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![]() THE AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, INC. Editorial Office 28197 Robin Avenue Santa Clarita California Tel/Fax: (661) 296-7180 E-Mail: NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release (July 16, 2010) Contact: Bill Pasternak (WA6ITF) / Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) 661-296-7180 / Dennis Motschenbacher (K7BV) / Vertex-Standard Corp. 714-827-7600 / Rich Moseson, (W2VU) / CQ Communications, Inc. 516-681-2922 / CODY ANDERSON, KI4FUV, NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE 25TH AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE "YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR" AWARD Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, A 17 year old radio amateur from Harriman, Tennessee, whose quick thinking likely saved the life of a downed runner in a 2009 marathon, has been named as the 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. This marks the 25th anniversary of the Young Ham of the Year Award program. Cody is the son of Benny Anderson and Jane Ann Edwards. He is an honors graduate of Rockwood High School in nearby Rockwood, Tennessee. At age 11, Cody became interested in radio communications after hearing a VHF ham QSO on a scanner. He was encouraged by his grandparents and stepfather to pursue this interest, and was directed to an Oak Ridge, Tennessee club where he first tested for his Technician ticket in June 2004. He upgraded to General in June 2007 at the Buck Toms Scout Camp run by the Great Smoky Mountain Council. Since his earliest days as ham, Cody has been an ambassador of and a mentor within amateur radio, and has used it in public service most of his teen years. Phillip Newman, KE4LSH, president of the Roane County Amateur Radio Club, based about 30 miles west of Knoxville, nominated Cody for the award. He says that Cody serves as Vice President of the club as well as Net Manager and Webmaster for the club's cyberspace home located at www.KE4RX.org. "I'm really involved with the ARES portion of it," Cody says. "ARES is really strong here within Roane County. "I would be more active on HF, although I just don't have a way to get an HF antenna up. I'm pretty active on 2-meters on the local club repeater." Cody's nomination rose to the top of the Young Ham of the Year Award committee's nominee list because of a life-changing event which occurred in this young ham's life. It was May 30, 2009 and Cody says he was manning a checkpoint at the "Run for the Child" event in Roane County. Cody recalls that it was about 20 or 25 minutes into the race when a runner suddenly went down: "One of the runners had went past me and I noticed he fell. I waited just a second or two, you know, to see if he got back up. Maybe he just tripped. "I noticed he didn't get back up, said Cody. So I went over to him and by the time I got to him he had quit breathing and went into cardiac arrest. "After I radioed it in, me and another one of the runners that had stopped started CPR." Cody says he had completed that CPR training through the club just months earlier and put his knowledge to work, doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the runner did the chest compressions. Cody recalls it all happened so fast and he just reacted instinctively. "You know it's a fairly short race and the checkpoint I was working at was one of the earlier ones," Cody says. "I actually got done before the race was over. And, I went back and as I got back to the command post, I heard over the public safety radio they were bringing in a helicopter and flying him out to another hospital." Cody says the man survived and although his heroic actions got some attention, the experience really didn't change him. "I don't think that fazed me at all because I believed I was just doing what was right and I wasn't in it for the recognition," Cody recalls. In addition to public service events like the "Run for the Child" marathon, Cody has also responded to ARES activations for numerous shelter openings in the Roane County area. He has also helped provide emergency communications during such disasters as the Tennessee Valley Authority Ash Spill that gained national attention in 2008. Cody has been helping the Radio Club of Knoxville teach two Scouting merit badges offered each summer at Camp Buck Toms: "They get two merit badges - they get the Radio and Electronics - and we help them build a TenTec short-wave receiver kit and help them understand how it works, what the components do," Cody says. "We let them operate the radios if they want to." Cody has also assisted with Information Technology projects for his radio club and ARES group. This includes a link to a D-Star gateway during ARRL Field Day and during local events. It is also available to prepare for the use of digital communications in a real emergency. Cody is heading on to Roan State Community College this fall where he's planning to get some core courses completed. He says he's then planning to enroll at Tennessee Tech where he'll major in computer science. As to his future in ham radio, Cody says there's always room for that: "I hope to stay as active as I am now or become more active," Cody says. "Tennessee Tech actually has a radio club. "I believe that ham radio is what's helped me learn a lot of my technical knowledge now and even computer skills and things like that, working with digital modes and other things. "I really hope that I can stay as active as I am now and continue to learn with it." Award Ceremony The 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) "Young Ham of the Year Award" will be presented to Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, on Saturday, August 21st at the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama. As the 2010 "Young Ham of the Year," Cody will receive -- courtesy of Vertex-Standard -- an expense-paid trip to the Huntsville Hamfest, along with a gift of Yaesu brand ham radio equipment. CQ magazine will treat him to an expense-paid week at Spacecamp Huntsville, and will present Cody with a variety of CQ products. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) will provide Cody with a commemorative plaque at the award ceremony. Once again, the cost of year's plaque has been underwritten by Dave Bell (W6AQ), President of DBA Entertainment Inc., Hollywood, California. Heil Sound Ltd. will also be presenting Cody with a ham radio related gift. The presentation of the award as a regular feature of the Huntsville Hamfest has been made possible through the generosity and kindness of the event's Planning Committee and the good offices of Huntsville Hamfest Association Vice President Charlie Emerson, N4OKL. (See http://www.hamfest.org) This year's award ceremony will be hosted by Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF and Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, of Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) along with representatives of corporate underwriters Vertex-Standard and CQ Communications, Inc. Award Program Background The Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) "Young Ham of the Year" award (formerly the Westlink Report Young Ham of the Year Award ) has been presented annually for the past 25 years to a licensed radio amateur (Ham) who is 18 years of age or younger and who has provided outstanding service to the nation, his/her community or the betterment of the state of the art in communications through the Amateur Radio hobby/service. A website with full information on the award program and background material is located at http://www.arnewsline.org. Award Sponsors The award program is jointly sponsored by the Los Angeles, California-based Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) with corporate support from Vertex-Standard Corporation of Cerritos, California and CQ Magazine of Hicksville, NY. Since 1976, the Southern California-based Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) and its predecessor, the Westlink Radio Network, have been providing radio amateurs around the world with up-to-the-minute news at no cost to them. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) also co-sponsors with the Quarter Century Wireless Association the "Roy Neal, K6DUE, Amateur Radio Mentoring Project" that serves as a clearinghouse to match radio amateurs in need of educational assistance on the hobby with those able to aid them. (See http://www.arnewsline.org) The award's two major corporate underwriters are world leaders in their respective areas of Amateur Radio product support. Vertex-Standard Corporation, which has been a corporate underwriter since the inception of the award program in 1986 is considered the trailblazer in the design, manufacture and distribution of high quality Vertex-Standard commercial two-way radio, monitoring and air-band communications equipment along with its Standard Horizon marine electronics line and Yaesu brand Amateur Radio equipment. The Yaesu name is known world-wide among ham radio aficionados and is synonymous with premium quality ham radio gear. (See http://www.vertexstandard.com) CQ magazine and its sister publications, CQ VHF, Popular Communications and WorldRadio Online, are published by CQ Communications, Inc., and are considered the trend-setting publications serving today's modern radio amateur. (See http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com) Past Recipients Past recipients of the "ARNewsline Young Ham of the Year Award" include Shawn Alan Wakefield, WK5P, of Bartlesville, OK (1986); David Rosenman, KA9PMK, of Muncie, IN (1987); Jonathan Binstock, NK3D, of Potomac, MD (1988); Erin McGinnis, KAOWTE, of Topeka, KS (1989); Mary Alestra, KB2IGG, of Staten Island, NY (1990); Richard S. "Sammy" Garrett, AAOCR, of St. Louis, MO (1991); Angela (Angie) Fischer, KBOHXY, also of St. Louis (1992); Kevin Boudreaux, N5XMH, of New Orleans, LA (1993); Allison Daneen Zettwoch, KD4CKP, of Louisville KY (1994); Adam Weyhaupt, N9MEZ, of Alton IL (1995); Toby Metz, KB7UIM, of Boise ID (1996); Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT, of Albuquerque NM (1997); Richard Paczkowski, Jr., KF4BIA, of Edgewater, FL (1998); Michelle Swann, KE4EZI, of Warner-Robins, GA (1999); Christopher Arthur, KT4XA, of Russelville, AL (2000); Patrick Clark, KC8BFD, of Elkwood, WV (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 Hoover, AL (2005), Catherine Ferry, NC8F, of Streetville, OH. (2006), Grant Morine, W4GHM, of Wilmington, NC (2007), Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, of Leavenworth, KS. (2008), Andrew Koenig, KE5GDB of Houston, TX. (2009). |
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