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It's time for HamTalk Live episode number 254.
The Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award nominations
2021 recorded live on Thursday, April 8 2021.
I'm your host Neil Rapp WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning
into this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight we're
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to HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp. Welcome back
to HamTalk Live. Tonight Don Wilbanks AE5VW joins
us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation
Zoom line. Ham Radio's Don Wilbanks AE5VW is
from Picayune, Mississippi. You know him from
Amateur Radio Newsline and Ham Nation. He's a
native of Shawnee, Oklahoma and first licensed
in 1995 and he's an extra class license holder.
and an active volunteer examiner and a good friend
of the show and a good friend of mine, Don, welcome
back. Well, thank you, Neil. It's lovely to be
on the show tonight. It's been a while and I'm
thrilled that you asked me to come on and talk
about something that is near and dear to all
of our hearts. That, of course, being the Bill
Pasternak WA6 ITF. Amateur radio news line young
him of the year award. Thanks for having me.
Absolutely. And, and if nothing else, it was
an excuse to have you on the show. So anyway,
we do have like I need an excuse. Exactly. Uh,
so we do have, you know, uh, another, uh, award
coming up and, uh, you know, it looks like we'll,
we'll talk about it here in a little bit. It
looks like, uh, Good chance Huntsville is going
to happen this year. So, uh, presentation is
traditionally at Huntsville. So, uh, we'll talk
about that a little bit, but let's, let's bring
everybody up to speed here on the background
on the award and what it sets out to do. Well
news line as you know is in its fourth decade
and the young hem of the year award was The idea
of Bill Pasternak wa6 ITF who we lost six years
ago sadly it was his idea to honor youth and
ham radio and to promote amateur radio amongst
the youth and Because I mean, you know once once
I mean the youth is the lifeblood of any hobby
or Vocation or avocation or whatever you constantly
have to have new blood to replace those that
that that fall away for various reasons whether
Silent key or just getting out of the hobby or
whatever it doesn't matter what doesn't matter
what? What we're talking about you have to have
New people come in constantly just to keep the
churn going and that was one of the things and
plus bill was just really really big On education
huge huge on education and so he decided to come
up with this award to honor an outstanding radio
amateur. And the first award was 1986 I'm happy
to say. The winner was Sean Allen Wakefield WK
5 P of Bartlesville Oklahoma my home state so
he was the 1986. Youngham of the year award and
we've given the award every year with the exception
of 2014 when we did not present the award that
year and As you may recall, I believe 2014 was
also the year that the Dayton amateur radio association
did not award a Dayton Amateur of the year. Yeah
amateur they had They had some kind of a discrepancy
with the person who was originally named and
they pulled that award back and therefore did
not give that award and so Bill decided that
we were not going to do an award that year only
for the reason that the two or three finalists
were so close in qualifications that literally
you could not pick between them. It would have
been, okay, put three pieces of paper up on the
wall, put a blindfold on yourself, spin around
10 times and throw a dart. And whichever one
it hits, that's the winner. And we decided that
rather than give the award away, just for the
sake of giving the award away, Bill felt that
that might lessen the, might lessen the award
in some way, cheapen it or whatever. And so we
didn't want to give the award away just for the
sake of giving the award away. So we didn't that
year, but we have, and of course Christopher
Bro, KD8YVJ of Ohio, a good friend of ours. and
yours and everybody else's. Chris is such a cool
kid. Was the 2020 winner and very proud that
even though we did not have a Huntsville Hamfest
in the 2020 COVID year that we were thrilled
and honored to be able to present that award
to him at yours and Julie's wedding. So thank
you for allowing us to do that. But that's kind
of in a nutshell what the award is it it it seeks
to honor youth and excellence in amateur radio
and it celebrates a young person who has done
something amazing with amateur radio to either
Further the state of the art of amateur radio
or do something really cool For mankind with
amateur radio and that's that's the whole idea
of the award It's an award that's near and dear
to my heart. I remember hearing about it on Newsline
and thinking, gee, wish they would have had that
when I was a kid. Now I've nominated some people
for this and had a couple of former students
involved and winning the award. been more and
more connected with the award, I'll say, I won't
say involved because I'm not on the award committee
and do that kind of intentionally because I have
students who, you know, from time to time are
nominated. So I want to keep keep the distance
out of that for now. But, you know, we had Patrick
Lassondrew here KC9 UUS a few years ago when
it from Bloomington High School South and yeah,
and now he's off Shooting off rockets for this
little startup called SpaceX Boy, he's gone a
long way hasn't I'm so proud of him He said he's
amazing Patrick it pattern and the whole Lassondrew
family just amazing and I've gotten to know a
lot of the families Of course, the bros, you
know, Chris's mom and dad, I've gotten to know
them really, really well. The Rascals, Bryant
Rascal, KG5HVO, 2018 winner. I've gotten to know
that family really well. The Lissandreus, really
well. And they've just become really, really
good friends. And it's amazing. You know, my
wife has constantly said... I'm in my 25th year
I guess now 26th I guess of being a licensed
ham now and she said you know when you when you
got into this she said this many times when you
got into this back in 94 when you took your test
I thought okay well this will be the the hobby
of the week or the hobby of the month and and
you know a couple of months he'll be off on some
other some other quest to to fill his free time
and and now you know 25 26 years later It's amazing
how much amateur radio has enriched my life.
My son is now licensed. Dawn was working on hers
back when Tyler was born 21 years ago, but she
never did complete it and probably won't now.
But Huntsville Hamfest is one of the highlights
of her years. I mean, she loves going to the
Huntsville Hamfest. It's become a big part of
her life as well. Uh, and, and so, yeah, it's,
it's, this is the best, uh, avocation I think
that, that a person could have in the world as
amateur radio. There's so many different ways
you can go and different avenues you can, you
can go down and follow and different niches that
you can get into, uh, that if, if you're ever
bored in this hobby, then you're doing something
wrong. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, you could
have gone for ham radios in green cars. Yeah,
I do have a green car fetish, that's true. Green
cars and red guitars. Oh, there we go. That sounds
like a country song. Yeah, yeah, it was. Green
cars and red guitars. Red neck, white socks and
blue ribbon beer or whatever it is, yeah. Yeah,
there you go. Well, it was so cool, you know,
to, you know, make the trip down to Huntsville,
you know, pretty much every year. I've had to
miss a few for this or that reason. But, you
know, I try to go down there every year and it's,
you know, mainly for this event, the presentation
of the Young Ham of the Year Award. And so last
year when we... Couldn't do it and and all of
a sudden I get this phone call from you saying
hey Can we do this at the wedding because everybody's
gonna be there. I'm like, wait a minute. You're
coming and it's like Yeah, so It's pretty great
to have it at your own wedding, you know, you're
you're the backup option, I guess but you know
Yeah, and yeah, so thank you so much for letting
us do that You know, we don't and I work we're
sitting out on the back deck and we were talking
about how much we're gonna miss Huntsville this
year and and how much that we would you know
I said I would really like to go up to to Neil
and Julie's wedding and she's like well You know,
we've got a little bit of money on the side.
We could easily do that You've got vacation time,
why don't we just go and it's like Okay, we're
going and so that's kind of how that how that
went and then once we realized we were going
it's like, okay Well, uh, well, you know, the
the bros are gonna be there and what was really
cool was Christopher did not tell his mom and
dad that he had won and so they found out When
I presented the award when I when I actually
when I handed it to him across the table That's
when they found out that that he had won. So
that was that was a really cool It was a really
unique way to present an award It really was.
At a wedding with face masks on and wearing a
kilt. Yes, it was. It was a lot of fun. And I
will admit that no, I was not present for the
award ceremony itself because I had other things
that were a little more important that day. You
know, we did get a picture or two afterwards,
and it was just really cool because, like you
said, everybody was there that needed to be there,
and so we made it work. uh... this year we really
didn't have a a formal ceremony because i a i
mean obviously the the main attraction was your
wedding and i wasn't gonna go up in and do anything
to take away from your wedding so just whatever
we had at the table was our ceremony and it was
you know friends and family and that's that's
kinda it was it it worked out perfectly that's
that's the way that It was perfect for 2020 now
in 2021 We're gonna be back on the main stage
at Huntsville and three o 'clock in the afternoon
or two o 'clock whatever time it is I don't remember
now and we will present the award and of course
Chris will be there and we'll bring him up as
well. And so we'll kind of have a two -for -one
deal yeah looking forward to it and and Mark
Brown in for BCD the chairman of huntsville's
already texted me. In fact, if you heard the
The text because I forgot to silence my phone
while ago that was that was Mark saying yes Huntsville
will happen. So yes. So yes, we're looking forward
to it. Appreciate you and everybody in Huntsville
Mark. We love you. We love being there. Love
being part of the family. So we're we're excited
to have that back in action and be able to do
the award ceremony again for whoever is is. awarded
them that honor this year. So how do people get
nominated for this and what should they be doing?
It's very, very simple. What you need to do is
have a young amateur in mind who you think deserves
this honor. And it is not the easiest award to
win. There is A form a nominating form that you
fill out and it is many pages long. This is not
a hey my My kids an eight -year -old extra give
them a radio kind of an award This is this you
earn this award Which is why we did not give
one away in 2014. We didn't want to cheapen it
So you go to our website a our newsline dot o
RG And they're right under the big amateur radio
news line banner you'll see a row of buttons
news extra staff awards. That's the one you want
to click on when you click on awards it will
bring you to a drop down menu and it says twenty
twenty one y h o t y form you click on that and
it says the young ham of the year. For 2021 nomination
form, please download and submit via email for
your choice for the 2021 Young Ham of the Year
Award. Download the form here. You click on that
and it downloads a Microsoft Word document, a
DocX file, and you fill that in with all of your
supporting information and you mail that back
to us. And all the information that you need
to know is right there on the form. I'm pulling
it up right now. There are like I said several
pages and if you need to add more, you know,
of course you make it as comprehensive as you
possibly can. Newsline at arnewsline .org is
the is the submission. That's the only way we're
accepting. We are not accepting mail ends only
email submissions. Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF
format or Scan paper documents in JPEG form as
long as we can see them before May 31st 2021
That is the deadline midnight Eastern time because
we are based in New York May 31st 2021 is the
deadline midnight Eastern time get those back
to us and we will Email you back saying that
we got it and From there the judging committee
goes behind closed doors and sequesters themselves
and they synchronize their watches and do whatever
it is that they need to do and they come up with
an award winner and then we all meet in Huntsville
to present the award. Looking forward to it and
you know, like you said, it's got to be... Someone
who's really contributed to amateur radio. It's
not you know, well, I run a net, you know, well,
you know, that's that's good. That's important,
right but You know this this award is a little
more than that actually Yeah, you know Running
the Thursday night rag chew net is not gonna
get you the award. However Being a net control
operator for the Florida wildfires several years
ago, that got someone the award. A young person
was actually net control for the Florida wildfires.
Oh, I can't even remember what year it was. It
was some time, some time ago, but that got them
the award. The first young hem of the year that
I met was Kevin Boudreau, N5XMH. He was the 1993
winner and what what got him the award? He's
from New Orleans Hurricane Andrew, I believe
it was came through back in 90 93 and as a brand
new technician Kevin was at a Red Cross shelter
and There was nobody from the Red Cross really
there in charge. It was just He was one of those
people who were there trying to shelter from
the storm. Well the wind blew the roof off and
he got the word out via his two meter handheld
and made sure that kept everybody safe and got
the word out and got the emergency response people
in to get everybody out of harm's way. That's
the kind of public service that gets you the
award. Let's see. I'm looking over the over the
winners I'm trying to think who did what there's
it seems like every year. It's so hard to pick
a winner because Every year it's like the bar
is raised every year Well, let's see. We had
one winner remember who loved a space yeah, right
exactly and Andrew Koenig Ke5 GDB in 2009 as
a young ham in Houston I believe his dad worked
for NASA and Andrew was always hanging out down
there and Andrew was training astronauts in How
to operate amateur radio and helping get them
licensed We had another another young young young
ham winner Who Toby Metz? I believe it was KB7
UIM of Boise, Idaho 1996 Toby was teaching amateur
radio to deaf people and You think well now how
does that work? Well packet radio, obviously,
you know keyboard to keyboard doing it on a computer,
but he He was able to put such a sense of of
excitement into one of one particular person
who got licensed that This person actually put
again a deaf person could not hear anything I
believe had been had been deaf since birth, but
this this this ham put a two meter radio in his
car and It would be on and he would watch the
s meter he would watch the activity and occasionally
when activity dropped down he would pick up his
microphone and he would say as best he could
his call sign into the microphone the only way
he knew if anyone was coming back was watching
the action on that s -meter but he was so in
love with with amateur radio through toby metz
who was was teaching these deaf people Uh, about,
uh, about amateur radio, Brian Milschowski and
five, uh, ZGT of Albuquerque now, uh, very high
up in the, uh, in the ARRL. Um, there are just
some, some just amazing young people that, uh,
we've crossed paths with, uh, over the years.
Uh, just, uh, one more amazing than the other,
it seems like. Yeah. Some, some amazing talent
out there. And so if you. know of someone of
that caliber, then get a hold of that person
and nominate on the form. Again, it's arnewsline
.org. Go to the awards, and there are two awards
now from Newsline, so you have to look for the
Young Ham of the Year Y -H -O -T -Y button there,
and we'll get that done. Looking forward to Huntsville
and maybe a trip to the barbecue place again.
That'd be fun. That'd be fun. I like that. I
have so many cool memories of these winners.
I can remember one of the winners, and I'll not
mention his name. I don't even think he's an
active ham anymore, but back when we were, one
of the prizes was a week at Space Camp Huntsville.
and he almost got kicked out of space camp because
he how can I put this delicately he had he attempted
an unauthorized docking maneuver with a female
camper oh yeah yeah consensual but nonetheless
they frown on that type of fraternization and
I can also remember a really cool memory of...
Let me see, I'm looking for the name here. Allison
Zetwock, KD4CKP of Louisville, Kentucky, was
the winner in 1994. Her dad became the young
ham of the year chairman Anyway, Allison had
a little brother Named Evan and Evan Evan was
just a little guy probably I don't know six or
seven back then and Evan was adopted so he and
I shared that and so we bonded immediately and
Evan I was teaching Evan how to How to do cannonballs
in the in the pool behind the behind the hotel
Just just had the best time well sadly We lost
Evan this year Way way way too young so our hearts
go out to the set walk family Evan was just the
coolest guy a really cool kid and became just
an amazing young man husband and father and Sadly
lost his life Way too young. So we're we're thinking
of the set box tonight as we as we relive some
of the memories of the young ham of the year.
Very good. Well, we're going to take a break
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you've, we haven't. Had you on the show in a
while. We've talked about the award, but you're
in the middle of some intensive studies. So how
are the studies going? I'm in the midst of a
career change at age 60, which is quite frankly
frightening as it can possibly be. You're 60?
I thought you were 40. Well, my career was 40,
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at 60 and we're looking at a career in real estate.
So it seems like that that seems to be the. Common
career path after broadcasting is real estate
So we're working on that should be taking the
license test here before too much longer I wanted
to mention before we go too farther along before
I forgot I forget about it All of us at ham nation
or at at newsliner are available To zoom in to
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Yep. I've done a couple of those as well. And
it's always a lot of fun to see. How some other
clubs do things. Everybody has their own little
take on how things go and it's always interesting
to see those. Well, let's see. We talked about
the real estate thing. So if you're in Mississippi
and you need some real estate now. Well, Louisiana.
I live in Mississippi and I'm going to be licensed
in Louisiana. Ah, okay. All right. There you
go, if you need something that dons your man,
all right. Well, Don, before we go, the clock
here is ticking, but let me reach out again here
for the phone number, 859 -982 -7373 is the phone
number. We have just a couple of minutes left,
so. If you want to give us a call, now is the
time to do that. There was one other thing that
I wanted to throw out here, and this is a new
award that I hadn't heard of. Even in the email
it said, if you haven't heard of this award,
it's new. That's why you haven't heard about
it. There's a new amateur radio software award,
and the 2021 winner has been named, it's Jordan
Shear KN4CRD. He wrote the JS8 Call application
and the award aims to promote amateur radio software
development which adheres to the same spirit
as amateur radio itself, innovative, free, and
open. And if you're interested in the award or
submitting nominations for the award next year,
you can go to ARSAward .com and that's from Rich
K0EB. So Rich, thanks for letting us know about
that. And I think that's on Newsline this week
as well, which I think I just saw. Congratulations,
Jordan. Yeah, I think I saw on my phone here
that that that it's just been released. So there's
a new news line out now Not very good So yeah,
congratulations to Jordan. I know Jordan's done
a lot with that That's a cool award Yeah, there's
uh, you know, there's There's so much that Worked
its way in from the computer world into ham radio.
I can remember a world without computers, but
you know, that was one of the very first things
that kind of interfaced ham radio into the digital
world. And I had one of those, you know, Commodore
Vic -20s. Yeah, and put that thing on on ready
and and you know, that was my second computer
It was pretty early on that You know the computer
got hooked up to the ham radio and it it hasn't
been the same sense There's just so many and
now I can do now now look where we are Neil Now
with software -defined radios the radio is the
computer. Yeah and it just it's seamlessly you
know a USB cable from the back of your rig to
the back of your desktop or laptop computer or
Raspberry Pi or whatever and you know or even
Bluetooth connected via your Android or your
iOS device for some things It's just absolutely
amazing and now you know you look at the icon
705 it has built -in Wi -Fi it has its own Wi
-Fi connection to connect a computer to so It's
just it's a brave new world. I mean it is ham
radio is no longer and I it hasn't been this
for a long time, but I think it Kind of had the
perception to people who are not in the know
who? hear the word ham radio, I think Wow is
that still around you know the first thing they
think of is maybe you know an old Munsters episode.
Or they think of they think of the old stereotype
of an old guy pounding out Morse code in his
basement you know or you know with with goofy
looking headphones on or whatever and it ain't
that way. This is not your grandfather's amateur
radio anymore. This is a brave new world and
it's bleeding edge technology amateur radio has
always been Bleeding edge technology when you
look at some of the things that have come from
amateur radio Cell phones for one thing that
cell phone technology came directly from amateur
radio But it's always been bleeding edge technology
and even more so now that everything has gone
digital I remember that I hated logging so much.
It was all on paper. Yeah, I still don't exactly
like it, but oh my gosh, it's so much easier
now that you just type it in and it fills in
half the stuff for you. Finally got the frequency
thing hooked up the other day To where it drops
the frequency into the log right before the last
man standing thing I got that actually is in
the middle of that. I got it working and It's
just so much better Yeah, it's still logging
but you know and if you if you work an FTA or
something like that You just double click on
the call sign and it fills in everything on the
log Yeah, so, you know, it's it's great. Yeah,
it's it's it's Yeah back the days of paper logs
When I do do a log I tend to do still do a paper
log like if I'm doing a special event or or chasing
some DX or something I still tend to just write
things down and then later on if I have to I'll
fill in some form to get a You know some wallpaper
or something if I'm going for that, but I'm yeah,
I've never been a big logger But it's a lot easier
now with a digital age. Oh, yeah Yep. So congratulations
to Jordan on the software award. And as we wrap
things up here, remind everyone about the Newsline
Young Ham of the Year award. Yep. Nominations
are now open through May 31st arnewsline .org.
Click on that awards tab and it's the first thing
you see. Young Ham of the Year 2021. And that
is the nominating form. Fill that out and email
it. Email it back to us at the address on the
form newsline at AR newsline .org and hopefully
we'll be honoring your young ham coming up in
August and Huntsville, Alabama and Neil. We're
so good that we've answered everyone's questions.
Nobody needed to call in. Nobody needed to tweet.
We're just that good. We're that good. Exactly.
You know, I could say that probably every day
in class. It's like, okay any questions? And
everybody just sits there. My work here is done.
Can somebody make one up at least? You're as
smart as you're gonna get, so my work here is
done. Well next week here on the show we are
going to have some some young people. Quite as
young as the young ham of the year award winners
because that cuts off at age 18 But we have some
20 somethings that are going to be here from
From the the other side of the world Philip Springer
DK 6 SP Marcus Grober DL8GM and TommyVaroHA8RT
will be up at midnight or one o 'clock or whenever
it is over there next week here on HamTalk Live
to talk about this new Youngsters on the Air
contest that was just announced. It's going to
be three times a year, so more Young Ham stuff
next week. Be sure to tune in for that. So Don,
thank you for being here and talking about a
variety of things tonight, but especially the
award and got about a month and a half left to
nominate somebody. So hopefully we'll get some
good nominations. Yeah, looking forward to it
always do we always get a really good really
good crop of young people every year Neil Thank
you so much for the invite to really appreciate
you Your friendship and what you've done for
amateur radio since you were five years old and
the youngest licensed ham back then and Really
appreciate your yours and Julie's friendship
Well, we appreciate yours as well and And and
say hello to your lovely bride as well I shall.
And Mr. TMW. Yep. And we'll be talking to you
soon. Sounds good. Thanks, Neil. All right. That
is a wrap for this week's HamTalk Live. Thanks
to my guest Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, and everybody
out there in cyberspace for listening. and invite
you back next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern
time, when Philip, Marcus and Tommy will be here
to talk about that new Yoda contest. And for
a list of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive
.com. And if you like the show, please leave
us a review. That helps others find us faster.
So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying
7 -3. 7 -5 and may the good DX be yours.