INTREPID SPIRIT AWARD

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The Intrepid-DX Group is pleased to announce that this year's award goes to Johannes Hafkenscheid, PA5X, who was very active as 5T5PA while living and working in Mauritania throughout 2020. This award is to recognize "Johannes's outstanding efforts to activate Mauritania during the Covid-19 Pandemic", and acknowledges "Johannes's unselfish act to activate this challenging and much needed entity on behalf of a grateful Global DX Community. During 2020, Johannes made 35,000 contacts and made a total of 192,514 contacts during his years of activity from Mauritania". The award was presented on 16 May at the International DX Convention. Made in memory of James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF (killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 27 April 2011), the Intrepid Spirit Award "is intended to recognize and honor those individuals or teams that boldly activate rare entities where their own personal safety is secondary to their pursuit of providing contacts to the DX Community".