ARLA/CLUSTER: Prémio "Intrepid Spirit Award" atribuído este ano a Kenneth Opskar-LA7GIA.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Intrepid Spirit Award

The Intrepid-DX Group is pleased to announce the recipient of the
annual 'Intrepid Spirit Award'. We are pleased to have received so
many worthy nominations to consider.

This year's award goes to a notable DXer and DXpeditioner that we have
come to respect and admire greatly, Mr. Kenneth Opskar-LA7GIA.

This award is to recognize Ken's outstanding efforts to activate Malawi-
7Q7GIA, Comoros-D67GIA, Equatorial Guinea-3C7A, Central African
Republic- TL8AO, Congo-TN5E, Somalia-6O6O and Chad as TT8KO.

We recognize Ken's unselfish acts to activate these challenging and
much needed entities on behalf of a grateful Global DX Community.
We acknowledge Ken's pursuit of operating excellence in making these
difficult activations. It is for these reasons that we honored him with
our Intrepid Spirit Award, presented at the International DX Convention,
Visalia, California on April 12th, 2019.

This "Intrepid-Spirit Award" is made in memory of our fallen friend
and member, James McLaughlin, T6AF, who was killed in Kabul,
Afghanistan, in April, 2011.
The award is intended to recognize and honor those individuals or teams
that boldly activate rare entities where their own personal safety is
secondary to their pursuit of providing contacts to the DX Community.
While we do not encourage DXers to go into harm's way, we recognize
that circumstances sometimes require that and we recognize those
Intrepid DXers with the Intrepid Spirit Award.

Thank you,
Paul S. Ewing-N6PSE
President & Founder - The Intrepid-DX Group