[QCWA Hotlist] 2016-009 - John Burningham, W2XAB Receives Technical Achievement Award

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May 27, 2016

 From QCWA Headquarters

http://www.qcwa.org

QCWA Bulletin 2016-009 - John Burningham, W2XAB 
Receives Technical Achievement Award

The QCWA Board of Directors wish to congratulate 
QCWA Life Member, John Burningham, W2XAB who was 
awarded the Dayton Amateur Radio Association 
(DARA) Hamvention® Technical Achievement Award.

http://www.qcwa.org/w2xab-26683.htm

John was first licensed in 1970 as WB8GZR, later 
as WB9GQM, WB8PUF, and currently as W2XAB. He has 
been involved with amateur repeaters for over 40 
years. After working in the Aerospace industry 
and Motorola, he has been teaching in higher 
education for over 20 years, currently as a 
Senior Lecturer at Clayton State University in 
the Department of Computer Science and 
Information Technology teaching computer 
networking; he will retire this May.  He is a 
Life Member of the ARRL and QCWA and has belonged 
to AMSAT and TAPR, in addition to a number of 
local clubs as he moved between ten different states.

John is currently active in the DMR community, 
having published a beginner’s guide 
[http://guide.k4usd.org] and a DMR article in QST 
and a contributing author in the ARRL 2016 
Handbook. He has also presented a number of 
forums at Hamfests including the Hamvention® promoting DMR.

(Thanks to Dayton Amateur Radio Association)

73,
Ken Oelke, VE6AFO
President, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc.