention=AE for
the past 20 years. In addition, Doug has competed in five World Radiosport
Team Championships (WRTCs), and has medaled three times.
Ward Silver, N0AX - has been a contester for over four decades and has
operated from some of the world's top contest stations, spanning four
continents. A founder of the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC)
competitions in 1990, Ward is currently Secretary of the WRTC Sanctioning
Committee. He is also president of the YASME Foundation, which supports
DXpeditions and contest operations around the world, QST contesting editor
and author of Ham Radio for Dummies and Circuitbuilding Do-It-Yourself
for Dummies.
Formal inductions to the CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame are scheduled
for the Dayton Hamvention.=AE More detailed descriptions of inductees will
appear in the official announcement in the July 2015 issue of CQ magazine.
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HEARD ISLAND DXPEDITION NEWS (VK0EK Press Release Release). EXPEDITION
SIGNS CONTRACT FOR THE VESSEL [Voyage Rescheduled for March 6-April 20,
2016] -- Rich, KY6R, reports on Wednesday, 13 May 2015. -- Today Cordell
Expeditions signed a contract with Nigel Jolly, owner and operator of the
Braveheart <https://vk0ek.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/braveheart2_crop.jpg>,
for the expedition to Heard Island, and moved the project schedule to
March-April, 2016. The ship will depart from Cape Town, South Africa,
proceed directly to Heard Island, and finally to Fremantle, Australia.
The stay at Heard Island will be nominally March 16 - April 8, 2016.
Track_Cape_Town_HI_Fremantle_512 <https://vk0ek.files.wordpress.com/2015/05=
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The nominal 21-day stay at Heard Island will enable amateur radio
operations, using the call sign VK=D8EK. While the radio operation is the
primary goal, the team will also carry out a limited scientific program,
including a search for new species that can enhance our understanding of
biodiviersity and the effects of climate change.
The new contract resulted from the inability of Heritage Expeditions to
deliver on its promise of providing a safe and supported operation at Heard
Island using the Russian vessel Akad. Shokalskiy. Obviously, the conversion
to the new vessel and schedule will require adapting the team and the
project activities, but the major goals of the expedition remain unchanged.
We are grateful to the Northern California DX Foundation and numerous other
organizations, and many, many individuals for their generous support of this
project.
We will update the various documents and websites in the near future, and
hope that you will continue to follow the progress of the expedition. For
further information, please contact the Expedition Leader, Dr. Robert
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