<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Rick, Sorry for not responding earlier, but was celebrating the Jewish New Year when your announcement came through. Thank you for your perseverance with the FCC examiners and appreciate you taking on the trusteeship of the call for the Association. I am definitely looking forward to having members put Fred's call sign on the air, especially in the DX contests that he loved so much. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I am going to send a note to Champ, E21EIC and let him know that we have memorialized the callsign and that it belongs to the NCDXA.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">In addition, we are going to have to get a couple of NCDXA members together to take charge of writing up a Bio for QRZ.com. I am going to contact Ken Claerbot , K4ZW to see if he would like to collaborate on the bio.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">73 Phil K3EW</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 8:15 PM Rick Murphy via NCDXA <<a href="mailto:ncdxa@ncdxa.org" target="_blank">ncdxa@ncdxa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">After the passing of Fred, K3ZO, Phil K3EW reached out to Fred's brother to ask him to approve assignment of the K3ZO callsign to NCDXA. I've been back-and-forth with the FCC for months trying to get them to approve the assignment.<div><br>I can now state that effective today, the holder for K3ZO is NCDXA:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">NATIONAL CAPITOL DX ASSN</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">3842 WHITMAN RD</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">ANNANDALE, VA 22003</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">ATTN Richard Murphy</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">QRZ still has the old data, but give them a few days.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">We've lost the NC3DX callsign due to this but I'm sure that the members will find this an acceptable outcome.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">We need to get someone to own updating the QRZ page for K3ZO.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">73,</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"> -Rick<br></span></font></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Rick Murphy, D.Sc., CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA</div></div></div>
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