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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 09 2018 08:31 am
RADIO CLUB OF AMERICA RECOGNIZES HAMS' WORK
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Amateur radio operators don't do what they do simply
for the recognition, but when it does come, it's welcome validation.
Jack Parker, W8ISH, tells us about some hams enjoying the spotlight.
JACK: When the Radio Club of America gathers for its 2018 Technical
Symposium and Awards Banquet on November 17th in Manhattan, its
keynote speaker, Ted Rappaport, N9NB, will also be among those
receiving honors. Ted is being given the Armstrong Medal, in
recognition of lasting contributions to wireless communications,
and the radio arts. A professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and computer science at New
York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ted is
considered a pioneer in 5G networks, wireless systems simulation,
and RF propagation. He will share the evening's honors with a number
of fellow amateurs: The Lee de Forest Award is being given to Nathan
"Chip" Cohen, W1YW; the Fred M. Link Award to Joseph Yurman, N2PFO;
the Edgar F. Johnson Pioneer Citation to Mark Allen, W6PC, and the
RCA Presidents Award to Carroll Hollingsworth, K5CTT.
New Fellows have been named to the RCA as well this year - they
include Steven Ahmed, K2MOT; Martha Carter, N4GJA, and Charles
Kirmuss, W0CBK.
Congratulations to all those being honored.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jack Parker W8ISH.
**
POSTHUMOUS RECOGNITION FOR INDIAN AMATEUR'S BOOK
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In India, recognition is coming posthumously for one
Silent Key who authored a book about India's space program. That book
was published this year, as we hear from Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: Electronics engineer Ved Prakash Sandlas, VU2VP, never lived
to see the publication of his book "The Leapfroggers: An Insider's
Account of ISRO."
Ved became a Silent Key on 6th July 2017, and the book was published
just months ago. It tells the story of how the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) developed its launch vehicles from scratch. A
graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Ved became
a licensed ham radio operator whilst he was an undergraduate studying
for his physics degree.
According to the Daily Pioneer newspaper's Sunday magazine of 28th
October, his radio hobby later became invaluable to his work at the
space agency, when he was given the responsibility of developing a
communication system for the Indian space programme's Satellite Launch
Vehicle.
The posthumous publication recently received a positive review by the
Daily Pioneer, crediting Ved with helping to build the success of
India's launch vehicle, which formed the pioneer mission of the
programme.
It quotes a passage from the ham radio operator's book which says
[quote] "It was SLV-3 that lifted India to space." [endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(THE DAILY PIONEER)
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BRAZILIAN ASTRONAUT GETS GOVERNMENT POST
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The amateur radio operator who becacme the first South
American in space is preparing to advance to a government post when
Brazil's new president takes office. Robert Broomhead, VK3DN, has
those details.
ROBERT: In 2006, when amateur radio operator Marcos Pontes, PY0AEB,
launched in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station, he became
the first South American in space. Now the Brazilian Air Force
lieutenant colonel is poised to become that nation's science and
technology minister. He was confirmed for the post on October 31st
by Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who will take office on
January 1st.
Marcos had been chosen as a mission specialist with NASA, and arrived
in August of 1998 at the Johnson Space Center, where he trained as an
astronaut. He is still assigned technical duties at the space center,
and remains on standby for any space flights from Brazil. But for now,
he has work to do in the administration of Brazil's next president.
One day after his confirmation, he told a group of science and robotics
students: [quote] "A dream can take you anywhere, even off the planet."
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Robert Broomhead, VK3DN.
(QRZNOW, NASA, REUTERS)
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