YASME EXCELLENCE AWARDS

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In 2008 The Yasme Foundation (http://www.yasme.org) established the Yasme Excellence Award, to be presented to individuals and groups who, through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication,
have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. The contribution may be in recognition of technical, operating or organizational achievement, as all three are necessary for amateur radio to grow and prosper. The Yasme Excellence Award is in the form of a cash grant and an individually-engraved
crystal globe. The latest recipients, announced on 19 November, are:
- Brett Ruiz, PJ2BR and Helena Ruiz, PJ2ZZ
Brett and Helena have been active leaders of VERONA for more than twenty years, including technical activities, disaster preparedness and relief, as well as training potential licensees. They act as liaisons to government and international organizations, as well as contributing to important events such as GAREC and IARU assemblies and meetings. Brett is also active in pursuing long-distance VHF propagation and digital communications.
- Bob Wilson, N6TV
Yasme recognizes Bob's technical support to literally hundreds of hams through various radio manufacturer's user groups, to logging software communities, and the detailed assistance he provides to Reverse Beacon Network hosts, keeping their equipment configured and running. Bob also provides invaluable support to traveling hams worldwide when they most need help. Along with being technically talented he is exceptionally selfless in using that talent to help others, quick to encourage others in
many areas.
- Jari Perkiomaki, OH6BG
Jari has supported the online VOACAP software and website (http://www.voacap.com) for almost twenty years, without compensation, making world-class HF propagation prediction and modeling services available to any radio amateur. He believes in team work, acknowledging the contributions and
ideas from all of the ham community for further development of the service, but especially from James Watson (M0DNS/HZ1JW) and Juho Juopperi (OH8GLV). He estimates that today VOACAP Online serves thousands of users, with visits from more than 100 countries every month, including integration with the DX Summit and Club Log services. He is part of the Radio Arcala, OH8X team and acts as a propagation specialist, assisting the WRTC community, RSGB and others.
- Jim Brown K9YC
Amateurs worldwide have benefited from his extensive contributions to amateur radio regarding ferrite materials and their use in combating RF interference, feed line applications, and transformers. His efforts to improve transmitter performance and operating practices are also greatly appreciated, as are the extensive set of personal publications available to the public and performing reviews of technical material for amateur radio publishers.