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everyone. It's time for HamTalk Live, episode
number 268. The Newsline Young Ham of the Year
2021 recorded live on Thursday, August 19th,
2021. I'm your host Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks
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on the Orlando amateur radio club and hamcation
hotline we have Don Wilbanks ae5dw and faith
hannah lee kd3z and We'll talk a little bit about
her accomplishments and some of the things that
she has done in her ham radio career at a very
young age. So Dawn and Faith Anna, welcome to
the show. Well, thank you. Good evening, Faith.
It's nice to nice to have you on here again.
Nice to talk to you too. Alright, you know we
normally do this at the Huntsville hamfest, but
we're not there this year unfortunately Huntsville
is going on so if you're going I'm jealous, but
the Huntsville is going on this weekend I'm seeing
a lot of people setting up Ray Novak setting
up icon. I saw Tom Medlin setting up his His
his bit over there as well And we actually did
this presentation on the 10th on amateur radio
roundtable with Tom Medlin, W5KUB. And you can
see that video on his website, W5, or rather
on his YouTube channel, W5KUB. But let me introduce
you, if you're not familiar with who Faith Hannah
Lee is. She's the daughter of James, WX4TV, and
Michelle, N8ZQZ. Her brother and two sisters
are also hams, so it's a ham family. She credits
her folks with being the biggest influences in
her entry into amateur radio. Her journey began
at the age of 10 in December of 2014. Six weeks
later, she had earned her amateur extra. Now
this is a very, very edited version of what she
has done since 2014. The nomination packet was
58 pages long. 70 megabytes it was too big to
email we had a dropbox it to all of the judges
and our press release is six pages long so this
is heavily abridged uh... needless to say she's
done more in her seven years and a lot of people
will do in seventy years of uh... of ham radio
just a year and a half after being licensed faith
and i was invited to join the twenty sixteen
dave caulter memorial youth d x team That was
Papa Juliet 6 from the Dutch island of Saba among
the PJ6 achievements was a satellite contact
that broke the SO 50 distance world record She
wrote an article about the event that was published
in the March April 2017 issue of the Amstad Journal
in August of 2018 faith Hannah took part in the
week -long youngsters on the air program in a
little place called Johannesburg, South Africa
There's a trip for you. She participated in kit
building and antenna building projects, satellite
operations and a high altitude balloon launch
and she wrote an article about her experiences
in South Africa and that was published in CQ
magazine. In December of 2018, she and her younger
sister Hope N2DL and her dad organized a 36 -hour
mini D expedition to the Dry Tortugas out in
the Gulf of Mexico. Just off the southwest coast
of Florida, they activated November for Tango.
The girls logged one thousand nine hundred seventy
H .F. contacts and one hundred satellite contacts.
And Faith Hannah's account of the N4T operation
again, published by CQ Magazine, and she and
Hope shared the April twenty nineteen cover.
She completed high school through homeschooling.
Before doing so, she enrolled in Daytona State
College, where she earned an associate of arts
degree at the age of 15. Currently, she's enrolled
in Stetson University in D -Land, Florida, where
she's recognized as a member of the junior class.
She maintains, of course, a 4 .0 GPA as she works
toward earning two different degrees, Bachelor
of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology
and a Bachelor of Business Administration. She
says she's exploring two career paths, medicine
or the law, or maybe both. And just last year,
she earned a $25 ,000 scholarship from the Foundation
for Amateur Radio and in 2021, $16 ,000 scholarship
in the voice of democracy essay contest Sponsored
by the veterans of foreign wars finishing first
in Florida second in the national competition
Of course you can follow a faith hannah k3 or
kd3z and her family and their activities on the
ham radio world YouTube channel they have nearly
1 ,300 subscribers probably more by now so once
again faith hannah congratulations on on the
2021 Bill Pasternak WA6 ITF Youngham of the Year
Award. Has it sunk in any or have you just been
way too busy with work and school to even worry
about it? You know, I'm not even really sure
how to answer that because the past week hasn't
been all that busy for me compared to normal
and yet it's still been different knowing that
I'm now am the Young Ham of the Year for 2021.
I don't even know how to describe the difference.
It's, I guess, just a feeling that you get, but
it's not like an overriding feeling, if that
makes any sense. It's kind of like, I don't know,
like, it's there. Like, it's definitely there,
but, you know, not overwhelming. Right, but it's
but it's different life is different now, but
just I mean in some small little way because
of this life is different and you're you're among
a very select group of Young amateurs going back
some 30 years at this That this award has been
presented. I want you to to to retell the story
that you told on on the w5k you be Thing that
we did about when marker bramovich nt3v called
you To tell you that you had won because you
had no idea you had even been nominated correct.
Yeah I didn't really know I had been nominated
I mean over the years there's been a couple people
who have been like hey I think you would be a
great young have the year if anyone ever gets
around to nominating you know but this year apparently
someone did get around to nominating me. Obviously
and. When I got the call from Mark I thought
that it was like an interview as in you're interviewing
a bunch of different people to help make a final
decision Like you would for like most awards
or most like scholarships or whatever you do
a Set of interviews with different people to
help narrow it down. However at the end of the
phone call Um, Mark said that he would, I forget
his exact wording, but he basically said that
he was allowed to tell me that I was the 2021
Young Ham of the year. And that was, um, not
only a shock because I didn't know I had been
nominated, but also because I was taking that
phone call as if it was, um, an interview, not
just as like the interview for The not the article
I forget what it's called, but basically the
press release So yeah, that's basically how it
went so you just thought it was just another
guy calling to ask you some questions and And
maybe to put it in an article or put in some
whatever it is to a selection process or something
And not knowing that you were the actual honoree,
correct? Yeah, pretty much That's neat. That's
neat. Don, you left off one very important thing
on that list of all that stuff. I'm prone to
doing that. Go right ahead. Faith Hannah and
her sisters are the only people on this planet
that have interviewed Hammy, the HamTalk Live
mascot. And I'll go that's true. I'll go one
better. They're the only people to my knowledge
that have interviewed flat done. Oh Yeah, there
is one on there is they write there is video
of them interviewing my cardboard stand -up 90
% life -size and of course they made a short
joke about it. Of course. Thank you very much.
We appreciate that So yeah, that's on their That's
on their hamradio .world YouTube channel, which
was funny as it could be. I watched that again
just the other day and just sit here giggling
to myself like an idiot, which is what I do most
times when I'm not in the corner chewing my crayons
because I have this huge inferiority complex
about being around all these young hams of the
year. So what would you say, though, Faith Hannah,
of all the things that you've done in your seven
years now, of being an amateur radio operator.
What stands out so far as probably, I don't know,
your proudest accomplishment, the neatest contact,
your number one moment? You just tell us what
stands out to you as just being the coolest.
Well, every time that I ask this question, I
never know how to answer because as I've said
in the past, Most if not all of the things that
I do are really incredible and they stick with
me all in their own way. But I think in a way
the ones that are separate in like their own
special category, if that makes sense, would
be breaking the SO50 distance record and probably
the thing in South Africa with youngsters on
the air. Yeah, that's that's a cool thing I don't
even I don't even know how one would even go
about getting down to South Africa other than
I know you have to go south for a very very long
a very very long way, but you You have had quite
a supportive family To be able to do all of this
and I know that that your your folks particularly
your dad have been just lockstep right there
with you he accompanied you to South Africa and
Of course, I believe he was in Saba as well.
I'm not sure but tell us what the the whole family
dynamic is like and and how much that that has
Has directed you not only in amateur radio, but
in everything else that you've done because you're
clearly an extremely brilliant young lady and
the world is at your feet and you can pretty
much go any direction you want and you know that
all comes from a very supportive family, so just
Talk a little bit about that about how much that
means to you So for me it kind of is the competition
aspect that it helps me with because I am a very
competitive person. I really enjoy contesting
and basically anything that I can compete in.
So what it does is instead of like me or just
one other person being the only people here to
do anything, whether that's ham radio related
or if it's something else, it really helps to
have more people just so that I can, we all have
that little structure in how we do things. which
first off helps us all figure it out because
you have a bunch of people who can troubleshoot
issues if there are any. A whole bunch of different
outlooks on things which really helps you figure
out how you'd like to do things and how it would
best be done. But the structure also gives that
bit of competition because everybody's trying
to get ahead of the others. best but like that
type of thing within the within the family so
it just it makes it more fun yeah i could see
that uh kind of like i'm the top dog this week
and your sister will be the top dog next week
and and uh and your dad will be the top dog in
something uh maybe the week after yeah i can
see that how that would keep you on your toes
always trying to not necessarily one up the other,
but match, I guess, each other in your accomplishments
and just keep moving forward. That's a great
way to be, and that's a great family to be involved
in, a family that is so supportive that your
dad is going to jump on a plane with you and
go to South Africa to play ham radio. I mean,
that's a commitment. That is a commitment, and
that shows just in how that you and your siblings
have been raised. You're just, it's an amazing
family and we could all learn something from
the Lee family, that is for sure. I want to get
into your schooling now because you're 16 years
old and you're in Stetson University and you're
studying two pretty heavy, I've already shut
down the press release that I had, but two pretty
heavy subjects there. How do you choose between
medicine and the law? And I know that that's
maybe later on, but you're studying the microbiology
or whatever it is, I've even forgotten now because
I'm an idiot. But how do you choose which to
go to, which to even begin with, and if you've
got to make a choice between the law and medicine
or both, Let's peek into your brain about about
how one even makes a decision like that because
I have no frame of reference So I don't even
know how you would even make the decision as
you're saying I think it's more of I Don't know
just it either gradually coming on that this
is what to do or Immediately, it's like you need
to do this. Um, I know since I was very little
I would always say I'm probably misquoting myself,
but when I was like two I would say I go metal
school or something like that Because my dad
was in medical school at the time and I wanted
to go down to the anatomy lab to look at kidneys
in a jar And that's kind of just stuck with me
as what I want to do The main thing for me is
I do want to practice medicine. That's the main
goal. However, I have been considering law just
because there are so many... Law and medicine
are so intertwined that I feel like the knowledge
from the law could really help just when I'm
being a physician and going through the day -to
-day stuff like the paperwork and all that stuff
where it helps to have an understanding of what
could happen if you do this like that or if you
do it a different way, what's the consequences
of both, which is better, which is easier for
everybody. And just all that type of stuff I
Have to keep reminding myself that you're 16
when I was your age I was I was playing around
with CB radio and cars and Trying to trying to
get a job as a disc jockey And was I mean able
to do that for 40 years I think that if you're
lucky your career chooses you and that's kind
of the way it was with me in broadcasting So
if if medicine has chosen you and if you're able
to do something that you you love doing You know,
you'll never work a day in your life which I
think is is is great if you can find a profession
that that you know that you absolutely love that
it certainly isn't work and those are two noble
professions that that I think you'll be excellent
in, I really do. What else did I want to ask
you? I want to get back into a little bit more
about the experience in South Africa, about what
exactly the Yoda camp down in South Africa, because
that intrigues me about what did you find out
about the culture down there and the differences
in the culture, and I know that... There's a
lot of English being spoken down there, but still
there's some culture and language differences.
And what was it like down there? This isn't so
much culture related, but it was cold. I was
not expecting it to be that cold. Right. Culture
wise, it was very different, but also very similar.
So people would still do the same type of stuff
that most people around the world would do. But
it was different in that They all seem everybody
who was from South Africa who was there They
all seem to more and this could just be because
it's what they know, but they all seem to more
congregate with their own kind and the group
go together as with other people To do their
own thing Not excluding the other groups, but
like you have not just one person who was from
South Africa doing something with the other kids
but it would be at least two. Maybe it was just
for comfort or maybe it's just something that's
normal there but I did notice that a lot whereas
for the other countries you didn't really see
that. That's an interesting outlook. I tell you
what we are going to take a break I think right
now to hear from Tower Electronics Neil and then
we'll be back with Faith Hannah. Yep, we will
and I want to talk a little bit about Yoda too
since we we just had the the camp here and her
sister was there so we'll see if they've Compared
any notes and that kind of thing and talk about
YouTube and some other stuff when we come back
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he did it again. Oh my. Oh my. Wow. Stunned silence
from Fei -Ten. Yes. Yes, exactly. You know, my
friends are just very quiet. Yeah. And you know,
after that, it might be a good thing. Yeah, exactly.
Just ignore it. It'll go away. Yeah. Well, it
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check that out. uh hearing a little bit and uh
we'll talk a little more bit more with uh faith
hannah and uh don here and i want to ask uh faith
hannah a little bit more about south africa because
you know we just uh had our first uh yoda camp
here in the western hemisphere a few weeks ago
and i'm i'm still uh Still trying to finish that
one up with all the thank yous and finances and
all that kind of thing and getting ready for
planning for next year. And your sister got to
go to that one. So have you two compared notes
on the South Africa camp and the Americas camp?
And if so, what did you talk about? And I want
to hear a little bit more about some of the activities
that you did over in South Africa? Yeah we haven't
talked a ton about it but what we have talked
about was like the activities and I don't know
exactly what happened because you know I wasn't
there so I can't speak for what she's told me
but the thing with like index cards or some sort
of paper where you had to build like the tallest
tower That was kind of similar to something we
had to do in South Africa. However, ours was
we had four people in a group and we had to fit
as many sheets of paper like on people without
it touching the floor and at least two people
had to be touching each piece of paper. So it
was not only a team -building exercise as was
the one with the index cards, but it was also
one for problem -solving and Engineering because
you got to figure out okay How can we do this
because you're not allowed to fold these eight
and a half by eleven sheets of paper? and stuff
like that so you could just you could look around
the room and just see people working things out
and trying to do their best in the five -minute
window or so that we were given and from talking
with Hope, that's essentially what happened at
at the one that she went to. So from what I understand,
I think they had larger groups, but you still
had to figure out what you could in like a set
time limit. And there were rules you had to follow.
And I don't know exactly what the rules were
for looking at other people for ideas but from
the pictures that I saw that she showed me it
looked like you were able to look around and
see okay well what seems to be working or what
doesn't seem to be working from um from other
groups you can figure things out for yourself
again I could be wrong um nope nope you're you're
totally right but basically The problem -solving
things seem to be very similar between the two.
They each have their own differences for how
they're played out, but the main concept is the
same between the both, and you're still learning
something and having fun for both of them. We
also didn't talk a bunch about how the whole
days would go. But it seemed pretty much the
same where you would have not like a lecture
but a talk, like a teaching thing, something
like that. I don't know how to describe it exactly.
Where you would share what each group has been
figuring out throughout the day. And that's essentially
also what we did in South Africa. You would have
your own activities throughout the day and every
once in a while there would be like presentation
about something. Might have been about satellites
or digital or something else like that. But you
still got to share what you've come to realize
through the day and what you're thinking is not
quite going to work for you to implement into
what you've been doing and you can troubleshoot
other ways to make things work. And she shared
a lot of the funny pictures. So yeah, the funny
pictures and the good times seem the same. You
know, you catch people at their worst moments
and yet they're like, that's an awesome picture.
Stuff like that. Of course. And that gets to
the other thing I want to ask you about with
this is, you know, one of our big things was
community building and we wanted to create a
community of young hams. uh... that was more
robust and and uh... inclusive and and you know
and and uh... self -perpetuating i guess would
be the way to uh... to say it and you know i
know that you have uh... some contact with with
people that you attended yoda camp with in fact
you even had uh... Visitor over Christmas. So
so why don't you tell us about that story? We
did. Um, I don't remember what year it was but
it was a couple years ago. Um a kid from Tunisia
I forget his last name and I forget his call
but his name was Khalil and So when we met in
South Africa, he was very new to ham radio. I
don't even think he was licensed yet Just because
he was that new and yet he seemed to have a blast
learning about everything and meeting all these
other hams who were like him You know very much
into electronics and into Figuring things out
with computers and breadboards and stuff of that
nature At the time he really didn't speak much
English at all, but he didn't let that stop him
he just kind of used the little bits that he
could and Everybody just kind of with everybody,
not only him, we all did our best to communicate
and have fun. So I think it might have been the
next year Christmas. He was coming over for college,
I believe it was. I think he either was or still
is somewhere in North Carolina for that. He had
like a break where he was able to you know Go
do whatever go back to Tunisia or spend some
time somewhere else and he decided to come down
to Florida and he visited for maybe a week over
Christmas and What we did during that time? mostly
was helping him get his us license because Because
of like the reciprocity things it may have changed
since then but at that time you couldn't really
get a license in Tunisia. You could only do a
U .S. license transferred over. So we were helping
him find a testing session which he ended up
getting and passed it on the first try. So that
was great. So then he had a license that he could
use not only here but pretty much wherever they
accept U .S. reciprocity. And once he was done
with the whole studying thing, and taking the
test, we did, let's see if I can remember what
it's called. Basically the Yoda Month, but I
forget the call sign we used. Yeah, it was December
Yoda Month. Yeah, I can't remember the call sign
we used, but one of those that was used during
that year for the U .S. We got on the air and
he got to experience pile -ups and talking to
people in a different way than I think he ever
had before because Now that you're licensed it
kind of hits differently. Whether you have your
call sign or not it's just different. So we spent
a couple days doing that and he seemed to have
a blast and we kind of traded off and one person
would log and the other would be on the radio
and all the while just having fun with it. Yeah,
that was that was a great thing and and I was
glad that you were able to participate in in
Yoda month even the year before we we had that
organized over here you were on the air and and
then That I think was that first year that we
kind of had a bigger organized effort that that
happened so that was pretty cool and I'm also
very happy to have n4t in my satellite log from
Dry Tortuga so that was great well Don that you
know it's it's all this Yoda stuff so yeah you
know it's it just catching on well that's a good
thing you know it's it's like I always say just
I mean I always say it up on stage when we're
presenting the award in Huntsville at the end
is the news that you see with broadcast news,
if it bleeds, it leads. The top stories are always
going to be about bad stuff happening. The number
of bad kids is an extremely small percentage
of the number of kids in the world. The number
of good kids ... vastly vastly out numbers The
amount of what you would call in air quotes,
whatever bad kids But yet the bad kids get all
the news because well, you know bad stuff sells
You know, that's just the way it works with the
news business. So there are so many more good
kids in the world, but but all anyone ever sees
is the bad news and Let me tell you something
if faith Hannah Any indication as well as all
of our previous winners going back some 30 years
If this is an indication of the people who are
going to be running the world when my generation
is gone The world is going to be in fine shape
So I just it's a thrill and an honor to be able
to be around these exceptional Young amateur
radio operators and know that that that they're
the they're the leaders they are the future and
You know and it's it's their world. We're just
living in it right now and very very proud of
that also wanted to Give thanks while we have
time to our corporate partners with the young
ham of the year award and that will of course
be CQ communications Yeezy USA, Heil Sound, and
Radio Waves antennas. Without them, we could
not do this. And of course, without our listeners
and the fine support that they give us as well.
Because the Young Ham of the Year is our major
expenditure with Amateur Radio Newsline. And
we are a 501C3, totally listener -supported program.
Nobody at Amateur Radio Newsline has ever nor
will ever draw a penny of salary. So everything
that we do is listener -supported, and they allow
us to be able to do this. It was Bill Pasternak's
big passion, and we're just happy to be able
to be continuing on in his footsteps, shining
a little light on the cool kids. Faith Hannah,
you are certainly one of the cool kids, and we're
proud of you. Thank you. Absolutely, and you
even get some cool stuff. Yep. Yeah, I got a
couple of radios and some other stuff didn't
yeah. Yeah, they've got a lot of stuff from CQ.
That was cool New stuff to play with figure out.
There you go. There you go And a nice radio for
that car that you're gonna be commuting back
and forth to college with crew Absolutely. No,
I should that's about all that we have. Yeah.
Well, I was gonna I was gonna anything else I
was gonna steal a joke from from another another
more famous radio show that, you know, um, she
goes to show, you know, yeah, it's a two joke
show, you know, she, she, university, which is
in, which is in Deland, Florida. Do you know
where Deland is? It's in Florida. It's a stupid
question, Neil, but it's by to see. Of course
it is. Everything in Florida is by to see. Well,
I I was so so disappointed I was down in Florida
and got a text from from James Faith Hannah's
dad and said hey, why don't you meet us at this
really good burger joint that faith hand is working
at and on the way home and I wanted to go and
I Looked at Julie and I'm like, you know, how
many ham radio things have I interrupted? Vacations
with yeah, honeymoons weddings. Yeah Fully over
in Walmart parking lots to make sad last contact
exactly in the car. Yes. Yeah. Yeah Exactly,
and I'm like, okay She is she is bent on going
outlet mall shopping I better do it and sure
enough it was like three o 'clock before we even
left town so I'm sorry to miss out on that hopefully
next trip we can do that because I really enjoy
doing that but Faith Anna we're proud of you
you've done a lot your YouTube channel I know
We even had some comments at Yoda camp of you
know, oh you're that YouTube channels the reason
I got into ham radio and So you've done some
some really cool stuff and so we congratulate
you and wish you well and Enjoy this year is
the the reigning Young ham of the year from amateur
radio newsline. So thanks for being on the show,
too Thanks for having me Absolutely. Yeah, we
are so proud of you. It seems like every year
we think that the bar can't get any higher, but
of course it did. It jumped up several notches
with you and I can't wait to see who we find
in 2022. It's just it's like it's like Forrest
Gump always said, you know, it's a box of chocolates.
You never know. You never know what you're going
to find. You know, a couple of nuts like me and
Neil as well. Yep, exactly. Well Don, thank you
for being here and taking the interview time
here with Faith Hanna and thanks for doing all
this. I know you as I am are disappointed not
to be in Huntsville this weekend. Uh, we had,
we had planned on that, but, um, hopefully, uh,
that won't last long and, uh, we'll, we'll be
back at Huntsville. Yeah. Um, yeah, I just, uh,
my personal thoughts on the whole, uh, COVID
thing, um, uh, get your shot, get your shot,
wear your mask, do the right thing. And, uh,
the, the more of us, I think that, that get immunized,
um, Uh, I think that the quicker that we'll be
over this hump, uh, of course, you know, it's,
it's, it's, it's your body and you do what you
want to do. But for me and my family, uh, we've
got the shot and I, I think that for us, that
was certainly the right thing to do. So anyway,
God bless us all and, uh, hopefully we'll get
through this and, uh, we'll all get together
at, uh, at a ham fest. Uh, hopefully, uh, maybe
Dayton or Huntsville next year. Yep. Hope, hope
so. All right, well that is a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guests,
Faith Anna Lee, KD3Z and Don Wilbanks, AE5DW
and everybody out there in cyberspace for listening
tonight and typing in and invite you back next
Thursday night at nine o 'clock Eastern time
when Dr. Scott Wright, KZeroMD will be here to
talk about the 2021 Portable Ops Challenge. And
for a list of all of our upcoming guests, just
go over to HamTalkLive .com. And if you like
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other people find us faster. So for now, this
is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG in Union, Kentucky, saying
seven three, seven five, and may the good DX
be yours. Well you came right back to my CQ call
Your Readability 5 and Strength 9 You never once
mentioned your weather at all