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Posted by: Mike WA8MCQ Posted On: 05/23/02 Subject: Administrative notes on the QRP Hall of Fame Message Posted: Here's some info about the HoF process itself, also from the article that will be in the July issue of the QRP Quarterly. ----------------- The QRP Hall of Fame year used to be kicked off with a call for nominations in the October issue of the QRP Quarterly, but we later moved that up to January. Unfortunately, this year the January issue came out in April. Last fall I had asked the club to find someone else to administer the HoF program, but when April rolled around I found out that no one had been found. When it appeared that there would be no HoF this year, due to the lateness of the January issue and lack of a volunteer, I quickly offered to come out of retirement and take it over again. Time was short and things would have to be done in somewhat of a last minute panic, but that didn’t worry me since I had already done things in a last minute panic twice before! In both cases, nomination letters were received early but I was late in starting up the balloting process. This time was a bit different since there would be little time to get nominations sent in. But since we now have the Internet it was possible to get the word out to a large QRP audience very quickly, and we received nominations on 14 people. There are no quotas or limits for being inducted. Anyone who gets at least a 2/3 FOR vote is inducted. (The voting body currently consists of the officers and board of directors of the club, and the last two sets of inductees are offered the opportunity to vote as well, if they wish.) There are no nominating committees; nominations are accepted from anyone and everyone who wants to send one in. It’s open to the entire QRP community, whether a member of the club or not. And membership is not required to be nominated or inducted. These are the current members of the QRP Hall of Fame, with year of induction shown: Chuck Adams, K5FO (1998) If your favorite QRP hero doesn’t appear on the list yet, start thinking about how you’ll write your nomination letter, and have it ready to go when the call goes out next January.
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