*************** The ARRL Letter Vol. 24, No. 12 March 25, 2005 ***************
==>DAYTON HAMVENTIONR NAMES 2005 AWARD WINNERS Dayton Hamvention has announced the 2005 Amateur of the Year, Technical Excellence Award and Special Achievement Award winners. Dayton Hamvention will host the ARRL 2005 National Convention May 20-22. The 2005 Amateur of the Year is Alan S. Kaul, W6RCL, of La Canada, California. Hamvention is recognizing Kaul for his ongoing dedication to educating radio amateurs about the many facets of ham radio and to publicizing Amateur Radio through the media. A career electronic journalist who's currently a West Coast Producer for NBC Nightly News, Kaul has been an amateur licensee for much of his life. He was instrumental in the 2002 production of the ARRL video "Amateur Radio Today," for which producer Dave Bell, W6AQ, recruited Kaul's volunteer assistance as a script writer and co-producer. He's now at work on another ARRL project. The Dayton Hamvention Technical Excellence Award winner is author Jerry Sevick, W2FMI. Among other books, Sevick wrote Understanding and Using Baluns and Ununs, Transmission Line Transformers, Theory and Practice of Transmission Line Transformers, and Building and Using Baluns and Ununs--now out of print. He also authored numerous articles for QST and other Amateur Radio publications. He is noted for a classic series on short vertical antennas that appeared in QST. His April 1978 QST article, "Short Ground-Radial Systems for Short Verticals," is considered a classic. Receiving the Dayton Hamvention Special Achievement Award is D. Bharathi Prasad, VU2RBI, a prime mover behind the VU4RBI/VU4NRO DXpedition to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in December. When an earthquake and tsunami struck the region December 26, Bharathi immediately shifted the DXpedition into an emergency communication operation. Her efforts and those of the other DXpedition team members received widespread media attention. One news account dubbed Bharathi "Angel of the Seas" for reestablishing communication links with the Indian mainland and other parts of the stricken region. ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options ----------------------------------------------------------
