Thomas C. McDermott, N5EG Dayton Hamvenion Technical Achievement Award: Tom McDermott, N5EG The Hamvention Technical Achievement Award goes to Thomas C. McDermott, N5EG, for his "more than 20 years of involvement in projects which further the development of Amateur Radio." According to Hamvention, McDemott co-developed the TexNet packet switching network in 1986; based on datagram routing, it covered much of the South Central United States in the 1990s.
McDermott, an ARRL Life Member, received the Doug DeMaw, W1FB, Technical Excellence Award in 2004. Licensed for almost 40 years, he is a member of the IEEE and holds a bachelor's in electrical engineering. His Amateur Radio interests lie in HF digital communications, hardware and software design, and an occasional HF contest. McDermott was the founder of the Texas Packet Radio Society. As part of that group, he designed the hardware and some of the protocols for the TexNet packet switching network; he has been involved in numerous TAPR http://www.tapr.org/ projects and has written a textbook on wireless communications. McDermott holds eight patents. http://www.tapr.org/~n5eg/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
