[Elecraft] Two Elecrafters get Dayton Awards!

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

Congratulations to Tree, N6TR, and Johnathan, K1RFD, for their Dayton Special 
Acheivment and Technical Excellence awards! Both are K2 owners.

 From the ARRL Letter, Vol 22:

=>HAMVENTION ANNOUNCES 2003 AWARD WINNERS

Hamvention has named the winners of its 2003 Amateur of the Year, Special
Achievement and Technical Excellence awards. Well-known contester Larry
"Tree" Tyree, N6TR, will receive Hamvention's 2003 Amateur of the Year
Award. Tyree is the creator, organizer, and promoter of the successful
Kid's Day <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kd-rules.html>--now administered
by the ARRL. Kid's Day is an operating activity designed to give young
people a chance to experience Amateur Radio firsthand and possibly inspire
them to become licensees. Tyree also developed the popular TR-LOG contest
logging software. A ham since 1967, Tyree lives in Boring, Oregon, with
his wife and three daughters.

"I hope to be able to use this to help encourage others to encourage young
people to join our hobby," Tyree commented. "Obviously the help the ARRL
has given me by taking over the event has been part of the success that
enabled this [award]." The award to Tyree is in line with Hamvention's
2003 theme, "Year of the Youth." The show, May 16-18 at Hara Arena near
Dayton, Ohio, will be on young hams and on attracting 12 to 18-year olds
into Amateur Radio.

Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, is the winner of
Hamvention's 2003 Special Achievement Award. Taylor developed the
Internet-linking program called EchoLink and the repeater-control program
called EchoStation. EchoLink allows amateur stations to connect with each
other via the Internet to expand repeater and simplex coverage and to
provide Amateur Radio operators with access from their PCs.