Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Jul 14 2022 20:01:04 WORLD OF DX In the World of DX, be listening for Pete, ZL4TE, using the call sign E51RMP from the South Cook Islands through to the 21st of July. He will be operating holiday style, QRP on some of the HF bands and will also be on VHF, using the digital voice mode D-STAR. Pete will be using both CW and SSB. Send QSLs to his home call. Listen for special event stations 4Z21MG and 4X21MG to be active from Maccabiah Village in Israel during the 21st Maccabiah Games, an international sporting event, through July 26th. Operation is on various HF bands using CW, SSB, FT8. There will also be operation on various satellites. QSL via 4X6ZM. (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE ANNOUNCES 2022 YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR JIM/ANCHOR: Amateur Radio Newsline is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year award. Newsline's Mark Abramowicz (Abram-o-vich) NT3V, chairman of the award program, is here with the story. "Really? Oh, my God!" That was the reaction of Audrey McElroy, KM4BUN, after learning she had been selected as the recipient of Newsline's Young Ham of the Year award. Audrey, of Cumming, Georgia, is the daughter of Thomas McElroy, W4SDR, and Janet McElroy, K4PRM. Her brother, Jack, is KM4ZIA. Audrey is 18, and an honor student who graduated in June from Forsyth Central High School in Cumming, Georgia. She already has begun computer science studies at Georgia Tech. She credits her parents with generating her early interest in amateur radio. "By the age of like 3 or 4, I was out there helping my dad put antennas up, run coax in the hot summer heat," she recalls. "And, I became so fascinated looking into the radios." Audrey passed her Tech test in June 2014 at the age of 10, took her General license exam a few years later and passed her Extra test on Election Night 2016 at the age of 13. In 2019, Audrey was invited to join the Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure to Curacao. "Probably one of the best experiences in my life, not only in amateur radio but overall," she recalls. "We were so blessed to be able to use the PJ2T station." "And we spent day and night making contacts. We broke the record for the number of contacts made. I think we made over 65-hundred contacts in just the span of really just a few days when you count up all the hours." Audrey says she put her love of amateur radio together with her pursuit of biotechnology STEM studies in high school to produce a senior capstone project that involved a high-altitude balloon launch. Her payload was small roundworms or C elegans. "My whole project was launching them up to 100,000 feet, which I calculated using the amount of helium and everything," she explains. "And at the same time, I was taking measurements and readings about the pressure and the temperature." But this was not her first launch. She credits her mentor, Bill Brown, WB8ELK, a NASA engineer, with helping her achieve success in launching several high altitude and orbiting balloons including one that circled the globe nearly five times. Audrey has made presentations during forums in Dayton, Huntsville and for the Youth on the Air camp. Audrey says promoting amateur radio is a big part of her immediate future. "Now, I kind of make it my mission to bring more youth and especially women into amateur radio and STEM," she says. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V. JIM/ANCHOR: Audrey will receive her award on Saturday, Aug. 20, during ceremonies at the Huntsville Hamfest in the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to the ARRL; Consumerguide.com; CQ Magazine; CNN; the Dit Dah CW Gang; David Behar K7DB; NASA; ORARI; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com; QSOToday; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Surrey Emergency Program Amateur Radio; thedrive.com; UN Office for Outer Space Affairs; USKA: and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us, please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate you all. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston, West Virginia, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2022. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .