<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;">Begin forwarded message:<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2014 IRCC Technical Excellence Award Nominations</b></div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#101010"><font size="4">T</font></font><font color="#101010"><font size="4">he Indiana Radio Club Council is looking for nominations for the 2014 </font></font><font color="#101010"><font size="4">Technical Excellence Award. </font></font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#101010">The </font><font color="#101010"><b>IRCC Technical Excellence Award</b></font><font color="#101010"> 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.</font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">Look around your area, there are plenty of technical hams in our ranks. We are looking for the best of these.</font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">They could be doing technical mentoring, projects, seminars or have presented technical talks at your club meetings or a forum at a hamfest. </font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">They may be working with digital communications, home brew, remote station control, repeaters, antenna tinkerers or just plain old time ham radio "geeks." </font></font></font>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#101010"><b>NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS:</b></font><font color="#101010"> </font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">Any amateur radio operator in Indiana may submit a nomination. </font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">Nominee must hold a amateur radio license and be a resident of Indiana, but</font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">are not required to be a member of any club or organization. </font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">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. </font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">Include: the nominees: name, call, email and/or home address, and home and/or cell phone number. </font></font></font>
<font color="#101010"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4">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. </font></font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#101010">All nominations must be received by </font><font color="#101010"><b>June 5, 2014. </b></font><font color="#101010"> </font></font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#101010">The IRCC Technical Excellence Award is to be presented at the </font><font color="#101010"><b>Indianapolis Hamfest</b></font><font color="#101010"> on Saturday, </font><font color="#101010"><b>July 12, 2014</b></font><font color="#101010"> at the </font><font color="#101010"><b>IRCC forum</b></font><font color="#101010">.</font></font></font>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#101010"><b>SUBMIT NOMINATIONS TO:</b></font><font color="#101010"> Jim Rinehart, K9RU, 1455 Shannon Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46201 or k9ru.indy@ <a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></font> </font></font>
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