Siglent Joins as Homebrew Heroes Award Corporate Sponsor

Siglent Technologies LTD in Solon Ohio joins the Homebrew Heroes Award list of corporate prize sponsors. Jason Chonko, Marketing Manager, Applications, announced their participation on Friday, July 16, 2019:

The amateur radio and maker communities have embraced Siglent since our North American office opened over 5 years ago. Since then, we have been proud to work together with our customers to develop instrumentation that delivers high performance measurements at prices that are within reach for a broad group of people.

One of the highlights of our year is attending HAMVention and getting a chance to meet some of our best customers face-to-face and discuss some really challenging measurements. Siglent is proud to join the Homebrew Heroes award program and will be donating an SDS1202X-E oscilloscope, one of our most valuable products, to the annual recipient.
— Jason Chonko, Marketing Manager, Siglent Technologies LTD

The SDS1202X-E Series Super Phosphor Oscilloscope has a 200 mhz bandwidth, Intelligent triggers, 10 types of one-button shortcuts, History waveform record (History) function, 1 Mpts FFT, Large 7-inch TFT-LCD display with 800 * 480 resolution, Multiple interface types (USB Host, USB Device (USB-TMC), LAN (VXI-11), Pass / Fail, Trigger Out, and SCPI remote control commands), Bode plotting function controls external generator, and many other features. Details on the SDA1202X-E are at this link.

For Siglent’s complete line of products, go to https://store.siglentamerica.com.

The Homebrew Heroes Award Program is delighted to have another corporate sponsor commit to honouring our recipients. We are sure that this prize will significantly enhance the Hero’s workbench in future work that will benefit the amateur radio community.

For more details on the Homebrew Heroes Award program, visit - http://www.HomebrewHeroes.org

UK G5RP Trophy Nominations Sought

UK G5RP Trophy Nominations Sought

The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing.

The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly-licensed; it is open to anyone who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing.

If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend someone to be awarded the G5RP Trophy for 2019, now is the time to send in your nomination.

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Nominate Your RAC Amateur of the Year

To qualify for the title '“Amateur of the Year', an individual should have made an outstanding contribution to Amateur Radio in the past year, or have contributed consistently to the welfare of Amateur Radio over several years.

RAC Directors, Officers and Section Managers are not eligible for the award while in office, and not in respect to their term(s) of office.

Nominations with supporting documentation are to be addressed to the RAC Corporate Secretary at the address shown below and received at RAC Headquarters by the close of the last business day of September (September 27), for consideration for the current year.

Radio Amateurs of/du Canada
720 Belfast Road
Suite / Bureau 217
Ottawa, ON, Canada

Selection of the winning candidate will be by majority vote of the RAC Board of Directors based on the supporting documentation submitted with the nomination. The winning candidate will be notified by mail.

Due recognition will appear in The Canadian Amateur and a suitable plaque will be presented at an appropriate time and place.

More Information - https://wp.rac.ca/rac-amateur-of-the-year/