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Break-In Awards

 2024

  • Best Technical Article. John Elvy ZL2BH. “Testing the Resonant Frequency of Antenna Traps”. Issue 5, Page 8.
  • Best General Article. Stephen Scandrett ZL4BN. For the series of articles about the centenary celebrations of Frank Bell to Cecil Goyder contact” Issue 6, from page 6.
  • Best Columnist. Cam Wood ZL1DKS. For interesting and engaging Youth columns, plus a variety of general and technical articles aimed at those new to amateur radio.

2023

  • Best Article. Rick Jackson ZL3RIK for “WW2 deception & counter deception in the North Atlantic.” Issue 4, page 18.
  • Best Column. Phil Holliday ZL3PAH for the Technical Notebook column series on the design of the ZL-10X transceiver.
  • Best Article by a newly licensed Ham – Laura Jackson ZL3LJ for “A Woman’s Amateur Radio Journey”. Issue 6, page 9.

2022

  • Best Technical Article: Designing a fox by Alan Page ZL3UJY.
  • Best General Article: Craig Crawford ZL3TLB for several well researched articles and fillers.
  • Best Columnist: Geoff Clark ZL3GA for his enthusiastic columnist contribution.
  • Long Service: Simon Watt-Wyness ZL1SWW for eleven years as a columnist.

2021

  • Best Technical Article: Building a 40-15-10 m Dipole – November/December 2021 – Graeme Jury ZL2APV.
  • Best General Article: A Ham Radio Mountain Ultramarathon in Banks Peninsula – September/October 2021 – Chris Rae ZL4RA.
  • Best Columnist: Murray Greenman ZL1BPU(SK) – for his Digital modes Column..

2020

  • Best Technical Article: Improved Performance for the Si5351 VFO or Signal Generator  – July/Aug 2020 – Murray Greenman ZL1BPU.
  • Best General Article:  Amateur Radio should be concerned about Wireless Power Transfer – July/August 2020 John Moriarty ZL2JPM.
  • Best Columnist: For his regular “Milestones” and the independent mention of the assassination of the Pacific Coast Watchers and the more cheerful  “H-nights (1945)” in the Nov/Dec 2020 – Craig Crawford ZL3TLB.

2019

  • Best Technical Article: – Holger Hannemann ZL3IO – for “HF Terrain Analysis Parts 1 & 2” – May/June and July/August.
  • Best General Article: Soren Low ZL1SKL – for “UTC Rollover, an excuse for a SOTA Adventure!” – January/February.
  • Best Columnist: John Martin ZL1GWE – for his Monitoring Service Co-ordinator Column.

2018

  • Best Technical Article: – Murray Greenman ZL1BPU – A Way to Get Started on 630 metres – in four parts throughout 2018.
  • Best General Interest Article: – Xenia Berger ZL4YL for her Youth Officer Report – for her articles throughout the year.
  • Best Columnist Article: – Mark Sullivan ZL3AB – for his CQDX Column throughout the year and the previous years.

2017

  • Best Technical Article: – Peter Mulhare ZL2IK for his article on QRSS, a low power mode for HF and LF – September/October.
  • Best General Interest Article: – Jim Reed ZL1LC for his article on Ham made QRM on the Digital Channels – November/December.
  • Best Columnist Article:  – Gary Bold ZL1AN – for his articles throughout the year and the previous thirty odd years before!

2016

  • Best Technical Article: – Holger Hannemann ZL3IO – for his two articles, first on Station Automation: Switching Antenna’s September/October and Station Automation: Antenna Stack Match & Controller November/December.
  • Best General Interest Article: – Douglas Birt ZL1BFS – for his articles throughout the year on District Planning Matters.
    Best Columnist Article: – Murray Greenman ZL1BPU – for his Digitalmodes Column.

Initiative and Sponsorship

These awards initiative and sponsorship comes from NZART via the Break-In Editors Honorarium.

Winners of the Award are announced at Conference each year, Each winner receives a certificate and a book prize (RSGB or ARRL Handbook for examples).

Requirements

The awards, recognise the effort put in by those submitting content for publication to Break-In, in the year preceding their reception of the award.

The awards are presented for content supplied from 1 January to 31 December of the preceding year (e.g. Awards presented in 2017 are for the 2016 year).

The Awards are for:

  • Best Technical Article
  • Best General Interest Article
  • Best Columnist Article

The Break-In Editorial Team make the decision each year on the winners.