[Scan-DC] Dayton 2002 Award

[Alan Henney]

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From: "Alan L. Waller" <k3tkj@qsl.net>
To: qsl-net@mailman.qth.net
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:27:17 -0500
Subject: [Qsl-Net] Dayton 2002 Award
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020307084000.00a9aa20@mail.qsl.net>

Gang,

Please post a copy of this on your lists.

Al


To all QSL/QTH.net users,

Last Thursday I was notified that I had received the Dayton Hamfest 2002
award for Technical Excellence

"Mr. Alan Waller, K3TKJ, of Laurel, DE has been chosen to receive Dayton
Hamvention's Technical Excellence award for 2002. Mr. Waller, first licensed
in 1961, combined his decades-long love for Amateur Radio and a burgeoning
interest in the then-new Internet (1993) to design and manage 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 providing technical
references, email and web page hosting services, and links to thousands of
other sites. In the true spirit of the Amateur Radio Operator, Mr. Waller's
initial work utilized "leading edge" experimentation to see "what can we do
with this" and has developed into a mature, reliable mode

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 in the
name of all the financial supporters and volunteers that have made this all
possible. In the past 6 years I have received help from countless
individuals and groups and if I neglected to thank you please let me do it
now or do it again.

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

We as a "team" have broken new ground, and many more exciting things are
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 support, and friendship.  W8DBF
Duane Fisher for his incredible insight as to what is important and

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