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REPEAT POSTING - VK3QI - 12-07-2017
Hi, I posted the following in the Satellite/Balloon area a while back, but strangely, it appears not to have been picked up by anyone else in VK.
Is there something that I am missing?
Cheers
Peter VK3QI
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2017, 06:53 pm [url=https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://ahrdf.net/forum/thread-172-post-821.html][/url]
The following press release seems to have been missed by the Australia Amateur radio fraternity.
(Xenia, Ohio - May 19, 2017) - The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame has 18 new members for 2017, CQ magazine announced today. This brings to 310 the total number of members inducted since the hall's establishment in 2001.
The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame honors those individuals, whether licensed hams or not, who have made significant contributions to amateur radio; and those amateurs who have made significant contributions either to amateur radio, to their professional careers or to some other aspect of life on our planet.
The 2017 inductees (listed alphabetically) are:
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, HS1A (SK) • John Brosnahan, W0UN (SK) - President of Alpha Power, NOAA physicist and instrumental in design and construction of the HAARP facility in Alaska.
• Garrett Brown, W3AFF - Inventor of the Steadicam, which earned him both Oscar and Emmy awards for filmmaking technology • Britton Chance, W2IBK (SK) - Pioneer in magnetic imaging; MIT professor, team leader in MIT Radiation Lab developing WWII radar; US Olympic gold medalist (sailing, 1952) • John Crockett, W3KH - Repeater coordination pioneer; developed Southeastern Repeater Assn (SERA) Universal Coordination System; managed SCHEART system of linked repeaters in hospitals; VP Engineering for SC Educational TV network • Julius T. Freeman, KB2OFY (SK) - Tuskegee Airman and Congressional Gold Medal recipient; frequent speaker at schools and civic organizations • Limor Fried, AC2SN - Founder of Adafruit Industries, major supplier of open-source electronics to the Maker community; honored by President Obama in 2016 as a "Champion of Change" and by the Internet of Things Institute as one of the 25 most influential women in the IoT industry • Robin Haighton, VE3FRH (SK) - Founding member of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS), former president of AMSAT-NA • David Honess, M6DNT - Developed AstroPi project, which sent two Raspberry Pi computers to the International Space Station as platforms for students on Earth to write and run their own computer code in space; honored for this work with the Sir Arthur Clarke Award, presented by the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society • Pete Kemp, KZ1Z (SK) - Author and educator, directly responsible for licensing over 700 new hams • Kristen McIntyre, K6WX - Apple software engineer and inventor (her name is on 22 granted or pending patents), promoter of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects for girls through various talks and YouTube presentations • Pat McPherson, WW9E (SK) - Founder and longtime coordinator of SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network) • Andy Nguyen, VK3YT - Pico-ballooner, pioneered round-the-world microballoon flights carrying amateur radio • Tim Peake, KG5BVI - UK astronaut very active in ARISS program during time on International Space Station; coordinated ISS end of the AstroPi project (see David Honess, above) • Mike Santana, WB6TEB (SK) - Two-way radio engineer, designed Clegg FM-76 220-MHz transceiver and President line of CB rigs, favorites for conversion to 10 meters • Allan Steinfeld, W2TN, ex-KL7HIR (SK) - Longtime Race Director of the New York City Marathon, considered one of the fathers of the modern running movement • Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR - Pioneer of software defined radio (SDR) and founder of FlexRadio
RE: REPEAT POSTING - VK2ZRH - 12-07-2017
Buried in that great block of text, it's kind-of no wonder it was missed. However, Andy VK3YT gained wide recognition for his pic balloon exploits over 2012-2016 on WIA News, and was awarded one of the inaugural WIA Technical Excellence Awards at the WIA AGM in 2016: http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2016/20160602-1/index.php
RE: REPEAT POSTING - admin - 12-07-2017
I think that was around the time I had to do a database recovery to the previous day and a few postings were lost. Apologies if yours was one of them but nothing is "infallible".
I do recall reading the initial posting - just as I read basically every post as part of the Moderator task - and thought it was good to see Andy getting recognition for his experimentation.
Doug, Admin
RE: REPEAT POSTING - VK3QI - 12-07-2017
Hi Doug,
No, the original post went though OK.
There was plenty of publicity when the pico balloons were orbiting in 2015/2016, but this award of the CQ Amateur Radio Hall Of Fame is quite an honour.
Only 4 VK hams have ever achieved this award. Ross Hull 3JU, Michael Owen VK3KI, Jim Smith VK9NS (strictly a G ham) and Andy Nguyen VK3YT.
The award has been in place since 2001 with over 300 recipients since its inception.
Cheers
Peter VK3QI