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Subject: [niarindia] Dayton Hamvention® Is Soliciting Nominations for the Annual Dayton Hamvention® Awards
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Dayton Hamvention® Is Soliciting Nominations for the Annual Dayton Hamvention® Awards
We are accepting nominations for our Amateur of the Year, Special Achievement, Technical Excellence and Club of the Year Awards. Deadline for nominations is January 16, 2015.Do you know an outstanding amateur in your club, community, or from on-the-air contacts? Does this person excel in some phase of amateur radio? Do you feel this person deserves world-wide recognition? All amateurs are eligible - Novice through Extra. Awards are decided by the Awards Committee, based upon the information received, not the number of nominations submitted.
Has your club had success in promoting amateur radio, supporting public service events or other community or amateur radio related activities? Nominate it for our club of the year award.
Download the appropriate form below. Follow the instructions for completion and return by January 16. All materials submitted become the property of Hamvention® and cannot be returned.
Amateur of the Year
This is for the special person who has made a long term commitment to the advancement of amateur radio. We are looking for a well-rounded individual who has contributed to our hobby in some outstanding way.
Technical Excellence
This is for the person who has made an outstanding technical advancement in the field of amateur radio.
Special Achievement
This is for the special person who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of amateur radio. This award is usually given to a respected amateur who spearheaded a single significant project.
Club of the Year
This includes all aspects of the club's accomplishments, activities, and public service. This award's judging criteria is based on but not limited to, the club's contribution in mitigating the effects of disaster situations, support of public service events, amateur radio education and recruitment, youth programs, years of service, number of members, and local media coverage.
Forms may submitted using the following methods:
email: awa...@hamvention.org
Postal Mail:
Hamvention
Attn: Awards Committee
Box 964
Dayton, OH 45401-0964
Criteria for Individual awards: - INDIVIDUAL AWARD NOMINATION FORM (PDF) -INDIVIDUAL AWARD NOMINATION FORM (DOC)
Criteria for Club Award: - CLUB AWARD NOMINATION FORM (PDF) - CLUB AWARD NOMINATION FORM (DOC)
If you have any questions please contact the awards committee at awa...@hamvention.org
2014 Award Winners
With great pleasure, the Dayton Hamvention® Committee announces the 2014 Dayton Hamvention® Awards winners. For over a half century, Hamvention® has recognized individuals that have given so much to the radio amateur community. Recently we added a fourth award; to recognize the basic building block of all things amateur radio, the Club of the year.Amateur of the Year: Dr. Larry E Price, W4RA
Dr. Price served as President of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) from 1999 to 2009. Dr. Price's leadership had significant and direct impact on the development of amateur radio throughout the world. - At his direction, many noteworthy achievements occurred such as elimination of the Morse requirement, protection of existing frequency allocations, adoption of ITU Recommendation ITU-R M.1544, Minimum qualifications of radio amateurs, expansion of the 40 meter amateur band in ITU Regions 1 and 3, and new LF allocations.
Special Achievement Award: Dave Sumner, K1ZZ
As Special Achievement Award winner, Sumner was cited for his contributions to the international Amateur Radio community through the International Amateur Radio Union and for his leadership in the fight against Broadband over Power Line (BPL) interference to radio amateurs.
Technical Excellence Award: David Freese Jr, W1HKJ
Dave Freese is recognized for his development and distribution of the Fast Light Digital Modem Application (fldigi) family of programs for use in amateur and emergency communications. FLDIGI is an easy to use, free of charge, and open source computer program intended for Amateur Radio Digital Modes operation using a Personal Computer. FLDIGI operates in conjunction with conventional radio transceivers, and uses the PC sound card as the main method of input from the radio, and output to the radio.
The Club of the Year Award: Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society, W4GR
The Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society serves Gwinnett County, Georgia. The Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society has several well rounded training programs aimed at old and novice amateur radio operators with many programs aimed at youth. They continually host and support amateur radio programs and they participate in a multitude public service events. Their last effort for Field Day was a massive effort that included eight stations. Their TechFest is an opportunity for the community to become aware of the many modes of operation of Radio Amateurs and view some of the preparations taking place by public service volunteers in the Ham radio community. Maintain a wide area repeater system while hosting several nets each week.
2014 Hamvention® Awards Committee
David Crawford, KF4KWW - Chairman
Nancy Krodel, KC8RMT - Assistant Chairwomen
National Institute of Amateur Radio
Raj Bhavan Road
Hyderabad 500082, India
Tel: +91 40 2331 0287, +91 40 6516 7388
Fax: +91 40 2331 0787
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