The Amateur Radio Newsline, Inc.   
      
   (A Federal 501(C)(3) Not For Profit Corporation)   
      
   Editorial Offices   
      
   28197 Robin Avenue   
      
   Santa Clarita Ca. 91350   
      
   Tel/Fax: (661) 296-7180   
      
   E-Mail: newsline@arnewsline.org   
      
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   For more information please contact:   
      
   Bill Pasternak (ARNewsline) at 661-296-7180 or via e-mail to   
   newsline@arnewsline.org    
      
   Rich Moseson (CQ Magazine) at 973-680-1585 or via e-mail to   
   w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com    
      
   Dennis Motschenbacher (Vertex-Standard) at 714-827-7600 or via e-mail to   
   d.motschenbacher@vxstdusa.com    
      
      
      
      
      
   Nominating Period Open For 2011 Amateur Radio Newsline   
      
   Young Ham Of the Year Award   
      
      
      
   Los Angeles, CA. (May 4, 2011) - If you know a young radio amateur age   
   18 or younger who has done something very special in the Amateur Radio   
   hobby, or if you know of one who fits this description, now is the time   
   to consider nominating him or her for the 2011 Amateur Radio Newsline   
   Young Ham of the Year Award.   
      
      
      
   HOW THE YHOTY AWARD WORKS   
      
      
      
   The "Young Ham of the Year Award" -- better known by the acronym "YHOTY"   
   -- is presented annually to a licensed Radio Amateur (Ham) who is 18   
   years of age or younger, is a resident of the 50 United States, Puerto   
   Rico and the Canada provinces, and who has provided outstanding service   
   to the nation, the community or the betterment of the state of the art   
   in communications through the Amateur Radio hobby/service.   
      
      
      
   All nominations must be received by May 30 of any given calendar year on   
   an official application and accompanied by verification materials.   
   Applications forms are available for a self addressed stamped envelope   
   mailed to the Young Ham of the Year Award c/o Newsline, 28197 Robin   
   Avenue Santa Clarita California 91350. These nominating applications are   
   also available for electronic download or on-line submission from our   
   website at http://www.arnewsline.org   
      
      
      
   WHOM TO NOMINATE   
      
      
      
   Here are some of the things you should be thinking about it in a   
   nominee. First off, as noted above, the nominee must be age 18 or   
   younger and a resident of the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico. He   
   or she must hold a valid Amateur service license issued by the United   
   States FCC or Canadian telecommunications regulator Industry Canada.   
      
      
      
   Also, your nominee should be someone who has done something outstanding   
   as an Amateur Radio operator. Perhaps it was something special he or   
   she did for his community through the Amateur service. Maybe it was   
   some outstanding achievement that led to an improvement in amateur radio   
   in his or her area. Or perhaps he or she was successful in recruiting a   
   lot of new hams. Whatever it was or is, we want to hear about it.   
      
      
      
   If you're looking at what makes a good candidate, we suggest you do an   
   Internet search using the search argument "Young Ham of the Year Award   
   Winners" and look at the credentials of past award recipients.   
      
      
      
   HOW TO FILE A NOMINATION   
      
      
      
   Printable nominating forms are available at our website:   
   www.arnewsline.org. Simply scroll down to the bottom of the page and   
   click on the words: "2011 Young Ham of the Year Nominations Now Being   
   Accepted" You can then download the Nomination Form" by simply clicking   
   on the word "HERE." The nomination is in Microsoft Word format.   
      
      
      
   It is very important that you, as a nominator, fill out the downloadable   
   and printable application as required. If you're sending it by way of   
   the regular mail, please make sure it reaches us at Amateur Radio   
   Newsline, 28197 Robin Ave., Saugus CA. 91350 by June 30 2011. That's   
   the deadline for all applications. Or you can scan and e-mail in the   
   nomination in either Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe (.pdf) to us at   
   newsline@arnewsline.org. (Please be certain to use one of these two   
   common format that can be opened by those with both PC and Mac   
   computers.)   
      
      
      
   In addition to the completed nominating form, we need as much   
   documentation as you can give us so the committee can carefully evaluate   
   each nominee. When we say documentation, we are talking about letters,   
   e-mails, magazine articles, videos and other kinds of endorsements that   
   would accompany the application. In the past, we've even had photos   
   e-mailed in with some of the applications. Please be aware that any   
   materials sent to us become the property of Amateur Radio Newsline, Inc.   
   and cannot be returned. As such we advise to send copies only rather   
   than original documentation.   
      
      
      
   THE AWARD PRESENTATION   
      
      
      
   As in years past, the 2011 Young Ham of the Year will likely receive an   
   expense paid trip to the Huntsville Hamfest in Alabama and a gift of   
   Amateur Radio gear compliments of Vertex-Standard Corporation. Those   
   are the wonderful folks who manufacture the famed Yaesu line of ham   
   radio gear.   
      
      
      
   From our other primary corporate sponsor -- CQ Magazine -- the winner   
   gets a week at Spacecamp Huntsville, where he or she can learn   
   first-hand about man's conquest of the final frontier.   
      
      
      
   But none of this can happen without you. Now is the time to get on   
   line, go to http://www.arnewsline.org to download a nominating form,   
   print it and send it in. That way, you and some worthy young ham radio   
   operator will be glad that you did.   
      
      
      
   SOME BACKGROUND ON THE PRIMARY AWARD SPONSORS   
      
      
   The Young Ham of the Year Award program was created in 1986 by Bill   
   Pasternak, (WA6ITF) and is sponsored by the Amateur Radio Newsline,   
   Inc.. Better known as "ARNewsline" it is the world's largest not for   
   profit (501(c)(3), all-volunteer and totally independent ham radio   
   broadcast news and data information service. It was organized in 1976 as   
   the Westlink Radio Network by Jim Hendershot (WA6VQP) and Bill Pasternak   
   (WA6ITF). Since that time it has produced and aired over 1750   
   consecutive weeks (almost 34 years) of free news bulletin programming   
   dealing with Amateur Radio and related personal communications issues.   
      
   Primary corporate underwriting of the "Young Ham of the Year Award"   
   program is supplied by Vertex-Standard Corporation (Yaesu U.S.A.) and CQ   
   Magazine. Vertex-Standard is a world leader in the design, manufacture   
   and distribution of Yaesu brand high quality Amateur Radio and Vertex   
   brand commercial two-way radio equipment. Since the inception of the   
   award in 1986, this company has been its corporate underwriter.   
      
      
      
   As of 1995, CQ Publishing has been an additional corporate underwriter.   
   CQ Magazine and its sister publications are owned by CQ Communications   
   and are considered the trend-setting publications serving today's modern   
   radio amateur.   
      
      
      
   Past recipients of the Young Ham of the Year award are:   
      
      
      
   Shawn Alan Wakefield, WK5P, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma (1986)   
      
   David Rosenman, KA9PMK, of Muncie, Indiana (1987)   
      
   Jonathan Binstock, NK3D, of Potomac, Maryland (1988)   
      
   Erin McGinnis, KAOWTE, of Topeka, Kansas (1989)   
      
   Mary Alestra, KB2IGG, of Staten Island, New York (1990)   
      
   Richard S. "Sammy" Garrett, AAOCR, of St. Louis, Missouri (1991)   
      
   Angela (Angie) Fischer, KBOHXY, of St. Louis, Missouri (1992)   
      
   Kevin Boudreaux, N5XMH, of New Orleans, Louisiana (1993)   
      
   Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP, of Louisville, Kentucky (1994)   
      
   Adam Weyhaupt, N9MEZ, of Alton, Illinois (1995)   
      
   Toby Metz, KB7UIM, of Boise, Idaho (1996)   
      
   Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT, of Albuquerque New Mexico (1997)   
      
   Richard Paczkowski, Jr., KF4BIA, of Edgewater Florida (1998)   
      
   Michelle Swann, KE4EZI, of Warner-Robins, GA (1999)   
      
   Christopher Arthur, KT4XA, of Russellville, AL (2000)   
      
   Patrick Clark, KC8BFD, of Charleston W. VA. (2001)   
      
   Josh Abramowicz, KB3GWY, of Reading PA (2002)   
      
   Jay Thompson, W6JAY, of Santa Ana CA (2003)   
      
   Andrea Hartlage, KB4IUM, of Grayson GA (2004)   
      
   Rebekah Dorff, WG4Y, of Birmingham AL (2005)   
      
   Catherine Ferry, NC8F, of Silver Lake, OH (2006)   
      
   Grant Morine, W4GHM, of Wilmington N.C. (2007)   
      
   Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, of Topeka, KS. (2008)   
      
   Andrew Koenig, KE5GDB, Houston, TX (2009)   
      
   Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, Harriman, TN (2011)   
      
   ABOUT THE UNITED STATES AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE   
      
   The United States Amateur Radio service is force of over a 600,000   
   publicly spirited personal radio operators who are licensed and   
   regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. They provide the   
   nation with a pool of trained radio operators and technicians to assist   
   the United States in improving international relations. They are also   
   available as a voluntary group of skilled public service-oriented   
   individuals with their own radio equipment who are available to provide   
   emergency communications in times of disaster. In the moments   
   immediately following the 911 terror attacks, Amateur Radio volunteers   
   became the first-response communicators in New York City after a major   
   portion of that city's radio system was destroyed. Hams also provided   
   life-saving communications along the U.S. Gulf Coast during and after   
   Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005 and more recently during and   
   after the devastation to Alabama caused by an outbreak of tornadoes and   
   other severe weather in late April 2011.   
      
      
      
      
      
   AGAIN THE CUTOFF DATE FOR NOMINATIONS IS JUNE 30 2011   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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