{"id":40056,"date":"2026-02-27T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=40056"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:39:03","slug":"via-amateur-radio-daily-rac-names-recipients-of-amateur-of-the-year-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2026\/02\/27\/via-amateur-radio-daily-rac-names-recipients-of-amateur-of-the-year-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"via Amateur Radio Daily: RAC Names Recipients of Amateur of the Year Award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rac.ca\/\">Radio Amateurs of Canada<\/a> (RAC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rac.ca\/rac-amateur-of-the-year-2025-award\/\">announced<\/a> the recipients of the Amateur of the Year Award for 2025. This year&#8217;s honorees, Fred (VE1FA) and Helen (VA1YL) Archibald, are recognized for their years of dedication to the amateur radio community.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fred and Helen Archibald have been pillars of Amateur Radio in Canada for decades. While the award traditionally reflects contributions within a given year, their sustained excellence in 2025 \u2013 combined with a lifetime of service \u2013 made them compelling joint recipients.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to being avid organizers of many DXpeditions, VE1FA is an instructor and technological innovator and VA1YL has served as President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1292996487382422\/\">Canadian Ladies Amateur Radio Association<\/a>. Learn more about Fred and Helen&#8217;s contributions to ham radio on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rac.ca\/rac-amateur-of-the-year-2025-award\/\">RAC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rac.ca\/rac-amateur-of-the-year-2025-award\/\">Radio Amateurs of Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Amateur Radio Daily &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.hamweekly.com\/2026\/02\/rac-amateur-of-the-year-2025-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) announced the recipients of the Amateur of the Year Award&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"twitter_16139062_16139062","service":"twitter","timestamp":1772217577,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,165],"tags":[538,72,25],"class_list":["post-40056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","tag-amateur-of-the-year","tag-canada","tag-rac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40137,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions\/40137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}