Conference Awards Rules
The Annual Conference events include technical presentations, flea market, bookstore, equipment contest, event dinners and equipment auction. At the Conference Banquet Friday evening, AWA Awards are given. Below is a review of these with information on how you can nominate a candidate of one or more of them at the bottom of this page
The Annual Conference events include technical presentations, flea market, bookstore, equipment contest, event dinners and equipment auction. At the Conference Banquet Friday evening, AWA Awards are given. Below is a review of these with information on how you can nominate a candidate of one or more of them at the bottom of this page
AWA Awards
In response to questions about the AWA Annual Award Rules, the Board of Trustees have approved the following revised AWA Award Rules in 2019. In addition to updated rules, AWA has placed a history of award winners on the AWA website under the conference event awards choice. Felicia Kreuzer is Awards Coordinator. Nominations for all awards should be submitted to Felicia by email or postal mail using the information at the bottom of this page.
AWA Awards – The Rules
AWA’s program of yearly awards honors achievement by electronic communications writers, preservationists, collectors and historians.
THE HOUCK AWARD – PRESERVATION
The AWA Houck Award for Preservation, named in honor of radio pioneer Harry Houck, recognizes the acquisition, preservation, and documentation of an outstanding collection of electronic communication artifacts by an individual or group. The collection may focus on a specific class of device, a particular time span, a certain country of origin; or may be unlimited in scope. A preference goes to a collector who makes the collection and/or related data base available for research use; likewise, aid given to other collectors / researchers is considered favorably.
THE HOUCK AWARD – DOCUMENTATION
The AWA Houck Award for Documentation recognizes quality original research and writing on the history or evolution of electronic communication technology in a published book, several articles in the AWA Review or AWA Journal or other publicly available periodical, or long-running web site. Preference will be given to subjects that have not been covered elsewhere. Assembly of a library of significant research resources, with that library being available to outside users, is considered favorably.
THE TYNE TUBE AWARD
The Tyne Tube Award is presented, in remembrance of collector – writer Gerald F. J. Tyne, for contributions to preserving or documenting the history of tube technology by an individual or group. The writing is nominally tube-related, but does not exclude documentation of early solid-state devices on their relationship to tube technology.
THE BRUCE KELLEY – OTB AWARD
This award goes to the individual who published an article in the AWA Journal judged to be the most original, historical presentation of the award year. For each year’s award, articles in the four issues of the Journal published immediately before the AWA Conference will be considered.
THE J. ALBERT MOORE AWARD
This award, named in honor of a major contributor to the Antique Radio Club of America, recognizes original writing in the AWA Journal on troubleshooting, restoration techniques, performance evaluation, and identification methods. The time span of this year’s award is the same as for the Kelley-OTB Award.
THE TAYLOR AWARD
The Taylor Award is given in memory of John P. Taylor, TV developer at RCA and editor of the RCA Broadcast News, for documentation or preservation of the history of television technology.
THE MURRAY AWARD
The Robert Murray Award is awarded in honor of Robert Murray, AWA Review Editor Emeritus, for excellence in writing in the AWA Review.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
While AWA members are a natural subject of honor by any AWA award, non-member nominations are welcome; we recognize meritorious work, no matter the source. Preference naturally goes to individuals who have not received similar awards previously.
A nominee not selected for an award in one year automatically becomes a candidate for that award in the next year.
An individual receiving one of the awards becomes eligible for a re-issuance of that award after five years.
NOMINATIONS
Nominations for ALL AWARDS, including supporting reasons why the nominee should receive the award, may be emailed to the Awards Coordinator no later than August 1st. See the Conference Contacts page here.