Special Announcement: 2020 Hamvention® Award Winners announced on today's edition of Tuesdays with Tim and Jeff! Michael Kalter, W8CI stopped by to announce the Hamvention® 2020 Club of the Year, Special Achievement Award, Technical Achievement Award and the Amateur of the Year! Congratulations to all of the much deserved winners. We hope to meet you all at Hamvention®. Stay tuned on the DX Engineering YouTube channel for future Hamvention® 2020 updates. View attachment 636602
OK, FT8 users-- its finally official. FT8 has had impact The awards committee is to be thanked for ALSO recognizing JS8 as an exciting spinoff. Ham-grown! In the scheme of innovation, less than three years from inception to recognition is lightning speed. Those who think we are stuck in the past just don't know ham radio today. Don't write off amateur radio. We have lots of innovations ahead. Congrats again to ALL of this year's winners! 73 Chip W1YW
§97.1 Basis and purpose. The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles: (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.
Prof. Taylor may have to put his Nobel plaque in a drawer to make room for his Hamvention prize on the wall.
Note addition to your quote. Joe won Ham of the Year in...2015?2016? The nominator was well aware of this. Joe won this time as part of the team of THREE that came up with FT8 I doubt Joe would have been interested in another award per se: he wanted to stress it was the TEAM that did FT8, IMO. Congrats to K9AN and G4WJS, the other team members 73 Chip W1YW
Outstanding winners, and many thanks to hamvention committee members for their time and careful work.
I love CW, but I appreciate all the innovations that qualified and prepared OM give to the community of radio amateurs. Congratulation to K1JT, K9AN and G4WJS for the prestigious Award. 73' de Joe I8QJU
