CQ CONTEST HALL OF FAME

[IK0ZCW]

Established in 1986, the CQ Contest Hall of Fame honours those amateurs who have made major contributions to the art of radio contesting. The 2023 inductees are:

* Kirk Pickering, K4RO - Founding member, past president and past vice-president of the Tennessee Contest Group; webmaster of TCG website; has hosted many new contesters at multi-ops from his home station; 3-time US winner in ARRL Sweepstakes CW/QRP category and regular top-ten finisher in multiple contests; past editor and columnist ("Contesting 101") for National Contest Journal.

* Ken Claerbout, K4ZW - Accomplished contester both domestically and as DX, operating from over a dozen countries around the world. A driving force in the ongoing training and mentoring of students at ET3AA, the radio club at the Addis Ababa University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
On a recent visit, he helped students install one of the few HF skimmers in Africa to feed the Reverse Beacon Network. He has served in multiple positions for the YASME Foundation, and is past president of the Potomac Valley Radio Club. In that role, he began a series of contesting-related webinars that has morphed into today's Contest University.

* Bernhard "Ben" Buettner, DL6RAI - Avid contester and contest administrator who has operated from 49 different DX entities. Co-founder and past president of the Bavarian Contest Club (BCC), Ben helped develop and maintain the club's DX cluster, the first in Germany. He is also a past director of the Worked All Europe DX Contest (WAEDC). In that role, he spearheaded the conversion from paper to electronic logging and the introduction of electronic log checking. Ben is also a former member of the CQWW Contest Committee, served as IT manager for WRTC-2018 in Germany, and has been a beta tester for Win-Test contest logging software.
[The official announcement does not mention that Ben tragically passed away two days before his induction, Ed.]