Dayton Hamvention® 2024 Award Winners Announced

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Dayton Hamvention® 2024 Award Winners Announced

The recipients of the 2024 Hamvention Awards were announced on during March 2024.

Special Achievement Award: Anthony Luscre, K8ZT

Luscre is from near Akron, Ohio, and he was first licensed in 1981. He has been a low-power operator, contester, and teacher throughout his amateur radio career. He received his Amateur Extra-class license in 2000. Luscre is active on HF and VHF/UHF, and he operates on CW, phone, and digital modes. His low-power contacts now top 115,000. Between licensing classes, club programs, webinars, hamfests, conferences, youth and school radio demonstrations, and other in-person and online talks, Luscre has presented more than 500 sessions since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has presented multiple times for Contest University, the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, and Dayton Hamvention®. He holds a weekly class, "The Joy of Operating," for the Long Island CW Club. Anthony serves as the ARRL Ohio Section Youth Coordinator and he is an officer in the Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club.

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G5RP Trophy Nominations

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The G5RP Trophy is an annual award designed 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 2023, now is the time to send in your nomination.

Your nominee should be an up-and-coming HF DXer who has made rapid progress in the last year and has some real achievements to show; for example a good total of new countries worked, or some HF DXpedition activity.

Please email your nominations to Ian Greenshields, G4FSU on hf.manager@rsgb.org.uk.

Nominations should arrive no later than Friday 15 September 2023.

2023 Hamvention Awards Announced

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2023 Hamvention Awards Announced

The 2023 Hamvention Awards committee, chaired by Michael Kalter, W8CI, has announced the 2023 Hamvention award winners.

The Special Achievement Award recipient is Dr. Jason McDonald, MD, N2TPA. He is an active, well-known Amateur Extra-class operator who earned his license in 2003. Dr. McDonald began as a radio frequency engineer before changing careers to become a trauma surgeon. Dr. McDonald’s amateur radio interests range from operations on the air to international disaster response. His true passion is working with youths to promote amateur radio.

Dr. McDonald brings amateur radio to the world through youth projects and Scouting, particularly through Radio Scouting. Empowering youth through education is the goal of the clubs he has helped form. W1PTG is a testing group that Dr. McDonald helped create to offer exams in underserved areas and get more people into the hobby. This team of volunteer examiners graciously donates its time and money to ensure each licensee in the program receives mentor support and a radio.

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