SILENT KEYS

[IK0ZCW]

We mourn the tragic loss of David Collingham, K3LP, who died on 5 January after falling through the ice on a pond while attempting to rescue his stranded dog. He was 59 years old. First licensed in 1975, he was very active in DXpeditions, contesting, youth development and charity projects. He visited over 100 different DXCC Entities, operated from 63 of them and participated in over 75 DXpeditions - 3D2DC (Fiji 2004 and 2011), T33C (Banaba 2004), T30LP (West Kiribati 2004), K3LP/KP5 (Desecheo 2005), VU4AN/VU3RWO (Andaman Islands 2006), 5A7A (Libya 2006), N8S (Swains Island 2007), 5W3LP (Samoa 2007), YI9PSE (Iraq 2010), ST0R (South Sudan 2011), 3D2R (Rotuma 2011), ET3AA (Ethiopia Youth Project 2011), 7O6T (Socotra Island, Yemen 2012), XZ1J (Myanmar 2013), VP8STI (South Sandwich 2016), VP8SGI (South Georgia 2016) and 5U5R (Niger 2017), just to name a few. In 2014 he was inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame. Read N6PSE's touching Tribute on https://n6pse.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/tribute-to-david-collingham-k3lp/

Hans-Rudolf "Rudi" Lauber, HB9RG passed away on 26 December at 92 years of age. "Rudi was a multi-faceted ham and active in many different disciplines of our hobby", Pete, HB9PL says. "He not only held an astonishing score of first VHF/UHF contacts between Switzerland and the rest of Europe as well as beyond, but was initiator, sponsor and driving wheel of a group of enthusiast who in the second half of the fifties realised the first EME QSOs out of Switzerland. During the last few decades he shifted his activities towards DX and achieved DXCC Honor Roll No.1 status (339/358 Mixed) in remarkably short time. His sincere, eloquent, competent and helpful manners will be widely missed".