Registration is Open for November RaDAR Rally

September 24, 2024

RaDAR is Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio conceived by Eddie Leighton ZS6BNE. RaDAR encourages outdoor operating with a unique challenge: make five contacts and redeploy as fast as possible in four hours.

• Registration info
• RaDAR Rally Rules
• Introduction video
• Roster

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Radio Club of America Announces 2024 Award Recipients

September 21, 2024Radio Club of America (RCA) recognizes leaders and major contributors to the field of wireless communications. This year, several hams received awards.

Dr. James Breakall (WA3FET)

Dr. Ulrich L. Rohde Award for Innovation in Applied Radio Science and Engineering

Dr. Breakall began his career as a graduate student at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, working on antenna analysis and radar probing of the ionosphere. At LLNL, he and his group worked on the development of the Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC), the first sophisticated antenna modeling program. Other significant projects that he has worked on were the designs of the HAARP facility in Alaska, both HF facilities at Arecibo, and the Kinstar low profile AM broadcast antenna. Dr. Breakall (electrical) and Tim Duffy (mechanical) designed the very popular Ham Radio Skyhawk Yagi antenna, and Dr. Breakall is the inventor of the Optimized Wideband Antenna (OWA).

Dr. Breakall is also a member of HamSCI.

Stan Reubenstein

Edgar F. Johnson Pioneer Citation

[Mr. Reubenstein] is a member of APCO, ARRL Life Member (receiving the 1971 Public Service Award), Antique Wireless Association, Denver Area Council BSA (Silver Beaver Recipient 2011), QCWA (Life Member). He is a Fellow, Life Member, director, and previous officer of the Radio Club of America, serving as vice president, executive vice president and president. He received RCA’s Special Service Award and the Barry Goldwater Award.

Dr Nathan “Chip” Cohen (W1YW)

Dr. Arno A. Penzias Award for Contributions to Basic Research in the Radio Sciences

Dr. Cohen is perhaps most noted for his contributions to the field of electromagnetics and has authored over 120 technical papers, three books, and was awarded 94 issued U.S. patents. He is the inventor of fractal antennas and resonators, fractal metamaterials, and the invisibility cloak, conducting basic and applied research on same, and holds the source patents in these fields.

Rene Albert Steigler (posthumous)

Barry Goldwater Award

René Stiegler was an electrical engineer, prominent radio amateur, radio personality, broadcast engineer and pioneer in the fields of land mobile radio and marine communications. When he was ten years old he was recognized by the ARRL as the youngest ham to ever receive the general class license. Amateur radio then became his lifelong passion.

Alan Spindel (AG4WK)

RCA Special Recognition Award

Alan Spindel is the Senior Electrical Engineer for Ten-Tec/Alpha RF Systems in Dayton, Ohio. He develops hardware and firmware for digital HF radio data modems. He is active in volunteer emergency communications and has served as the Rutherford County, Tennessee, ARES Net Manager for nearly two decades.

Tucker Dunham (KD2JPM)

Carole Perry Young Professional Award

Tucker Dunham earned his amateur radio license in 2015. He presented in Carole Perry’s Youth Forum at the Dayton Hamvention in 2018 and again at the RCA Technical Symposium in 2018.

2024 Fellows

Hams that are RCA members recently elevated to Fellow status:

• Michael Kalter (W8CI), Hamvention Awards Committee Co-Chair
• Howard Rosen (VE2AED), Inventor and Entrepreneur

For a full list of award recipients with additional details, see the RCA 2024 award recipients page.

Source: RCA open_in_new