With great sadness we have to report that Dago Skomorowski, DJ5KZ, passed away on Jan 26th, 2013.
Dago, who lived in the Chiemsee area in South Germany, was one of the pioneers of SOTA-DL.
He started as an activator in 2004 and he reached 151 summits, most of them as "first activator". He also was active from several summits in Greece, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany Low Mountains. Many of you can remember having heard his ufb CW signs from the Chiemgau Alps. He planned to hike all of the CG-summits and actively worked towards Alpine Mountain Goat Award, but he had to reduce his SOTA Activities due to health issues.
As a chaser he reached "Shack Sloth" a long while ago, and he still is #2 on the chaser honor roll in SOTA-DL.
In the SOTA-DL Management Team he served as Regional Manager for the CG and BG region, and he also was the first Award Manager for SOTA-DL. He will be sadly missed!

On behalf of SOTA-DL
Dzianis, DD1LD
Martin, DF3MC