Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:19:13 -0500 Organization: Radio Amateurs of Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 Subject: [RAC-Bulletin] RAC Bulletin 2012-008E - Amateur of the Year for 2011 Authentication-results: eton.ca header.from=<webnews@xxxxxx>; domainkeys=fail (no signature) List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rac-bulletins-leave@xxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> List-Id: <rac-bulletins@xxxxxxx> From: rac-bulletins@xxxxxxx Reply-to: rachq@xxxxxx To: Steve Cutway VE3KC <ve3kc@xxxxxx> RAC Bulletin 2012-008E - Amateur of the Year for 2011 2012-02-09 The RAC Board of Directors takes great pleasure in announcing the selection of Dr. Cezar Trifu, VE3LYC of Kingston, ON as the Canadian Radio Amateur of the Year for 2011. Dr. Trifu exemplifies the Canadian Amateur with numerous IOTA DXpeditions since 2008 covering Canadian Islands and recently overseas islands. He has raised the profile of Canadian Amateur operations world-wide with thousands of QSOs with DXCCs covering over six continents. His dedication to HF operations has been recognized with the DXCC Honor Roll, IOTA Honour Roll, IOTA Gold Level Awards, Canadian Islands Award and US Islands Award to name a short list of numerous awards. Cezar has also raised the national and international awareness of the Canadian Amateur scene with over twenty multi language articles in several amateur journals. A presentation will be made to Dr. Trifu in the coming weeks with an article and more on his nomination to appear in the May-June 2012 issue of The Canadian Amateur magazine. Paul Burggraaf, VO1PRB RAC Corporate Secretary **----** Vernon Ikeda - VE2MBS/VE2QQ Pointe-Claire, Québec RAC Blog Editor/RAC E-News/Web News Bulletin Editor -- * * * * ---------- You are receiving this bulletin because you are subscribed to an electronic mailing list. For more information or to change your subscription please visit: http://rac.eton.ca/racbullemail.htm