[CQ-Contest] Whatever Happened to Don Miller?

[Zack Widup]

Several years ago, when he got the callsign AE6IY, I somehow came up with an
e-mail address for him and exchanged a couple e-mails. He said at the time
he wanted to do DXpeditions again and had something in mind. He didn't say
what though.

I haven't heard anything from him in several years. I often wondered if the
Don Miller Fan Club, which holds the W9WNV callsign now, would relinquish it
to him but it apparently hasn't happened.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know what, if anything, came of Miller's attempt to
> rehabilitate himself?  I was at the Dayton Contest Forum a few years ago
> when he got up, made some contrite noises, and said he wanted to get
> active again.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 1/12/2010 5:55 AM, James Cain wrote:
> > N5KO wrote: "All parties gave support [for Cabrillo] without hesitation
> > except for CQ -- the CQ representative said 'CQ will give support, but
> only
> > if you remove 'ARRL' from the name.'  Oof!"
> >
> > I agree with CQ magazine's position. At that point, it no longer was an
> > "ARRL format" but rather a generic one. Leaving "ARRL" in the name would
> > have confused people.
> >
> > There was a lot of bad blood between ARRL and CQ magazine following the
> Don
> > Miller, W9WNV episode in the mid-1960s. In February, 1968, Miller sued
> the
> > ARRL and its General Manager and Secretary, John Huntoon, W1RW. ARRL had
> > disallowed a number of Miller's claimed DXpeditions to rare places (e.g.
> > Heard Island, Navassa, others) when he, Miller, could produce no proof
> he'd
> > been to them.
> >
> > CQ backed Miller during the dispute and published a number of quotes from
> > him, some of which the ARRL disputed. Miller sought $550,000 in damages;
> > following depositions, the suit was dropped. No money changed hands.
> >
> > When I arrived to work in Newington in 1973, John Huntoon told me it was
> OK
> > to
> > operate in the CQ contests from W1AW but not to send in a log. That would
> > have put "W1AW" in the line listings in CQ. I didn't blame Mr. Huntoon
> one
> > bit.
> >
> > Fortunately, time and mortality seem to have healed those wounds between
> the
> > world's two biggest contest and awards sponsors. But I know from meeting
> all
> > the principals that the wounds were very deep indeed.
> >
> > Three QST articles make fascinating reading:
> >
> > May, 1968, p. 81;
> > October, 1968, p. 83;
> > April, 1969, p. 82.
> >
> > I am associated with neither the ARRL nor CQ.
> >
> > Jim Cain, K1TN
> > Atlantic City
> >
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