[Park] A little recognition for the man who makes this all possible

[Dave]

Each year the Dayton Hamvention (http://www.hamvention.org/) recognizes
three
amateurs for their outstanding contributions to the amateur radio field. To
quote their web site, "Do you know an outstanding amateur in your club,
community, or from on-the-air contacts? Does this person excel in some
phase of amateur radio? Do you feel this person deserves world-wide
recognition"?

One of the awards, the "Special Achievement" award, we think should go to Al
Waller, K3TKJ, the owner and founder of Qsl.net and Qth.net.  Why nominate
Alan Waller, K3TKJ for the 2002 Dayton Hamvention Special Achievement award?
The Qsl.net domain was created by Alan in the winter of 1996 as a free
service to amateur operators around the world.  Al did this to give
back something to a hobby that has meant so much to him over the past 40
years.

Qsl.net, with the later additions of Qth.net, Swl.net, and dx.qsl.net, has
grown by word of mouth to be the largest site devoted totally to Amateur
Radio on the Internet.  Qsl.net now receives over one millions hits per day
and there are 69,000 individual and club web pages hosted on the system.
There are over one million emails handled daily for the 135,000 hams with
@qsl.net email addresses.  QTH.NET is the host for more than 900 email
reflector groups that are used by 400,000 people.

This was, and still is, a hobby for Al, with much of the operating expense
coming out of his own pocket.  A small percentage of the users now
contribute to the annual budget of over $25,000

What Alan Waller has given to the radio hobby is priceless. His unfailing
devotion, unbelievable generosity and love of Amateur Radio is deserving of
being nominated for the Special Achievement award. While others may have
done something more spectacular, nobody has done anything that has helped
so many in the world of radio ever before in this planet's history.
So we ask you, please nominate Alan Waller, K3TKJ for the Special
Achievement
award, and let him know much we all appreciate his gift to Amateur Radio.

The web site for making nominations is:

http://www.hamvention.org/nominate.htm

Please fill out the nomination form now as the deadline of Jan 31st is
drawing near.

The information you will need is:

Alan L Waller, K3TKJ
        34087 Old Hickory Rd
        Laurel DE 19956
        USA

Telephone: (302) 875-7979
E-mail:     k3tkj@qsl.net

Please forward this message to your lists, and pass it around at club
meetings. Al puts alot of time, effort, and money into Qsl.net, just ask his
wife, Denise <grin>