This years "Hamvention award for Technical Excellence" winner is Copthorne "Cop" 
Macdonald, VY2CM. First licensed at age 15, Macdonald is best known as the 
father of Slow Scan amateur television. He developed the system in the 1950's 
while an engineering student at the University of Kentucky. The paper he wrote 
describing it won national acclaim and took first prize in the 1958 A-I-E-E 
student paper competition. Later, Macdonald worked with other slow scan pioneers 
to get the FCC to authorize operation of the mode in the High Frequency ham bands. 
That effort finally succeeded a decade later in 1968.
Macdonald has authored articles on slow scan for QST and CQ magazines. In 1973 he 
started "New Directions Radio". This is a network of hams concerned with using 
ham radio and SSTV to help create a more aware, more caring, and more responsible 
human society.
(AR-Newsline)