[SFDXA] Silent Key: #1 Mixed DXCC John Dack, W7KH (SK) - From the ARRL Letter

[Bill]

/Silent Key/: #1 Mixed DXCC John Dack, W7KH (SK)

John Dack, W7KH, sat at the top of the DXCC mixed standings with 398 
entities, including all 340 current entities and 58 deleted entities. He 
passed away January 7, 2013.

On Monday, January 7, John Dack, W7KH, of Seattle, Washington, passed 
away. He was 91. An ARRL Life Member, Dack sat at the top of the DXCC 
mixed standings with 398 entities, including all 340 current entities 
and 58 deleted entities. He worked every DXCC entity except Damau Diu 
(CR8), French Indochina (FI8) and Manchuria (C9). South Sudan (ST0) was 
the last new DX entity in Dack's log; he worked ST0R in August 2011.

Dack was profiled in the September 2011 issue of /QST/ in the "How's DX? 
<http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/139266>" column [/Editor's note: You 
must be an ARRL member and logged on to the ARRL website to read this 
article/]. First licensed in 1938 when he was 17, Dack became interested 
in Amateur Radio due to some neighbors who were hams. "John remembered 
working Mexico, and this may have been the beginning of his interest in 
working DX, as he felt 'like he had just worked Tibet,' which he later 
did," wrote "How's DX?" conductor Bernie McClenny, W3UR. "Despite being 
[at the time] 90 years old, he still seems to be on top of his game and 
gets on the air about twice a week. There are no computers at W7KH and 
John still gets his DX news from the paper version of /QRZ DX/. All of 
his logs are still done with paper and pencil."