[OKDXA] Intrepid Spirit Award

[Jeff Martin]

The Intrepid-DX Group is pleased to announce the recipients of the annual
"Intrepid Spirit Award". 
This year's award goes to the Perseverance DX Group's VPP8PJ South Orkney
Island team for their superb activation from Signy Island. This DXpedition
was extremely well planned and executed from this very remote, cold and
harsh Island. 
This award is to recognize the entire team's collective effort to activate
these challenging and much needed entities on behalf of a grateful Global DX
Community. The team was comprised of Dave-K3EL, Les-W2LK, Gene-K5GS,
Arliss-W7XU, Heye-DJ9RR, Laci-HA0NAR, Vadym-UT6UD, Walt-N6XG, Rob-N7QT,
Steve-W1SRD, Mike-WA6O, Ken-NG2H, Hans-Peter-HB9BXE and Alan-VK6CQ. 
We acknowledge the team's pursuit of operating excellence in making these
difficult activations. It is for these reasons that we are honoring them
with our Intrepid Spirit Award. This award would normally be presented in
front of their peers at the International DX Convention in Visalia, CA. 
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,
The Intrepid-DX Group