HamSCI Members Recognized by the RCA

Dr. Kristina Collins KD8OXT, Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF, Angel Vasquez WP3R, and Tim Duffy K3LR
Honored By the Radio Club of America at Upcoming Symposium

The Radio Club of America (RCA) has recently announced that Dr. Kristina Collins KD8OXT will be receiving the Carole E. Perry Young Professional award at its upcoming annual banquet. Collins is currently an electrical engineering graduate student at Case Western Reserve University. She is also active in HamSCI, and working on the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) project, organizing pilot experiments for distributed ionospheric sensing, including the HamSCI Eclipse Festivals of Frequency Measurement.  She is also managing the WWV/WWVH Scientific Modulation Working Group, to add scientifically valuable modulations to WWV and WWVH. See hamsci.org/wwv. 

HamSCI has been further honored as the club has announced that Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF and Angel Vasquez WP3R are being elevated to RCA Fellows. Longtime HamSCI supporter and HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station Host Tim Duffy K3LR will be receiving the Edgar F. Johnson Pioneer Citation at the same time. Dr. Collins, Dr. Frissell, and Diego Sanchez will also be presenting at the RCA Technical Symposium. Collins will be presenting “The Lion in the (Propagation) Path and Frissell and Sanchez will presenting “HamSCI and an Investigation of Large Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Using Amateur Radio Data”.

The RCA Technical Symposium and Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

The RCA was formed when a group of teenaged radio experimenters gathered on January 2, 1909 for the first meeting of the Junior Wireless Club. The meeting at the Ansonia Hotel in New York City was organized by E. Lilian Todd, a local inventor who was also the first female airplane designer who wanted to encourage “tinkering and experimentation”

RCA’s Mission: The promotion of cooperation among those interested in scientific investigation in the art of Radio Communication.

RCA’s Vision:  Wireless is the ubiquitous invisible thread that ties together social, business, government, and international communications.  Modern society cannot function without it.   Therefore advancements in wireless science and art must be encouraged in order to improve society for all.