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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 09:09:20
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From: "Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Re: LF: Peter Bobek, DJ8WL.
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Like all other LF-ham the message of Peter's death struck me with unbelieve
as even in the last month you were in contact via e-mail and had the
intention to make a sked for a CW QSO between DA0LF and myself.
And I can only repeat what others told, that Peter the example a what a ham
should be : always friendly, willing to help, with great technical
knowledge and experienced 'operating skills' on the bands.

I had the same indea in mind as Graham, to do something to remember Peter : 

>I would like to suggest that we, as a group of L.F. interested people,
>should instigate some form of perpetual award, dedicated to the Memory of
>Peter, DJ8WL/DA0LF.  Maybe this could be presented annually to the station
>deemed to have achieved the best results, or generated the most interest in
>the new L.F. band.  We could use this reflector as the initial forum, but
>publicity should be sought outside, as some interested parties would not
>have access here.

One of our e-mails we exchanged the time the first transatlantic tests were
performed. He seemed to be very facinated and he told me that he saw a
transatlantic LF-QSO as one of the ultimate challenges.
So maybe we could designate this challenge to Peter by creating a kind of
'DJ8WL Memorial Trophy' that will be awarded to the first amatateur radio
stations (one in Europe and one in North-America) that perform the very
first two-way LF-QSO.


Rik, ON7YD


Rik Strobbe  ON7YD
rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
Villadreef 14  B-3128 Baal  BELGIUM   (JO20IX)