CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Seeks Nominations

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The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame is seeking nominations for the 2025 class of inductees.

The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame was established in January, 2001, to recognize those individuals, whether licensed radio amateurs or not, who significantly affected the course of amateur radio; and radio amateurs who, in the course of their professional lives, had a significant impact on their professions or on world affairs.

Nominations may be sent to Tom Roscoe (K8CX) at k8cx@hamgallery.com. See nomination guidelines - https://hamgallery.com/HOF/AmateurRadio/

2024 Amateur Radio Software Award Announced

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The 5th annual Amateur Radio Software Award was recently granted to Jakob Ketterl (DD5JFK) and Marat Fayzullin (KC1TXE) for their contributions to OpenWebRX and OpenWebRX+, respectively. Both projects allow software defined radio (SDR) receivers to be accessible through a web browser with full waterfall display and tuning controls. OpenWebRX+ includes support for noise reduction and decoding of additional digital modes.

The Amateur Radio Software Award is designed to recognize projects that enhance amateur radio through software innovation that is open source and unique.

OpenWebRX - https://www.openwebrx.de/

POTA Begins Park Prefix Updates

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In an effort to reorganize the Parks on the Air (POTA) database in a way that meets ISO standards, POTA has begun rolling out changes to the way park entities are prefixed. Beginning with the United States and Puerto Rico, parks previously coded with a K prefix will now be listed with a US prefix. For example, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail was previously K-4556 and is now US-4556. Additional prefixes will be updated in the coming days.

While the changes are largely seamless from a systems perspective, activators will be required to use the new prefixes when uploading logs. Logging software supporting POTA will also need to be adjusted.

From a political perspective, the prefix change has resulted in China choosing to no longer participate in the POTA program due to the 96 standard recognizing Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as sub entities of China.

Parks on the Air - https://parksontheair.com/