<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Gents, Ulis, your idea is great. I have Champ's email and he and I had been conversing about putting some more history of Fred's exploits in the SE Asia area into the QRZ page. I am expecting a call from Dave Siddall and I'll ask himi if he has that latest batch of cards. I know we left anything having to do with Fred in the house when we took all of the QSL Bureau stuff.</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">Champ's e mail: <span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="mailto:e21eic@e21eic.net">e21eic@e21eic.net</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">73 Phil K3EW</span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 9:39 AM Ulis Fleming 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="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Howard,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I think it’s great that K3ZO call will once again be QRV. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">As many people have seen, Fred used a very nice high quality Gold embossed imprint of his call on his top tier QSLs. In fact he just got a fresh batch prior to his passing he told me. These cards were printed in Thailand and Champ E21EIC handled the production and shipping for him. You may wish to contact Champ about getting a redesign done but yet keeping the same high quality Thai print and general feel of the card. I don’t know Champ well but feel he would be very happy and frankly honored to participate with this project given his close long friendship with “Uncle Fred”. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I believe this would be a very good gesture towards the OMs legacy given the fact that old K3ZO QSOs are appearing in ops LOTW logs and Fred 100% would never ever use LOTW nor would he operate any digital modes, including RTTY. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Just an idea.</div><div dir="ltr">73,</div><div dir="ltr">Ulis, K3LU</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 12, 2024, at 7:30 AM, Howard Sherer via NCDXA <<a href="mailto:ncdxa@ncdxa.org" target="_blank">ncdxa@ncdxa.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NCDXA is now the holder of the call K3ZO, with Rick K1MU
continuing to be the trustee of the club call. It was our intent to honor the
memory of Fred and keep his well-known call active by NCDXA and PVRC members in
the future. I have volunteered to be the activity and QSL manager for the call
and have been busy setting up the LOTW account which should be ready within a
week.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If you would like to use K3ZO for your activity, please
contact me via email (<a href="mailto:howardms@lehigh.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">howardms@lehigh.edu</a>
or <a href="mailto:hmsherer@gmail.com" target="_blank">hmsherer@gmail.com</a>) with the event and the date. Only one user will be approved
for each date & time. In any event or contest that requires an exchange of
a name we will be using Fred as part of the exchange. I will post who will be
using the call and the dates. Although Fred loved to operate SSB and CW, we are
not restricting the calls use for only these modes. Yes WSJT-X, and RTTY events
will be approved.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After a contest please send me the contest log file and I
will submit it for scoring as well as to the 3805 site. Also send me the LOTW
log file for uploading via the TQSL site to LOTW. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We would also like to design a paper QSL card for those who will
request a card, and I would like to receive some design ideas that we can
consider, so please send them in. We do want the card to be a memorial to Fred.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The calls 1<sup>st</sup> use will be this weekend for the
NAQP CW contest. The operation will be from the K3AJ remote multi-op station
with K3AJ, WT3K, ND3D, K3WA, & AE3T as the operators.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please reach out to me with any questions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Howard AE3T</p></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div>
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