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"Amateur Radio + People = Fellowship"
Hamvention®
2007 Technical Excellence Award
The Dayton Hamvention 2007 Technical Excellence
Award winner is David Cameron, VE7LTD. This
award is given for the person who has made an outstanding technical
advancement in the field of amateur radio. Cameron
was instrumental in development of the software, hardware, and technology
that permits repeaters worldwide to be linked together over the worldwide
web through the Internet Radio Linking Project or IRLP.
His nominator noted that "His work literally transformed FM
repeater communication from a local entity into a world-wide communication
network that has been of immense value in emergencies and has helped
unite the world's radio amateurs over the internet and radio."
Cameron was born and raised
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. While
attending the University of British Columbia (UBC), he joined the
UBC Amateur Radio Society in 1993. David
built his first repeater and computer-based controller in 1995.
He took over maintenance of the UBC repeaters in 1996 and
began instituting improvements to the operation.
The Internet Radio Linking
Project was started in November of 1997 in an attempt to use the
Internet to link radio systems across Canada.
Due to numerous problems it was shut down in early 1998.
Cameron set out to design a more robust system and chose
Linux for the networking software. He
designed an interface board to connect the radio to the computer,
wrote and improved software and succeeded in creating nearly seamless
radio link between two remote sites on the Internet.
The IRLP system runs a large network of dedicated servers
and nodes offering excellence in voice communications.
IRLP and its derivatives have opened up a whole new world
of communications in VHF/UHF repeaters with the power of the Internet.
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Page updated Jan 5, 2008 SC / Copyright©
Dayton Hamvention® 2008
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