TAPR Lifetime Achievement Award – Roger Barker, G4IDE

Many hams will know about the UI-View software written by Roger Barker, G4IDE. TAPR have decided to award Roger an award.

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TAPR Lifetime Achievement Award

TAPR is pleased to award a Lifetime Achievement Award to Roger Barker G4IDE, of Lincolnshire, UK.

Roger has worked tirelessly for many years to provide quality software for Amateur Radio operators, allowing them to operate advanced digital modes without the difficulties once associated with these operations.

The UI-View software is the benchmark by which all other APRS Raster Mapping software is compared to.

Whilst writing excellent software, Roger has also ensured that users are able to experiment with his software by allowing access to the internal features of his software through an extensive API. Once the software was written, he ensured that the software was extensively supported, starting mailing lists to support his software. To date one of these lists has had 35,000 messages, with Roger reading each one and replying to a significant number of them.

These are just some of the reasons that TAPR is proud to present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Roger Barker, G4IDE, for his services to Digital Communications”

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About TAPR:

TAPR was founded in 1982 as a international organization with interests in the areas of packet and digital communications. Today, TAPR continues as a membership supported non-profit amateur research and development organization. TAPR currently has more than 2000 members, worldwide and continues to develop kits for the amateur community and is working actively on publications and communications standards.