Radiomercato.com

ARI President and former Secretary General Mario Ambrosi, I2MQP passed away unexpectedly on 6 November at 74 years of age. Licensed since 1975, he was an accomplished DXer with 339/356 (current/total) in the DXCC Honor Roll Standings; he also gained DXCC on 9 bands (80-6m) and the CQ WPX Award of Excellence. A CQ Awards Checkpoint and DXCC Card Checker, in 2005 he was inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame as a "prominent Italian amateur, author of many radio books, QSL manager, top official of Italian national amateur radio association and Editor of its magazine, RadioRivista". Above all, he was a personal friend of your Editors' for thirty years, and we will sorely miss him.