SP5FM receives Michael Owen award

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Written by PB2T
Sunday, 18 May 2014 07:38



Wojciech Nietyksza, SP5FM was presented the Michael Owen, VK3KI award for decades of exceptional service to the International Amateur Radio Union. The award was presented by IARU Vice President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR at the plenary meeting of PZK held in Warsaw on 17 May 2014. Wojciech began his long and intensive IARU involvement as a member of the IARU team attending the 1974 Maritime Mobile WARC in Geneva. Through WRC-2003 he was the most consistent face of the IARU at ITU and CEPT meetings and conferences. He served as Vice Chairman of IARU Region 1 from 1975 until 1999 and stayed on as member of the IARU Region 1 Executive Committee and Chairman of the External Relations Committee until 2002.