(Dayton, OH - May 15,
2015) -- CQ magazine today announced its 2015 Hall of Fame inductees,
adding two members each to the CQ DX and Contest Halls of Fame, as well
as nine 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
2015 inductees (listed alphabetically) are:
Tim Allen, KK6OTD - Actor and star of the ABC comedy, "Last Man Standing," on which his character is also a ham, Mike Baxter, KA0XTT.
Charles Apgar, ex-2MN (SK) - uncovered German spy transmissions from Telefunken shore station WSL in New York during WWI.
Dan Benishek, KB8TOW - Member of Congress from Michigan. Medical doctor and advocate for veterans.
Olof Lundberg, G0CKV -
Leader of the communications satellite industry for a quarter-century.
Founding Director General of Inmarsat; founder, CEO and Chairman of ICO
Global Communications and CEO of Globalstar, Inc.
Bre Pettis, W2BRE - 3D printing pioneer and founder of MakerBot.
Alvino Rey, W6UK (SK) -
A leading musician of the swing era, Rey is considered the father of
the electric guitar and inventor of the talk box, pickups and other
electronic musical devices. He combined his love for music with his love
of radio to transform the music world.
Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD - Co-inventor of the cubesat design standard.
Greg Walden, W7EQI - Member of Congress from Oregon. Chairman of the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, YD2JKW - President of Indonesia.
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 2015 inductees to the CQ DX Hall of Fame are:
Yasuo "Zorro" Miyazawa, JH1AJT -
is a DXer, DXpeditioner, educator and philanthropist. Zorro is the
founder and CEO of the Seisa Group, which runs schools in several
countries; and founder/CEO of the Foundation for Global Children, which
provides medical and educational support for children in Japan, Bhutan,
Myanmar, Cambodia and Bangladesh. Zorro has also helped promote or
re-introduce amateur radio to many of these places, and has donated
money and/or equipment to help amateurs in rare locations get or stay on
the air.
Michael Wells, G7VJR -
is founder of Club Log, an online DXpedition log-hosting tool that has
changed the face of DXpedition operating by, among other things,
allowing operators to upload their logs while still on the air and
permit hams around the world to know if they are "in the log" on a given
band or mode. Michael is a DXpeditioner himself, having been part of a
half-dozen major operations and having operated from 25 different DX
entities over the past 10 years.
The 2015 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:
Doug Grant, K1DG -
is not only a world-class contester, but has not hesitated to share his
knowledge and skills with others. He has built or helped to build
several championship contest stations, is a founding member of the
Yankee Clipper Contest Club, a founding director of the World Wide Radio
Operators Foundation, is a regular instructor at Contest University and
has run the Contest Forum at the Dayton Hamvention® for the past 20
years. In addition, Doug has competed in five World Radiosport Team
Championships (WRTCs), and has medaled three times.
Ward Silver, N0AX
- has been a contester for over four decades and has operated from some
of the world's top contest stations, spanning four continents. A
founder of the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) competitions in
1990, Ward is currently Secretary of the WRTC Sanctioning Committee. He
is also president of the YASME Foundation, which supports DXpeditions
and contest operations around the world, QST contesting editor and
author of Ham Radio for Dummies and Circuitbuilding Do-It-Yourself for
Dummies.
Formal inductions to the
CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame were held at the Dayton
Hamvention.® More detailed descriptions of inductees will appear in the
official announcement in the July 2015 issue of CQ magazine.