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"Amateur Radio + People = Fellowship"
Hamvention® 2006 Technical Excellence Award
Richard Illman, AH6EZ
of St. Charles, Illinois, was selected for the 2006 Technical Excellence
Award. His willingness to use his technical knowledge to be outspoken
about an unpopular topic, Broadband over Powerline, was cited by the
committee.
 He
influenced his employer,
Motorola, to deliver his patent pending solution that has been
proven at ARRL Headquarters and other deployments to not cause any
interference to or from amateur radio. The ARRL has subsequently used
the Motorola solution as an example to the FCC on how BPL can be designed
without interference with amateur radio.
Illman, who has a BSEE and a 31 year career with Motorola Systems
Engineering, caused a set of hardware notch filters to be included
in the Motorola equipment, an industry first, to protect amateur radio
beyond the traditional technique of just turning off specific carriers.
His passion for ham radio began in high school as a Novice class
licensee in 1969 and has continued over 37 years on all bands and
all modes, including working satellites from moving Amtrak trains
and demonstrating ISS contacts to Boy Scouts.
An avid
DXer he works over 200 countries each year, in part because of a
friendly competition amongst his local ham club members of the Fox
River Radio League in Aurora, Illinois. He has been their President
for the last two years and was recognized with their Ham of the
Year award three years in a row.
Return to Awards page.
Page updated Jan 5, 2008 SC / Copyright©
Dayton Hamvention® 2008
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Deadline for nominations is
February 19, 2008.
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