ARLA/CLUSTER: CQ anuncia os homenageados para o "2016 Hall of Fame "

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

CQ announces 2016 Hall of Fame inductees

CQ magazine today announced its 2016 Hall of Fame inductees, including
only the second non-amateurs elected to the CQ DX Hall of Fame, two
new inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame and 21 new members of the
CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.

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 2016 inductees (listed alphabetically) are:

Bob Arnold, N2JEU (SK) - Co-developer (with Keith Lamonica, W7DXX, see
below) of the first internet-controlled remote base

Grant Bingeman, KM5RG (SK) - Developed "method of moments" antenna
modeling software for AM broadcast stations and 160-meter amateur
antennas

Bob Carpenter, W3OTC (SK) - Pioneer of meteor scatter and FM stereo
broadcast technology; longtime AMSAT volunteer

David Dary, W5ZAX - Journalist, author, journalism educator - former
correspondent for CBS and NBC News, journalism professor at University
of Kansas and University of Oklahoma, author of over 20 books on the
American West

Matt Ettus, N2MJI - Software defined radio pioneer; developed first
Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) with GNU radio software
support

Terry Fox, WB4FJI - Packet radio pioneer; primary developer of AX.25
amateur packet protocol

Elmer "Bud" Frohardt, Jr., W9DY (SK) ­- The original "Elmer" for whom
ham radio mentors are named (courtesy of a 1971 QST "How's DX?" column
by Rod Newkirk, W9BRD/VA3ZBB)

Fred Gissoni, K4JLX (SK) - Adaptive technology pioneer; co-developer
of the Porta-Braille and Pocket-Braille note-taking devices for the
visually impaired, as well as many other devices

Ken Kellerman, K2AOE - Radioastronomer; pioneer of radio
interferometry; co-developer of very long baseline interferometry
(VLBI), which permits multiple telescopes to function as a single
instrument

Keith Lamonica, W7DXX - Co-developer (with the late Bob Arnold, N2JEU)
of the first internet-controlled remote base

George Mitchell, K6ZE (SK) - Member of the Tuskegee Airmen in World
War II and 2007 recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal for his
wartime service

Les Mitchell, G3BHK (SK) - Founder of Jamboree on the Air (JOTA),
annual event to introduce amateur radio to scouts and guides around
the world

William Moerner, WN6I - Co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in
chemistry for his work in high-resolution microscopy

Leigh Orf, KG4ULP - Co-developer of tornado simulator using computer
modeling to simulate conditions under which tornadoes form

Joe Rudi, NK7U - Former Major League baseball player; 3-time All-Star

Wes Schum, W9DYV (SK) - Co-founder of Central Electronics, developed
first commercially-manufactured amateur radio SSB transmitter

Garry Shandling, ex-KQ6KA/KD6OY (SK) - Well-known comedian, actor,
writer and television personality

Mason Southwirth, ex-W1VLH (SK) - Head of ARRL International
Geophysical Year (IGY) Propagation Research Project in 1958-59;
conducted additional propagation research at Stanford University

Boris Stepanov, RU3AX (ex-UW3AX) - Leading Russian amateur, deputy
editor of Russian Radio magazine; pioneer of computerized contest
logging and log-checking; developed prototype for World Radiosport
Team Championships (WRTC); first to propose "glass cockpit" for ham
transceiver, combining frequency readout and spectrum scope on front
panel display

Rufus Turner, W3LF (SK) - Believed to be the first African-American
radio amateur in the U.S.; helped develop 1N34A diode; wrote 1949
article in Radio-Electronics magazine on how to "Build a Transistor"

Perry Williams, W1UED (SK) - Longtime ARRL Washington Coordinator and
League archivist; convinced Congress to approve vanity call sign
program and not to impose a license application fee on amateurs;
persuaded FCC to retain large amateur microwave allocations and to
create primary amateur allocation at 2.4 GHz

CQ DX and Contest and DX Halls of Fame

The CQ DX and Contest Halls of Fame honor those amateurs who not only
excel in personal performance in these major areas of amateur radio
but who also "give back" to the hobby in outstanding ways.

For only the second time in its history, this year, we induct a
non-amateur - in fact, a group of non-amateurs - to the CQ DX Hall of
Fame (The first was Islands on the Air founder Geoff Watts in 1977).
The 2016 inductees are:

Nigel Jolly and the Crew of the RV Braveheart -Jolly and his crew (and
ship) have provided transportation for - and assured the safety of -
many of the major DXpeditions to southern islands in the past 15
years, DXpeditions that likely would not otherwise have taken place.

Roger Balister, G3KMA - As manager of the Islands on the Air program
since 1985, Roger has seen IOTA grow from a few hundred early
participants to more than 10,000 today, making it one of the most
popular award programs in amateur radio.

The 2016 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:

Tod Olson, K0TO - Tod is the founding editor of the National Contest
Journal and has served the general amateur radio community as an ARRL
Section Manager, Vice Director, Division Director and International
Affairs Vice President

Richard Strand, KL7RA (SK) - A radio astronomer taking advantage of
the quiet of the northern latitudes for his research, Rich Strand
built and maintained highly competitive contest stations in a very
difficult environment and was, for many hams, their first (or only) CQ
Zone 1 contact.

Formal inductions to the CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame were
conducted in conjunction with the Dayton Hamvention® in May. Contest
Hall of Fame presentations were made at the Dayton Contest Dinner by
CQ World Wide DX Contest Director Randy Thompson, K5ZD; DX Hall of
Fame inductions were conducted at the Dayton DX Dinner on our behalf
by noted DXers and CQ DX Hall of Fame members Bob Allphin, K4UEE, and
Ralph Fedor, K0IR.

Our thanks to all and congratulations to the inductees!