It is that time again, time to think about nominees for the 5th Annual Digitalradio Awards. Please email your suggestions, I will publish the winners January 1 2009. As a refresher, he are the 2007 winners,
Andy K3UK 4th Annual (2007) Digitalradio Awards : Best "new" Digital Mode : JT65A by Joe Taylor , K1JT . Not really new but exploded in 2007 after much publicity from the Digitalradio group , N0UK, and QST Magazine. The ultimate weak signal DX mode. Best New Software: DM780 by Simon Brown HB9DRV .. Still beta, but very well designed with some nifty features. Best Logging Software: DX Keeper by Dave AA6YQ, makes DX QSLing easy, good support for logging digital modes and works well with Winwarbler, Multipsk and DM780 ! Moment Of The Year: When a member of this digitalradio group volunteered to pay funeral expenses for N2JH, an indigent digital ham and decorated Vietnam vet Embarrassment Of The Year: When K3UK realized the focus of his "Bozo Guide" , K1JT, was in fact a Nobel Prize winner ! Biggest Surprise Of The Year: K3UK's "Complete Bozo's Guide to HF JT65A" was actually read and used. Even translated in to Russian and Spanish! Biggest Development in 2007 : Addition of ALE 400 in Multipsk. ARQ , robust, and narrow bandwidth Biggest Disappointments Of The Year : 1. Standard ALE , again (second year in a row) Has just not taken off in the amateur world despite some really nice additions to PC ALE and MARS-ALE . 2. Peter G3PLX going back in to his hermit cave after someone outed his digital voice efforts! 3. Encomm with FLARQ. What, everyone scared to try it? Has much promise. Biggest Testicles of The Year : Mark Miller N5RFX. Took a bold step . No sitting around and whining for this guy, he spent some time researching a digital topic and did something about it. Even handled the resulting criticism with polite patience. Best Digital Contest: : TARA MELEE. TARA makes contesting fun. Experimenters Of The Year : Awards go John VE5MU , Steinar LA5VNA, Tony K2MO , , Bill N9DSJ, Bernie VE3FW, Txema EA2AF. They are always giving something new a try ! Digital Pioneers: Cesco HB9TLK and Patrick F6CTE. Both must never get any sleep, always coming up with something new to try. Narrow ALE and Narrow DV! Needs Inventing in 2008 ......Open source, modular, Digital cross platform emergency communications software that can provide ad hoc HF and/or VHF access to the Internet for e-mail, plus messaging between stations. FLARQ for Windows maybe ? Most Anticipated Event in 2008: Release of Digital Master 780 by Simon Brown, HB9DRV, WITH JT65A and SSTV Contesting Achievement of the Year: PSK63 . It is no longer an experimental contesting mode, has firmly established its self as reliable contesting mode. Good News of the year : John W0JAB ' still has working lungs (or lung!) The awards are solely the opinions of Andy K3UK and thus are better opinions than anyone else :>), Happy New Year. Andy K3UK Digitalradio Owner.
