[SCCC] Fwd: [ARRL-Contesting] Honoring Dave, K8CC (SK) in the CW NAQP

[Bruce Horn]

For those who didn't see this announcement.

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From: "Gary Mikitin, AF8A" <af8a at mangobay.com>
To: "ARRL-Contesting" <ARRL-Contesting at groups.arrl.org>
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2021 9:47:34 AM
Subject: [ARRL-Contesting] Honoring Dave, K8CC (SK) in the CW NAQP

Many CW NAQP operators, especially those who belong to the Mad River Radio Club, will be honoring K8CC by using the name 'Dave' during the event.

K8CC was well known in the contest community, and for good reason.  A top-class operator himself, Dave gave selflessly of his own talents for the betterment of contesting.  (Full notice of Dave's passing was in the January 7th ARRL Letter, copied below.)  RIP, OM.

73 de Gary, AF8A

NA Contest Logging Software Developer Dave Pruett, K8CC, died on December 29. An ARRL member, he was 66. After obtaining the source code for the CT contest logger, Pruett wrote new code, and "his NA software breathed new life into the program," expanding it to accommodate multiple contests, said contester Jim Cain, K1TN. He was a log checker for the ARRL 10-Meter and 160-Meter Contests, chaired the Michigan QSO Party, and was a longtime member of the Mad River Radio Club. He served as editor of National Contest Journal (NCJ) for several years when contester Randy Thompson, K5ZD, was the publisher and later, after ARRL assumed publication of the magazine. "He was a guy who got things done," Thompson said in a post to the CQ-contest reflector. Pruett was a participant in the 1996 World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) with Stan Stockton, K5GO, who called him "an inspiration."


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