[QCWA Hotlist] 2022-004 - Adam Farson VA7OJ/AB4OJ Receives Hamvention 2022 Technical Achievement Award

[Ken Oelke - VE6AFO]

March 21, 2022

 From QCWA Headquarters

https://www.qcwa.org

QCWA Bulletin 2022-004 - Adam Farson VA7OJ/AB4OJ Receives Hamvention 
2022 Technical Achievement Award

The QCWA Board of Directors congratulates QCWA Life Member # 27898 Adman 
Farson VA7OJ/AB4OJ on receiving the Hamvention 2022 Technical 
Achievement Award for his dedicated professional work with RF and 
telecommunications engineering.

Farson was first licensed in 1962 as ZS1ZG and resides in West 
Vancouver, BC, Canada. He was born in Glasgow, UK and also held ZS6XT, 
VE3DGY, VA3OJ and KM4PP.

Farson first joined QCWA in 1995, and was a member of the Dogwood 
Chapter 98, now inactive. He is currently a member of Palm Beach, FL 
Chapter 111.

Best known to the amateur radio community for his development of 
multiple sources of technical support for Icom radios, Farson started an 
Icom technical support net on 20 meters in the 1980s. He became to know 
several senior Icom Japan engineers while living in, and travelling 
around, Japan while working. With each week's net, Farson helped hams 
solve challenging technical and logistical issues.

Farson spent 3 decades creating an online resource for HF radios. His 
website is a repository for technical information on Icom and other HF 
transceivers and amplifiers, and is now one of the most widely cited 
internet resources.

He independently performs measurements on nearly all new radios, 
including noise-power ratio, a measure he developed. His work includes 
producing the only data radio hobbyists have, which clearly delineates 
how modern software-defined radios (SDRs) perform across the spectrum of 
band noise levels. Farson has written multiple articles for technical 
and amateur radio journals. Recently, he penned a multipart series on 
modern HF solid-state amplifier design principles.

47 & 73,


Ken Oelke, VE6AFO
President, QCWA, Inc.

Credit ARRL Letter

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