[SJDXA] Fwd: [CDXA] Dave Patton , NN1N has departed the ARRL

[Stephen Sullivan]

Another good one has left the ARRL.
 
73 de Steve, KZ2I
From: gdixon at comporium.net
To: cdxa at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 1/11/2018 4:31:21 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: [CDXA] Dave Patton , NN1N has departed the ARRL





I received the note below from W3UR of the Daily DX Bulletin and he gave me
permission to forward it to the CDXA Reflector. I am sending it to you for
your information.

 73, Gary, K4MQG





Dave Patton, NN1N, has Departed ARRL



After nearly 19 years working in Newington, Dave Patton, NN1N has returned
to his home state of Illinois and is working for Western Illinois
University. Dave was not happy with recent changes made at Headquarters, so
when an opportunity arose for him and his wife to return home to be closer
to their family, the decision to leave was easier to make.



Patton originally started work at ARRL as the Special Assistant to the
Executive Vice President (K1ZZ). It was during this time, in 2000, that
Dave was given the assignment of creating (as a result of a board action)
some sort of electronic QSLing system. As part of this project, Dave
created the hugely popular Logbook of the World concept which was originally
built by ARRL's chief software engineer, Jon Bloom, KE3Z. In January,
2007, Patton took over the Membership Services Department (he was already
leading the Field Services Department) which oversaw DXCC and awards, W1AW,
Emergency Preparedness, and contesting.



Patton's last major achievement was the ARRL Centennial QSO Party, for which
he was the major architect of the operating event, the W1AW portable
operations, and the world's largest-ever QSLing effort that followed in 2015
and 2016 and involved sending out about 800,000 QSLs. 



Dave dismantled his 5-tower, 22 yagi station in CT and having won the CQWW
CW contest from his station in 2013, and checked-off that box, he will not
build such a big station again. But, he will return to the air with a more
typical installation sometime.



"I want to thank all the great people with whom I worked, played, and shared
my time with in Connecticut and at ARRL." Patton relayed. "There were some
real challenges in the DXCC area when I took over -- especially with the
annual backlog (remember that?), but once management finally allowed me to
make changes to the way the program was administered and fees assessed,
that problem went away. I can't list everyone, but I want to thank: all of
our DXCC Card Checkers around the world for their selfless work --
especially my great friend and elmer, Masa Ebisawa, JA1DM, who led the
adoption of LoTW in Japan as well as running DXCC Card Checking in Japan for
many years; all of our contest managers and log checkers; the hard working
Section Managers who are the League's front-line; one of my real-ham heroes
who proved to be a great sounding board and advisor, past ARRL President
Joel Harrison, W5ZN; all-around good guy and trusted resource, Ward Silver,
N0AX, and especially Da ve Sumner, K1ZZ, who gave me the leeway needed to
pull-off projects like the LoTW and Centennial QSO Party."





Bernie McClenny, W3UR



Editor of: The Daily DX (1997-2017)

 The Weekly DX (2001-2017)

 How's DX? (1999-2017)



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