<div dir="auto">Fred Big Congrats! And a great way to honor a friend. Bravo!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Doug</div><div dir="auto">NA1DX</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 6:09 PM Fred Matos via NCDXA <<a href="mailto:ncdxa@ncdxa.org">ncdxa@ncdxa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I just received my 160 WAS certificate....long time coming....I had 48 states in 1985....then some life changes derailed me.</div>
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<div>My recent goal was to get the award via all states on LoTW which I completed with Washington state and Wyoming in the recent 160 DX Contest.</div>
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<div>The ARRL did a very fast turnaround to issue my award, and I received it in Wednesday's mail. </div>
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<div>I am # 1,912 to get the award. Seems like a very small number to me.</div>
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<div>I asked them to make it out to: W3ICM, Fredrick Matos, Honoring VE7BS. I was surprised that they did it.</div>
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<div>VE7BS, now a SK, was Bob Eldrige, an old friend from my ITU days back in the 1980s. Bob was a 160 meter expert, giving lectures on the subject.</div>
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<div>73</div>
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<div>Fred</div>
<div>W3ICM</div>
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