Here's a challenge to all of you creative folks out there! We now have three regularly participating ORIGINAL NATA MEMBERS on our nets!George, AA4D, Gary, K4HTV, and Jim, KU0G. We're still looking for former NATA folks from the 70's and 80's to join us again. If you know of anyone please pass their callsigns on to KU0G and we'll email or snail-mail them with our net information and help them get active with NATA again!

With that in mind I'd like to propose a special achievement award to reflect contacts with members from the original net (ca. 1977 - 1989). The name of the award should be indicative of the status of the original members. The requirements should be reflective of attaining contacts with those persons, possibly multiple bands or multiple modes as endorsements or requirements. You submission should include rough artwork of the certificate design or a good description of the certificate design if you aren't artistically inclined.

We would like to put this award into effect on September 1, 2009. To submit, please email your requirements, proposal, etc. and I will create a webpage with all submissions which we will then put up for a vote on the website! Deadline for submissions will be August 20, 2009.

The winning submission will get something nice! (Possibly some free QSL envelopes or something else worthwhile!)