Tripp Owens N4NTO and I have been friends over 40 years.  He helped me increase my code speed  to 13 wpm to where I could get my General ticket back in the day.  Last year I helped him get started in POTA the QSL card is from a simplex contact in 1987 several years after I got my general. This is a case of the student exceeding the teacher in activations and QSOs. Link to our first activation https://n4mqu.com/k-6956-1/