CQ CONTEST & CQ DX HALL OF FAMERS

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The CQ Contest Hall of Fame (established in 1986) and the CQ DX Hall of Fame (established in 1967)
honour those amateurs who not only excel in personal performance in these major areas of amateur radio, but who also "give back" to the hobby in outstanding ways.

The 2019 inductees to the CQ CONTEST HALL OF FAME are:
* Bruce Horn, WA7BNM, provides a great service to the contesting community via web-based resources for many popular contests. He maintains the most comprehensive contest calendar on the web, and he developed the popular 3830Scores website (https://3830scores.com/) where contesters go to post raw scores after an event ends, to compare notes and search past contest logs. He is also manager of the North American QSO Party and developed the current National Contest Journal website.
* Dean Straw, N6BV, is an outstanding contester, a talented writer, editor, presenter and educator, and has advanced the state of the art in antennas, computer modeling, propagation and contest planning and preparation. As an ARRL staff member for 15 years, he edited multiple editions of The ARRL Antenna Book and several other publications. He also developed the High Frequency Terrain Analysis (HFTA) software, which revolutionized antenna system planning by linking antenna design, installation height, tower location, surrounding terrain, and the expected angles of propagation to target regions. His work with the propagation prediction program VOACAP revolutionized the way we plan for contests, allowing specific band opening predictions dependent on solar conditions to indicate when band changes and operations should be planned.
* Kresimir "Chris" Kovarik, 9A5K (SK) , developed the DXLog and Klog programs, competed in the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) and served the broader amateur radio community in Europe as past president of the Croatian Amateur Radio Association and as vice-chairman of the IARU Region 1 HF Committee. He became a Silent Key earlier this year. CQ Contesting Editor David Siddall, K3ZJ, presented Hall of Fame plaques at an induction ceremony held at the annual Dayton Contest Dinner on 18 May. This year's inductions bring the total number of members of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame to 74.

The 2019 inductees to the CQ DX HALL OF FAME are:
* Joe Taylor, K1JT - Nobel Prize winning-astrophysicist who has revolutionized the face of DXing with his suite of WSJT weak-signal digital modes, including FT8, which is capable of decoding signals well below the noise level. The modes pioneered by Joe have kept the HF bands busy and the DXers active even during the current solar minimum. Other WSJT modes have Also revolutionized VHF/UHF DXing via moonbounce and meteor scatter. Taylor shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of binary pulsars.
* Silvano Borsa, I2YSB, and the Italian DXpedition Team - The Italian DXpedition Team has made more than 20 major DXpeditions in the past 20 years, mostly to Africa, where its members have activated more than a dozen rare countries, making nearly 1.4 million QSOs along the way. In addition, the team has arranged for the donation and delivery of two ambulances from Italy to Somalia, one of the many countries it has activated. In addition to team leader Silvano Borsa (I2YSB), the Italian DXpedition
Team members include Alfeo Caputo (I1HJT), Vincio Ravizza (IK2CIO), Angelo Selva (IK2CKR), Marcello Cassinelli (IK2DIA), Stefano Casari (IK2HKT), Angelo Gino Zambaiti (IK2RZP) and Mac Shimamoto (JA3USA). CQ DX Editor Bob Schenck, N2OO, presented Hall of Fame plaques at an induction ceremony held at the annual Dayton DX Dinner on 17 May. This year's inductions bring the total number of members of the CQ DX Hall of Fame to 75.