Interpid DX Group News

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Press Release:

The Intrepid-DX Group is seeking nominations for the individual or group that most displayed their “Intrepid Spirit” this past year. The Intrepid Spirit for purposes of this award is defined as:

An Intrepid Spirit is bold, courageous, dedicated, innovative, fearless, generous, resolute and visionary in their approach to Amateur Radio. We want to recognize those individuals or groups that activated the rare, difficult and dangerous places.

We are seeking to make this award to the group or individual that most displayed their intrepid spirit in 2017, by expressing an unshakable commitment to the Amateur Radio DX Community.

This award is made in memory of our friend, James McLaughlin WA2EWE/T6AF. SK, Kabul Afghanistan, April 27th, 2011.

Nominations may be submitted via email to: intrepiddxgroup@gmail.com

All nominations must be received by January 15th, 2018. The Board of Directors of the Intrepid-DX Group will evaluate the nominations and the award will be presented at the International DX Convention in Visalia, California on April 21st, 2018.

The Intrepid-DX Group was formed in 2010 following our successful Dxpedition to Iraq.

You can view our website at http://www.intrepid-dx.com/awards.php

Thank you,
Paul Ewing-N6PSE

Vice President and Founder
The Intrepid DX Group

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The Intrepid-DX Group wishes to memorialize our friend, Co-Founder and President, David R. Collingham-K3LP.

In recognition of David's humanitarian work as well as service to mankind, we are creating an annual David R. Collingham - K3LP Humanitarian and Service Award.

The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual or group for their humanitarian or service for the previous year. The award presentation will take place at the International DX Convention held in April at Visalia, CA.

To make a nomination for the David R. Collingham - K3LP Humanitarian and Service Award, please send an email message to intrepiddxgroup@gmail.com

We will close the nomination period on January 31st, 2018.


Thank you,

Paul S. Ewing-N6PSE
Vice President
The Intrepid-DX Group

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IDXC 2018, Visalia, California.

The Intrepid-DX Group is pleased to announce that Yuris Peterson-YL2GM and Kaspars Uztics-YL1ZF are the recipients of the 2018 Intrepid Spirit Award for their activations of Annobon Island and Equatorial Guinea as 3C0L and 3C1L. We will see them in Dayton next month and present their awards.

Congratulations Yuris and Kaspars!

In addition, we are pleased to announce that Antonio Gonzalez-EA5RM is the recipient of the Intrepid Humanitarian Award for his many years of volunteering in the Bolivian Rain Forest to help establish and maintain communications between remote villages and hospitals and medical clinics.

Well done Tony!

Thank you,

The Intrepid-DX Group

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From the International DX Convention, Visalia California:

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