{"id":413,"date":"2018-09-13T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serg.org.au\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:42:28","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"specialheading\">Honorary Life Membership<\/h2>\n<p><i>Life Membership of SERG is awarded, at the discretion of the club officers and membership, to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding commitment and dedication to the group over many years. Life Members are presented with an engraved medallion and their callsigns are entered onto the honour board.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-members-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-members-2025.jpg 490w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-members-2025-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 85vw, 490px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>The President&#8217;s shield<\/h3>\n<p><i>The shield is presented annually, at the discretion of the Club President during each term of office, to a SERG member in recognition of outstanding effort, commitment to promoting the group&#8217;s activities or to Amateur Radio in general. The award was instituted in 1998, the shield presented to SERG by Dr. Kevin Johnston VK5KJ the president for that year.<\/i><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Presidents-shield.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Presidents-shield.jpg 400w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Presidents-shield-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The President&#8217;s Shield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Presidents-awards-as-of-25-11-25-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Presidents-awards-as-of-25-11-25-1.jpg 437w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Presidents-awards-as-of-25-11-25-1-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 85vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Foundation Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Roy Goodwin Shield is presented to a Foundation Licensee who excels in promoting the hobby through his\/her activity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Foundation-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Foundation-Award.jpg 350w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Foundation-Award-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Foundation Award &#8211; perpetual trophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foundation-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7765\" style=\"width:425px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foundation-2025.jpg 516w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foundation-2025-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 85vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President&#8217;s shield The shield is presented annually, at the discretion of the Club President during each term of office, to a SERG member in recognition of outstanding effort, commitment to promoting the group&#8217;s activities or to Amateur Radio in general. The award was instituted in 1998, the shield presented to SERG by Dr. Kevin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}