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On The Cover: September 2009 |
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Andrew Koenig, KE5GDB, |
On the Cover 2009 Young Ham of the Year Andrew Koenig, KE5GDB Andrew Koenig, KE5GDB, of Houston, Texas, has built his own IRLP (Internet Radio Linking Project) node into his bedroom closet. He has used the node to connect an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center with two schools in Canada, and to allow Hurricane Ike evacuees to keep track of events near their homes (see Zero Bias on page 8 for more). Andrew is 15 years old and is starting 10th grade. He is active in Scouting—a Life Scout working toward Eagle—and is a member of his high school’s marching band and his local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). He has also been active in recruiting and training other young people to ham radio and has set up a ham-radio-for-kids website at <https://www.thathamkid.com>. In addition, Andrew has set up a complete mobile station on his bicycle and has helped train astronauts for future ham radio contacts from space.
Andrew was named the 2009 Newsline Young Ham
of the Year. This program, operating for more than two decades, honors the
country’s most outstanding young amateurs. It is sponsored by Amateur
Radio Newsline, with corporate support from Vertex-Standard (Yaesu), which
pays for the winner’s trip to the ceremony at the Huntsville Hamfest and
provides equipment gifts, and CQ magazine, which gives each year’s winner
an expense-paid week at SpaceCamp. (Cover photo by Larry Mulvehill,
WB2ZPI) |
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