Yasme Excellence Award Yasme Foundation Sep 2022 The Yasme Excellence Awards are presented to individuals who through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. The contribution may be in recognition of technical, operating or organizational achievement as all three are necessary for amateur radio to grow and prosper.Parks On The Air (POTA) Team – Since the program’s inception, it has grown enormously and now has more than 6500 “activators” who operate from the parks and… Show more The Yasme Excellence Awards are presented to individuals who through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. The contribution may be in recognition of technical, operating or organizational achievement as all three are necessary for amateur radio to grow and prosper.Parks On The Air (POTA) Team – Since the program’s inception, it has grown enormously and now has more than 6500 “activators” who operate from the parks and more than 20,000 “hunters” who work them. The core team consists of W3AAX, WR5B, N3VEM, AB0O, PA0KGB, N0AW, W8MSC, W8TAM, W3SPC Next to DXCC and IOTA, POTA has become one of the most active worldwide operating award programs. Even more important, though, is that more hams are OTA (on the air), especially hams with modest stations or who cannot get OTA from home for whatever reason. POTA is making it possible for them to have a great deal of fun, be active on HF/VHF/satellites, and learn about radio. Show less