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    NCDXF - News Letter Spring 2017

    As I pen this first letter as President of NCDXF,
    I’d like to pay homage to my predecessor in this role,
    the indefatigable Tom Berson, ND2T. If you’ve met Tom,
    you’ve already become a better person; if not, you have a
    great experience to look forward to. I’m grateful for Tom’s
    stewardship of NCDXF over the last three years and his
    decision to remain on the Board as a Director.
    We’ve come a long way since that founding meeting in
    October 1972, when four avid DXers met in San Francisco’s
    Chinatown to formalize the creation of a new charitable organization known as the
    Northern California DX Foundation. Their stated purpose: financially support DX
    activity and foster goodwill internationally within the Amateur Radio community.
    Back then, most DXpeditions were self-funded by the operators, but enclosing
    a few $$ with your QSL card was always appreciated.
    Today, it’s a whole different era. Getting permission to operate from a rare one
    is the main challenge. “It’s too physically, politically, financially or operationally
    remote.” There is not much NCDXF can do to alter political structures, but by
    aggregating many relatively small contributions and investing our own funds,
    NCDXF can help fund well-organized DXpeditions to rare, expensive and challenging
    DXCC entities.
    During the last 45 years, NCDXF has granted over $1 million to hundreds of
    DXpeditions — helping to put an “all-time-new-one” (ATNO) in the log and
    make DX happen for thousands of DXers worldwide. In 2016, NCDXF-sponsored
    DXpeditions activated five of the 10 most-needed entities. These DXpeditions
    put 457,000 QSOs (and quite a few ATNOs) into DXers’ logs. That year we spent
    $156,000 to fund these and other DXpeditions. We also provided significant
    support to WRTC 2018 because the world’s best DXpeditioners will be there to
    compete, referee, support and plan DXpeditions.
    http://www.ncdxf.org/newsletters/2017-SPRING.pdf
    73 Al 4L5A
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