G3NUG S.K.

[IK0ZCW]

Neville Cheadle, G3NUG passed away unexpectedly on 14 January. Licensed since 1959, he served in the RSGB Council, Management Committee, HF Committee and IOTA Committee; in 2015 he was made an Honorary Life Member of the Chiltern DX Club - The UK DX Foundation, after serving as Chairman (1994-2001) and President (2001-15). A serious DXer and IOTA chaser himself, he conducted several IOTA DXpeditions to Malaysia as 9M2/G3NUG, and led the Five Star DXers Association's 9M0C (Spratly Islands, 1998), D68C (Comoros, 2001), 3B9C (Rodrigues, 2004), 3B7C (Saint Brandon, 2007) and T32C (Kiritimati, 2011) DXpeditions. He also co-authored "Dxpeditioning. Behind the Scenes" (2000), a comprehensive handbook on planning, setting up and operating a successful DXpedition. In 2009 he was inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame.