YASME EXCELLENCE AWARD

[IK0ZCW]

In 2008 The Yasme Foundation (http://www.yasme.org) established the Yasme Excellence Awards, to be presented to those who, through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication, have made a
significant contribution to amateur radio. The contribution may be in recognition of technical, operating or organizational achievement, as all three are necessary for amateur radio to grow and prosper. The latest
recipient, announced on 13 November, is the N1MM+ Development Team (Tom Wagner N1MM, Rick Ellison N2AMG, Steve London N2IC, John Bednar K3CT, Nikolay Safronov NA3M, Pete Smith N4ZR, Andreas Hofman KU7T, Larry Gauthier K8UT and Richard Ferch VE3KI). "The initial N1MM Classic is a sophisticated logging program offered at no cost to contesters around the world. N1MM+ is a major revision to the original program and was a completely volunteer effort of thousands of programmer-hours to rewrite and test more than
250,000 lines of code (http://www.n1mm.com). The program continues to be made available without charge and continues to be refined on a regular basis, supported by an extensive user group and full documentation". [TNX W6SZN]