Well-known ham author Ward
Silver, N0AX, has been elected President of the Yasme Foundation. He succeeds
Wayne Mills, N7NG, who stepped down after being named CQ magazine's DX
Editor earlier this year. Silver is author of the introductory book, Ham
Radio for Dummies, and is Editor
of the ARRL Handbook. The Yasme Foundation funds scientific and
educational projects relating to amateur radio. |
| Scott Wood, VE1QD (QRZ.com listing photo) |
Scott Wood, VE1QD, has been named the Canadian Radio Amateur of the
Year for 2012 by the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC). Wood, who wrote the
November, 2011 CQ cover story on Radio Arcala, was recognized
for founding and managing the Maritime DX Forum for the past eight years. Wood
was formally recognized at the RAC booth at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention®.
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| Joe Schroeder, W9JUV (SK) (K0NEB photo) |
Longtime ham radio journalist, engineer and DXer Joe Schroeder, W9JUV,
became a Silent Key on April 30. Schroeder was a staff member of ham radio magazine from 1974 to 1990, and was founding editor of the magazine's
weekly newsletter, HR Report. He was also Managing Editor of Electronic
Instrument Digest magazine as well as an authority on firearms
history and gun collecting, a topic on which he also wrote and/or edited many
books and magazine articles. Joe was 83.
