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2019 Hamvention Award Winners Announced

The Dayton Amateur Radio Association has announced the winners of the 2019 Hamvention® Awards, considered among the most prestigious recognitions in amateur radio.

This year’s Amateur of the Year is HamSCI founder and coordinator Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF. HamSCI (Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation) is a program designed to build long-term relationships between amateur radio operators, acting as citizen scientists, and professional researchers in the fields of propagation and space science. The hams can provide hundreds or thousands of data collection points while the scientists can.

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