[NLRS] 2013 Rovermania Limited Rover & 2014 Wesslund Awards

[Jon via NLRS]

Hello NLRS land -
 
The following NLRS awards were presented at Aurora 2014 yesterday:
 

2013 NLRS Limited Rover Award:  
The purpose of the Northern Lights Radio Society Limited Rover Award is to stimulate UHF activity, promote roving, and to recognize those limited rovers who are not equipped with DC to light. This Award, open to anyone located in North America, is presented to the top two ARRL UHF Contest rover scores who are running with three bands or less.  
 
This year’s second place winner is one-half of that famous roving duo from Illinois, Pat Sullivan, K9ILT.  On 432 MHz Pat made 39 contacts by seven grids, on 902 MHz 19 contacts by three grids, and on 1296 MHz 13 contacts by three grids, for a score of 6,798 points.  
 
By now you can guess that our first place winner is the other half of this dynamic rover duo, Tim Sullivan, K0PG.  On 432 MHz Pat made 38 contacts by seven grids, on 902 MHz 19 contacts by three grids, and on 1296 MHz made 14 contacts by four grids for a total score of 7,176 points.  
 
Notable mention goes to K9JK, KC9JTL, and W9HQ who were all within a few hundred points of our 1st and 2nd place winners.
 

2014 Wesslund Award 
The Wesslund Award honors Robert (Bob) Wesslund, W0AUS, for his many years of significant contributions to the Northern Lights Radio Society and for his continuous work with mentoring others in the World Above 50 MHz.  This award is presented annually to recognize those NLRS members who have assisted others in gaining knowledge and access to the bands above 50 MHz. 
 
This year’s winner prefers to avoid the limelight.  Despite this, he has been a significant contributor to the club for many years with his experience, knowledge, insight, and resources.  Our award winner has assisted the estate of several Silent Keys, donated his time, energy, and equipment during the record breaking W0AUS UHF Contest multi-op event, helped NLRS members with QRO access to 902 MHz, and his well supplied "rover truck" has saved the day for many NLRS members by supporting roving and portable VHF+ operations with power, connectors, and various as other assorted items.  When something needs doing, this year’s award winner is usually one of the first to step forward.  Some may know this year’s Wesslund Award winner as big dish Dave, but the name on the plaque says Dave Kleindal, N0KP.
 
Congratulations to all award winners.
 
73, Jon
W0ZQ