Rhodes Island (Zone 20):   Iris Colvin (W6QL) was part of the world-famous Colvin DXpedition team with her husband Lloyd Colvin (W6KG).  They traveled the world from the 1960s until the early 1990s, operating from more than 100 rare DXCC countries.  Lloyd Colvin became a silent key in 1993, Iris in 1998.

The Colvins racked up more than a million contacts over the years.  It is thought that they worked more than half of the active amateurs of the world and amassed one of the largest QSL collections in the world - more than a half million QSL cards.  The collection occupied an entire room in the Colvins' home.

I worked Iris and Lloyd may times during the late 60s, 70s and early 80s.  This QSL is from a contact made in November of 1980 on 20M CW.