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Floyd Gerald, N5FG passed away on 25 May. Born in 1944 and licensed since 1972, he was an accomplished DXer and the holder of many operating awards, including DXCC Honor Roll #1, 9BDXCC and 5BWAZ (200 Zones). He served in the ARRL DX Advisory Committee (2009-11), as the manager of the ARRL W5 Incoming QSL Bureau (1998-2002) and as the CQ WAZ Award Manager (2004-2014). He was also a Pilot station for several major DXpeditions, notably BQ9P (Pratas Island 2003), PZ5A (Suriname 2003), ST0RY (Sudan 2003), TO4E (Europa 2003), VK9CD (Cocos-Keeling 2003), VK9XW (Christmas Island 2003), FT5GA (Glorioso 2009), ST0R (South Sudan 2011), EP6T (AS-166, Iran 2015) and most recently S21ZED & S21ZEE (March 2017).