{"id":5196,"date":"2021-07-19T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2021-07-19T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:22:21","slug":"family-of-reinaldo-leandro-yv5am-sk-receives-michael-j-owen-vk3ki-memorial-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/family-of-reinaldo-leandro-yv5am-sk-receives-michael-j-owen-vk3ki-memorial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Reinaldo Leandro, <span class=\"caps\">YV5AM<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">SK<\/span>), receives \u201cMichael J. Owen, <span class=\"caps\">VK3KI<\/span> Memorial Award\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last July 17, 2021, in Miami, Florida, relatives of <span class=\"caps\">IARU-R2<\/span> former president Reinaldo Leandro received the \u201cMichael J. Owen, <span class=\"caps\">VK3KI<\/span> Memorial Award\u201d from Ram\u00f3n Santoyo, <span class=\"caps\">XE1KK<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">IARU-R2<\/span> current president. The award is granted by the <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Administrative Committee as the highest distinction granted at the world level to acknowledge decades of service to <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> and to amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-2.jpg\" alt width=\"295\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-2.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\"><\/p>\n<p>The award had been programmed to be delivered for some time but diverse situations made it impossible, among them the pandemic and, later on, the illness and passing of Reinaldo, who was able to learn and enjoy that he was being presented with the&nbsp;award.<\/p>\n<p>The family expressed their gratitude, indicating that besides them, radio amateurs were Reinaldo\u2019s other family. The simple and emotional ceremony, shared virtually with a&nbsp;small group of his relatives and amateur radio friends, started on a&nbsp;sad note because of the loss of the relative and friend, but one of them mentioned that Reinaldo would have liked for this to be a&nbsp;happy ceremony, and it turned it into a&nbsp;celebration of his life, where some of the friends attending shared anecdotes of his life as a&nbsp;radio amateur.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5194 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-3.jpg\" alt width=\"660\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-3.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-3-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/YV5AM-award-3-300x241@2x.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Ram\u00f3n Santoyo, <span class=\"caps\">XE1KK<\/span>, presents in Miami, Florida, the recognition to Sara, Carolina and Ligia, niece, daughter and sister of Reinaldo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last July 17, 2021, in Miami, Florida, relatives of <span class=\"caps\">IARU-R2<\/span> former president Reinaldo Leandro received the \u201cMichael J. Owen, <span class=\"caps\">VK3KI<\/span> Memorial Award\u201d from Ram\u00f3n Santoyo, <span class=\"caps\">XE1KK<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">IARU-R2<\/span> current president. The award is granted by the <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Administrative Committee as the highest distinction granted at the world level to acknowledge decades of service to <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}