ARRL-Roanoke Awards

The 57th recipient of the Roanoke Division Service Award is Mike Aimone, WA8AHZ, from Fairfax, Virginia. First licensed in Detroit in 1961, Mike went on to a career in the U.S. Air Force, first in active duty and later as Asst. Chief of Staff. He is active with the Vienna Wireless Society, the largest club in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Mike has led the club’s programs in mentorship, licensing and has helped the families of Silent Keys with equipment disposal and license reassignment. He has also served as President of the Vic Clark chapter of the Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA). Mike embodies the attributes of a Roanoke Division Service Award winner through his numerous selfless contributions to Amateur Radio.

The bestowing of the Roanoke Division ARRL Service Award was begun in 1969 by its founder, then Roanoke Division Director Victor Clark, W4KFC, now a “Silent Key.” Vic intended that the award be presented in recognition for a long history of significant, consistent contribution to Amateur Radio. The ham selected would have, over the years, dedicated much of his or her time to Amateur Radio, and any ham within the Division is welcome to submit a nomination with attached résumé.

Nominations for the ARRL Roanoke Division Service Award take place the first quarter of every year. Nominees must be a living individual with at least three years of continuous and current ARRL membership, and live full time with a matching license address in one of the four states of the Roanoke Division.

The winner can only receive the award once. The judges are the living past winners of the award. The recipient receives a plaque and a recognition ceremony from the Roanoke Division Director and Vice Director. By tradition, the award reflects the contributions of the winner through the end of the immediate past year, so numerically the current award is always the previous year.

Click HERE to view the chronological Honor Roll of recipients of the Roanoke Division ARRL Service Award. Vic Clark himself was presented with the award for 1970. For more about Vic, HERE is an editorial from the January, 1984 issue of “QST” (Reprinted with permission, Copyright 1983, the American Radio Relay League).

Nominations for the 2024 “VIC CLARK” ROANOKE DIVISION ARRL SERVICE AWARD are now open. Between now and February 28th, 2025 you may submit a nomination form to Roanoke Division Vice Director William C. “Bill” Morine, N2COP at n2cop@arrl.org. No late submissions can be accepted.

THE “VIC CLARK” ROANOKE DIVISION ARRL SERVICE AWARD

2024 winner is: Mike Aimone WA8AHZ