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SPECIAL BULLETIN 16  ARLX016
FROM ARRL HEADQUARTERS
NEWINGTON CT  APRIL 21, 1994
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS

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ARLX016 FOUR JOIN HALLS OF FAME

FOUR JOIN HALLS OF FAME

CQ MAGAZINE WILL INDUCT FOUR AMATEURS INTO ITS HALLS OF FAME AT THE
DAYTON HAMVENTION.  JOINING THE CQ CONTEST HALL OF FAME WILL BE JOHN
THOMPSON, W1BIH/PJ9JT ATILANO DE OMS, PY5EG AND THE LATE HERB
BECKER, W6QD.

THE SINGLE ADDITION TO THE CQ DX HALL OF FAME WILL BE CHARLIE
MELLEN, W1FH.

THOMPSON, 79 AND LICENSED SINCE 1930, IS WELL-KNOWN AS BOTH A DXER
AND CONTESTER. FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS HE HAS OPERATED FROM HIS
WINTER HOME ON CURACAO IN THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES.

DE OMS IS CREDITED WITH ENCOURAGING CONTEST OPERATIONS ALL OVER
SOUTH AMERICA, IS AN ACTIVE CONTESTER, AND HAS ONE OF THE MOST
POTENT STATIONS ON THE CONTINENT. HE ALSO IS AT THE TOP OF BOTH THE
MIXED AND PHONE DXCC HONOR ROLLS.

HERB BECKER, W6QD, WAS ONE OF THE HANDFUL OF DX AND CONTEST
OPERATORS WHO CONCEIVED, IN THE LATE 1940S, THE IDEA OF THE CQ
WORLDWIDE DX CONTESTS. THE BASIC RULES HE HELPED WRITE MORE THAN 40
YEARS AGO HAVE REMAINED ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED.

CHARLIE MELLEN, W1FH, JOINS THE CQ DX HALL OF FAME. A DXCC MEMBER
BEFORE WORLD WAR 2, HE STARTED OVER IN 1945, CLIMBED TO THE TOP OF
THE DXCC LADDER, AND STAYED THERE THROUGH MOST OF HIS CAREER.
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