With all due respect to Patrick, all of his fantastic work and his fan club, this year really belongs to someone else.
I nominate for a dual award, Best New Digital Mode and Digital Innovations Award: WINMOR and Rick Muething! This is perhaps the most significant advance in HF throughput, not to mention ARQ performance, in many years and it's FREE. For a long time a worthy competitor to Pactor that did not infringe on SCS intellectual property has been a Holy Grail. Well, it's here! Providing in excess of Pactor 2 performance AND at the same time it's substantially more bandwidth efficient with 500 and 1600Hz modes. AND it has arguably THE most effective busy channel detector yet implemented. No other mode has the same potential to make global HF communications a more accessible tool for the average user and a more effective tool for the EMCOM community. Finally, for all you doubters, a WINMOR enabled RMS beta test station is already running! Congratulations to Rick and the entire WINMOR team and I hope Andy chooses wisely :-) k*b*1*o*o*q P.S. Andy, did you get that ten bucks I sent you... ;-)
