{"id":8024,"date":"2017-01-26T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:11:06","slug":"george-w6aea-receives-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=8024","title":{"rendered":"GEORGE W6AEA RECEIVES PLAQUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2046-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2046-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2046-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2046-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAt the recent December Awards Banquet, George W6AEA received a plaque on his long time contributions to SDXA.  He was one of the original charter members, attending the noisy pizza place organizational meeting which started the SDXA.  George has recently moved to the West Side (the Dark Side?) and is inactive until he finds a permanent place for towers.<\/p>\n<p>The Plaque says:<br \/>\n<strong>Meritorious Service Award &#8211; 2016<br \/>\nGeorge Tuncil W6AEA<br \/>\nThank you for Your Years of Service and Support as a Charter Member to the Spokane DX Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are some more pictures of George throughout the SDXA years:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/W6aea-with-honor-roll-plaque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-717\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge showing his ARRL Honor Roll plaque; Presently, he has 338 confirmed of the possible 339.  Bouvet is his last need.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Wayne_and_George_DXCC_Challenge-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Wayne_and_George_DXCC_Challenge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Wayne_and_George_DXCC_Challenge.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge W6AEA and his pal Wayne WA1PMA showing their twin ARRL Challenge Awards<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/sdxa-2012-summer-picnic-007-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/sdxa-2012-summer-picnic-007-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/sdxa-2012-summer-picnic-007-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge enjoying mankind&#8217;s best food from the Colonel at a recent Summer Picnic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/w6aea-5bdxcc-may-2013-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/w6aea-5bdxcc-may-2013-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/w6aea-5bdxcc-may-2013-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/w6aea-5bdxcc-may-2013.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><br \/>\n George receives his ARRL 5-Band DXCC plaque[\/caption]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2581-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2581-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2581-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2581.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge at his operating position.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1489-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1489-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1489-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge&#8217;s Force 12 antenna, his big boomer which helped in achieving ARRL DXCC Honor Roll.  In front of it is the SteppIR vertical and a nice looking pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sidebarr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}