With great regret we have to inform you
about OM Jan
Kikkert passed away on May 22nd 2009 after a 4 month stay in hospital.
Just before the PACC 2009 contest he was scheduled for some
'maintenance' procedures. He expected to be back on the job
in 3 weeks. Sadly things turned for the worse. We shall remember Jan as
an avid contester and DX'er. May he rest in peace.
Chantal - PA3GQG stepped forward to fill in the vacant position of PACC Contest Manager. With the addition of Rein - PA0R and Taco - PE1SAC the committee is now complete and hopes to expand the
success of the PACC Contest, one of the 'biggest among the
smaller' contests.
All contest related correspondence, except for the logs
itself, can be sent to:
Chantal Koekkoek, PA3GQG PACC contest manager
Aurelio Bellussi, PC5A
PACC committee member
Rein Couperus, PA0R
PACC committee member
Taco Vreeswijk, PE1SAC PACC committee member
Good to know
Chantal has previously been involved in the Dutch
YL-committee, for which
she organized the YL Mid winter contest. Also she was part of the
2009 YL-DXPedition to the Falklands - VP8YLC. She will now fill in
the position of PACC
Contest Manager dealing with general issues.
Aurelio is an avid contester (PI4TUE, DR1A etc.) and
DXpeditioner
(HB0/PI4TUE, ...). He will provide support to the log robot server and
the overall log checking process.
Rein
is a 'professional HAM' now while being retired. He likes going on
contest DXPeditions (CT9L, TS7N, 5A7A). His other passion is PSKmail, a
program he developed for digital data communication specifically
on HF. Rein will provide support to log analyses and contest rules.
Taco
is an IT professional specialized on networking, servers
and Linux. He likes to operate from portable locations with home
made antenna's and will provide support to the hardware,
software environment and log processing.
