HAMVENTION AWARDS
Inviato: 6 marzo 2020, 17:49Dayton Hamvention has named his year's award winners (see https://hamvention.org/event-details/awards/ for the complete announcement). Yasuo "Zorro" Miyazawa (JH1AJT) is the recipient of the Amateur of the Year Award, which honours a radio amateur who "has made a long-term commitment to the advancement to amateur radio".
The Technical Achievement Award goes to Steve Franke (K9AN), Bill Somerville (G4WJS) and Joe Taylor (K1JT) for their development of the WSJT-X digital software suite, in particular the digital protocols FT8 and FT4. FT8 was introduced in July 2017, soon accounting for a large fraction of all amateur radio activity on the HF bands. FT4 is a closely related mode designed especially for digital contesting.
The Special Achievement Award is "usually given to a amateur who spearheaded a single significant project" and "made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the radio art and/or science". The 2020 award winner is Jordan Sherer (KN4CRD) for developing JS8Call, an open source and free piece of software, inspired by WSJT-X and FLdigi, that provides weak signal keyboard-to-keyboard messaging to amateur operators.
Finally, the South Canadian Amateur Radio Society (SCARS), an ARRL Special Services Club based in the Oklahoma area, is the Club of the Year.
The Technical Achievement Award goes to Steve Franke (K9AN), Bill Somerville (G4WJS) and Joe Taylor (K1JT) for their development of the WSJT-X digital software suite, in particular the digital protocols FT8 and FT4. FT8 was introduced in July 2017, soon accounting for a large fraction of all amateur radio activity on the HF bands. FT4 is a closely related mode designed especially for digital contesting.
The Special Achievement Award is "usually given to a amateur who spearheaded a single significant project" and "made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the radio art and/or science". The 2020 award winner is Jordan Sherer (KN4CRD) for developing JS8Call, an open source and free piece of software, inspired by WSJT-X and FLdigi, that provides weak signal keyboard-to-keyboard messaging to amateur operators.
Finally, the South Canadian Amateur Radio Society (SCARS), an ARRL Special Services Club based in the Oklahoma area, is the Club of the Year.