<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">2014 IRCC Technical Excellence Award Nominations</span></b><span style="font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><div><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The Indiana Radio Club Council is accepting for nominations for the 2014 Technical Excellence Award. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The <b>IRCC Technical Excellence Award</b> provides a way to recognize Indiana Amateur's that are advancing the state of the art or have used or shared their technical expertise to the benefit of the amateur radio community.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Look around your area, there are plenty of technical hams in our ranks. We are looking for the best of these.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">They could be doing technical mentoring, projects, seminars or have presented technical talks at your club meetings or a forum at a hamfest.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">They may be working with digital communications, home brew, remote station control, repeaters, antenna tinkerers or just plain old time ham radio "geeks." </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We know they are out there, we need your help locating them and to submit a nomination.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Any amateur radio operator in Indiana may submit a nomination.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Nominee must hold an amateur radio license and be a resident of Indiana, but they</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">are not required to be a member of any club or organization.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">We need as much information about your nominee as possible. Please explain in some details what you nominee has done with their technical skills, achievements, mentoring, projects and how the amateur radio community benefits for those efforts. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">Include: the nominees: name, call, email and/or home address, and home and/or cell phone number.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">We also need the nominating person: name, call, email and/or home address, and home and/or cell phone number. We may need to contact you for additional information or confirmation.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">All nominations must be received by <b>June 5, 2014. </b> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">The IRCC Technical Excellence Award is to be presented at the <b>Indianapolis Hamfest</b> on Saturday, <b>July 12, 2014</b> at the <b>IRCC forum</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);">SUBMIT NOMINATIONS TO: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);"> Jim Rinehart, K9RU, 1455 Shannon Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46201 or k9ru.indy@ <a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">For more information about the IRCC check out: <a href="http://inrcc.org">http://inrcc.org</a></span></b></div></body></html>