CQ Hall of Fame inductees named

Five amateurs have been inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.

They are John Attaway Senior, K4IIF, SK, who served for more than 20 years as CQ magazine’s DX Editor, proposing the establishment of the CQ DX Hall of Fame in 1967; Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ the author of the DXLab software suite, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, KD2JTX, the Director of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Development Bureau and the first woman ever to hold a senior elected position in the ITU, Predescu Florin Cristian, YO9CNU, the founder of Europe’s Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) programme and Ellen White, W1YL who served as the ARRL’s Deputy Communications Manager, was QST magazine’s DX editor and recorded QST on tape for the Library of Congress’s Talking Book Program for the visually-impaired.

Bruce, WA7BNM; Dean, N6BV, and Chris, 9A5K, SK, have been inducted into CQ Contest Hall of Fame.

Joe Taylor, K1JT, the Nobel Prize winning-astrophysicist who created the suite of WSJT weak-signal digital modes, including FT8, and Silvano Borsa, I2YSB and the Italian DXpedition Team who have made more than 20 major DXpeditions in the past 20 years, mostly to Africa have been inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame.

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