[SFDXA] Award Winner

[Ed Callaway]

All,

A bit more on Kai's award:

Point 26 (page 6) of the latest ARRL Board of Directors' meeting minutes 
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2014_July_ARRL_Board_Minutes.pdf 
has the following:

26. On motion of Mr. Rehman, seconded by Mr. Norton, it was VOTED (with applause): 

	WHEREAS Kazimierz "Kai" Siwiak, KE4PT, and Bruce Pontius, NØADL have demonstrated distinguished lifelong amateur radio careers, both on the air and in test and measurement respects; and 

	WHEREAS they have authored the article "How Much 'Punch' Can You Get from Different Modes," which was published in the December 2013 issue of QST magazine; [and]

	WHEREAS their article has characterized and quantified the typical performance of various operating modes in a simplified yet useful additive white Gaussian noise environment to educate amateur radio operators on the performance and limitations of common analog and digital operating modes; 

	THEREFORE the ARRL Board of Directors bestows jointly on Kai Siwiak, KE4PT and Bruce Pontius, NØADL, the 2013 Doug DeMaw, W1FB, Technical Excellence Award[.]

After much searching, the best I could find on the award was:

"Established in 1975 as the ARRL Technical Excellence Award, the name was changed in 1997 to honor the late Doug DeMaw, W1FB, a former ARRL Headquarters technical editor and well-known Amateur Radio author. The award consists of an engraved 9 inch pewter cup."

(If the ARRL web site has a description of its various awards, I was unable to find it.)

Ed N4II.

-----Original Message-----
From: SFDXA [mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kai
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:06 PM
To: sfdxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [SFDXA] Award Winner

Hi Dave,
WOW!  I'm speechless!  Thanks for the wonderful news.
73
Kai


On 7/30/2014 5:39 PM, Dave Novoa W4DN wrote:
> Congratulations to Kai, KE4PT, who was awarded the Doug DeMaw, W1FB Technical Excellence Award by the ARRL Board of Directors.  He was nominated by our Division Director Doug, K4AC.
>
> 73,
> Dave, W4DN
> ARRL SE Division Assistant Director
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