Phil Salas, AD5X, Named 2005 Orr Award Winner
 2005 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Award winner Phil
Salas, AD5X. |
NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 9, 2006--Acting on a recommendation
from the QST editorial staff, the ARRL
Foundation Board of Directors has voted unanimously to give the 2005 Bill
Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Award to Phil Salas, AD5X. An ARRL Life Member
from Richardson, Texas, Salas was recognized for "his excellence at making
technical concepts understandable," said QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY. The
award is based on articles published in QST during 2005.
"I've admired Bill Orr's technical writings over the
years, so I am very pleased and honored to receive this award," said Salas. "I've
enjoyed sharing my ideas with the ham community through my articles and plan on
continuing to do so."
Salas' oeuvre in QST during 2005 included "A
Compact Battery Pack for the SG-2020" in the March "Workbench" section, "Input
Voltage Conditioner--and More--for the FT-817" in the June "Workbench," and
"Tuning Switch with Limit Indication for Screwdriver Antennas" in the December
"Workbench." Salas also authored the article "The Ultimate Portable HF Vertical
Antenna" in the July issue, and he contributed to "Hints & Kinks" and
"Technical Correspondence."
Salas is a past winner of the QST Cover Plaque
Award, given to the author or authors of the best article in each issue as
determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll Web page. He
captured a cover plaque in 2000 for his article "A Simple HF-Portable Antenna,"
which appeared in that year's December issue.
Bill Orr, the award's namesake, was best known for his
voluminous publications for radio amateurs, including such reference gems as The
Radio Handbook, The Beam Antenna Handbook, The Quad Antenna
Handbook, The VHF-UHF Manual and The W6SAI HF Antenna Handbook,
some written in collaboration with Stu Cowan, W2LX. From the 1940s through the
1980s, Orr was a frequent contributor to QST, for which he authored
dozens of articles, tips and pieces of correspondence. Additionally, Orr
constructed some of the amplifiers once used at ARRL Maxim Memorial Station W1AW. He died in 2001.
Salas will receive the Bill Orr
Award plaque during a presentation attended by ARRL President Joel Harrison,
W5ZN, and West Gulf Division Director Coy Day at Ham-Com
2006, June 9-10, at the Plano Centre in Plano, Texas. Ford says the Orr Award pays tribute to the winning author's ability to
explain technical topics in a manner that is easy for relatively non-technical
people to understand.
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