[QCWA Hotlist] President's Award

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PRESIDENTAL AWARDS FOR 2004

The greatest perk that goes to your President is the making of our 
Presidential Honor Awards. In your Spring Journal, there is a call for our 
Chapters to nominate QCWA members for our Honor Awards for 2004. It follows 
the approach that has been advocated in my columns.

On January 31, 1951, our FCC placed into our rules a statement of the five 
principles establishing the type of amateur service it expects us to provide 
in return for being allowed to use some highly valuable radio spectrum.

It is important that we pause periodically to reflect upon just whom it is 
among us that we admire as our role models in helping to fulfill each of 
these principles.

Five awards will be made on July 1, 2005, and will be announced in our Fall 
QCWA JOURNAL. They are:
1. For service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication 
service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. 
(Hurricanes)
2. For continuing and extending the amateur operator's proven ability to 
contribute to the advancement of the radio art. (Experimenter)
3. For advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of 
the radio arts. (Instructors)
4. For expanding the existing reservoir within our amateur service of 
trained operators, technicians and electronic experts. (Volunteer Examiners)
5. For continuing and extending the amateur operator's unique ability to 
enhance international goodwill. (DXer)

For your nominee to be considered, please submit your nomination to Director 
Harold Chase, W1EES, before June 1, 2005. He is the Chairman of our Chapter 
Relations Standing Committee that is administering this program.

Include with the name and call sign of your nominee, the specific award for 
which you are making your nomination and a statement of your reasons for 
making your nomination.

Here is your opportunity to recognize a deserving QCWA member in your 
Chapter for helping make amateur radio the greatest hobby in the World.

Let Harold hear from you.

W3BE