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 Lloyd and Iris Colvin, in a photo taken around 1993. |
NEWINGTON, CT, May 8, 2001--A book now in the works will highlight the adventures of the late husband-and-wife DXpedition team of Lloyd and Iris Colvin, W6KG and W6QL. Author Jim Cain, K1TN, is seeking the assistance of radio amateurs and others around the world to share reminiscences, anecdotes, photos and other relevant information for possible inclusion.
Commissioned by the Yasme Foundation, the soon-to-be-published book will include a history of the Foundation and a biography of the Colvins. Anyone with information to share may contact Jim Cain at yasmebook@mybizz.net.
 Yasme Foundation President Wayne Mills, N7NG (left), and author Jim Cain, K1TN, seal the deal in April for a Yasme Foundation book about the Colvins. [Bill Moore, NC1L, Photo] |
Iris Colvin died in 1998, and Lloyd Colvin died in 1993. The couple had been married for 55 years. Between the 1960s and the early 1990s, the Colvins took ham radio to some 200 countries--including nearly every member-nation of the United Nations. They racked up more than a million contacts over the years and amassed one of the largest QSL collections in the world--more than a half million cards at last count.
The ARRL Board of Directors recognized the Colvins' contributions to international goodwill by naming them Amateur Radio Ambassadors of the Decade 1980-1990. The Colvin Award was established in 1994 from the proceeds of an endowment set up by Lloyd Colvin that named the ARRL as a beneficiary. The award disburses grants to support ham radio projects that promote international goodwill in the field of DX.
 A section of the QSL files in the Colvins' home with some of their numerous awards and plaques above. The QSL collection is said to have taken up most of a room in the couple's house. [Gordon Girton, W6NW, Photo] |
Yasme Foundation President Wayne Mills, N7NG, said the Foundation was extremely pleased to have retained Cain, a former ARRL Headquarters staff member and a ham since 1961, to research and write the Colvins' and the Yasme Foundation's story. Mills is ARRL Membership Services Manager and a well-known DXer and DXpeditioner.
 Iris Colvin, W6QL, on the air in the late 1980s. [Gordon Girton, W6NW, Photo] |
The Yasme Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation organized to conduct scientific and educational projects related to Amateur Radio, including DXing and the introduction and promotion of Amateur Radio in underdeveloped countries.
Other amateur radio operations under the Yasme banner were conducted by Danny Weil, VP2VB; Martti Laine, OH2BH; and the late Dick McKercher, W0MLY, among others. A list of Yasme operations can be found on the Web.
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