[Elecraft] Two Elecrafters get Dayton Awards!

Fri Apr 25 22:57:00 2003

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:54:49PM -0700, Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft wrote:
> Congratulations to Tree, N6TR, and Johnathan, K1RFD, for their Dayton 
> Special Acheivment and Technical Excellence awards! Both are K2 owners.

Actually, N6TR is being awarded "Amateur of the Year," not the Special 
Achievement Award (which went to K1RFD.)

Also, another Elecrafter, James Brooks 9V1YC, is being inducted into the 
CQ DX Hall of Fame this year at Dayton:

> From K3EST:
> The new member of the DX Hall of Fame is James Brooks, 9V1YC. In addition to
> supporting/attending many rare DXpeditions, James has uniquely contributed
> his expertise to create video documentaries, thus bringing the DX experience
> to a wide audience.

James and his teammate N5KO used their Elecraft K2s in their World Radiosport
Team Championship effort in Finland, July, 2002.

> 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.
> 
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