Hi, I think Al deserves our support for his nomination and any financial contribution you can make.
Paul ------------------------------------------------------- Each year the Dayton Hamvention (http://www.hamvention.org/) recognizes three amateurs for their outstanding contributions to the amateur radio field. To quote their web site, "Do you know an outstanding amateur in your club, community, or from on-the-air contacts? Does this person excel in some phase of amateur radio? Do you feel this person deserves world-wide recognition"? One of the awards, the "Special Achievement" award, we think should go to Al Waller, K3TKJ, the owner and founder of Qsl.net and Qth.net. Why nominate Alan Waller, K3TKJ for the 2002 Dayton Hamvention Special Achievement award? The Qsl.net domain was created by Alan in the winter of 1996 as a free service to amateur operators around the world. Al did this to give back something to a hobby that has meant so much to him over the past 40 years. Qsl.net, with the later additions of Qth.net, Swl.net, and dx.qsl.net, has grown by word of mouth to be the largest site devoted totally to Amateur Radio on the Internet. Qsl.net now receives over one millions hits per day and there are 69,000 individual and club web pages hosted on the system. There are over one million emails handled daily for the 135,000 hams with @qsl.net email addresses. QTH.NET is the host for more than 900 email reflector groups that are used by 400,000 people. This was, and still is, a hobby for Al, with much of the operating expense coming out of his own pocket. A small percentage of the users now contribute to the annual budget of over $25,000 What Alan Waller has given to the radio hobby is priceless. His unfailing devotion, unbelievable generosity and love of Amateur Radio is deserving of being nominated for the Special Achievement award. While others may have done something more spectacular, nobody has done anything that has helped so many in the world of radio ever before in this planet's history. So we ask you, please nominate Alan Waller, K3TKJ for the Special Achievement award, and let him know much we all appreciate his gift to Amateur Radio. The web site for making nominations is: http://www.hamvention.org/nominate.htm Please fill out the nomination form now as the deadline of Jan 31st is drawing near. The information you will need is: Alan L Waller, K3TKJ 34087 Old Hickory Rd Laurel DE 19956 USA Telephone: (302) 875-7979 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this message to your lists, and pass it around at club meetings. Al puts alot of time, effort, and money into Qsl.net, just ask his wife, Denise <grin> As a side note, Qsl.net needs your monetary support now more than ever! We just ordered some new bandwidth to keep things speedy, but it comes at a price! Please consider making a donation, doesn't matter if it's 50 dollars or 5, every little bit helps. There are many ways to contribute to qsl.net: Mail - Send a check or money order to: Alan L Waller, K3TKJ 34087 Old Hickory Rd Laurel DE 19956 USA Secure website - Use your credit card https://proxy.qsl.net/donation/ Paypal - Use your paypal account send your donation to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" via the paypal system You can volunteer your skills to qsl.net, just send and email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let us know what you want to do. Thanks for your time, again, please get this message out to people. Al needs your vote for the Special Achievement award, and qsl.net needs your support! 73's and Thanks, Duane Fischer, W8DBF Ed Griffin, W4KMA Michael Imrick, AA9ZT P.S Look for Qsl.net at dayton! Meet Al Waller and the rest of the Qsl.net crew!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dx4win.com
