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Nominating Period Open For 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham Of the
Year Award

Los Angeles, CA. (February 15, 2010) - 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 2010 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: "2010 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 May 30 2010. 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
. (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 2010 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 -- which in 2010
is celebrating its 65th year of service to the world-wide ham radio
community -- 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(tm) 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 1640 consecutive weeks (31 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 a

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)

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.

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