[Nodxa] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] VE1AL SK

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

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 From: k3bu at optimum.net
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Sent: 4/13/2013  6:37:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: [CQ-Contest] VE1AL SK



Just got the news:

VE1AL (ex VE1GN, VE3FRA,  VE3VX), Alan Robert Leith, passed away
yesterday totally  unexpectedly.  He was 66.  His daughter came home
from work  Thursday and "found that he'd passed away, apparently from
a heart attack",  says VE1BVD, Phil.  "I've known Al since I was
licensed, and he was a  true, blue DXer" remembers VE1DX, Paul.   Your
editor had the  pleasure of meeting Al at Dayton one year.  VE1AL made
it to the ARRL  DXCC # 1 Honor Roll spot before P5 North Korea was
added to the DXCC  list.  VE1AL had 334/353 confirmed in the ARRL DXCC
Mixed  standings.  Al was part of the 1989 CY9DXX DXpedition to St.
Paul  Island and a year later from CY0DXX on Sable Island.  He also
operated  from Bermuda as VP9/VE1AL.  Al edited both the VE3FRA DX
Report and  the Canadian DX Association's Long Skip.  In addition to
that he was  also a QSL manager for close to a dozen stations!  He was
a member of  FOC and the Toronto DX Club.

73,  Doug  VE3MV

RIP  Al!
Will miss the fun days of TDX and CANADX meetings and  comraderie!

Yuri, K3BU, VE3BMV, VE1BY  ...
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