W2VJN receives Yasme Excellence Award
George Cutsogeorge, W2VJN, Veneta, Oregon receives Yasme Excellence Award
In his nearly 80 years as an amateur radio operator, he has made many contributions to the technical advancement of the amateur service through his articles, books and business endeavors.
His passion for ham radio drove him to be constantly working to make improvements in the technology used for his hobby. He shared the knowledge and information that he developed with other hams through many articles in ARRL Magazine, QST, Ham Radio Magazine, National Contest Journal, Frankfort Radio Club newsletters, and others.
He wrote the definitive tome, “Managing Interstation Interference with Coaxial Stubs and Filters” in 1972, with an update in 2009. Hams all over the world continue to use this publication to configure layouts and multi-op stations for field day, contests and DXpeditions.
In retirement, W2VJN continued to contribute innovations to ham radio through his two companies: INRAD (International Radio), which designed and produced crystal filters for a wide variety of radios, and Top Ten Devices, with Dave Hawes, N3RD, which designed and produced equipment including the A/B station selector, the Op Swapper and the Band Aide band decoder.
Credit to Yasme Foundation, https://www.yasme.org/yasme-excellence-awards/.