[Collins] Dayton 2002 Technical Excellence award goes to.............

[Barry]

To all QSL/QTH.net users,

Last Thursday I was notified that I had received the Dayton Hamfest
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award for Technical Excellence

"Mr. Alan Waller, K3TKJ, of Laurel, DE has been chosen to receive
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Hamvention's Technical Excellence award for 2002. Mr. Waller, first=20
licensed in 1961, combined his decades-long love for Amateur Radio and
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burgeoning interest in the then-new Internet (1993) to design and
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the www.qsl.net and www.qth.net web sites. Mr. Waller's web sites have
served the interests of tens of thousands of Hams worldwide by
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technical references, email and web page hosting services, and links
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thousands of other sites. In the true spirit of the Amateur Radio
Operator,=20
Mr. Waller's initial work utilized "leading edge" experimentation to
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"what can we do with this" and has developed into a mature, reliable
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of communication. Hamvention congratulates Alan Waller, K3TKJ, for his
Technical Excellence"


I am honored to have been selected for this and will accept the award
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the name of all the financial supporters and volunteers that have made
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all possible. In the past 6 years I have received help from countless=20
individuals and groups and if I neglected to thank you please let me
do it=20
now or do it again.

QSL/QTH does not "belong" to me. I was fortunate to have a few good
ideas,=20
and the resources to get it started. The real award winners here are
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supporters and volunteers, without you this would never have happened.

We as a "team" have broken new ground, and many more exciting things
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planned in the future.

I would be  like to acknowledge the following for their major support.

Every person who took the time and effort to nominate me. To quote the
awards committee, "the campaign to nominate you was impressive"

K7ON  Brian Short  for all the early development.
AA9ZT  Mike Imrick for thousands of hours of programming, technical=20
support, and friendship.
W8DBF Duane Fisher for his incredible insight as to what is important
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what is not.
W4KMA Ed Griffin for his major financial support and just being a
great friend.
KB8ZGU Tim Miller for the many hours of hard work and enhancements.
Every person who has ever contributed financially to keep us growing.
The 255 volunteers who run the mailing reflectors, they make my job
easy.

And finally my wife Denise for the total support of my "out of control
hobby" (her famous words).

It's still fun to do....I can't wait to see what the next six years
will bring.

See you at Dayton!

73, and thanks to all again

Al  K3TKJ