10/18/2024

Kees Van Oosbree, WOAAE, received the 2024 Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award
during the ARRL Forum at the North Star Radio Convention / ARRL Minnesota State
Convention held in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota on Saturday, October 5, 2024.

Van Oosbree is an active member of the radio community in Minnesota and at Iowa
State University, where he is treasurer of the university's amateur radio club.
He is active in the Minnesota Wireless Association and is regularly on the air
with SSB, CW, RTTY, and other digital modes. In 2020, Van Oosbree was part of
the Remote Ham Radio team that put NU1AW on the air for the IARU HF Contest. In
January 2024, he operated in the NAQP SSB contest in the single-op low power
assisted category, making over 1000 contacts in under nine hours.

The Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award consists of a $1,500 cash award and an
engraved plaque and is given annually to a licensed radio amateur under the age
of 21 who is a member of ARRL. The nominee's accomplishments and contributions
to both the community of amateur radio and the local community should be of the
most exemplary nature.

Hiram Percy Maxim was an early 20th Century industrialist and inventor who
founded ARRL as the American Radio Relay League in 1914. ARRL also supports
youth involvement in radio and radio technology through the ARRL Youth
Membership, The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology, and by awarding
around $725,000 in scholarships each year. Visit www.arrl.org[1] for more
information.


[1] http://www.arrl.org/


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