CQ magazine announced its 2012 Hall of Fame inductees at the Dayton Hamvention, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the CQ DX Hall of Fame with three new members, along with two new inductees into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame and 16 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 2012
inductees (listed alphabetically) are:
George Badger,
W6TC (SK), expert in tubes and tube circuit designs; executive of Eimac and
later President of Svetlana
Bill Brown,
WB8ELK - "Father" of amateur radio high-altitude ballooning
Robert Brown,
NM7M (SK) - Expert on 160-meter propagation, author and retired physics
professor
Evelyn
Gauzens, W4WYR - Chair of the Miami "Tropical Hamboree" hamfest for
45 years; ARRL Southeastern Division Vice Director, Honorary Vice President
Richard
Garriott, W5KWQ– Younger half of first U.S. father-son team to travel in
space. (His father is Owen Garriott, W5LFL, the first astronaut to operate
amateur radio from space, and a 2001 Amateur Radio Hall of Fame inductee.)
William W.
Hansen (no call)(SK), "Father of Microwave Electronics"
Richard Kirby,
ex-W0LCT/HB9BOA (SK) - Director of the ITU's International Radio Consultative
Committee (CCIR) from 1974 to 1995
Fred Maia,
W5YI (SK) - One of the architects of VE program, first FCC-designated VEC;
editor/publisher W5YI Report; long-time CQ columnist
Steve
Mendelsohn, W2ML - Communications Director, New York City Marathon,
1976-present; former ARRL First Vice President, Director (W2ML became a Silent Key on May 23; see story below and in the July issue of CQ -- ed.)
Larry
Mulvehill, WB2ZPI - Photojournalist who has covered major news events around
the world for more than 50 years; CQ cover photographer for over 30 years
Rowley Shears,
G8KW (SK) - Founder of KW Electronics in UK; helped re-establish amateur radio
in Germany after World War II
Mike Staal,
K6MYC - Antenna expert, co-founder of KLM and M2 Antennas
Frederick
Terman (ex-6FT, W6AE, W6XH) (SK) - Microwave pioneer, partner with William
Hansen (see above)
Patrick Tice,
WA0TDA - Manager, Courage HandiHam System; for more than 20 years
Louis Varney,
G5RV (SK) - Inventor of the G5RV antenna
William A.
Wilson, K6ARO (SK) - First U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican after formal
diplomatic relations were re-established in 1984 after more than a century
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. The
CQ DX Hall of Fame, founded in 1967, celebrates its 45th anniversary this year.
The 2012 inductees to the CQ DX Hall of Fame are:
Don Chesser,
W4KVX (SK) - Pioneering DXer and DXpeditioner; founder of DX magazine
Glenn Johnson,
W0GJ - A leading DXpedtioner, leading many teams, often to very rare countries;
personally responsible for restoring amateur radio in Bhutan in 2000
Carl Smith,
N4AA - Editor and publisher of DX magazine and the weekly "QRZ DX"
bulletin. Also CQ's DX Editor and leader of effort to create Southern
Appalachian Radio Museum.
The 2012 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:
Jim Reisert,
AD1C - Maintains and constantly updates the country and prefix files that are
depended upon by virtually all of the major contest and general logging
programs, as well as software for the major DX clusters.
Lothar Wilke,
DL3TD (SK) - Leading contester and promoter of contesting in Germany; under his
leadership, DA0HQ won the IARU World Championship 11 times.
Formal inductions to the CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame
were made at the Dayton Hamvention.® More detailed descriptions of
inductees will appear in the official announcement in the July 2012 issue of CQ
magazine.
